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It pays to have friends in high fashion places. The annual amfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala held last week during the Cannes Film Festival brought in a record-breaking $11 million thanks to a little help from Carine Rotifeld and company.
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- Lara Stone goes intergalactic in the music video for Hot Chips‘ music video, “Night and Day.” [Fashionologie]
- Carine Roitfeld staged her all-black runway show during the amfAR Gala featuring models Lindsey Wixson, Karolina Kurkova and Lily Donaldson in looks by Chanel, Balenciaga and Versace. [Styleite]
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- Chaka Khan and Fantasia Barrino wore catsuits on the American Idol finale last night. [theGrio]
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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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Looking back, a collaboration seems almost inevitable. One has been one of the most influential forces in high fashion for the better part of his life and one has been under the influence and high for the better part of his life. Also, neither seems to care who they collaborate with just as long as there’s a check involved. OGs Karl Lagerfeld and Snoop Dogg lend some high-voltage star power to French DJ Jean Roch‘s “Saint Tropez.” Sadly, though, Karl and Snoop aren’t trading rhymes and dimes. Instead the Kaiser plays — surprise, surprise — God! welcoming Jean Roch to heaven with an awkward reading of, “You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?” Meanwhile, if I saw Karl Lagerfeld greeting me in the afterlife, I’d be pretty sure I had ended up in the other place, but that’s neither here nor there. Video after the jump!
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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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Chanel‘s “The Little Black Jacket” exhibit is coming to New York one month from today, from June 8 to 15 at 18 Wooster St.
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Fashion Star‘s Nicole Richie is getting her designs into Macy’s and she didn’t even have to compete for it. Macy’s is one of the retailers that will ideally carry winning designs by contestants on that trainwreck of a reality show, but Richie bypassed the televised bidding process and her capsule collection hits Macy’s stores come mid-September.
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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]
