2011 is shaping up to be a good year for catwalker Tali Lennox, the daughter of Eurythmics front woman Annie Lennox and Israeli film producer Uri Fruchtmann. The Telegraph traces her career from the Dolce & Gabbana catwalk way back in Spring ‘10 to two Topshop campaigns and her latest coup, the Acne pre-fall lookbook, [...]

Plenty of creative types came out last night for the opening of fordPROJECT, a new gallery venture from Altpoint Capital Partners (the parent company of Ford Models), but catwalkers were not among them. Under the direction of Rachel Vancelette and Tim Goossens, the new art space (which occupies two floors at the top of [...]

After much Internet speculation, it’s confirmed: Blake Lively will front a Chanel bag campaign this spring—she’s the official ambassador for Herr Lagerfeld’s Mademoiselle bag. [WWD]Speaking of cute blondes, good news for another one, too: Anja Rubik and her boyfriend, fellow model Sasha Knezevic, are engaged. (That’s the two of them posing together for a Gap [...]

Loree Rodkin’s client base includes names big and bigger, but for her latest piece, the jewelry designer committed herself to giving back. She flew into London last night for the launch of “Rocks, Stones, and Metals” at Joseph, where she—along with Stephen Webster, Delfina Delettrez, Katie Hillier, and Hannah Martin—collaborated with the retailer on a [...]

Could a Macy’s collab inspire mass euphoria à la H&M? That seems to be the hope as the retailer announces a partnership with former Versace and Calvin Klein designer Kinder Aggugini today, the first of many fashion-forward partnerships to come. Call it the start of a Kinder, chic-er Macy’s. [NYT]An early look at Jennifer Lopez’s [...]

“I can’t afford to go home,” designer Thomas Tait admitted yesterday at the Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize awards in London, referring to the cost of a return flight to his native Montreal. Not to worry. A few minutes later, Tait received the evening’s top honors and his ticket, as it were: the £25,000 inaugural [...]

“There was no comfort zone with Alexander McQueen,” said Anna Wintour during her address at the designer’s memorial service in London this morning. But you’d imagine that even someone as intractable as Lee McQueen would be able to draw some succor—spiritual at least—from the chilly magnificence of St. Paul’s Cathedral, the venue for the event. [...]

Though she takes an occasional tumble, Lady Gaga loves difficult footwear, like the heel-less boots she’s been wearing frequently of late. She pulled them on again for the September issue of Vanity Fair, where Nick Knight snapped her leaping midair in a pair of heel-less platforms by the young Japanese designer Noritaka Tatehana. But the [...]

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, no stranger to the L.B.D., is patroness of an auction of them. She’ll be in New York this September for Phillips de Pury’s auction of commissioned dresses by Lanvin, Givenchy, Armani Privé, Vivienne Westwood, and more, the sale of which will benefit U.S. and French cancer charities. [WWD]Speaking of good works, Diane von [...]

At his new four-story space in Mayfair’s “Wobo” (that’s West of Bond Street), Acne’s Jonny Johansson tells Style.com why he chose upscale Mayfair rather than edgy Shoreditch for his first retail shop in London: “Space has always been more important than location. We looked at so many places and knew this was the right one [...]