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NEWS / January 31 2012 4:42 PM

IndieNewsroom: VF’s Young Old Hollywood Glamour…Kristen Stewart Flips Karl Lagerfeld the Bird…Adele to Perform at Grammys

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- For Vanity Fair’s 18th annual Hollywood Issue, Mario Testino shot eleven of filmdom’s hottest young actresses — including Jennifer Lawrence, Mia Wasikowsa and Oscar nominees Rooney Mara and Jessica Chastain, who are all featured on the front cover —  for an homage to old Hollywood glamour. Squint a little and Rooney Mara looks just like silent film star Louise Brooks. [Vanity Fair]

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FASHION / January 25 2012 3:34 PM

Designer Daily: Zahia Dehar

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Zahia Dehar isn’t your average, run-of-the-mill lingerie designer. In fact, she didn’t even begin her career in the fashion world; her name hit the spotlight when it was revealed she was a former underage prostitute. After claiming three French football stars had sex with her while younger than 18, her luck transformed. Not only did she launch own lingerie line with help from some of France’s greatest couturiers including François Tamarin, Bruno Legeron and Jean-Pierre Ollier, she’s been photographed modeling the collection by a range of talented artists. Karl Lagerfeld himself got behind the lens, saying it was fun to work with her, “like Vargas pinups.” The below collection was shot by Alix Malka for Vanity Fair - see the spread after the jump.

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FASHION, NEWS / December 27 2011 9:37 AM

The Ladies Who Hunch: The Best and Worst Selling Cover Girls (and Boys) of the Year

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Some gals got it and some gals would sell their first born just to get it — that “je ne sais quoi”, that “It” factor that makes men want them, women want to be them, and magazine editors want to put them on their covers. But even with that hard-to-categorize quality, the magic can fall short. Some gals can sell a magazine and some gals should stick to their day jobs, starring in movies, recording dance-pop hits and whoring their lives out on basic cable. Assembled here are the biggest winners and losers of the Great Magazine Cover War of 2011.

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NEWS / December 22 2011 5:58 PM

INDIE NEWSROOM: Adam Lambert Arrested in Lovers’ Quarrel/ The Inevitable Kardashian Lawsuit/ Carine on Emmanuelle Alt: “Who?”

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- Songstress/screamstress/tacky tranny extraordinaire Adam Lambert was arrested Thursday morning in Helsinki, Finland following a row with his trashbox boyfriend, Finnish Big Brother winner Sauli Koskinen. The gals got into it outside of the gay bar DTM — Don’t Tell Mama, naturally — and passersby who tried to intervene were subjected to a good ole face-clawing. [E!]

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CULTURE / November 26 2011 12:53 PM

INDIE REWIND: A Lesson in Opulence — 5 Profiles in Fabulous

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Fashion is as famous for its outsized personalities as its outsized skirts. The drama of a neckline is birthed — loudly, and often involving an unceremonious  firing — by a complicated genius no one could hope to understand…let alone care to try to understand. Below are five profiles in the kind of batshit crazy you just can’t teach. This elegance is learned, kids.

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SPREAD'EM / October 17 2011 1:34 PM

THE DAILY GASP: Courtney Love…Portrait of a Lady?

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What the hell is going on here? Walking chemical spill, Courtney Love…is that you looking loverly and ladylike in Vanity Fair? Demurely drinking tea out of a cup and  saucer instead of chugging whiskey straight out of the bottle? Posing elegantly in pencil skirts and sophisticated dresses instead of crawling on the floor in ripped fishnets with an exposed boob hanging out? Color me impressed, Lady Love!

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