>> After this year's record-breaking Alexander McQueen-themed exhibit, what will the Costume Institute pick to focus on for the 2012 gala and exhibit? WWD reports hearing that Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli will be the focus, but further details could not be learned, and the Met declined comment on the matter. [WWD]

>> Daria Strokous made the rounds during this year's Cannes Film Festival, and now she's making her film debut in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming disease-outbreak thriller Contagion, featuring an all-star cast of Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jude Law. The film — out Sept. 9 — features Strokous as Irina Modelskova, a Ukranian supermodel in London who is struck down by a mysterious and deadly ailment; a first image of Daria as Irina, at left. [TFS]

>> After six months in office as Vogue Paris's editor-in-chief, Emmanelle Alt — who spent a decade as the magazine's fashion director — tells Vogue: “It is really strange, editing the magazine; it’s like decorating an apartment you have lived in for ten years already.”

One of the first things the six-foot, 44-year-old editor installed in her new office? An iPod sound system, as she likes to have music — think Michael Jackson, ABBA, disco, and David Bowie — playing as she works. "People say to me, ‘Oh, my God, your iPod!’ But I think a lot of us love the stuff of our teenage years,” she explains.

And the musical leanings extend to her out-of-office duties, too: “I love to dance, I love to sing. After a shoot, I like to do karaoke. David [Sims, the photographer] likes it, too. And Kate [Moss]. In the studio, when you’ve been working hard all day, it’s such good energy to just play around.” She and Moss tend to duet on “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough),” by Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand, Alt says, with Alt on Streisand's part and Moss on Summer duty.

>> Marc Jacobs has rescheduled his collection show from Monday evening, Sept. 12, to Thursday, Sept. 15 at 8:30 pm, according to Robert Duffy. WWD reports that the switch was made to "allow Jacobs and his staff to make up for time lost this past weekend when the entire design and sample room staffs were scheduled to work before Hurricane Irene intervened." The move — which places Jacobs in the upcoming New York Fashion Week's closing spot — could complicate traveling for those headed to London Fashion Week, which begins the following morning on Sept. 16. The Marc by Marc Jacobs show, meanwhile, has been bumped up from Tuesday afternoon to the Monday evening slot. [WWD]

>> Gemma Ward, who last appeared as a mermaid in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, has reportedly landed a new film role. She said to have been cast for a "significant" part in The Great Gatsby, which begins shooting in Sydney next week. The film, directed by her fellow Australian Baz Luhrmann, is scheduled to be out in theaters next year and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway. [Herald Sun]