Material Girl Gets A Second Helping Of Louis Vuitton
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- Confirmed: Madonna will do the Louis Vuitton fall campaign. With Jesus Luz? I imagine LVMH execs did a pro/con weighing the headline value against the risk that Madge would dump her boytoy ere September. [Grazia]
- No pesky swine flu pandemic threat level five business will put the fear into superstylist/downtown savant/Socrates afficionado Pat Field. When asked if she was afraid of the illness, she replied, “No. We’re in America and we don’t give a shit about anything.” [The Cut]
- Frenchie actress and hobbyist 9/11 conspiracy theorist Marion Cotillard, new face of Lady Dior, will, unsurprisingly, wear Dior to the Met ball on Monday. [WWD]
- Fashionologie has an excellent roundup of the Met ball news, from which designers are sitting this year out due to the cost, to who’s taking whom as a date. [Fashionologie]
- Michelle Obama‘s March Vogue cover was a top-selling issue, moving 560,000 copies on the newsstand, which is 1,000 more than 2008’s best-seller, the September issue. [WWD]
- Elle MacPherson designed a cashmere sweater for her sister-in-law’s line, Banjo & Matilda. It costs $499 Australian. [British Vogue]
- Behnaz Sarafpour went to Saudi Arabia to show her line in a trunk show (organized by a princess and attended by women only, naturally) and the designer reports that it is totally an underrated holiday destination. “I even got to ride a camel for the first time!!! Very Lawrence of Arabia!!!” [WWD]
- The launch party for Matthew Williamson‘s H&M line doubled as a booze cruise. Only unlike your pre-recession enforced-jollity work do, his had Grace Jones performing. [Style.com]
- And a pants-less Chanel Iman. [The Cut]
- Sophie Dahl: “When you’ve got big bosoms and a really big bottom it’s difficult to get dressed. You end up looking slightly pornographic in everything. But it’s nice to be able to get into jeans and a T-shirt and not have your breasts do the talking.” [Daily Express]
- V‘s take on a swimsuit issue looks like a winner. Six different models on the cover, including a sizzling Naomi Campbell, shot against a yellow background. Campbell marks her 25th year in the industry this year, so naturally, she’s hinting about a retirement. That’ll never stick. [Daily Mail]
- Francisco Costa is going to be on Martha Stewart‘s show tomorrow. [WWD]
- Kenneth Cole is going to be a commencement speaker at Northeastern University. Wanna take odds on 30 continuous minutes of puns? [FWD]
- A collection of Christian Lacroix‘s couture theater and opera costumes is being shown in Singapore — the first exhibition of the French designer’s work outside France. Patsy would just die to be there. [Dazed Digital]
- Under Armour is recalling 211,000 athletic cups. Because they come from a batch that “can break if hit, posing a serious injury hazard to athletes.” [BlackBook]
- An awful lot of Isaac Mizrahi‘s recently-released first collection for mass-market retailer Liz Claiborne has already been discounted, notes Racked. [Racked ]
- Hugo Boss‘s net profits shrank by 2% in the first quarter of 2009. [WWD]
- Men’s Wearhouse just discovered its own long-existing Prom Rep program — a kind of Tupperware Party of tux rental, with “referrals” and “rewards” for customers willing to transform themselves into vectors of corporate marketing with a target lock on their friends — is perfect for the Twittered, Facebooked, atomized high school world of now. Isn’t that nice. [BrandWeek]