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Alber Elbaz Designs Dress For Minnie Mouse
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Minnie Mouse's Designer Dress, Vera Wang's Steep Fee, and Mango's Cuts

Minnie Mouse debuted a gown Alber Elbaz designed for her during a runway show at Disneyland Paris this weekend.
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  • Minnie Mouse debuted a gown Alber Elbaz designed for her during a runway show at Disneyland Paris this weekend. [Telegraph]

  • Shoppers at Vera Wang's Shanghai boutique should be prepared to spend money even if they don't purchase a dress. Customers at the store will be charged a ¥3,000 fee (approximately $482) to try the designer's work on. [Vogue UK]

  • Kering, the company formerly known as PPR, has acquired France Croco, a luxury tannery which specializes in crocodile skins. [WWD]

  • Nick Wooster's plan for helping JCPenney become America's favorite department store is simple. "I'm going to get in trouble for saying this," he said during WWD's Menswear Retail Summit, "but [we need to] make cute sh*t." [Racked]

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Michelle Obama Wears Reed Krakoff Dress in Portrait
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Michelle Obama's Official Portrait, Marchesa's Latest Line, and Calla's New Collab

Michelle Obama wore a dress designed by Reed Krakoff in her second official White House portrait.
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  • Michelle Obama wore a dress designed by Reed Krakoff in her second official White House portrait. [WWD]

  • Eyewear brand Warby Parker is in talks with Google to design fashionable frames for the Internet giant's high-tech glasses. [The New York Times]

  • JCPenney will launch an exclusive line of dresses, Pearl by Georgina Chapman of Marchesa, next month. The pieces will range from $50 to $250. [Racked]

  • After allegedly committing murder last week, Oscar Pistorius is no longer the face of Thierry Mugler's A*Men fragrance. [WWD]

  • Ruth La Ferla is the latest writer to offer up her opinion on all the sartorial peacocking at Fashion Week: "Who can fault them if they embrace the occasion as a continuous photo op?" She wrote. "[In] an era with video streaming, Instagram, Tumblr, and Vine have only redoubled the impact of an exotically eye-catching look." [The New York Times]

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