»Mario Sorrenti returns to his modeling days, Kate Moss days for the cover of Purple Fall 2008 [FAD]

»Jenni Kayne is pregnant, will be missing her Spring 2009 presentation [FabSugar]

»Anna Sui, staunchly anti-Forever 21 though she is, seems to have copied a vintage bag for production [Fashionista]

»Calvin Klein launches e-commerce [FWD]

»Who's more expensive: September Vogue or September Elle [Jezebel]

»Designers are increasingly using embellishments and high-tech fabrics to ward off knockoffs [The Cut]

»American Apparel to do shoes? [Fashionista]

»Avion Feminin launches lingerie [Style File]

»Kate Moss has backyard teepees that are causing problems [Daily Mail]

»More Spring 2009 show packages: DNA, 1 Model Management, Women, Trump [Of the Minute]

>> Karl Lagerfeld makes his age hard to pin down, much less his personality.  Even his publicist will admit there are "many Karls" in a new Sunday Times profile: "Karl is like a chameleon. Always changing."  Whether what he says is believable or not, one thing is true: The man never ceases to be interesting. 

He'll make you wait three hours for an interview, but not because he's better than you.

“Karl is not a snob,” [his publicist] tells me, as we wait. “Karl has time for everyone, he is very generous, you will see.”

He is, however, better than smelly journalists.

“I have no problem with journalists – many are friends. Only if they are really stupid, or if they’ve got bad breath, or if they smell. Yesterday [after the Chanel couture show] I had a problem. I said, ‘I’m sorry, you’ve got to tell this woman that she needs to be taken away. Her smell is not possible.’ ”

"I’m only interested in my own opinion anyway." »

>> IN PRODUCTION —Nicholas Kirkwood officially unveils his first accessories collection for Pollini with Jonathan Saunder's ready-to-wear during Milan Fashion Week, but until then, here's a preview.  Expect the look to be less avant-garde than Kirkwood's epynomous line; Instead, there will be stacked heels, shots of color, and a shoe type Kirkwood has never done — flats. [WWD]

>> Is Anna Selezneva Carine Roitfeld's new favorite model? Carine styled her for the covers of both Vogue Paris and Vogue Russia September 2008. Even more of an indicator: Inside the Vogue Paris issue, Carine supposedly styled Anna as herself, a la Snejana Onopka as Anna Wintour.

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>> IN PRODUCTION —Kate Moss's Fall 2008 collection for Topshop will include printed chiffon, intricate embroidery, mohair knits, dropped waist dresses, and this sheer sequined tank (approx. $46) when it all drops Sept. 9. [NY Mag, Topshop]

>> After that rampant Marc Jacobs marriage rumor that made major Internet waves last month, we finally have confirmation that it didn't happen. In The New Yorker's Sept. 1 issue, Ariel Levy's profile of Marc bluntly states: "Last month, Page Six misreported that Jacobs had married Martone."  So, no marriage, but there is plenty of other insight to be had about Marc's relationship with Lorenzo Martone, his new "addiction," and all that attention he's been getting. 

Lorenzo was upset about all the tabloid coverage their relationship gets; Marc told him to "man up" and ignore it.

"Last Tuesday, [Page Six] had me making out with my ex-boyfriend Jason Preston at Pastis and bad-mouthing someone I went out with for four days. Well, first of all, I did not bad-mouth the person I went out with for four days, second of all I was not getting back together with Jason Preston, and, fourth—or first!—of all, I wasn't even in the city of New York on that Saturday! I was in Paris, France. My current boyfriend said, 'Marc, you know I don't believe it, but so many people have asked me about it.' I was, like, 'You put me on a plane Friday night! How can you be listening to this?'"

Instead of cocaine or alcohol, the gym has become Marc's addiction.

"Everything is beautiful at the gym, everyone looks amazing.  You just think it's like one big healthy circus going on out there: the bodies are great, people are jolly, and, even when they're complaining about how strenuous it is, there's, like, a kind of very good, positive, we're-all-doing-something-good-for-ourselves . . . And it's two and a half hours that I'm not smoking. I am a true addict in that whatever makes me feel good I want more of, whether it's good for me or not."

Anna Wintour sounds off on Marc! »

>> BLOWING THE COVER —The November 2008 cover of W will not feature the work of Steven Klein or Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, but rather Brad Pitt. The actor shot Angelina Jolie and the rest of the Jolie-Pitt family at Chateau Miraval in the southern France last week, marking his first ever turn as cover photographer.  Angelina and Brad appeared together on the W cover once before in 2005 (left).  What a coup for W — especially considering the numbers the Jolie-Pitts just turned for People. [FWD]

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