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Balenciaga Fall 2013 Campaign | Pictures
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Back of Kristen McMenamy's Head Stars in Alexander Wang's First Balenciaga Campaign

In an image released Tuesday from Balenciaga's Fall 2013 campaign — the first since Alexander Wang took over as the house's creative director — a black-clad Kristen McMenamy is seen peeking out of an all-black room, with her left hand gripping the doorknob.
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In an image released Tuesday from Balenciaga's Fall 2013 campaign — the first since Alexander Wang took over as the house's creative director — a black-clad Kristen McMenamy is seen peeking out of an all-black room, with her left hand gripping the doorknob.

Wang told WWD that the campaign, shot by Steven Klein, is meant to be a "very cinematic portrayal" of his Fall 2013 debut for the house. He added that there's "lots of emotion, in contrast to the austerity bestowed in the show."

Whether McMenamy's face will appear in other images from the campaign will have to wait until June, when the campaign begins appearing in magazines. A full look at the first shot, here in the gallery.

Photo courtesy of Balenciaga

Balenciaga Fall 2013
Louis Vuitton Alma Campaign Spring 2013 | Pictures
Louis Vuitton

Model Takeover: Louis Vuitton's Alma Campaign May Be the Beginning of a New Era

Louis Vuitton calls its brand-new ad campaign for the iconic Alma bag "Chic on the Bridge" — which is fitting, as the images were shot on bridges in New York, Paris, and Shanghai.
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Louis Vuitton calls its brand-new ad campaign for the iconic Alma bag "Chic on the Bridge" — which is fitting, as the images were shot on bridges in New York, Paris, and Shanghai.

Steven Klein shot the images, which feature models Karlie Kloss, Iris Strubegger, Jac Jagaciak, and Daria Strokous. In each city they pose with a different colored Alma bag: taxicab yellow in New York, French blue in Paris, and lacquer red in Shanghai.

But the beautiful images might be the beginning of a new tide of ads for Vuitton: market sources told WWD that the brand has plans to phase out its Core Values campaigns, which have featured notable figures like Angelina Jolie, Catherine Deneuve, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Keith Richards.

A look at the new ads, here in the gallery.

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Calvin Klein 2013 Super Bowl Commercial | Video
Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein Makes Good Case For Watching the Super Bowl

If you hadn't planned on watching this Sunday's Super Bowl, Calvin Klein is making a compelling case for at least sitting through the first quarter.
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If you hadn't planned on watching this Sunday's Super Bowl, Calvin Klein is making a compelling case for at least sitting through the first quarter.

That's when the company will debut its first-ever Super Bowl commercial, a 30-second spot that advertises the new Calvin Klein Concept underwear collection. The black and white ad, directed by Fabien Baron, features shots of model Matthew Terry stretching and flexing in a pair of miniscule black briefs. Between those shots are a few short clips of vague machinery. A press release said the visual pairing is supposed to invoke the "man vs. machine" idea inspired by the underwear's seamless construction. That Terry's abdominal region appears to have more horsepower in it than most modern sports cars, however, was not addressed.

Steven Klein's coordinating ad campaign, seen above, will appear in GQ, Esquire, and Men's Health, as well as on billboards around the world. Viewers will see the full commercial during Sunday's game, which will air on CBS at 6:30 p.m. A look at the teaser below.

Photo courtesy of Calvin Klein.


Lady Gaga Fame Fragrance Ad
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Steven Klein's Lady Gaga Ad, Tavi Gevinson's Seventeen Issue, and Natasha Poly's Russian Vogue Cover

Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.
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Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

  • Tavi Gevinson has accused Seventeen magazine of plagiarizing the Ask a Grown Man videos she publishes on her website Rookie. Gevinson says the magazine's Ask an A-Lister video series "is the first time that I've felt that something I've done, or Rookie has done, has been copied." [Racked]

  • Natasha Poly stars on the cover of Vogue Russia's August 2012 issue. Some have criticized the cover because it appears part of the model's arm is missing. A Photoshop mishap, perhaps? [The Huffington Post]

