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Avon has signed former Mademoiselle editor Mandi Norwood to write the Michelle Obama Style Guide for next spring. [P6]

There were rumors that Anna Wintour might leave Vogue for a "cultural" position in Barack Obama's administration, but Ms. Wintour's rep says it's totally not true. [MSNBC via Gawker]

Gwyneth Paltrow graciously approached PETA vice president Dan Matthews at the Fontainebleau Hotel opening in Miami and apologized for wearing fur in her ad for Tod's. [Us Weekly]  read more »

Marc Jacobs, along with Kate Moss and Justin Timberlake, are confirmed to co-chair the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala in May with Anna Wintour. [Vogue UK]

The new celebrity trend is not to wear the actual designer handbag, but rather the dust bag in which it is sold, as seen on Keira Knightley and Jake Gyllenhaal. [Vogue UK] 

Zac Posen has made a promotional video urging people to vote on Tuesday which is being screened on fashionthevote.org. He also suggests you wear blue on Tuesday and accent it with red. [WWD]  read more »

Team Sarah Palin has reportedly spent $150,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, and Barneys since early September to dress and accessorize the vice-presidential candidate for her public appearances. [Vogue UK]

Kate Moss often ducks into Topshop stores in disguise to see how her line for the store is selling. [Vogue UK] 

P. Diddy is buying Enyce from from Liz Claiborne, Inc. for $20 million. [The Cut via WWD]  read more »

Andre Leon Talley, whose suitcase was lost en route from New York to Milan, was forced to wear the same Juicy Couture shorts and gray Ralph Lauren polo shirt he wore on the plane to the D&G show on Monday. [WWD]

Following her show at London Fashion Week last week, Alice Temperley has given birth to a baby boy. [Vogue UK]

Discount fashions from stores like H&M, Topshop, and Zara are going out of style. [IHT] 

Kate Moss has reportedly called off her engagement to Jamie Hince, the guitarist of The Kills. [DailyMail]   read more »

Next week, Opening Ceremony will put American designers aside in favor of featuring young Japanese designers whom owners Humerto Leon and Carol Lim discovered on their travels through Tokyo. [WWD]

Naomi Campbell's billionaire Russian boyfriend, Vladimir Doronin, bought her a $18.5 million penthouse in Brazil. [P6]

Tom Ford is co-hosting a fundraiser for Barack Obama at the Beverly Hills home of the Creative Artists Agency’s Bryan Lourd, and Michelle Obama is slated to attend. [WWD]  read more »

Ford modeling agency founder Jerry Ford passed away on Sunday in New Jersey at the age of 83. [NY Times]

Nicole Miller, often perceived as an evening wear designer, is launching a line of day dresses for Spring 2009 under the label Nicole Miller Studio One. [WWD]

The Russian girl band t.A.T.u. are the new faces of the Marc by Marc Jacobs Fall/Winter '08 campaign in Russia. [t.A.T.u. via The Cut]  read more »

Marc Jacobs and boyfriend Lorenzo Martone—whom we still think are not married—vacationed in Ibiza with Kate Moss and her mom, Linda. Ms. Moss's daughter, Lila Grace, was on hand to snap the party photos. [Fashionologie via The Cut]

Diane von Furstenberg is teaming up with the Andy Warhol Foundation to create a resort 2008 and pre-spring 2009 collections of swimwear and other pieces featuring the artist's prints. [WWD]

Eva Mendes is pleased that her topless video ad for Calvin Klein has been banned in the U.S. (And yes, click through to see the titillating video.) [The Sun]  read more »

It used to be that if a grown woman were wearing shorts, it would be for purely utilitarian, counter-style moments: jogging, errands on a hot Saturday, a trip to the Laundromat. That is no longer the case.

There is the return of the ’60s high-waisted hot pants, sent down the runway this season by Erin Fetherston and L.A.M.B. There is the Bermuda short that reaches right above the knee, from Tory Burch ($195) and BCBG Max Azria ($138), for the BlackBerry clutching gals in midtown, and the neat little cuffed and expertly tailored Fanciful Short by Alice and Olivia ($165) and Badgley Mischka ($138), preferred by those going for a Lower East Side look, like the actress Kirsten Dunst.  read more »

A "source" at last night's Obama fundraiser hosted by Michelle Obama, Anna Wintour, Calvin Klein, and Andre Leon Talley says that Mr. Talley might have his sights set on styling Mrs. Obama. [P6]

The Trump kids found out about their parents' marital troubles when they saw covers of the Post, one of which read, "Marla Boasts to Pals about Donald: BEST SEX I EVER HAD." [P6]

Taking a cue from Katherine Heigl, Lindsay Lohan has taken herself out of the Emmy race in hopes of improving her chances next year for her appearances on Ugly Betty. [US Weekly]

Kate Moss, Daria Werbowy, and Lara Stone posed for a group "summer camp" spread in W Magazine that doesn't look like any kind of summer camp we've ever been to.  read more »

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia loves Sex and the City; bums cigarettes from Sarah Jessica Parker. [Intelligencer]

Howard Stern and Beth Ostrosky are getting ready to wed in October. Marchesa's Georgina Chapman is reportedly designing the gown. [P6]  read more »

Martha Stewart blogs, posts pictures of Perez Hilton at the White House Correspondents Dinner. [The Martha Blog via Daily Intel]  read more »

This morning at around eight o’clock, Barneys flung open its doors to welcome stylish spendthrifts—reportedly over 100 of them—who had lined up to make like locusts at the store’s warehouse sale. Our morning coffee must have been spiked with too much sanity, because we weren’t there to report on the dumpling-line doppelganger. But a New York fashion reporter was, and they got some good stuff … for free!

