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Posts for November 16th 2012

Best-Dressed Celebrities and Models | Nov. 16, 2012
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This Week's Best Dressed

Style-wise, this week was one for the books.
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Best-Dressed Celebrities and Models | Nov. 16, 2012

Style-wise, this week was one for the books. Tuesday's CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards brought the industry out in full force to support US design talent; veterans (Tommy Hilfiger, Carolina Herrera, Diane von Furstenberg), fresh-faced nominees (winner Greg Chait, Tabitha Simmons, Wes Gordon), past winners (Joseph Altuzarra, Billy Reid, Prabal Gurung), models (Karlie Kloss, Carolyn Murphy, Miranda Kerr), and even actors (Emma Stone, Tobey Maguire) rubbed shoulders in their spruced-up finest, and it all made for one insanely chic gathering indeed.

On Thursday, Stefano Tonchi hosted a much less formal (but no less fun) event at Gramercy Park Hotel in honor of W's 40th anniversary. Iris Apfel, Joan Smalls, Natasha Poly, and Genevieve Jones were among those who kicked off the celebration with an intimate dinner at the hotel's Rosebar downstairs, then later the well-heeled crowd continued the party upstairs on the recently redone terrace. Guests munched on tiny W-decorated cupcakes while sipping one of four decade-inspired cocktails and craning their necks for a glimpse of Tilda Swinton, the evening's purported cohost. While we never did see Swinton, we did spot Johan Lindeberg and Jenna Lyons meeting for the first time.

All the best looks from those events and more — including Kate Moss's book launch in London — right here, in the slideshow.

Kate Moss Georgia May Jagger Karolina Kurkova Keren Craig and Georgina Chapman Stella McCartney Charlotte Kemp Muhl Liz Goldwyn
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Karl Lagerfeld's Partnership With Rolls-Royce
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Karl Lagerfeld's Exclusive Exhibition; Martin Margiela's Unexpected Turnout

Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.
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Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

  • Overall, Maison Martin Margiela's collection for H&M drew smaller crowds than expected in both the US and Europe. [WWD]

  • Karolina Kurkova's latest advice for young models: get on Twitter. "It's important to use Twitter and social media now," she said. "It is no longer enough to just look beautiful and be in shape. You need to be interesting." [The Telegraph]

  • A collection of designer Pudsey Bears, featuring some of the last work by Nicholas Ghesquiere for Balenciaga, sold for over £150,000 (or $238,000) at a Christie's auction. [Vogue UK]

  • Karl Lagerfeld has shot a photo exhibition for Rolls-Royce. The showcase, titled, "A Different View," will only be on view at the Rolls-Royce headquarters in Goodwood, England, to an exclusive group for five days. [The Cut]

  • Joe Zee is lending his eye to Vente-Privee. [Racked]

  • Giorgio Armani has announced that after 22 years based at 114 Fifth Ave., he will move his North American headquarters to the Meatpacking District next year. [WWD]

  • Ralph Lauren has launched an ecommerce site that offers a curated selection of vintage pieces that match the brand's signature aesthetic. [InStyle]

  • Bruce Weber has collaborated with Selfridges to create a holiday film short titled A New-Fashioned Christmas. [Nowness]

Kate Moss Documentary
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A Kate Moss Documentary Is Happening

Kate Moss fans, take note: the supermodel is currently filming a documentary.
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Kate Moss fans, take note: the supermodel is currently filming a documentary.

While there's no word yet on when the documentary will make its debut, a source confirmed to The Daily Telegraph that Moss is allowing a camera crew to take footage of her daily life. They were with her last night at the London launch of her new coffee-table book, Kate: The Kate Moss Book, and are expected to follow her on her global book tour.

In promoting the book, Moss has broken her longstanding aversion to interviews, revealing what she thinks about other supermodels and the early campaign that gave her a nervous breakdown. Last year she explained her press shyness to T Magazine:

"When I first started out I did press because I wasn't really aware that they would write something really horrible but then they did, and I was like: 'Oh no, I don't want to go back there. I don't really want to open up myself to that kind of criticism,'" she said. "And I think that a lot of the time you walk in a room they already know what they want to write about you, so it doesn't matter what you're like. But sometimes I will do it if I like the person or the project."