  • Glamour apologized for accidentally publishing an old picture of model Daul Kim, who committed suicide in 2009, in its August issue. "We had no idea about the backstory, and are heartbroken to learn this news," said the magazine's editor in chief Cindi Leive. [Fashionista]

  • Steven Klein shot the campaign for Lady Gaga's new fragrance, Fame, in which the singer reclines naked with a small army of small men crawling over her skin. [Fashion Etc]

  • Visionaire has packed all of its 61 issues into a custom trunk by Goyard. The one-of-a-kind trunk is price upon request. [The Cut]
Rihanna Fall 2011 Emporio Armani Underwear and Jeans Campaign [Pictures]
Giorgio Armani

See the New Rihanna Armani Underwear and Jeans Campaign

>> Rihanna's first ads as face of Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans — she replaces Megan Fox — have just been released.
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Rihanna for Emporio Armani Underwear Fall 2011

>> Rihanna's first ads as face of Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans — she replaces Megan Fox — have just been released. Steven Klein shot the pop star in black and white in New York, sprawled across the hood — or alternatively, the back seat — of a black car. See the full set in the slideshow.

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See All Four Covers From Max Pearmain and Ashley Heath's New Edition of Arena Homme Plus
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See All Four Covers From Max Pearmain and Ashley Heath's New Edition of Arena Homme Plus

>> With its new editorial team, the biannual Arena Homme Plus has become something of a brother publication to POP — they now share the same editorial director, Ashley Heath, and the magazine's new editor in chief, Max Pearmain, used to be acting menswear editor at POP.
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>> With its new editorial team, the biannual Arena Homme Plus has become something of a brother publication to POP — they now share the same editorial director, Ashley Heath, and the magazine's new editor in chief, Max Pearmain, used to be acting menswear editor at POP.

Heath and Pearmain's first edition of Arena Homme Plus hits newsstands next Monday, April 11 in the UK (and Monday, April 18 for the rest of the world), boasting four different covers, one each playfully dubbed "Stephen," "Stevie," "Steve," or "Steven."

"The men's fashion magazine market has become so staid and predictable," Pearmain notes of his vision for the magazine. "It was actually more inspiring in many ways 15 years ago when there was just L'Uomo, Vogue Hommes, and Arena Homme Plus . . . We wanted to inject some surprise and some passion and some playfulness back into this world."

Pearmain himself styled New Order's Stephen Morris for the "Stephen" cover, artist Clunie Reid created scrawling artwork for the "Stevie" cover (left), David Sims photographed the "Steve" cover, and Steven Klein, of course, captured the "Steven" cover. The Klein version of the issue — or Homme+ PLUS as it has been christened — comes with 45 extra pages of more "hardcore" content. Some of it has already been posted online (NSFW) and will only be sold in selected independent retailers and online.

The move back to Arena Homme Plus is something of a coming home for Heath, who used to edit the magazine himself: "It's been fun to return. I really built that magazine on blood, sweat, and tears back in the day, so it was great that David Sims, Steven Klein, and others from the glory days returned and contributed such strong, strange work. There's this sense of travel, of art and design, of the way the world is changing . . . We changed the paper stocks a bit and did that 'special sections' thing I'm into recently. The magazine is still niche, but it will appeal to a broader cross-section of stylish men."

Alongside contributions from Sims and Klein, the new issue also features work by Wolfgang Tillmans, Collier Schorr, and Ari Marcopoulos.

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See Justin Bieber's LOVE Cover; Andre Courreges Sells Label — Could a Reboot Be in the Cards?
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See Justin Bieber's LOVE Cover; Andre Courreges Sells Label — Could a Reboot Be in the Cards?