If the curious magnitude of the sale was ever in question, the two girls from Long Island, who apparently boarded a 5:30 a.m. train to the city, can probably speak to its import. Or perhaps the woman wearing “a big furry hood” who got in line at six a.m. could put in her two-cents on the matter. That is, unless she needed to put them toward a $200 pair of Christian Louboutins.  read more »

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Kate Moss turned 34 yesterday and she’s reportedly determined to non-stop party for as many hours. After a wild night out in London, she apparently headed back to her home toting a few friends and an obligatory bottle of vodka.

Remember, folks—Ms. Moss can do no wrong.  read more »

Last night brought together a spirited mix of New York’s cutting-edge fashion designers and artists—young representatives from two industries that are impossible to keep apart these days.

Designer Philip Lim, model Jessica Stam, stylist Kate Schelter, Vogue’s Stephanie LaCava, socialite Genevieve Jones, men's wear designer Thom Browne and supermarket mogul Ron Burkle were among the revelers swirling around the Max Lang gallery in Chelsea—a smallish, brightly-lit, bi-level space on Tenth Ave. It's where French shoemaker Repetto was celebrating its 60th anniversary traveling exhibition and the launch of their eponymous charitable foundation.  read more »

It’s been two whole years since Kate Moss was busted for bad stuff, but she’s still selling like hot cakes in a snowstorm. Word on the street is that the supermodel-cum-fashion mogul, 33, will cut the ribbon at America’s first TopShop store when it opens next year. She’s currently south of the border shooting a campaign for her Spring 2008 collection, which is reportedly “very Jade Jagger in Ibiza.” Whoa! That could mean a whole mess of things—alotta teeny bikinis, wicked-hangover robes, fuzzy hot pants with neon lighting attached—but, alas, the bloggers at Fashionista think it alludes to Ms. Moss’ last collection. (Apparently Ms. Jagger plus the island of iniquity, in some sense, equals “printed caftans.”) Impatient fans of the model’s trendy threads can stave off any unwanted knicker-knotting by visiting the TopShop Web site, where her first collection for the English retailer is 50% off.

Kate Moss will grace the cover of V magazine in the coming months, Fashionista reports today. But the people over at V, it seems, don’t really want anything to do with paying for the expensive set. Instead, hired fashion photog Nick Knight has begun soliciting donations on his company’s Web site, ShowStudio.com, to pay for the flowers that he plans to use for the shoot.

The shutterbug’s high-style mea culpa tells prospective donors that they, too, have a “unique opportunity to be part of the shoot by sending a personal floral greeting to Kate.” Really? It mustn’t be so! Wait, there’s more: “Simple sprays of freesias are very welcome, and hand-ties of peonies even better, but our advice is to get creative to ensure your contribution stands out and makes it into the final selection!”

Apparently Mr. Knight plans to take pictures of the fragrant offerings before he snaps Ms. Moss. Then, Mr. Knight’s Web site says, he will produce a three-dimensional “photo sculpture around which the supermodel will be posed.”

Donations will not be accepted after December 5, so hurry up and help Ms. Moss be photographed on top of a really neat three-dimensional flower picture!  read more »

At last week’s 7th on Sale event at the Armory on Lexington, designer Donna Karan and über-model Kate Moss were seen in the midst of a long and intimate conversation. According to WWD, the two had a lot to catch up on. Ms. Moss was recently photographed for DKNY’s spring collection. Leaving her many DKNY runway stints in the past, this year marks the naughty cover girl’s first ad campaign wearing Ms. Karan’s wares.  read more »

Overheard at the Chopard party last night (but not by us!):

Agyness Deyn and Jamie Burke, discussing an early call time this morning.

 

Could it be that Agyness has swapped out Lara Stone for the CK Jeans campaign?

If true, it marks the second time in a year that Ms. Deyn has replaced Kate Moss in a signature campaign (the first being Burberry).

And although we love Lara's face and amazing body, let's face it:

If anyone can make a pair of ripped, overpriced pants look like an essential tiara, it's the Machester [sic] native...  read more »

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As the model got ready to install her clothing collection at Barneys, yours truly tried to get himself out of a journalistic jam.  read more »

And her clothes are going to be sold at … Barneys. Meanwhile, Anna Wintour is classing up the Gap. It’s the logical apotheosis of our cheap-chic era.  read more »