>> Jourdan Dunn Is Enjoying the Sideline View at London Fashion Week —Jourdan Dunn, who is pregnant with her first child, a son, isn't walking the runway these days, but she did show up front row at both Topshop Unique (left) and Issa (right) yesterday, where she said of her time off: "I’ve been watching a lot of daytime telly and eating a lot! I thought I wouldn’t like sitting and watching, but now that I’m on the other side, I’m enjoying it . . . My mum keeps saying, Jourdan, the baby’s going to grow a lot, so don’t buy him expensive stuff. But I can’t help it! That baby Ralph Lauren stuff is so cute, I love it!" [Chic Report]

>> Daphne Guinness Likens Topshop to Gucci —Style.com has an interview with Daphne Guinness coming out on Friday.  Among the tidbits: "People think I'm Miss Couture but I know how to do it. I kid you not, I once did a shoot with just rubbish bags." On Topshop: "It's so great. I buy stuff there that you'd find in Gucci."  And on her iconic black and white-streaked hair: "There's no way I can get rid of it unless I shave my head and dye it black." [Meenal Mistry Twitter, Meenal Mistry Twitter, Meenal Mistry Twitter]

>> Hussein Chalayan admits that he's a "designer's designer," which is probably why he told WWD he's "weirded out by" models-turned-designers. This isn't anything new — in February of last year, he informed the Independent UK that he found Kate Moss designing "kind of insulting . . . because it's like saying — and I don't mean this personally — 'I can sell more clothes off my name, off my brand, than you can, even though you're a better designer.' "  

He seems to have lightened his feelings on Kate specifically, and now says he views her Topshop line as credible, but he's still not totally convinced: “I don’t think it represented her, and I didn’t think she worked hard enough. I even told her to her face.” Her response, as he recalls, was: "‘Oh, I’m just trying to do a light thing; I’m not trying to do anything serious.' But I said, ‘That’s not the point.’”

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>> Pendleton for Opening Ceremony Lookbook Appears —Liberty of London has scored with a number of collaborations with retailers — including APC and Topshop — this season, and now another heritage label is jumping into the collabo game for the first time.  To celebrate its 100th anniversary, Pendleton is lending its Navajo prints to Opening Ceremony for a capsule collection.  The product appears in August — 15 men's pieces available in women's sizing, plus eight women's pieces, all in wool made in the US, and all available starting in August: Coutorture has a preview of the lookbook, styled by Alastair McKimm. [Coutorture]

>> Topshop was being super secretive about the highly-anticipated, raved-about Christopher Kane for Topshop collection, but Lucky was finally able to snap three pictures; the collection looks to be full of black, grommets, leather fringe, lace, and tulle.  It sounds like the 39-piece collection — which includes shoes and accessories like this $300 grommeted leather bucket bag — will be in stores in October instead of September as previously reported, with prices running in the $80-$300 range.

UPDATE: Apologies, it sounds like the photo embargo wasn't lifted and won't be until September, so the images had to be taken down.

>> INSIDER WIRE —Despite reports to the contrary, Emma Cook is not shuttering her label. Instead of showing in February, she had "a really big, long, hard think" and "decided to focus on making my clothes more affordable from now on. I spent the season working out ways to halve my retail prices, working with new suppliers, things like that, and dropping the show." She aims to keep her dresses in the £200-300 range; Her spokesman told Grazia that Emma will be looking at her archive, re-issuing some key pieces, and continuing to collaborate with Topshop. [Independent UK, Grazia]

>> Christopher Kane teased his upcoming collection for Topshop a month ago as "nothing like any other work I've done in the past." Today, the designer held the press preview at the St Martin's Lane hotel in London, and while he watched nervously, Grazia reports, "The fashion pack were so bowled over we left hearing numerous conversations about which pieces they'd be snapping up . . . in September!"

Unfortunately, Topshop has forbidden the posting of any descriptions or pictures, so all we've got to go on is that there are 39 pieces with shoes and bags, the prices run £40-£160, and it will be available in New York.  Style Bubble skirts around specific details with: "All the Kane type touches you would want and not at all watered down in quality . . . I defy people NOT to find something they like."  Grazia adds: "Think classic Christopher Kane — edgy, fierce but also supremely wearable. The designer . . . wasn't telling lies when he said there would be ‘embellishment' — or that the girls would go crazy for it."

>> IN PRODUCTION —Kate Moss's tenth collection for Topshop — the high Summer edition, inspired by her travels and full of sheer embroidered blouses, tie-dye tops, and print minidresses — hits stores and online tomorrow. As for the big dreamcatcher-style earrings she wears in the lookbook photos, those are not from her collection, but they are from the Freedom at Topshop main line. [FabSugar, Vogue UK, Daily Mail]

>> IN PRODUCTION —The newest designers pulling up to the collaboration station: Anna Sui, who is following Alexander McQueen as the second designer in Target's Designer Collaboration series starting Sept. 13 with a Gossip Girl-inspired collection; Christopher Kane, who is doing his biggest line ever — "it's more than a capsule collection with bags, shoes, knitwear and dresses. It's nothing like any other work I've done in the past" — for Topshop, tentatively expected sometime in late August; and Lizzie Fortunato Jewels, who are taking their arts and crafts jewelry to Urban Outfitters under the label Hope Marian this July. [WWD, Grazia, Refinery29]
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