>> Cacharel Taps Cedric Charlier of Lanvin to Replace Eley Kishimoto — Spring 2010 Paris Fashion Week is shaping up to be full of new blood, between Phoebe Philo at Celine, Peter Copping at Nina Ricci, Lindsay Lohan and Estrella Archs at Ungaro, and now Cedric Charlier, who has been appointed as creative director at Cacharel. Charlier, who has spent the last six years working under Alber Elbaz, presents his first collection for the brand Oct. 3. [Telegraph UK]

>> Dries van Noten was honored today in New York by the Fashion Institute of Technology's Couture Council, but he's not letting the newfound recognition (he received the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award last year) go to his head, he tells The Moment; he will never be one of those designers who rely on their star power: "I think I tell enough about myself when I make my clothes and when I show them. I don’t need people to buy clothes for who I am; I prefer them to buy things that I create. I don’t want to hide myself — I think I am actually quite open about a lot of things. But my private life has to stay my private life."

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>> Fashion Documentarist Loic Prigent Reveals the One Question Fashion Designers Really Hate —Documentary filmmaker Loic Prigent has brought us into the inner sanctums of Chanel, Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton, and most recently Proenza Schouler, Fendi, Sonia Rykiel, and Jean Paul Gaultier via The Day Before. Through his ten years of filming fashion, he's come up with designers' "number one enemy in fashion journalism now" — being asked 'What is your inspiration?': "They really hate it when you ask it. I’ve said it one million times. You have to say it, but when I do the documentaries I try to not ask it. Because everyone asks it. Sometimes it’s not something they can articulate. Sometimes it’s not one inspiration but a whole realm of things and feelings. Sometimes it’s not an inspiration at all but it’s just about an obsession." [Speakeasy]

>> Mounir Moufarrige, who famously replaced Karl Lagerfeld with 25-year-old Stella McCartney at Chloe in 1997, is at it again: He's signed an almost-unknown chief designer, Estrella Archs (left), and Lindsay Lohan as an "artistic adviser" to replace Esteban Cortazar at Emanuel Ungaro, in hopes that they will bring attention — good, bad, or otherwise — back to the brand.  Their first collection — for Spring 2010 — is expected to be shown on the runway in Paris, and Archs and Lohan will likely come out together for the bow at the end.

Ungaro CEO Moufarrige decided to forego a proven, well-known designer, he told WWD, because the days of "designers in their ivory towers" are over.  He thinks that Lohan will lend a vital "consumer" voice: "Designer-led fashion is likely not to be enough [for Ungaro]. It’s a slow process going the traditional route [because designers need a couple of years to get into the house's skin]. Not enough just doesn’t get you anywhere.” And he maintains that "it's not an act of desperation to get a real diva [like Lohan] involved. I like controversy." 

Lohan now has a multiyear contract with the brand »