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• Lady Gaga wore a studded bra and panties underneath a flannel and a leather jacket to a Mets game yesterday. Despite being nearly naked, she did not get thrown out. [Just Jared]

• Halle Berry will reportedly grace the cover of Vogue’s September issue. [Fashionista]

• Prabal Gurung: "Every designer wants Anna's approval." [AFP]

• Alexander Wang reportedly purchased a $2 million Tribeca apartment from former New York Times "Style" editor Holly Brubach. [Fashionologie]

• Net-a-Porter has added Matthew Williamson and Diane Von Furstenberg to its online bridal boutique. [InStyle UK]

• Heidi Klum poses nude in the July issue of German GQ. Hello, post-baby body! [HuffPo]

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Karlie Kloss Is Couture Fashion Week’s Top Model (Again!)

This Couture Fashion Week proved that Carmen Kass and Karolina Kurkova are still very much in the game. Carmen, who typically makes her requisite runway appearance at Michael Kors, opened for the Armani Privé show, while Karolina had the first look at Elie Saab. Karl Lagerfeld switched up his casting at Chanel — usual suspects Freja Beha, Heidi Mount, and Abbey Lee didn’t have the opening or closing looks. Instead, Russian top model Natasha Poly did the honors of opening, while Iris Strubegger closed, alongside Baptiste Giabiconi. Freja did, however, open for Valentino, which is fitting being that she's one of the new faces of the brand. But, veteran models be damned, power walker Karlie Kloss reigned supreme for yet another season. Next Models' shining light closed for Armani Privé, and opened for Christian Dior and Jean Paul Gaultier.

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Bernard Arnault Has $28.6 Billion; Rihanna Wears Flotation Devices Onstage

• Challenges magazine ranked LVMH president Bernard Arnault as the richest man in France. His fortune is estimated at $28.6 billion. [WWD]

• Karl Lagerfeld shot Anja Rubik and Baptiste Giabiconi for Fendi’s latest campaign. The ads are meant to depict an “Italian couple in downtown New York.” [WWD]

• The new Sexy Body Issue of V has scratch-off Vs over the models’ naughty bits. [Style File/Style.com]

• Rihanna recently performed wearing giant inflatable shoulders. [Fashion Indie]

• Harrods is considering opening a new store in China. [Vogue UK]

• Mad Men and Banana Republic are partnering again. The retailer’s windows will feature displays inspired by the hit show, and customers will have the opportunity to win a walk-on role. [StyleList]

• Raquel Zimmerman poses against stone walls in Chloé’s latest campaign, shot by Inez and Vinoodh. [Design Scene]

• Catherine Malandrino is partnering with Lacoste on a capsule collection. [WWD]

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Madonna Makes Tiny Crop Tops for Macy’s; American Eagle Offers Free Smartphones That Aren’t Really Free

• Madonna's new Macy's juniors' line includes an aggressively cropped crop top in sparkly jailbird stripes. Yours for $20. [Teen Vogue]

• Not satisfied with her T-shirt line and fragrance collection, Mary J. Blige will start designing eyewear, too. The sunglasses will go on sale at Nordstrom and Bergdorf Goodman in October. [WWD]

• American Eagle is offering free smartphones to customers who try on jeans. But the two-year service plan you also have to buy is far from free. [HuffPo]

• Roberto Cavalli made an outfit for Shakira to wear in the World Cup closing ceremony. It combines tulle, fringe, flowers, pearls, embroidery, and denim. [Vogue UK]

• The ubiquitous Rosie Huntington-Whitely explores a dimly lit mansion in Leon Max’s fall campaign. [Design Scene]

• Barbie’s boyfriend, Ken, landed a six-page editorial in British Esquire. While Ken looks dapper in Burberry, his modeling is a little stiff. [Fashionista]

• Danielle Pergament has been named the executive editor of Lucky. [WWD]

