Tom Cruise Rocks W Magazine, Justin Bieber’s Getting His High School Diploma and Anna Wintour’s Date Night with Stephen Colbert

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

- 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]

CFDA Wants to Clean Up Fashion Industry with Clean by Design Initiative

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

The Council of Fashion Designers of America has joined forces with the National Resources Defense Council on Clean by Design, a program seeking to significantly reduce the fashion industry’s environmental impact. 

Francisco Costa to Design Calvin Klein Capsule Collection for Macy’s

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Fashion lovers rejoice! Francisco Costa, the acclaimed creative director behind Calvin Klein‘s designer women’s collection, has signed on to create a one-off line for Macy’s to celebrate the department store’s spring promotion, “A Magical Journey to Brasil,” launching in May. With price points ranging from $135 to $180, this is the first time Costa has brought his designs to a mass level. 

All A-Board! Marc, Jack and Laz Join CFDA’s Board of Members

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

The Council of Fashion Designers of America had their bi-annual meeting this week where they elected three new designers to their board: Marc Jacobs and Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez. 

The Stars Come Out at Elle’s Night of Women in Hollywood

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Actresses and female filmmakers threw on some Calvin Klein and converged at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Monday night for Elle magazine’s annual “Women in Hollywood” event. Twas a mutual admiration society as Barbra Streisand, Michelle Pfeiffer, Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow, Laura Dern, Viola Davis, Naomi Watts, Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston mingled with the new kids on the block, including Evan Rachel Wood, Freida Pinto, Elizabeth Olsen, Amanda Heard and Chloe Moretz.

Top 11 Classiest Fashion Schools in the World

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

Welcome to our month of Fashion Education. To start you off in the right direction, let’s examine your choice of design university, or more importantly, the fashion schools of choice. Certain alma maters produce an exceptional level of talent, consistently. Let us see where you stand, and who stands out as your alumni and professors. (Note: we are only looking at schools that speak English. Paris has burned.)

Stars Grazing at the CFDA Awards

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Looks like the CFDA Awards will be a star-studded affair, featuring celebrity’s on stage, in the audience and, most importantly, drunk and sloppy on the red carpet.

Are You A Young Designer In Need of $40,000?

Edited by Samantha Lim

Last night FashionIndie helped celebrate the debut of the Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize, a $40,000 endowment to help young designers establish their brand.  The winning designer also gets an expenses paid presentation during Paris Fashion Week at the Plaza Athenee. (Get on it young designers, there are only a few weeks left to apply!)

A Blueish Glow for Gaga

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

The future blue facial hue created quite a buzz back at during Fashion Week Spring 2010, think Alexander McQueen. And obviously when you think McQueen, you think Gaga. And right now you’re thinking of her new freak-flag-flying jaw-hitting-floor-worthy Born This Way video in which she’s a glorious being from the future whose facial features are highly pronounced, jutting out and glowing. I am perplexed and in love.

A Swank Collection To Come… From Hilary Swank?

Edited by Jessica Lapidos