>> Riccardo Tisci and his friend and muse, Mariacarla Boscono, appear on one of i-D's three fresh-from-the-press Pre-Spring 2010 covers; the others feature Natasha Poly and Rihanna.

Tisci and Boscono go way back. When Tisci was first starting out, pre-Givenchy, he lost backing weeks before a show; devastated, he ended up going to a friend's embroidery factory in New Delhi.  When he returned to Milan in the Fall of 2004, two weeks before Fashion Week, it was Mariacarla who, impressed with the three bags full of hand-embroidered clothes Tisci brought back, pestered him into pulling together a show, he tells the new issue of LOVE. They cobbled together an off-schedule and technivally illegal production in an old garage, with Karen Elson in a tulle evening gown doing stunts on a BMX.  Police shut the show down, but right after he presented a follow-up collection, he got the call from Givenchy.

Would Tisci ever revive his own label? »

>> Naomi Campbell Likes to Wear Kate Moss's Topshop Collection —Naomi Campbell is gearing up for a Fashion for Relief runway show benefiting Haiti this Friday, Feb. 12 during New York Fashion Week, followed by a similiar event Feb. 18 in London. She wouldn't reveal who will be walking in the show, but when questioned about what pieces in Kate Moss's wardrobe she coveted, Naomi replied: "I wear a lot of her [Topshop line] . . . She has a black chiffon top that I put on with a bikini but it’s a top to wear at night, too. And I wear that a lot. I also have the cut-off denim shorts. And I have her vest. All from her Topshop collection." [Grazia]

>> All the top tickets in town are jumping on the livestream bandwagon.  First, Marc Jacobs announced his 500 person, front-row only show would be open and shown live to the public via the Intertubes a couple of days ago, and today, Alexander Wang, Calvin Klein, and Rodarte have all announced they're entering the ring this season as well.

The Wang and Rodarte shows will both be presented live on Nick Knight's Showstudio.com, with Wang's debuting at 5 pm EST on Feb. 13 and Rodarte's at noon EST on Feb. 16.  Calvin Klein, meanwhile, will broadcast their women's show on calvinkleincollection.com and Facebook at 3 pm on Feb. 18.

So what does all this livestreaming mean for the future of Fashion Week? »

>> First Look: Benjamin Bundchen Brady —Gisele Bundchen stepped out for her first photoshoot on January 25, but refused to show reporters a picture of her son Benjamin, born December 8, 2009, saying, "Someday you’ll see him . . ."  A couple of days later on Jan. 27, she took two month old Benjamin out for his first car ride — and Brazilian gossip magazine Quem has the pictures. [Made in Brazil, Quem]

>> Hamish Bowles Is a Former Fashion Show Crasher —In the Guardian's weekend article highlighting Central Saint Martins' Louise Wilson — who is responsible for cultivating talents like Gareth Pugh and Christopher Kane — Hamish Bowles recalls his time at the school: "When I started, John Galliano was in his graduating year, and he had an incredibly potent effect on myself and all my contemporaries. The denizens of the fashion department always had, I'd say, something of a superior attitude. It was also a great time for clubs. Cha Cha's was there; Leigh Bowery was emerging on the scene. Saint Martins students were heavily involved in that. You'd stay up all night creating the latest look for Taboo, not eat for days, then have a cake at Patisserie Valerie. You'd go to Paris Fashion Week and see how many shows you could get into. Pretend to be the make-up artist. That was actually a class project!" [Guardian]

>> Not all models seem to have a problem with the physical requirements of their job. Yesterday, the Daily Beast quoted an anonymous ex-model, who apparently in her heyday walked for Tom Ford and John Galliano, on the pressure to be super skinny: "Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at 4 am to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin. But I made a million dollars by the time I was 20, I bought a town house in Manhattan and put myself through Columbia. Does that make me a victim?"

Abbey Lee Kershaw, in an interview posted today with Australian nightly television show Today Tonight, seems to feel similarly when asked what she thinks about the pressure to be ultra-thin: "That's like asking a bodybuilder how they feel about the pressures to be incredibly muscly. An elite performer is always put under some sort of extreme pressure that the rest of society can argue, might not quite understand."

Those McQueen shoes, on the other hand »

>> Diane von Furstenberg on Her Marriage, Living in Separate Homes—Diane von Furstenberg's marriage to Barry Diller has been the subject of much scrutiny, but she sums it up as thus in Thursday's Page Six Magazine: "Barry has loved me unconditionally for 34 years. I did leave him, and I went with other men, but they always ended up being jealous of Barry and not the other way around. At the end, he got me, and I'm happy he got me. He's the pillar of our family." On the subject of her and Diller having separate homes: "In New York, we don't sleep together. I like it this way. It's my decision. Eventually, we'll get a place in the city together." [NY Post]

>> Marc Jacobs's longtime business partner Robert Duffy joined Twitter on January 29 — catch him while you can, he says he's only Twittering until Feb. 16 after the Marc by Marc Jacobs show.  In the week or so he's been on the social network, however, Duffy has shed a lot of light on upcoming projects at the company — as well as his business philosophy. For instance:

Duffy went to Los Angeles last week to work on an undisclosed movie project.

"Working on a movie project in LA. Also helping to edit a photo book about all the people that work with us. It's amazing! . . . The kids I work with all over the world are the most inspiring ever! So a book is being done on them. Working title 'the men and women of mj.'"

Will Marc join Twitter again? »

>> Devi Kroell and Lanvin Now Share an Investor —The Bartel family, founders of Travelzoo, who last November took a 12.5 percent stake in Lanvin's parent company, has been revealed as Devi Kroell's silent investor.  Bartel quietly took a stake in Kroell in 2008, allowing the designer to open boutiques and expand her product range; she's also holding her first runway show Feb. 15 during New York Fashion Week.  Bartel reportedly doesn't have the intention of building a fashion conglomerate, but has looked at investment opportunities in Christian Lacroix and Jil Sander in recent years. [WWD]

>> Tyra Banks first approached Andre Leon Talley to be on America's Next Top Model eight years ago. “At that point," he told WWD, "I said no because it was the beginning. I was thinking I wanted to see where it goes.” Fast forward to 2010 and cycle 14 of the show, which premieres March 10 on The CW, with Talley on the judging panel:

I felt maybe I could contribute something to it that had not been on the show. I just felt that it was a way to step out of the box and associate myself with a very important American success story, a very important brand — Tyra Banks.

How does Anna Wintour feel about all this? »