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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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Whether its supermodels posing on the sleeve, renowned photographers behind the lens or just rock stars banging anything that catwalks, music and fashion have long been intimate bedfellows. Here, 30 iconic album covers with a delightfully high fashion twist.
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Fashion’s finally getting exciting again thanks to some old faces in new positions and no doubt one of the most anticipated returns is that of Hedi Slimane to the house of Yves Saint Laurent. And no one is more excited than Saint Laurent’s former partner Pierre Bergé and former muse Betty Catroux.
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“As one of the most important French fashion houses, Yves Saint Laurent today possesses formidable potential, which I am confident will be successfully harnessed and revealed through the vision of Hedi Slimane.” — François-Henri Pinault, chairman and chief executive officer of PPR, Yves Saint Laurent’s parent company.
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- The sweatshop lawsuit against Alexander Wang is now in the amount of $450 million with an additional 30 workers added to the case. The company, however, denies any wrongdoing and vowed to “vehemently defend any allegations to the contrary.”[WWD, sub req'd]
- Yves Saint Laurent is set to confirm on Wednesday what everyone’s already known for some time now, that is, that Hedi Slimane will take over Stefano Pilati‘s recenlty vacated creative director role. [NYT]
- The video for Brandy and Monica‘s new single finally descended from the heavens, “It All Belongs to Me”, or as I like to call it, “Fierce, Sassy Bitches Blowin’ Shit Up.” [Perez Hilton]
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I don’t know what it is, but there’s something about Paris Fashion Week that brings out the crazy in everyone. Lest you forget it was around this time last year that John Galliano went swimming in a pool of anti-Semitic haterade, thus plunging the fashion world into a year-long speculative mission regarding his successor, Christophe Decarnin had his breakdown and falling out with Balmain and Kanye West dropped the biggest bomb of his career – and I’m not talking about 808s & Heartbreak. Not to mention a few months ago during the spring 2012 season that whole fashion calendar war was ignited. This PFW promises to be, if not equally scandalous, at least worth the clutching of your collective Chanel pearls. Here are the top scandals burning down the City of Lights.
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It seems like a neverending game of fashion musical chairs with the recent upheavals in creative directorship. Raf Simons leaves Jil Sander; Stefano Pilati leaves Yves Saint Laurent; Jil Sander comes back to Jil Sander; Hedi Slimane comes back to Yves Saint Laurent; while Christian Dior‘s seat remains conspicuously empty throughout. The latest exit comes courtesy of couture wunderkind Maxime Simoens, who is leaving his post as creative director at French label Leonard after only four short months. And guess where he’s rumored to be going?
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Arizona Muse is sleek, sultry and a little bit shirtless for Vogue Russia as she vamps for Hedi Slimane in looks from Balenciaga, Roberto Cavalli and Lanvin.
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While I’d love to believe that Nicola Formichetti exists solely to do Lady Gaga‘s fashion bidding, that simply isn’t the case. Jo Calderone might actually be the most reserved man Formichetti has styled to date. Boy is at werq in Japan turning out cover after editorial of monstrous male beauty for Vogue Hommes Japan. He’s also been killing it in Dazed & Confused and V Man. Take a look.
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- The first images from the 2012 Pirelli calendar — shot for the first time by a native Italian photog in Mario Sorrenti — feature Kate Moss, Rinko Kikuchi and Milla Jovovich in various states of undress. Other ladies stripping down for Sorrenti’s lens include that goddamn skank Isabeli Fontana, Saskia de Brauw and the perpetually naked Lara Stone. [Grazia]
