Alaïa to Dress Mariah, Drake and Tyra Do It at Disney, Barneys New York Has a New Owner and Keeping Up with Kris Jenner’s Face

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- Seven for All Mankind has renewed its love affair with James Franco, hiring the multi-hyphenate slacker to film and photograph its fall campaign. [WWD]

- Marchesa is launching a lower priced contemporary line with prices ranging from $150 to $750. [Styleite]

- Now that her body is allegedly back, Mariah Carey has turned to legendary bod-con designer Azzedine Alaïa to design an exclusive wardrobe for Mimi’s upcoming events. But for Mariah, an event can mean anything from an awards show to a trip to the laundo. Either way, she’ll be doing it in style. [Vogue.it]

The Top 10 Greatest Stoner Flicks (Not Including Cheech & Chong)

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I feel I have to preface this post with a disclaimer: I’ve actually never seen Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke, perhaps revoking all rights and credits I have in calling myself a stoner. But with that said, and said with my head hung low in shame, here are “The Top 10 Greatest Stoner Flicks (Not Including Cheech & Chong)” to take your 420 even higher.

James Franco Directed 7 for All Mankind’s Spring Campaign

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Renaissance man — the 21st century Renaissance has decidedly lower standards — James Franco stepped behind the camera to film 10 vignettes for Seven for All Mankind‘s spring campaign, starring Lily Donaldson and a host of other dubiously multi-hyphenated artist-actor-models. 

VMAN Plays Futuristic Slice-N-Dice

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Damien Blottière creates a collage of  the latest men’s  couture for VMAN‘s eye-catching editorial, “The Shape of Things to Come.” Tom Van Dorpe piles on the prints with looks from Versace, Comme des Garçons, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Lanvin, Paul Smith and Zegna. While AJ Abualrub, CJ Hancock, Ethan James, Michael Wozniak, Nicholas Madrid, Petey Wright and Paolo Anchisi strike puzzling poses. The spread appears in VMAN‘s “Decades Issue” already on newsstands featuring a red hot James Franco on the cover.

James Franco Smolders On The Winter Cover Of VMAN

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The Decades Issue of  VMAN magazine  features James Franco on the  metallic foil cover.

James Franco, The Artist, Makes Nothing and Sells It

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

James Franco keeps insisting he is an artist. And people are believing. At least 100 for that matter. He is opening a museum on “Non-Visible Art”. What’s that you ask? Oh, it’s nothing. Literally nothing. Just a title and a blank piece of space. Trying to peddle the idea of an idea and the imagination of an artist. So the Museum of Non-Visible Art will be an empty room. And it’s being publicly funded on Kickstarter. As of this moment 118 people have raised $14,112. To show nothing. Seriously people!?

Gucci and Franco Fête Films

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For their first-ever Gucci Award for Women in Cinema – a collaborative effort with the Venice Film Festival –  the Italian luxury house will partner with professional guy about town, James Franco to choose a winner out of the recently announced five finalists.

MUSE OF THE WORLD: Anna Turns Up at the Webbys…Walking Oxymoron: Jessica Simpson, Fashion Mentor…Mimi’s Fifi Remix

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- Anna Wintour apparently got lost on her way to something that actually mattered as she made a pit stop at the Webbys to accept the award for Best Fashion Site. Her acceptance speech, in its entirety: “Sometimes geeks can be chic.” She gets it. [Styleite]

MUSE OF THE WORLD: Conan the Bastard Barbarian…Killer Weaves!…Franco Graduates NYU

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- Seems like the reason behind Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver‘s separation might be the secret child Arnie fathered 10 years ago with a maid. Yep, that’ll do it. [Life]

MUSE OF THE WORLD: Hilary Alexander Trades in Fashion for Cats, Anna Gets the Boot and $10 Mil a Week in Sales Can’t Save AA

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- Everyone’s favorite banged and bespectacled lady fashion writer and recent CFDA Award honoree Hilary Alexander will retire as fashion director for The Daily Telegraph at the end of June, leaving a hole in my enlarged heart. However, she urges us not to be sad: “I love fashion.I’ll still write occasionally for the DT. I can have a cat,study archaeology +write books!Fashion lives” Fashion lives, but space between words is dying a slow death via Twitter. [Fashionologie]

- The sight of Anna Wintour in Easy Breezy Tennis Casual was at first jarring. Then my mind was officially blown when I learned that she was in $158 J. Brand boot-cut jeans. Not because they were $158 J. Brand jeans, but a boot cut! I recently dug up a pair of flairs that I may or may not have stolen from a fifteen-year-old girl and of course proclaimed that the boot-cut was back. Anna Wintour is totes copying me, you guys. [The Cut]