Being a top model requires the ability to withstand some unpleasant encounters. “The snakes. I don’t mind snakes, but sometimes they’ve been quite…you know, snakes going up legs and snakes everywhere,” says Kate Moss, referring to one of her weirdest modeling gigs. [Huff Po]Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have brought on Prada’s U.S. president and chief [...]

Over Christmas, Rihanna released her new video for her single, “You Da One.” Now, “observers have noticed” the black polka dots projecting on her nude bodysuit look “remarkably similar to one of fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø’s old-fashioned shoots for Numero 93.” [Grazia Daily]Victoria’s Secret angel Alessandra Ambrosio is pregnant with her second child. The Brazilian [...]

The Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs exhibition at Les Arts Décoratifs will open during Paris fashion week on March 6 and run through September 16. Jacobs is also reportedly working on a collaboration with “dot-crazy Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.” [
">WWD]Rihanna has created a capsule collection for Emporio Armani Jeans and underwear. The offerings include boyfriend [...]

Artist George Condo is having a pretty major moment: A retrospective of his work is on view at the New Museum, he’s worked with Adam Kimmel to create masks for his menswear shows (not to mention lent some of his signature gargoyle-ish motifs to Kimmel’s collections), and was tapped by Kanye West to design not [...]

How’d Chloë Sevigny kick off her career in film and style? By cutting school, it turns out. eBay’s Andrea Linett, the woman who discovered young Sevigny way back when and put her in an ad for Sassy editor Jane Pratt’s The Jane Pratt Show, discovered her loitering at a newsstand̵2during school hours. She did the [...]

When 2010 became 2011, the real action (sorry, Snooki) was in Vegas, where Jay-Z and Coldplay’s Chris Martin teamed up for a special concert to open the new Marquee at the Cosmopolitan—a concert that drew wives Beyoncé and Gwyneth Paltrow as well as Kanye, Rihanna, Blake Lively, J. Lo, A-Rod, and more. Meanwhile, in Miami, [...]

The latest data from the publishing industry’s Audit Bureau of Circulations is out, WWD reports, and with it some tantalizing news about who really sent magazines flying off the newsstand in 2010 (and who didn’t). Despite some caveats (reporting doesn’t go through every 2010 issue for Condé Nast or Hearst magazines), the runaway winner was [...]

A dinner in Barbados with Simon Cowell and Topshop owner Sir Philip Green has English tabloids buzzing that Rihanna may be angling for her own fashion line. Green is the man who launched Kate Moss’ Topshop range; is RiRi next? [Daily Mail via Racked]After a busy Christmas season, Amazon.com, Netflix, L.L.Bean, and more look set [...]

This weekend, the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards took place in Madrid, and a few of pop’s bigger stars (and their stylists) worked overtime to get their Spring ‘11 dresses ready. Among those representing the U.S. of A. in Spain were Rihanna, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, and hostess Eva Longoria Parker, who cycled through a [...]

Only four seasons in, the young French couturier Alexandre Vauthier is hot. He was nominated for the ANDAM prize this year (he recently lost out to Hakaan Yildirim), and his sexy, shoulders-out-to-there look has found favor with both Madonna and Rihanna (specifically for the latter’s standout tour numbers). It doesn’t get much hotter than that. [...]