Trendy apartment hunters need not look further! The left bank apartment on rue de Babylone that housed the late Yves Saint Laurent from 1970 onward is now for sale. Asking price is a humble €23.5 million.[NY Times via Fashionologie]
Have you ever imagined Anna Wintour sitting on the toilet flipping through porn? Neither have we. Artist aleXsandro Palombo’s did, however, with his new collection of graphic drawings, Toilet Chic, featuring various members of the fashion elite sitting on the can. [Refinery 29]
Girls want to date him, boys want to be him--it’s an old story reflected in a surprisingly young crowd. Boys ages 6 to 9 request Justin Bieber‘s hair style “non-stop,” according to the Toronto Star. Our hearts go out to the parents who pay up to $21 for their boys to look like they need a haircut moments after they get one. [Toronto Star via Toronto Life]
An obsolete Parisian law that forbids women to wear pants (a 1909 amendment allows trousers on bicycles) will soon be repealed by French lawmakers. The law was put into place in 1799, but (obviously) hasn’t really been enforced within the last few decades. [Telegraph UK]
It looks like Coach has realized that men have needs too. The handbag powerhouse opened its first ever men’s store on Bleecker Street in New York today, with approximately 30 per cent of the inventory to be exclusive to the boutique. [Racked]
Plus sized models protesting Rosemount Australian Fashion Week aren’t thrilled about the absence of curves on this year’s runway, in comparison to last year. Retorts designer Alex Perry: “Nobody is going to tell me how to pick models.” [Huffington Post]
Sweet victory is in the air for Versace. The Italian fashion house just won USD$20 million in a lawsuit over counterfeit goods. L.A.-based manufacturing company Tres Hermanos had been selling fake Versace t-shirts, jeans and sweatshirts at 72 locations in Southern California and Arizona when a lawsuit was filed in 2003. Take that, fakers. [WWD]
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