We saw LOVE's new cover with Kate Moss and Lea T.
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  • We saw LOVE's new cover with Kate Moss and Lea T. kissing last week; now the second cover, featuring Justin Bieber shot by Terry Richardson, has appeared [@THELOVEMAGAZINE]
  • Andre Courreges and his wife and creative partner, Coqueline, have sold their company to two investors, Frederic Torloting and Jacques Bungert, who run the French division of advertising agency Young & Rubicam. Coqueline has been running the design house since Andre retired from fashion in the mid-'90s [WWD]
  • After months of rumors, February's Vogue reports that Theory CEO and Rag & Bone investor Andrew Rosen is about to sign a deal with Proenza Schouler; and Meredith Melling Burke, not Candy Pratts Price, is reportedly overseeing Vogue.com [Fashionista]
  • Yesterday during a DLD Conference panel, Natalie Massenet talked about her plans for Net-A-Porter Live, a platform on which Net-a-Porter customers will be able to see who’s online and what they put in their baskets in real time; “We want to start a conversation between them,” she explained [DLD Conference]
  • Naomi Campbell is headed back to court this Thursday over a breach-of-contract lawsuit; the contract, which involved promoting a perfume called Cat Deluxe with Kisses, was signed 12 years ago [The Cut]
  • Prada could make a final decision on their IPO by the end of the month [Bloomberg]
  • Alejandro Ingelmo is aiming to introduce handbags and accessories into his collection for Spring 2012 [Fashionetc.]
  • Anna Wintour, Steven Klein, Donna Karan, Daphne Guinness, Ingrid Sischy, Sandy Brant, and Vera Wang all attended the elaborate 21st birthday party Calvin Klein threw on Friday at Indochine for his boyfriend, Nick Gruber [NY Post]
  • Tanner Hall, the film co-directed by Diane von Furstenberg's daughter Tatiana von Furstenberg and starring Rooney Mara, just scored a distribution deal and is expected to be released at the end of this year, around when Mara's upcoming film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, debuts [Deadline]
  • Libertine is headed back to New York Fashion Week this February, minus a partner and with a new direction, says designer Johnson Hartig: "It’ll be different in that once Cindy [Greene] and I separated, I stopped using placement prints — I mean literal images — and it’s become more abstract. And there’s going to be a lot more color. I haven’t met a color I haven’t liked this season" [Fashionetc.]
Photos of Alessandra Ambrosio, Izabel Goulart, Maryna Linchuk, and Isabeli Fontana in Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2011 Ad Campaign
Izabel Goulart

Alessandra, Izabel, Maryna, and Isabeli Are Making Some Funny Faces in Dolce & Gabbana's Spring 2011 Ad Campaign

>> Now that the full set of Dolce & Gabbana's Spring 2011 ad campaign is out, the images together are quite something.
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>> Now that the full set of Dolce & Gabbana's Spring 2011 ad campaign is out, the images together are quite something. Garance Dore noted earlier this week that both the Chloe and Valentino Spring campaigns show models who are actually smiling, and with Dolce, the models are also actually showing emotion, but of a different kind: Steven Klein captured Isabeli Fontana, Alessandra Ambrosio, Maryna Linchuk, and Izabel Goulart mid-yell in more than one image, and Alessandra goading Isabeli in another. Of course, there are the requisite sultry looks — this is Dolce & Gabbana we're talking about — but it's worth noting that models are starting to be given some freedom of expression when it comes to ads.

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Lane Crawford's Sarah Rutson Not Taking Barneys Fashion Director Gig; British Fashion Awards to Honor Alexander McQueen
Giorgio Armani

Lane Crawford's Sarah Rutson Not Taking Barneys Fashion Director Gig; British Fashion Awards to Honor Alexander McQueen

