Sofia Vergara sometimes struggles to clothe her beautiful, beautiful body. “I can barely wear an outfit or a dress that I don’t have to alter,” the actress said at a red-carpet event. Sometimes, alterations are simple: taking in at a seam here, letting out at a seam there. “But other designers, I have to really, like, reconstruct them inside. At the beginning, I was getting sample sizes, which of course didn’t fit and I would have to transform them. Those were works of art that I had to do with my seamstress. Because to make all this fit in a sample size is insane!” [The Cut]
Rebel Wilson Tweeted her first magazine cover, of British Glamour. [@RebelWilson]
For its fall campaign, Christian Dior cast models Daria Strokous, Anastasia Ivanova, Iselin Steiro, Marie Piovesan, and used the Opéra Garnier in Paris as a location. [FGR]
A British radio DJ enlisted a real-life friend of Kate Moss, Nick Grimshaw, to prank-call the supermodel and ask for his DVD of High School Musical back. It’s moderately funny. [YouTube]
Anna Cleveland and her mother, legendary model Pat Cleveland, co-star in Zac Posen‘s latest lookbook. [Fashionista]
Vena Cava took to Instagram to accuse Alice + Olivia of ripping off one of its print designs — daffodils on a black background. Turns out each print was separately inspired: Vena Cava’s by a vintage dress owned by designer Lisa Mayock, and Alice + Olivia’s by a vintage fabric screen from designer Stacey Bendet‘s office. [Racked]
• Organized shoplifting is becoming increasingly violent, according to a survey of executives at 77 top U.S. retailers. 18.3% of retailers reported violence was involved in organized theft within the past year, compared with 13% in 2011 and 15.2% in 2012. [WWD]
• Stacey Battat, the costume designer for The Bling Ring, says she and her team looked at issues of tabloids back to 2003 and watched Bling Ring-member Alexis Neiers‘ short-lived reality show, Pretty Wild, for research. [Fashionista]
• Athletes in competition can be drug-tested any time, any place. And the International Olympic Committee called Lindsey Vonn while she was attending the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards with designer Cynthia Rowley. Vonn excused herself from the event and peed in a cup for the I.O.C. while Rowley stood guard outside the bathroom. [P6]
• To mark Proenza Schouler‘s tenth anniversary in business, Barneys is reissuing some pieces from the brand’s Parsons graduation collection, which it famously bought for retail in 2003. [WWD]
• Lauren Weisberger has published a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada titled Revenge Wears Prada. [Fashionista]
• There’s a nail art festival happening in London this July. [Grazia]
• Inevitably, someone has compiled a book of Karl Lagerfeld‘s kraziest quotes. [WWD]
• Yesterday, Karlie Kloss and the helmeted members of Daft Punk filmed or shot something in Manhattan — an ad? A music video? A magazine spread? Nobody knows. [Gothamist]
• Model Amanda Murphy was a Prada exclusive last season, but she’s not giving up her day job as a radiology technician. [Fashionista]