• This spring, Rebecca Minkoff is launching a men’s accessories line called Ben Minkoff, inspired by the designer’s grandfather and his career as a fighter pilot in World War II. [WWD]

• DKNY Jeans is opening a 1,100-square-foot store in Singapore with décor inspired by our meatpacking district. [WWD]

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Kate Moss Shakes With Nerves at Parties

Mario Testino: "Believe it or not, [Kate Moss] is shy. I go to events with her and I am, like, what's the matter with you?' and she is, like, shaking, nervous. I'm, like: 'You're a freak, because I am not shy at all.' Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of American Vogue, is, you imagine, the most secure person, but she is shy, too. Often people mistake her shyness for coldness." [Telegraph UK]

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Karl Lagerfeld Linked to Gossip Girl; See ScarJo’s New Mango Ads

• Gossip Girl is shooting on location in Paris and Karl Lagerfeld was seen out and about with Blake Lively, so people are hoping this means he'll make a cameo on the show. [Glamour]

• Giambattista Valli will open its first store this year in Paris. [Fashionista]

• Bebe is shutting down its experimental PH8 streetwear brand. [WWD]

• Fashion blogger Garance Doré’s first ad campaign for Moschino is out, and it definitely has her signature breezy strolling-around-Paris-looking-lovely thing going on. [Fashionologie]

• Scarlett Johansson looks almost unrecognizable in Mango’s latest ads. [Design Scene]

• Kate Moss stars in Isabel Marant’s black-and-white fall campaign. [Fashion Gone Rogue]

• Freja Beha stars in Valentino’s latest campaign. [Design Scene]

• Annie Leibovitz shot Hickey Freeman’s fall campaign in Los Angeles with a “buzzed about” actor. [WWD]

• Victoria Beckham on skinny jeans: “When I wear a skinny jean, I like it to have a little bag around the knee and the ankle. It's more modern than something that is tight, tight, tight.” [Teen Vogue]

• Charlotte Ronson: "I love [the Central Park Zoo] because snow leopards aren't just for tourists." [Refinery 29]

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In Case You Were Wondering What Kanye West and Amber Rose Have Been Up To ...
7/12/10 at 11:30 AM

Photo: www.terrysdiary.com

Kanye, who is still apparently rocking his mullet nub, licked her head for Terry Richardson's camera. Then he licked her tongue. [Terry's Diary]

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George Clooney to Go to Court Over Fraudulent Clothing Line
7/12/10 at 11:10 AM

Over two years ago, someone sent an e-mail around Italy about a Milan fashion show for a clothing line called GC Exclusive by George Clooney. Clooney, who is not and never was designing a clothing line, issued a statement calling the email "a hoax." Now he plans to go to court on July 16 to testify against GC Exclusive, which has been accused of fraud and forging Clooney's signature. This makes Clooney that rare celebrity who finds the idea of doing his own clothing line so embarrassing he has taken legal action to defend his honor. [WWD]

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• Victoria’s Secret will reportedly release a line of Halloween costumes this fall. The company was unable to confirm whether that means they'll just sell their bra-and-panty sets in packages with ears and tails. [HuffPo]

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Stefano Tonchi’s First W Cover Suggests It’s Becoming ‘Less of a Fashion-Obsessed Publication’
7/12/10 at 09:45 AM

Nathaniel Goldberg shot Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall for the August cover of W, the first under editor-in-chief Stefano Tonchi's tutelage. When he was hired in March, Tonchi said he wanted to make the magazine more accessible, "probably ... more of a general-interest style magazine, and less of a fashion-obsessed publication." This cover — with clothes being anything but the focus — suggests that's what Tonchi's doing. Check out the other covers in W's archive and you'll see that even with celebrities on the cover, the focus was as much on them as what they wore and how they were styled. But this cover suggests Tonchi wants us to do that rare thing with his style magazine, something more than look at the pretty pictures of the pretty people, like learn things about the pretty people by, oh God, reading the articles. To his credit, the Hamm and Hall Q&A lacks a certain puffiness.

Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall [W]