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The Met Gala red carpet strutted into the 21st century with its first-ever live-stream and now the other Oscars of fashion, the 2012 CFDA Awards, will be broadcast on Style.com a day after it’s held on June 4.
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- Business card. Of. The. Summer! You may have just met him…and this could be crazy. But here’s his biz card — call this guy maybe? [Paper]
- Naomi Campbell celebrated her 42nd birthday lighting candles at a church in Jerusalem. No word if she later burned said church down. [Racked]
- The Great Gatsby trailer has finally premiered and one thing is obvious: the costumes are great and gasp-y. Trailer after the jump! [Huff Po]
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- Glee‘s season finale is nigh and in celebration, a look back on Kurt Hummel‘s most daring fashion choices from the third — and if I do say worst — season. [Vulture]
- It’s her birthday and she’ll slap you if she wants to. Happy Birthday Naomi Campbell! The volatile super turns 42 today. Why not celebrate by hurling your phone at an insolent insubordinate?
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- Emma Stone is giving young Julianne Moore realness in her new Revlon ads. [Refinery29]
- Jeremy Scott is designing the costumes for Nicki Minaj‘s Pink Friday tour, thus adding a pop of zany color to the already fashionable lineup of ladies crisscrossing the globe. [MTV Style]
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- While her high-profile, high-drama courtroom saga is now over, we can finally reflect on what really mattered during the Linda Evangelista child support trial: her FAAAAAABULOUS wardrobe. [NYT]
- Jourdan Dunn will be cooking with Hov. The Brit beauty tweeted that she’ll be appearing on Jay-Z‘s website, Life and Times – never heard of it till now — where she’ll be doing a cooking segment. [Modelinia]
- Kate Middleton who? For the State Opening of Parliament this morning, Queen Elizabeth II showed the Duchess of Cambridge how to royally turn it. Everyone else, just drink it in. This is what amazing looks like. [Styleite]
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Miuccia Prada took a deep dive into her nylon and satin-lined, leather embossed vaults, and came up driving her hot rod with Elsa Schiaparelli, chatting impossibly the whole way to the CFDA Met Gala. Miu also brought along her favorite bags since ’91, and is giving us a chance we previously thought impossible: to get vintage Prada, immaculately new.
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Yes the Met Ball red carpet just happened but we made note of our favorites as soon as we spotted them.
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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]
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Tonight is one of the biggest nights in fashion and we want you to share the Met Gala red carpet with us.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s annual Costume Institute Gala is tirelessly referred to as the Oscars of fashion and it certainly ranks as the industry’s glitziest and most glamorous night. But unlike the Oscars red carpet, where actresses willfully play it safe for fear of a career-defining performance on the worst dressed list, at the Met Gala the balls are to the haute couture wall. This is Fashion with a capital effin’ F. Sometimes the results are truly stunning and other times they’re…how can I put this gently…god-awful. Let’s take a look back at the Met Gala’s greatest hits and misses.
