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The best bits you have missed on FashionIndie this week, including tributes to Whitney Houston and Donna Summer, god-awful musician tattoos, the most chic penis leggings you’ll (hopefully) ever see and dressing for your drug use.
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- Clearly mistaking the German premiere of Men in Black III for the Las Vegas premiere of Men in the Back IV, alleged model Micaela Schaefer trashed it up in a dress seemingly made of recycled VHS tape. [Huff Po]
- Martha Stewart giving Veronica Lake realness, courtesy of the late makeup maestro Kevyn Aucoin. [Tumblr via Paper]
- In what has to be regarded as one of the greatest — and most inexplicable — comebacks in recent memory, Jennifer Lopez tops the Forbes annual Celebrity 100 list for the first time, unseating Lady Gaga who falls to a respectable fifth place behind perennial power player Oprah, and fellow poptarts Justin Bieber and Rihanna. [Forbes]
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Celebrity sex tape pioneer Paris Hilton is still hanging around after over a decade of dubious distinction and is about to start handing out DJs. Not content to go quietly into that obscure light, the heiress will soon add another credit to her ever-increasing curricuum vitae: disc jockey.
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- The CW has officially picked up The Carrie Diaries, thus ensuring you’ll get your fill of cheap puns and over-the-top fashion come fall. [Deadline]
- Chanel staged its 2012 Cruise collection at the Palace at Versailles with guests Tilda Swinton, Haider Ackermann and Karl Lagerfeld‘s plaid vest. [Grazia]
- Olympian hotties Hope Solo, Ryan Lochte and Serena Williams grace the June issue of Vogue. [Styleite]
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- Always one to turn lemons into overpriced lemonade, Marc Jacobs is now selling T-shirts bearing his graffitied storefront for $689, to the chagrin of the graffiti artist, Kidult. [The Cut]
- Jessica Simpson can barely give her baby photos away. The new mother has sold them for a mere $800,000 to People, a paltry pittance compared to Jennifer Lopez‘s $6 million and even Matthew McCounaghey‘s $3 million. It’s a sad day when you can’t even pull that Wooderson dough. [WWD]
- Who needs someone to put a ring on it when you look this damn good? Male model and lithe lady Andrej Pejic graced the Rosa Clara runway during Barcelona Bridal Week, thus upstaging every other biological woman. [Styleite]
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Happy Birthday Botox! It has been 10 years since the FDA approved the use of Botox as a cosmetic (and 10 years since Martin Scorsese complained that it made it impossible for actors to express emotion). We thought we’d say happy birthday with a gallery of Hollywood Botox jobs. From flawless Cindy Crawford to…. well, Carrot Top, here are the top five best and worst celebrities botox jobs.
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Videography charts an artist’s fashion evolution through their music videos. First up, her name’s not Baby, it’s Janet. Ms. Jackson if you’re nasty. Janet had a string of classic hits and equally classic videos throughout the 80s, 90s and early 00s before being sidetracked by Nipplegate. But not even the sun medallion seen round the world could keep the youngest member of the Jackson clan down and out for too long. Over the past 30 years, Janet has made an indelible impact on the pop culture landscape through her genre-bending music, groundbreaking videos and cutting-edge style.
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- Jennifer Lopez is employing Zuhair Murad to design her summer tour costumes and employing Chris Judd Casper Smart as choreographer. [People]
- Seems like brownface doesn’t really fly these days. One of Ashton Kutcher‘s Popchips ads, in which he plays an Indian man, was deemed racist by people with eyes and ears and subsequently taken down. No word if the NAAKL, the National Association for the Advancement of Karl Lagerfeld, plans on any legal action. [NY Post]
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Lady Gaga called it many months ago (albiet after Spring 2012 Fashion Week), that Mint would hit huge this season. That pale green and its pastel friends have been lightening up our looks with sherbet tones, and 5 musical ladies have taken to the softer hues. From Florence to J.Lo, light gets loud.
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Happy Friday the 13th! I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to smash my face into some mirrors and tempt fate like it’s my day job because if the world’s coming to an end this year, why not go out with a bang? To that precipitous end, here are seven lucky — and not so lucky — stylish superstitions.
