Marc Jacobs Goin’ Down to South Park, Gonna Make Himself a Tee

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Marc Jacobs returns to South Park, but this time not as “Muscle Man Marc.” The designer has collaborated with Trey Parker and Matt Stone to create three T-shirts featuring Eric Cartman, Butters Stotch and Randy Marsh to benefit The Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group at New York University. Stripped to their cartoon bones with only the charity’s slogan – ”Protect Your Largest Organ” — providing any coverage, it’s clear to see why Cartman is always so…tee’d off.

MALE MODEL HUMPDAY: All A-Twitter

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The Twitterverse has its fair share of male models hashtagging and Instagramming their lives on and off the runway so this Male Model Humpday we give you the top tweeters who are — thankfully — often topless. 

Plus Model Magazine and Fashion’s Obsession with Unrealistic Body Image

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The weight, dress size and health of models have always been hot-button topics, both in and out of the fashion industry. While runways are slowly shying away from the ultra-thin, heroin chic craze that dominated the late-90s and resurfaced in the mid-00s with all those pale, starving girls from Eastern Europe, and the CFDA has enacted initiatives to ensure the health and safety of models, there is still a large disparity between the average woman and what she sees when opens up the pages of Vogue. And with fashion, the trend simply trickles down to the rest of society. Just take a look at the skeletons on this Sunday’s Golden Globes red carpet. Bombarded with these images on a daily basis, how can impressionable young girls and women in general have a healthy body image? Plus Model Magazine decided to address this issue head-on with an editorial featuring Katya Zharkova and a handful of disturbing factoids.

INDIE REWIND: Triskaideka-Turning It –13 Super Scary Style Superstitions

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Another year, another Friday the 13th! Here from the FashionIndie vaults:

Triskaidekaphobia, the morbid fear of the number 13, has led to buildings without a thirteenth floor, airports without a 13th gate, a neverending film franchise and of course, the most notorious day of the year. For your Friday the 13th viewing terror, here are 13 style superstitions to heed and fear:

INDIE NEWSROOM: Roberto Cavalli’s Spring Campaign Crammed with Supers…Barbie Kardashian and her Dream Sham Wedding…Blue Ivy Carter Supposedly Not the Only Baby Born This Weekend

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- Daphne Groeneveld is stomping with the big girls now. The 17-year-old holds her own with superstar supermodels Naomi Campbell, Kristen McMenamy and Karen Elson – who are collectively 1,245 years old — for Roberto Cavalli‘s spring 2012 campaign, shot by Steven Meisel. [Vogue UK]

“I Am at Vuitton, and I Am Very Happy There”: Marc Jacobs on Dior

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With rumors circulating that Jil Sander‘s Raf Simons might be taking over at Christian Dior, at least one thing seems certain: Marc Jacobs doesn’t want the job. In the Meryl Streep-covered issue of Vogue, Jacobs says that he’s happy at Louis Vuitton and has been for a long time and that the idea of couture doesn’t really interest him.

THE DAILY GASP: Naomi Campbell for Pinko

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Look up in the sky! It’s an iPhone heading towards the temple of an insolent maid! It’s a twin-engine seaplane carrying a shipment of blood diamonds!  No, it’s Naomi Campbell spreading her wings and dive-bombing Pinko‘s spring 2012 campaign.

25 Top Fashion Moments of 2011

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

‘Twas one hell of a year for fashion, 2011.  Alexander McQueen triumphed this year thanks to a pair of well-documented dresses and a bona fide cultural phenomenon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Christian Dior tried to rebound from a potential PR nightmare, to varying degrees of success. Diffusion lines easily out-shined their designer homes.  An editrix reinvented herself amidst a sea of rumors without losing a beat.  And underaged fashionistas grew up in front of our very eyes. Here are our picks for the 25 most memorable and stylish moments of 2011.