Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Loose Threads

• Ralph Lauren’s nephew, Greg Lauren, is launching a luxury men's and womenswear collection this spring, and the line has already been picked up by Barneys.

• Nicole Richie, who appears on the February cover of Lucky, tapped America’s Next Top Model winner Nicole Fox to model in her spring 2011 look book for Winter Kate.

• After JWoww showed up to MTV’s New Year's Bash wearing pasties and a chain top, the network reportedly made her put on a blazer.

• Taylor Jacobsen styled the outfit Brandy wore to the New Year's Eve party at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas.

• Macy’s is planning on hiring 725 new people over the next two years as it expands its e-commerce division.

• Ralph Lauren collects cars, not art: "You can't drive a painting," he told Vanity Fair, who featured his garage in their latest issue. The cars are organized by make and color and stored on raised platforms in a huge carpeted room.

• Contactmusic asked Roland Mouret if he was Victoria Beckham’s ghost designer. He responded,"Oh my God, that question. Politicians, movie stars, it's always the first things they want to know, and I'm like why? Why would I want to design a collection for Victoria Beckham? Yes she is a friend and yes she asks for advice and yes I told her the name of a pattern cutter, but she has lots of friends she asks for advice."

• This year’s recipient of the American Apparel and Footwear Association’s Man of the Year honor will be Mark Weber, chief executive officer of LVMH, Inc., and chairman and chief executive officer of Donna Karan International.

• Cristiano Ronaldo rented a private island in the Maldives so he and his girlfriend, Russian model Irina Shayk, could spend New Year's Eve alone.

• Sir Stuart Rose stepped down as chairman of Marks & Spencer, the U.K.’s largest clothing retailer.

• Courtney Love staged an elaborate photo shoot at her boyfriend’s house in London.

• Gene Pressman isn’t returning to Barneys.

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