We have to assume she really, really likes this project.

Joanna Coles Fires 9 Employees at Cosmopolitan
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Joanna Coles Has Fired Nine Cosmo Staffers; Kate Lanphear Is Definitely Leaving Elle

Joanna Coles told us she was "not going to muddle" with Cosmopolitan when she took over as editor in chief in September, but she clearly wasn't referring to staff changes.
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Joanna Coles told us she was "not going to muddle" with Cosmopolitan when she took over as editor in chief in September, but she clearly wasn't referring to staff changes.

Coles has reportedly sacked nine members of the magazine's team, including seven on the editorial side and two from the photo department. And while she's hired British GQ's Paul Solomons as creative director and Marie Claire's Joyce Chang as executive editor, a litany of other positions have yet to be filled.

The departures leave Jessica Knoll as the magazine's only current senior editor. When the two first met at a staff meeting in September, Coles joked, "Kate [White] told me you're a rock star. But Kate's gone, so it doesn't matter now."

Over the last several months, the desks at New York's glossy fashion titles have operated more like a game of musical chairs than anything else. The latest departure in a round of shuffling that started in August sees Elle's style director Kate Lanphear leaving her position. It's unclear where she's headed next.

The revolving doors started spinning when Sally Singer was ousted as editor in chief of T Magazine at the end of August. She's now back at Vogue as the digital creative director and was replaced by former WSJ. Magazine editor Deborah Needleman in late September. Needleman took WSJ.'s creative director Patrick Li and fashion features director Whitney Vargas with her when she made the jump.

This week it was announced that stylist Joe McKenna would join T Magazine as fashion director at large. W's Maura Egan has joined T as features editor. Meanwhile, Alix Browne, T's deputy design editor, will head to W Magazine as features director.

Back at The Wall Street Journal, Needleman's deputy editor Ruth Altchek was named editorial director of the paper's weekend Off Duty section and WSJ. in mid-October. Harper's Bazaar executive editor Kristina O'Neill was brought in as editor of the magazine. Two senior members of Bazaar's accessories team, Kate Davidson Hudson and Stefania Allen, left shortly after O'Neill, but not to join her at WSJ. Bazaar's features director Anamaria Wilson also left in October for a position as vice president of global corporate communications at Michael Kors.

Bazaar held onto and promoted three key staffers: longtime senior fashion market editor Joanna Hillman was promoted to style director, Nicole Fritton was named fashion market and accessories director, and Elisa Lipsky-Karasz became the magazine's features editor.

Brides executive editor Anne Fulenwider replaced Coles as editor in chief of Marie Claire. Her first big staff changes have been to promote Nina Garcia from fashion director to creative director and to hire Alex Gonzalez as artistic director. Fulenwider was herself replaced by Keija Minor, becoming the first black editor in chief of a Condé Nast title.

Speaking of Condé Nast employees, Eva Chen left her position as beauty and health director at Teen Vogue and was replaced by Glamour's senior beauty editor Elaine Welteroth.

Above: Joanna Coles. Below: Kate Lanphear.

Margherita Missoni Denies News of Missoni Diffusion Line
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Margherita Says Missoni Won't Be Launching a Diffusion Line

Reports that Missoni has plans to launch a lower-priced line have already been debunked by one of the brand's most public faces, Margherita Missoni.
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Reports that Missoni has plans to launch a lower-priced line have already been debunked by one of the brand's most public faces, Margherita Missoni.

"Missoni is NOT launching a second line," Margherita tweeted on Friday, a day after The Wall Street Journal reported on the family's plans for a diffusion line. "We already have a second line and it's called M Missoni."

Earlier, Margherita had also tweeted to Elle UK that its story regarding the new line was "completely false."

Curiously, it was Margherita who was quoted in the Journal's story about the line, which the paper reported was spurred by the success of the family's popular collaboration with Target. Missoni reportedly said the diffusion line would be higher-priced than the Target offering. "I don't think I could put the zigzag on that," she said, referring to the price point.

The story was pegged to the methods Missoni has used to stay ahead of the curve.

"You need to evolve," Margherita said. "If you sit for a moment, you're not relevant in fashion anymore."

We've reached out to Missoni for comment, and will update this post when we have a response.

Photo courtesy of Yoox.