Lee Radziwill

Deborah Needleman has made some bold changes to T Magazine, the most noticeable of which is its brand-new logo.

Gone is the Gothic capital T that used to reside on the magazine's cover, and in its place is a sleeker sans serif T custom-designed by the magazine's creative director Patrick Li.

"I feel the Times is such a strong brand that it can handle under its umbrella a kind of distinctive magazine and that it doesn't need to typographically reference the Gothic type," Needleman said in an interview with WWD.

Speaking of strength, the magazine is now also physically bigger and printed on heavier paper. The thicker pages will provide support for her fashion-themed first issue, which will debut on Feb. 17. The issue features a cover story on front-row staple Lee Radziwill that Needleman started working on while she was still at the helm of WSJ. Magazine and a new front-of-book op-ed that examines "something in the zeitgeist." (For this issue, Suzy Menkes will ruminate on fashion bloggers; the cover teases the story with the line "the circus that is fashion.")

Photo via T Magazine

All the bits fit to print, here in our daily news roundup.

• Karl Lagerfeld has revealed the location of Chanel's next Métiers d'Art show. "I will go to Dallas," he said. "You know why? First of all, I love Texas. I love Texans." [Vogue UK]
  

• Lee Radziwill will reportedly cover Deborah Needleman's debut issue of T Magazine next month. [Daily Front Row]
  

• Bryan Boy's grandmother Eleonora is the namesake of Rebecca Minkoff's latest bag, the Elle. [Racked]
  

• Stella McCartney will launch her first collection of eyeglasses in March. Prices will range from $230 to $245. [FashionUnited]
  

• Did designer Hanae Mori inspire all the butterflies in the Spring 2013 collections? [W Magazine]
  

• Gucci's new scent Forever Now, which will debut this week, features notes of Florentine iris, orange blossom, and leather. [WWD]
  

• Manuel Mota, creative director of the bridal label Pronovias, passed away on Tuesday. He was 46. [Vogue UK]
  

• Target will now match the prices of identical goods offered on Amazon, Walmart.com, and BestBuy.com. [InStyle]
  

• This year's BAFTA nominees have been announced. [BAFTA]
  

• H&M's luxury line, & Other Stories, is set to open seven boutiques across Europe and launch online this Spring. [Fashionologie Inbox]

The sharks are circling, even if the oceans are getting a lot shallower with our current liquidity crisis, and that feeling of terror can only mean one thing: tea time with a princess. Bergdorf Goodman hosted a tea party Monday evening with Bob Colacello who feted a “premier epicurean collection,” created by Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis.

Gourmet chocolate and buttery cookies with "G"s seem a funny thing to be launching now but the social set types lke Lee Radziwill, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Agnes Gund and Bettina Zilkha all showed up to pay homage to the dainty new collection of munchies.

We find this all a little charming and more than a bit curious as Gloria was known as the punk princess and "Princess TNT" in the 1980s with her lavish spending and nonstop social life. We hate to make a twilight of her youth joke but tea time does come just before dusk. Good thing she looks so fantastic yes?

Image Via WWD