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Nick Knight

David Sims

Terry Richardson

Jake & Dinos Chapman

Damien Hirst

Sam Taylor-Wood

Katie Grand

Katy England

Alister Mackie

Nicola Formichetti

Alexander McQueen

Vivienne Westwood

Gareth Pugh

Katie Grand will receive the fashion innovator award, presented by friend and frequent collaborator Marc Jacobs. Ai Weiwei is the recipient of the art innovator award, but considering he’s under figurative lock and key in China, Marina Abramovic will accept it on his behalf and Jonathan Safran Foer will present Chipotle founder Steve Ellis with the food innovator award. Elon Musk is the technology innovator, Joris Laarman for design, Bjarke Ingels for architecture while Bill Gates and Warren Buffett will receive the philanthropy innovator award.

The awards ceremony will be held at the Museum of Modern Art on October 27th followed by WSJ‘s “Innovators” issue hitting newsstands on October 29th. [WWD]

The exhibit was curated by LOVE magazine editrix/Marc’s stylist for both his eponymous line and Vuitton since 2003, Katie Grand, who insists that it is not a retrospective; rather, she “put clothes together as I would for a shoot.” Hence a mixing and matching of looks from different collections helmed by Jacobs since 1998.

These 30 looks are modeled on mannequins, some bearing the iconic Vuitton Speedy bag as heads, while others — painted orange and pink and covered in Louis Vuitton graffiti designed by frequent Jacobs collaborator Stephen Sprouse — are frozen in editorial-ready poses.

The Art of Fashion coincides with the opening of Milan Fashion Week and the brand’s new store in Via Montenapoleone 2. It does not, however, have anything to do with those pesky rumors that Marc is moving to Dior, since, according to Grand, they started working on The Art of Fashion in January.

It’s nice to know Grand and Jacobs took some time out from plotting the downfall of London Fashion Week to put together this lovely exhibit. If you’re in Milan, you can catch Louis Vuitton: The Art of Fashion‘s very limited engagement through October 9th. [WWD]

Models on Todd Lynn's Spring 2012 runway / Style.com

According to Carole White, founder of Premier Model Management and not the biggest Naomi Campbell fan, ”We’re not just talking about one or two big girls. Jacobs had numerous models holding on options right up until the day of his show meaning they all stayed in New York just in case they got cast.”

White goes on to say, ”Gucci demanded that girls fly to Milan on Saturday to meet Frida to see if she would consider them for her show, which meant Saturday got trashed. Then the girls were expected to fly straight back to London, and if Gucci were interested, fly back to Milan again on Sunday for another round of casting, then for fittings on Monday. Only a tiny fraction of them realistically have a shot at being in that show — we all know it will be full of mega girls. I find it insulting that a designer like Frida thinks London is so insignificant that she would do that.”

For agents and models alike, Gucci and Jacobs are major gets, but that leaves the already packed London schedule of designers feeling like fashion’s bastard step-children. A source at Todd Lynn claims to have “lost 10 out of 19 girls,” with agents calling them in the middle of the night to pull their girls and some models not even showing up for fittings because they’ve flown off to Milan.

Also not helping matters is LOVE magazine editor Katie Grand — damn you Katie Grand — who styled for Jacobs and also styled for the London-based designer Giles Deacon. Grand demanded a five-hour call time — which one “fashion insider” calls ”unnecessary, absurd, selfish and wrong,” citing Paris’ strict two-hour limit — thus monopolizing any girls left in town after Burberry.

Amidst fears that London Fashion Week may be squeezed out all together, the British Fashion Council is beginning to feel the heat. The BFC is being accused of mismanaging the show calendar and for not standing up to the organizers behind the  New York and Milan fashion weeks.

Meanwhile, CEO of the BFC, Caroline Rush, insists that something is being done. She’s not particularly clear what that something is, but the Council has “invested time in developing direct relationships with model agencies to better understand their challenges and encourage them to send more internationally-recognised catwalk models to London. This season, the models at designers such as Jonathan Saunders, Erdem, Christopher Kane and Tom Ford have been of a global standard.”

Well, for those handful of shows, good for you. But for everyone else suffering at the model-grabbing claws of New York and Milan: damn you, Caroline Rush. [Telegraph]

Katie Grand styled the epicene pair for the cover, which will hit newsstands on February 7th. Bieber’s involvement is still up in the air but should he not be sandwiched between a Moss and a T place, I at least hope for some fishnets and a geisha lip.

Sidebar: Does anyone else find it weird/creepy/totes awesome that 16-year-old Justin Bieber is going to be on the cover of LOVE‘s Androgyny issue? With the tagline “This Is Hard Core”?

I’ll just take this as a sign that he’s finally accepted the fact that he looks like 2/3 of all lesbians.

Photo: MDC

LINK LOVE: Jak & Jil

“I wore an Azzedine Alaïa brown snakeskin dress, which he tortured me for about two months to get into, but at least it’s something I can wear again. I didn’t want some stupid white dress; it seems like such a waste.”

And children: “It’s a bit like going to India — I can’t ever imagine myself going. I just never wanted to have kids.”

LINK: NY Mag via Times UK

These shots of Kate the Great we’re just uncovered from the Dazed & Confused magazine archives. You’ll never guess the stylist!!!

Shot in October 1998, these shots of a much younger Kate Moss paint a solemn picture of the models slim figure. Who was the stylist? None other that Love Magazine’s Katie Grand.

Find more photos like this on CULTINDIE

Not only is she wearing a wooly mammoth fuschia pink Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2009 coat, but she also has Louis Vuitton Fall 2009 bunny ears, as a hair accessory.

Her amazing look is complete with Louis Vuitton Spring 2009 heels and a sparkling pink – barely seen – dress.

For more looks from the Missoni Cocktail Party: Red Carpet Fashion

We knew Ditto would hit the cover, but we didn’t know it would be in all her naked glory. Thank you Katie Grand for challenging what’s acceptable in high fashion. Beth, ditto.

Katie Grand’s Love, is getting serious: the new Conde Nast UK publication now has a logo (above) and an official launch date of February 19, 2009.

Grand has taken two creative directors and a fashion editor from POP with her on the Love journey, as well as ex-i-D and -Heat editors.

Thanks, Fashionologie.

Katie Grand/Conde Nast’s newest publication is getting some major love from advertisers and might be getting some from i-D mags fashion editor Francesca Burns. Rumors are burning the web stating that she will be joining Love as senior fashion editor-at-large.

This is great news for Love as Frannies background is in styling. She’s worked shoots for W, Italian Vogue, Pop, Arena Homme + before setting a nest at i-D.

The mag which is already getting a shit load of hype will hit newsstands in February for £5.

Katie Grand’s departure from POP magazine means more than just a new editor for the 8 year old magazine, it means a final shovel to the face for the flailing magazine.  Hint reports that the initial deal to keep the magazine going has “hit a snag” and POP will finally burst.

On a side note, Katie’s biannual for Conde Nast UK finally has a name and that name is LOVE.  Hmm a fashion magazine names LOVE from the creator of POP.  One named wonders seem to be the dish dejour for the UK this fashion season.  Expect LOVE to hit shelves in March.