Just three weeks after announcing Sophia Kokosalaki's departure, Diesel Black Gold has reportedly selected Norwegian designer Andreas Melbostad as the brand's new creative director. He will start his new role in October.

According to WWD, Melbostad currently runs a design consulting firm that has counted Roberto Cavalli and Vera Wang among its clients. His LinkedIn page highlights stints as senior designer at Nina Ricci, Yves Saint Laurent, and Guy Laroche among his past positions. He was also associate design director at Calvin Klein before moving on to a position as design director at Donna Karan. Before opening his consulting firm, Melbostad was creative director of Susan Dell's sportswear line Phi for over six years.

Diesel has not yet commented on Melbostad's relationship with the company. So far there has been no word on Kokosalaki's future plans.

Photo: Daphne Groeneveld walks in Roberto Cavalli's Spring 2012 show, which Melbostad consulted on.

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• Scott Schuman has requested that a university street-style blog, Campus Sartorialist, change its name, as it infringes on his trademark on The Sartorialist. "I commend their entrepreneurial spirit and think the idea is great, but they don't need my name to continue to be successful," he said in a statement. [The Daily Beast]
  

• Miuccia Prada collaborated with The Great Gatsby's costume designer Catherine Martin to alter 40 pieces from the Miu Miu and Prada archives for the film. "I realized how many pieces could become very 1920s with a little intervention and another point of view," she said. [The Daily Telegraph]
  

• Grace Coddington designed a capsule collection for Balenciaga that features sketches of her cat Pumpkin. The collection includes a canvas tote bag, a silk scarf, and a wool scarf. Proceeds from the capsule will benefit the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons. [Fashionologie Inbox]
  

• Elettra Wiedemann and husband James Marshall married in an intimate ceremony at a restaurant in New York's West Village. She wore Dominican designer Miguelina for the ceremony and changed into Giambattista Valli for the reception. [Vogue]
  

• Tom Ford has begun to question the industry's obsession with material goods. "I'm part of this industry that creates insecurity and focuses on materialism and things that aren't actually, for me, the most important things in life," he said. [Vogue UK]

Alexa Chung has confirmed that she's working on her very own clothing line.

"Yes, I'm definitely going to do that," Chung said when Numéro Tokyo asked her about the idea in an interview for its September issue. "I'm looking into it right now."

A spokesperson for Chung later confirmed the plan for the line to Vogue UK, but offered no other information. Though the line is in its infancy, Chung told Numéro Tokyo she's committed to creating it herself.

"I've got nothing to lose, it's a bit of fun," Chung said. "In this current era of celebrity no one believes you actually design the stuff anyway, even though I sketch everything myself. So if it sucks I can say I had nothing to do with it, and if it's really good I can say 'Here are the drawings, it's all my own work!'"

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• Patrick Demarchelier celebrates his 69th birthday today. [Vogue Paris]
  

• L'Wren Scott will show her Spring 2013 collection in Paris instead of New York to allow herself extra time to complete it. A time and date on the Paris calender have not yet been determined. [WWD]
  

• Natalie Portman posed unclothed in Christian Dior's ad campaign for its new makeup line, The New Nude. [Stylelist]
  

• A bar in Seoul, South Korea, called the Chanel Business Club has been ordered to pay an $8,800 fine for using the French fashion house's name without permission. [The Daily Telegraph]
  

• Miranda Kerr moonlights as a spokeswoman for Lipton Iced Tea in Japan. [Styleite]
  

• Cindy Crawford has partnered with German label C&A for her first clothing line. "It is important to me to be affiliated with a company that offers feel-good fashion with an unparalleled customer offering," she said in a statement. [Vogue UK]
  

• Former Vogue associate editor Veronica Gledhill is now the senior market editor of The Cut. [Media Bistro]

Photo: Models exit L'Wren Scott's Fall 2012 runway show.

Chris Benz told us that his signature pink hair was inspired by the gloomy, gray days of Winter — and that it almost manifested itself as a signature tattoo or piercing.

"It was that Winter in New York when it was like endless, and everyone was dying and it was pouring down rain," Benz said, referring to the blizzard-filled Winter of 2010. "Every single day it was snowing and then it would rain and then it would snow. And I was like, I don't know, I need to get a tattoo or pierce my ears or something, and everyone was like, no, just dye your hair because you can always dye it back and you'll feel like you did something exciting in the midst of this terrible Winter.

"So I went to where I get my hair done, looked at a bunch of colors, and I was like, 'Bleach it white and then we're going to dye it a color and be done with it.' And after it was white, I was like, let's just do it pink. I think it'll be funny and fun. And that was it. And the rest is history."

Benz has more or less maintained his pink hair since then and says he doesn't see himself experimenting with another color any time soon. He treats his locks with Manic Panic's pink hair dye about once a month.

"It kind of gets good when it grows out," he said. "I feel like roots are really important right now."

Photo courtesy of eBay.

Despite its glamorous and well-attended welcome party, the Metropolitan Museum's Impossible Conversations: Schiaparelli and Prada exhibit pulled in 339,838 total visitors — just over half the number of people who came to see Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty last year.

While the McQueen exhibit — which set a Costume Institute record for attendance with 661,509 visitors — would have been a tough act to follow for any museum show, Impossible Conversations still didn't do as well as some past shows. The New York Times notes, for example, that the Met's 2001 show about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis drew 559,902 visitors, and the 2005 Chanel exhibit drew 463,600.

It may not have the numbers on its side, the Schiaparelli and Prada exhibit does have one edge on other Costume Institute shows of the past: it inspired the comeback of an entire fashion brand. Schiaparelli is expected to relaunch with accessories, fragrances, cosmetics, and some clothing in February 2013.