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The best bits you have missed on FashionIndie this week including the most stylish cartoon bands, the most and least stylish girl groups, Britney and Mimi’s style evolutions and packing Memorial Day weekend essentials.
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Who doesn’t love a pin-up girl, especially when she look this bizarre? Ukrainian photographer Yelena Yemchuk shot some of our favorite top models for the spread Mabel, Betty and Bette for the Spring 2012 issue of TAR Magazine. See the photos after the jump.
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While counterfeiting has been the bane of many a fashion house’s existence — the recent trademark infringement case between Gucci and Guess being a prime example — Prada CEO Patrizio Bertelli sees a silver lining.
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For the seventh year running, Louis Vuitton has been named the world’s most valuable luxury brand, valued at a very fashionable $25.9 billion.
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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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Prada‘s new fashion film is practically dripping in Oscars…and probably some weird sexual kinks. Directed by Roman Polanski (guilty on both fronts), Sir Ben Kingsley plays psychiatrist to Helena Bonham Carter before shirking his shrink duties to drape himself in her Prada purple puffer jacket. It seems that Prada has given the doctor a fuzzy case of ADD in A Therapy.
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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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It seems like you can’t turn on the radio, or more realistically open up your Pandora, without hearing some serious name-dropping in your favorite tunes. But label-whoring in lyrics goes way back in the day before Kanye West was the Louis Vuitton Don and Gwen Stefani‘s Harajuku-mania.
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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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- When you exit through the gift shop of The Met‘s “Impossible Conversations” exhibit, you’ll find surreal (and severely overpriced) souvenirs like a lips pin and a Prada flame shoe ornament. [Met Museum]
- Tan Mom may well be the best thing to come out of New Jersey since…well, my mind’s gone blank on that front. While discretely hiding the box of Franzia in her handbag, Patricia Krentcil lashed out at those who accused her of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning salon, saying that “they’re jealous, they’re fat and they’re ugly.” [Jezebel]
