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LVMH has tapped the cool kids behind Opening Ceremony, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, to be the new creative directors of Kenzo. Odds are better than even Chlo Sevigny could be the face of the brands ad campaign. The OC collaborator is a fan of Kenzo Takadas early designs. WWD

Jean Paul Gaultier is getting his feet wet with swimwear for La Perla. The designer, who created a lingerie collection for the French line last year, has done a series of cutout and bondage-inspired suits. Madonna, are you listening?
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Were seriously crushing on Tobey Maguire.

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Not only unsightly, the toning shoes with the wobbly, Frankestein-esque heels are actually dangerous.

Consumer Reports announced that the shoes were the top complaint-getter in a database established by the Consumer Product Safety Commision in March. The fact that this footwear is dangerous is not new news.

Podiatrists have been quietly raising concerns about the shoes for years. Yet they still continue to sell well and offend our eyes at the mall.

Of the complaints on the database, 15 of 36 people reported broken bones, some of which required surgery.

The rocker design is a popular faux fitness aid and has been employed by Skechers (which received the most complaints in the database), Avia, Champion, Danskin Now and New Balance.

The madness started with the heavy marketing of positive results from wearing the expensive MBT shoes.

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Completing her transformation from child actor to elegant young woman, Emma Watson wore an Oscar de la Renta gown to the world premiere of the final Harry Potter movie last night and looked absolutely stunning in it. She also looked like she might burst into tears at any moment, which is understandable, seeing as shes devoted the past decade of her young life to the Harry Potter franchise. But this did not detract from her beauty. Look how pretty!

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Last Thursday night, some of the biggest names in fashion came out to mourn the loss of Daphne Guinness – well, not exactly. The socialite, sometimes model, journalist, stylist and advancing icon in the fashion business was styled by Gareth Pugh as a veiled corpse, laid to rest on a floating plank, surrounded by candles and wearing lace Alexander McQueen and a $1.1 million jeweled glove.

The glove, a piece created using 18-karat white gold and 5,000 pave diamonds, was the centerpiece of the entire display. Read more…

A few weeks ago, we showed you a trailer for The Guts of Duckie Brown, a documentary about Duckie Brown designers Steven Cox and Daniel Silver. Last night, I attended a private screening of the very short (about 15 minutes long) film. It’s not the most in-depth documentary I’ve ever seen, but it is very entertaining and well-done and, despite its short length, is successful at telling a story that conveys what Duckie Brown is about and how Steven and Daniel’s partnership works.

The young director/cinematographer Lina Pliopyte, for whom Guts is the longest film on her resumé, accomplished this by dividing the doc into three vignettes, each of which explores one of the following themes: partnership, gender and the creative process. Each t

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Tommy Ton favorite Milan Vukmirovic, formerly of LOfficiel Hommes and Trussardi and currently of The Webster in Miami, was making the rounds at the mens shows last month. But it was no buying trip. Vukmirovic is launching a mens fashion magazine of his own this October, and Style.com has just learned the name. Ready for it? Fashion For Men. I wanted something really simple and international, Vukmirovic told us. Its about real clothes and real product, its time to come back to that. Look for the English language mag on shelves during the Paris womens shows.