Vogue's Virginia Smith turned down the Barneys fashion director position last week, and now the other front-runner, Lane Crawford fashion director Sarah Rutson, has too. “I have no intention or plans to leave Lane Crawford,” Rutson said over the weekend [WWD] Tomorrow's British Fashion Awards will honor Alexander McQueen posthumously for Outstanding Achievement; McQueen's frequent collaborator Nick Knight made a short film of the designer's archives for the occasion, scored by Bjork: “It is being styled by Edward Enninful and will feature black models only” [Style File] The first image of Dolce & Gabbana's Spring 2011 campaign, which features Izabel Goulart, Alessandra Ambrosio, Maryna Linchuk, and Isabeli Fontana captured by Steven Klein, has leaked (pictured) [TFS] Giorgio Armani and Lady Gaga, who have a multimillion dollar partnership, finally met for the first time last night; Anna Dello Russo also met Gaga and brought her a doll [Styleite] See the Ann Taylor-inspired looks the 2010 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists created as part of this year's competition [Fashionista] Hairstylist Didier Malige on Terry Richardson's childhood: "Now I see Terry as an adult, and at the time I knew him as three or four years old.
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  • Vogue's Virginia Smith turned down the Barneys fashion director position last week, and now the other front-runner, Lane Crawford fashion director Sarah Rutson, has too. “I have no intention or plans to leave Lane Crawford,” Rutson said over the weekend [WWD]
  • Tomorrow's British Fashion Awards will honor Alexander McQueen posthumously for Outstanding Achievement; McQueen's frequent collaborator Nick Knight made a short film of the designer's archives for the occasion, scored by Bjork: “It is being styled by Edward Enninful and will feature black models only” [Style File]
  • The first image of Dolce & Gabbana's Spring 2011 campaign, which features Izabel Goulart, Alessandra Ambrosio, Maryna Linchuk, and Isabeli Fontana captured by Steven Klein, has leaked (pictured) [TFS]

  • Giorgio Armani and Lady Gaga, who have a multimillion dollar partnership, finally met for the first time last night; Anna Dello Russo also met Gaga and brought her a doll [Styleite]
  • See the Ann Taylor-inspired looks the 2010 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists created as part of this year's competition [Fashionista]
  • Hairstylist Didier Malige on Terry Richardson's childhood: "Now I see Terry as an adult, and at the time I knew him as three or four years old. His upbringing was totally liberal compared to a French kid of his age. They had a Fiat 500, which is a tiny little car, and he always had to share it with a huge poodle, like a royal poodle. And he always had to sit in the back with the poodle." [Into The Gloss]
  • Juicy Couture co-founders Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor, who favor vintage pieces, furry vests, black leather pants, and vertiginous heels, plan to launch a new label next year, and they're dropping hints: “It will reflect the way we dress now. We have outgrown our track suits and grown up” [WWD]
  • Sasha Pivovarova, who likes to make dolls, opens up her Brooklyn loft for T's cameras [T]
  • Watch the music video for a young Jean Paul Gaultier's 1988 single, "How To Do That," featuring Naomi Campbell [Jezebel]
  • 23-year-old Central St Martins graduate Thomas Tait only does private orders so far, but he's already got fans in Giles Deacon, Daphne Guinness, Stephen Jones, and Manolo Blahnik [T]
  • Intermission Magazine's website just launched, featuring interviews with the likes of Gaia Repossi and Hanne-Gaby Odiele [Intermission]
Steven Klein Reportedly Working With Madonna On Set Of Her New Movie, W.E
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Steven Klein Reportedly Working With Madonna On Her New Movie

>> Is Madonna's new movie W.E — a romantic comedy about King Edward VIII and his affair with American divorcee Wallis Simpson — going to have a Steven Klein look to it?
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>> Is Madonna's new movie W.E — a romantic comedy about King Edward VIII and his affair with American divorcee Wallis Simpson — going to have a Steven Klein look to it? Madonna co-wrote and is directing the film, which stars Abbie Cornish, Richard Coyle, Natalie Dormer, and Oscar Isaac, and last week on set in Brooklyn she was spotted chatting with Klein, spurring rumors that he may be playing an advisory role. The two do have a long history of collaborations, after all. Meanwhile, Arianne Phillips, who worked on Tom Ford's film and also has a long-running history with Madonna, is acting as costume designer. [Fashionista]