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Karl Lagerfeld Prefers Hookers To Heartfelt Sex

4:25PM Maureen OConnor | Sunglasses are “my burka” and porn is how the poor may approximate his escort-laden life. Chanel’s dramatic creative director gave a ridiculously long interview to Vice in which he dismissed Anna Wintour and supported wearing fur. A Cliff’s Notes guide. More »
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Anna Wintour Has No Time For Crappy Reality Television

5:07AM Remy Stern | Vogue editor Anna Wintour doesn’t watch TV, says André Leon Talley, the mag’s editor-at-large and the latest addition to America’s Next Top Model. More »
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Madonna And Lourdes To Outfit Teens, Possibly In Ed Hardy

6:49PM Maureen OConnor | You’re never too young to have a personal brand. Madonna and her precociously stylish 13-year-old daughter are co-designing Material Girl, a teen clothing line that will hopefully resist the urge to stamp “Material Girl” on the seats of gym shorts. More »
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Fur Returns To Popularity, Creative Protests Don’t Work

9:58AM Brian Moylan | For the first time in a while more designers are showing fur than not. No many how many sit-ins PETA stages, how much red paint it throws, or how many naked celebrities it puts on billboards, our animalistic tendencies live on!
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McQueen For A Day

9:30AM Brian Moylan | [Alexander McQueen's final collection, completed a few weeks before he committed suicide, was revealed in Paris yesterday and today. The 16 outfits featured his trademark tailoring, attention to detail and glamorous outlandishness.]
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Lindsay Lohan Has Lost Another Job

7:48AM Remy Stern | Remember last year when Lindsay Lohan was named “artistic adviser” at fashion house Emanuel Ungaro and she put on a totally disastrous show featuring glittery nipple tassels and bare buttocks? Not surprisingly, her career as a designer is over. [Reuters]
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The New Rules For Judging Oscar Fashion

5:55AM Brian Moylan | The Academy Awards have become more about the clothes and less about the awards themselves. Too bad all the ensembles are bland creations some stylist picked out. It’s time to free ourselves from the tyranny of the Worst Dressed List! More »
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Why You’re Already Late For Your Anna Wintour Meeting

11:04AM Ryan Tate | The legendary editor of Vogue likes to start her meetings early and kneecap you if you show up on time. So says Anna Wintour documentarian R.J. Cutler in his Huffington Post diary about filming The September Issue: More »
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Alexander McQueen Hanged Himself

12:59AM Hamilton Nolan | A coroner says that fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who died last week at the age of 40, committed suicide by hanging himself in his wardrobe. He also reportedly left a suicide note, the contents of which haven’t been revealed.