• Salvatore Ferragamo’s Red Carpet project allows shoppers to design their own shoes by choosing from six styles and 23 colored satins. They’ll also have the option of monogramming them.
• Maryna Linchuk pats her head with some fake gold hands on the cover of Turkish Vogue’s December issue, which was photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth.
• Natalie Portman wore one of Lanvin’s sold-out H&M dresses at the Gotham Independent Film Awards.
• Kirsten Dunst is auctioning off her favorite purse — a navy Sofia Coppola for Louis Vuitton handbag — stuffed with designer beauty products (unused, we hope), an Isabel Marant wallet, and a Bulgari ring, to benefit children’s charity Art of Elysium.
• Everyone is buying outerwear, thanks to plunging temperatures.
• New York Times critical shopper Cintra Wilson visited Soigne K, a new boutique devoted to Indian designers, where she was puzzled by the window display. “On one side: clumpy matte-gray sequined leggings. On the other side: a geometrical minidress that I thought had been ingeniously wrought out of tri-colored lentils as a kind of post-colonial dialogue of equilibrium, perhaps describing a parity of esteem between lentils and sequins. (The ladies in the shop laughed their asafetidas off about that one. No, they’re just beads, they giggled, as I skulked oh-so-blondly over to a rack to try to find a funeral pyre to throw myself onto.)”
• Christian Louboutin had a party at Provocateur to celebrate being named "Person of the Year" by Footwear News. He almost cried while giving his acceptance speech, explaining, "I'm sorry, French don't do speeches."
• Maison Martin Margiela is decorating the Maison Champs-Elysées hotel in Paris.
• Cathy Horyn visited the Beijing couturier Guo Pei.
• American Apparel’s ads are illustrated now.
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