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Manfred Thierry Mugler is tap dancing for me. It’s maybe the last thing I expected from the famously reclusive designer. But apparently it doesn’t take much to get Mugler dancing. “Your shoes are so cute!” he says, while doing an impromptu buffalo-step shuffle. “Very Fred Astaire.” I look down at my two-toned spectator-ish flats and […]

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The fashion world has lost an icon—supermodel China Machado has passed away at the age of 87. An industry trailblazer, her legacy will always shine bright. Born Noelie Dasouza Machado, she changed her name to China (pronounced CHEE-na) when she started modelling couture to fit in with the fashion world. During the 1950s and ’60s, […]

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See photos from the Burn with Desire exhibit » The double-edged benefit of living in a big city is that there’s always something to see. So much so, that often those things are more like hidden gems than name-in-lights events. Case in point: Ryerson Image Centre’s just-opened exhibition, Burn with Desire: Photography and Glamour, which […]

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Fashion Television (RIP) was ahead of its time in several ways, and here is one of them: In 1985, when executive producer Jay Levine launched the program, he imagined it might become a channel for short narrative videos about clothing. Fashion films, now so inescapable a phenomenon, were then just a thought without a name: if music videos could revolutionize the way we consume pop, couldn’t a little cinematography do the same for clothing? The ’70s had seen then-living legends Guy Bourdin and Richard Avedon experiment with the moving image, and as film-recording cameras became less expensive, it seemed likely they’d land in the hands of younger, emerging lensmen. As MTV was to music videos, so might Fashion Television be to this new mode of image-making.

Prince William and Kate Middleton have set a date! The couple will marry at Westminister Abbey on Friday April 29, 2011. [BBC]

Transgendered model and Givenchy muse Lea T. will be appearing on an episode of Oprah. No details yet on what the two will be talking about but you can bet the Queen of Daytime Talk has something interesting up her sleeve. [Elle]

The iconic Richard Avedon photograph “Dovima with Elephants” has been purchased by Maison Christian Dior for the record amount of 841,000 Euros. “It is the most expensive photograph of this kind to have been sold in France,” said Christie Paris’ of head of photography Matthieu Humery. [WWD]

Blake Lively walked away with 40 pairs of red-soled heels from the invite-only Christian Louboutin sample sale. [Fashionologie]