Cleared up: Lindsay Lohan is not designing jewelry for Pascal Mouawad, despite Lohan’s red-carpet claims stating otherwise. [WWD]
Speaking of celebrity lines, Robin Givhan employs the best analogy yet for the trend: “I can’t imagine Donna Karan saying I’m going to cut an album because her friends say she can sing karaoke.” Zing! [WWD]
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In “a bid to find real-life hipsters” to star in the campaign for his new, lower-priced diffusion line JCDC, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is working with Dazed & Confused in London and Jalouse in Paris to scout for the skinnies. What, no Brooklyn Vegan? [WWD]
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Get briefed on a fitting inauguration day fashion scandal, courtesy of the men’s shows: Trousergate. Apparently there is room for only one pair of quilted trousers in Italy, and Giorgio Armani says he made them first. Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana (whose quilted Fall 2009 look is pictured here) feel otherwise.
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Designer Tracy Reese festooned her Hudson Street store—and her tailored blazer—with red, white, and blue ribbons last night to welcome, as she said, “friends and acquaintances to come over and watch it all happen together.” Her election-night party drew an ecstatic group of Obama supporters, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Robin Givhan and model and actress [...]

Topshop’s newest designer collection is “shrouded in mystery.” Whether Topshop will ever actually open in New York remains mysterious as well.
In case you missed the Hollywood Life Style Awards (it’s OK, we’ve never heard of them either), here’s a roundup of the best and mostly worse looks on the red carpet (check out Christina [...]