- Lindsay Lohan‘s debut Ungaro collection was critically panned, and so unpopular that the brand lost its only U.S. retailers besides its own boutique. Now that boutique is calling customers to tell them the store is closing on February 27. [TheAwl]
- The Center for Environmental Health, a pressure group, tested jewelry bought at stores including Saks Fifth Avenue and Aeropostale and found it had high levels of the heavy metal cadmium, which is toxic to humans. There is no federal limit on cadmium for jewelry. [CBS]
- Meanwhile, organic Indian underwear will totally cure your cellulite. [Telegraph]
- Kellan Lutz scored a Calvin Klein underwear campaign, along with the tennis player Fernando Vasco, the soccer player Hidetoshi Nakata, and fellow actor Mehcad Brooks. However, you can’t really see any of their abs, because Calvin Klein put a big red “X” on each poster. Why? [WWD]
- Gucci is rerunning a 1960s campaign featuring Veruschka and Peter Sellers to pimp its new watches. [WWD]
- Olsenboye officially launches at JC Penney today. But the twins have one more line up their sleeves: a denim collection called Textile Elizabeth & James that takes inspiration from the 1970s. So far, there are only three styles — the Stevie, the Joni, and the Hendrix. (Wonder how long it took to come up with those names?) The jeans will be out in March, and a full collection under the new trademark will roll out for fall. [WWD]
- Robert Duffy has been tweeting and photographing the run-up to the Marc Jacobs show. (They sorted out their stage design problems just fine, thanks.) He also has advice for people who want to work at the company, which just made 27 internal promotions: “For job Info. Marc Jacobs.com. Find the area you want to work in. Get the directors name and e-mail them. I’m gonna get shit for this. But.” [@Robertcduffy]
- And the show itself will be broadcast live on the internet. Hope they’re upgrading their servers now. [Createthegroup]
- Not to be outdone, London Fashion Week plans to stream all the designers shows on the official schedule. [WWD]
- Jason Wu wants to design shoes by next year. His new office, much larger than the old, has newsprint wallpaper and looks otherwise white and airy. [WWD]
- The cast of Jersey Shore is demanding tickets to fashion week shows. Or, if you believe their reps, being asked to attend and even model in fashion week shows (Kim Kardashian, is that your brilliant idea?). It’s not actually terribly surprising that inexplicably popular/notorious individuals might be invited to a place where they’ll get their picture taken, given the Real Housewives who sat front-row last season, and the Ashley Dupré incident of a year ago, to name just two recent instances of people who have nothing to do with fashion ending up at the tents anyway. Of course, that last one didn’t go so well. [P6]
- Something called the Global Language Monitor has determined that “Lady Gaga” is the top fashion buzzword of the, ahem, “uncoming” season. (Perhaps they could monitor their own language from time to time.) [Language Monitor]
- This Sunday’s New York Times Magazine will feature a story shot by Ryan McGinley in which Rodarte dressed various Winter Olympians. The preview shot, of skater Johnny Weir in a knitted jumpsuit, is outstanding. [WWD]
- Victoria Beckham, and her kids, spray-painted some t-shirts to benefit a charity called Sport Relief. Now turned into screenprints, the shirts are on sale across the UK, and the women’s one is modeled by Sophie Ellis Bextor. [Telegraph]
- Miranda Kerr spent $2,500 at Victoria’s Secret in L.A. Which is odd, considering she’s an Angel, and all. [TMZ]
- And this Australian banker can’t stop looking at pictures of Miranda Kerr in lingerie. Even though his computer screen is visible to the television camera that was simultaneously filming his boss! Ha, ha, spreadsheets are so boring. [Heraldsun]
- Nicole Scherzinger has gained representation with the modeling agency Wilhelmina. [P6]
- Marc Ecko apparently thinks screenprinting old Playboy pictures onto t-shirts will save his business. He may be right. [Inventorspot]
- Dita Von Teese — who else? — designed an eye mask for Moschino. It costs 120 Euros, 30% of which will be donated to amFAR for AIDS research. [SB]
- Badgley Mischka is opening a 2,400 square foot store at the northern end of Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills this spring. [WWD]
- Charlotte Kemp Muhl, the model best known for dating Sean Lennon, is the first ever face of shoe brand Sam Edelman. Kemp Muhl appears nude in the campaign, but for her shoes. [WWD]
- Abercrombie is still struggling to retrieve its lost retail mojo. [WSJ]
- Esprit’s income fell 5.2% in the last six months of 2009, but because analysts had expected an even worse result from the retailer, its shares still rose 7.9%. [BW]
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