>> Topshop is no stranger to creating funky collections so expect nothing less with its Spring 2011 lookbook. To get you anticipating Spring, the retailer previewed a mix of looks, including modern asymmetrical dresses, bohemian ground-sweeping hemlines, fringe, and floral prints complete with colorful hair tips. Peep this abstract one-shouldered number — our favorite — to the left, and click on to see the rest of the lookbook.
>> We caught you up on all the newly-broken Spring 2011 ad campaigns this morning, but two more first looks have appeared since: Valentino and Marc by Marc Jacobs. David Sims captured Julia Saner, Freja Beha Erichsen, and Caroline Brasch Nielsen (although images of the latter two have not yet surfaced) in black and white at Valentino’s Place Vendome headquarters; and Juergen Teller did the honors as usual for Marc by Marc Jacobs, pairing Ginta Lapina with androgynous male model Andrej Pejic (Pejic appears with another blonde — Karolina Kurkova — in the yet-to-be-seen Spring 2011 Jean Paul Gaultier campaign).
>> Designers appearing in their own fragrance ads is no new concept — Marc Jacobs did it recently for Bang, and Yves Saint Laurent did it back in the '70s for YSL Pour Homme. But the latest to be captured — for Jimmy Choo's first-ever fragrance — is Tamara Mellon, in the campaign shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. [The Cut]
>> No wonder Anna Wintour is rumored to have cast Lady Gaga for Vogue's marquee March 2011 cover: according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations and WWD, Gaga was 2010's "runaway hit at the newsstand."
Her July 8 Rolling Stone cover was the magazine's top-selling issue of the year; her April cover for Cosmopolitan fronted that magazine's top selling issue through the end of October; her September Vanity Fair cover was the title's second best-selling issue of the year (behind Angelina Jolie's); and her January Elle cover marked the magazine's third best-seller of the year through October.
Speaking of Wintour's preferences, she may be a fan of putting Blake Lively on covers, but it sounds like Lively doesn't sell for Vogue — her June cover was the magazine's third worst-seller of the year (and her Esquire cover was that magazine's worst seller of the year). Anne Hathaway's November Vogue cover, meanwhile, was the magazine's second-worst newsstand seller.
And over at Elle, Jennifer Lopez's cover was the magazine's second-worst seller through October, while Taylor Swift's April Elle cover was the worst seller through October.
>> If the cold season has left you a little frigid, our 24 shoe picks are sure to leave you feeling warm and tingly inside. The latest crop for the New Year comes from the likes of Burberry, Ash, Kate Spade, and Camilla Skovgaard are sure to please your footwear fetish, whether you're enjoying a sunny beach vacay, enduring the snow, or just somewhere in between.
>> Harper's Bazaar publisher Hearst could have ownership of all 40-plus foreign editions of Elle (minus the original French one) within the month. After over a year of rumors about the acquisition, and then word that Bauer Media or Meredith Corporation might also be in the running, Elle parent company Lagardere announced on Friday that it is in exclusive talks with Hearst, giving until Jan. 30, for the deal to be struck. Whatever happens, Lagardere still aims to keep full editorial control at Elle, post-sale. [Bloomberg, WWD]
>> Spring may not be in the air just yet, but the Spring 2011 ad campaigns sure are: The new year brought the release of a bevy, including Abbey Lee Kershaw's Tom Ford eyewear campaign and a look at Louis Vuitton's latest trio — Raquel Zimmermann, Kristen McMenamy, and Freja Beha Erichsen. There's also a peek at Chanel and Burberry (minus faces Ines de la Fressange for Chanel and Jourdan Dunn for Burberry, whose images have yet to appear), plus Gucci and Roberto Cavalli, left, featuring Laetitia Casta and Malgosia Bela.
>> Tom Ford promised to release a film of his Spring 2011 debut womenswear show when the clothes are nearly in stores, and he's delivered. The clip, set to Karen Elson's "Pretty Babies," shows just over three minutes of Daria Werbowy vamping and Beyonce working the runway, interspliced with shots of the editor audience and scenes from backstage. Ford has already said this setup is a one-time thing: he plans to show by appointment in upcoming seasons.
