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Sorry Anna Wintour, you’re gonna have to take a back seat. Yves Saint Laurent is only inviting buyers to view its women’s cruise and spring menswear collections by newly-appointed creative director Hedi Slimane, leaving editors and the international fashion press out in the couture cold.
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- TIME Magazine decided to place a mom breastfeeding her three-year-old son on its cover to illustrate its story on “attachment parenting.” Meanwhile, showing Kris Jenner and her Kardashian klan would’ve had the same (nauseating) effect. [Huff Po]
- The Olympics really takes the lighting of the Olympic torch super serial. So serial in fact, there were men wearing pleated skirts. [Styleite]
- This is Tom Cruise — and his Photoshopped abs — posing with models Abbey Lee Kershaw and Edita Vilkeviciute on the June cover of W Magazine. Aside from making everyone uncomfortable, Suri‘s dad is promoting his new film, Rock of Ages. [Fashion Gone Rogue]
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- While her high-profile, high-drama courtroom saga is now over, we can finally reflect on what really mattered during the Linda Evangelista child support trial: her FAAAAAABULOUS wardrobe. [NYT]
- Jourdan Dunn will be cooking with Hov. The Brit beauty tweeted that she’ll be appearing on Jay-Z‘s website, Life and Times – never heard of it till now — where she’ll be doing a cooking segment. [Modelinia]
- Kate Middleton who? For the State Opening of Parliament this morning, Queen Elizabeth II showed the Duchess of Cambridge how to royally turn it. Everyone else, just drink it in. This is what amazing looks like. [Styleite]
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s annual Costume Institute Gala is tirelessly referred to as the Oscars of fashion and it certainly ranks as the industry’s glitziest and most glamorous night. But unlike the Oscars red carpet, where actresses willfully play it safe for fear of a career-defining performance on the worst dressed list, at the Met Gala the balls are to the haute couture wall. This is Fashion with a capital effin’ F. Sometimes the results are truly stunning and other times they’re…how can I put this gently…god-awful. Let’s take a look back at the Met Gala’s greatest hits and misses.
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Vogue‘s EIC/HBIC Anna Wintour has reportedly asked the mag’s editors to wear pink in honor of Elsa Schiaparelli – who famously created the color Shocking Pink in her surrealist heyday – to The Met‘s Costume Institute Gala tonight.
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Voguetron assembles once again as Vogue‘s 19 international editors — including the fab foursome of Anna Wintour, Alexandra Shulman, Emmanuelle Alt and Franca Sozzani — have signed on to The Health Initiative. A pact to promote healthier and more positive body image, The Health Initiative will be featured globally in the June issues of Vogue.
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Winners of the 16th annual Webby Awards have been announced with vogue.com taking the People’s Voice Award, voted on by Internet users like you, for best fashion website for a second year in a row. A panel of judges including Arianna Huffington, voted Nick Knight‘s SHOWstudio the Webby Award winner for best fashion website, besting the likes of NOWNESS.com and tmagazine.com. Meanwhile, Facebook‘s billion dollar baby Instagram was named Webby Breakout of the Year and Pinterest won best social media site.
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Fashion’s latest darling is no doubt Azealia Banks. The raptress is a favorite of Karl Lagerfeld, performing at Chanel‘s The Little Black Jacket launch party, and has been taken under the professional styling wings of Nicola Formichetii. The 20-year-old will soon have her official coming out party when she performs at this year’s Costume Institute Met Gala.
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If you’re like this gal, you’ve always wanted/desired/demanded a ticket to the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute Gala. Well get ready for the next best thing as this year’s Gala red carpet will be live streamed.
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- Tyra Banks addressed the recent mass firing on America’s Next Top Model saying that they’ve “reached a point where we feel that the show just needs a new boost.” Yeah, and that boost was called André Leon Talley, after which Top Model should’ve smized its last smize and hunched into obscurity. [The Cut]
- Now that motherhood has her feeling “more beautiful than…ever,” People has acknowledged Beyoncé’s newfound hubris by naming her the “World’s Most Beautiful Woman.” It also didn’t hurt that she’s back to her pre-baby weight. I guess taking that cushion out from under her Dereon was a laborious process. #Kidding #NotReally [People]
