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• Patrick Demarchelier celebrates his 69th birthday today. [Vogue Paris]
  

• L'Wren Scott will show her Spring 2013 collection in Paris instead of New York to allow herself extra time to complete it. A time and date on the Paris calender have not yet been determined. [WWD]
  

• Natalie Portman posed unclothed in Christian Dior's ad campaign for its new makeup line, The New Nude. [Stylelist]
  

• A bar in Seoul, South Korea, called the Chanel Business Club has been ordered to pay an $8,800 fine for using the French fashion house's name without permission. [The Daily Telegraph]
  

• Miranda Kerr moonlights as a spokeswoman for Lipton Iced Tea in Japan. [Styleite]
  

• Cindy Crawford has partnered with German label C&A for her first clothing line. "It is important to me to be affiliated with a company that offers feel-good fashion with an unparalleled customer offering," she said in a statement. [Vogue UK]
  

• Former Vogue associate editor Veronica Gledhill is now the senior market editor of The Cut. [Media Bistro]

Photo: Models exit L'Wren Scott's Fall 2012 runway show.

Chris Benz told us that his signature pink hair was inspired by the gloomy, gray days of Winter — and that it almost manifested itself as a signature tattoo or piercing.

"It was that Winter in New York when it was like endless, and everyone was dying and it was pouring down rain," Benz said, referring to the blizzard-filled Winter of 2010. "Every single day it was snowing and then it would rain and then it would snow. And I was like, I don't know, I need to get a tattoo or pierce my ears or something, and everyone was like, no, just dye your hair because you can always dye it back and you'll feel like you did something exciting in the midst of this terrible Winter.

"So I went to where I get my hair done, looked at a bunch of colors, and I was like, 'Bleach it white and then we're going to dye it a color and be done with it.' And after it was white, I was like, let's just do it pink. I think it'll be funny and fun. And that was it. And the rest is history."

Benz has more or less maintained his pink hair since then and says he doesn't see himself experimenting with another color any time soon. He treats his locks with Manic Panic's pink hair dye about once a month.

"It kind of gets good when it grows out," he said. "I feel like roots are really important right now."

Photo courtesy of eBay.

Despite its glamorous and well-attended welcome party, the Metropolitan Museum's Impossible Conversations: Schiaparelli and Prada exhibit pulled in 339,838 total visitors — just over half the number of people who came to see Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty last year.

While the McQueen exhibit — which set a Costume Institute record for attendance with 661,509 visitors — would have been a tough act to follow for any museum show, Impossible Conversations still didn't do as well as some past shows. The New York Times notes, for example, that the Met's 2001 show about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis drew 559,902 visitors, and the 2005 Chanel exhibit drew 463,600.

It may not have the numbers on its side, the Schiaparelli and Prada exhibit does have one edge on other Costume Institute shows of the past: it inspired the comeback of an entire fashion brand. Schiaparelli is expected to relaunch with accessories, fragrances, cosmetics, and some clothing in February 2013.

Liya Kebede says having a more active role in her modeling work is what's kept her interested and fresh after over a decade in the industry.

Kebede, who recently starred in an editorial in T Magazine's Fall 2012 women's style issue, said she feels more engaged in her work now than she has in the past — and working with people like Cass Bird, who shot the pictures for T, helps.

"Working with people I haven't worked with before is always exciting, because I've done modeling for so long," Kebede says. "I feel like all the pictures that I do now are more collaborative than they used to be before, which I really like — having an input in stuff. And so it's more of a team effort, and so I enjoy it, in a way, more."

The model also runs a clothing line called Lemlem that she founded to help employ weavers in her native Ethiopia, and she also runs a foundation dedicated to the health of mothers and children in third-world countries. Where does she find time to manage it all that and model for everyone from Balenciaga to H&M?

"I think you just kind of do it," Kebede says. "I don't think I have a very perfect organized plan about it. I kind of do what needs to be done in whatever order it has to be done, kind of thing. It's quite chaotic, but it's nice. I like it."

Source: T Magazine