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Stella McCartney Gets Funny, Bryan Boy Gets Furry

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


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

  • Stella McCartney makes funny chic with her Red Nose Day t-shirt collection to benefit Comic Relief. [Harper's Bazaar UK]

  • Carine Roitfeld's first feature as the global fashion director of Harper's Bazaar has been revealed. [Harper's Bazaar]

  • Chris Burch has sold a 10 percent stake in C. Wonder to Fidelity for $35 million. [WWD]

  • Bryan Boy will collaborate with Adrienne Landau on a collection of unisex fur accessories for Fall 2013. [Racked]

  • Alessandra Ambrosio is set to launch her own fashion brand, Alé by Alessandra, for Spring 2014. [Vogue UK]

  • Pippa Middleton is the namesake for Kate Spade's latest bag, the Catherine Street Pippa. [InStyle]

  • Allison Williams has inked a deal to be the new face of Simple Skincare. [Belfast Telegraph]

  • The signature style of Tokyo's Harajuku Girls inspired Agyness Deyn's Spring 2013 collection for Dr. Martens, which hits stores on Feb. 22. [Vogue UK]

  • Reed Krakoff is partnering with Ladurée. [Fashionologie Inbox]

  • Nicola Formichetti designed an exclusive limited-edition bag for Shopbop; it sports bright pink graffiti against navy leather. [The Cut]

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Chanel Heads to Texas, T's Cover Girl, and Stella McCartney's Perfect Vision

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



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]
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Jean Paul Gaultier's Diet Coke Cans, and the Demise of Fashion Television

>> Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.



>> Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

  • Jean Paul Gaultier is the new creative director of Diet Coke in Europe. His first order of business? Decorating the iconic bottles with corsets to make them look more like his signature torso-shaped perfume bottles. [The Cut]

  • Fashion blogger Bryan Boy is taking some flak for tweeting about the Miss Universe Canada pageant's decision to allow a transgender woman to participate in the competition. "I'm very much pro-tranny but i don't want them to take part in miss universe," he wrote, much to the dismay of The Cut's Alex Rees, who replied, "and some trannys are probably pro-bryanboy but they don't need you passing judgement." [Stylelist]

  • Rosie Huntington-Whiteley joined Twitter today with the handle @RHW. "Hello!" her first tweet read. "Finally joining Twitter and looking forward to sharing some exciting and fun things with you all very soon...so stay tuned. R x" At the time of this posting she had already amassed over 2,000 followers. [The Daily Telegraph]

  • Jeanne Beker's Fashion Television, the Canadian-based TV show that ran for 27 years, stopped production this week. Representatives from Bell Media, which owns Fashion Television, say Beker will stay with the company to work on "the development of new projects." The half-hour show aired weekly in over 130 countries. [The Fashion Spot]

  • Alice Temperley is lobbying against a proposed British law that would raise the price of cider made in Great Britain — like the kind her parents produce for a living. "It is a crippling tax that would make local cider bought from local farms like my parents' three times more expensive, so ruining the livelihood I grew up with and England's beautiful orchards," she said. [Vogue UK]