• Alexa Chung has been tweeting some details about her forthcoming second collection of clothes for Madewell: There will be a lot of nineties, a lot of seventies, and apparently some patent bubblegum-colored minis. [Fashionologie]

• Sean Connery is hosting a Scottish fashion gala in New York next month. [Telegraph UK]

• Giovanna Battaglia is breaking down her daily outfits through the end of this week for T Magazine. [T Magazine]

• Hedi Slimane shot Abbey Lee Kershaw for the cover and accompanying editorial of Russian Vogue. [Fashiongonerogue]

• WWD on the outfit Chris Brown wore during his Good Morning America freak-out: "Pants that are too tight around the thunder thighs create too much attention to the crotch." [WWD]

• Elle’s Anne Slowey recalls a drunken safari trip she took with “a bunch of Hollywood power players” when discussing this season’s trend of tribal prints. [Elle]

• Former "Page Six" columnist Jared Stern is launching a new site for Urban Daddy about cars, called Driven. [WWD]

• Jane Pratt's new website, JanePratt.com, will launch in the next two months. There are a few more details about her separate web project with Tavi Gevinson. [WWD]

• Here’s a video ad for the Marc Jacobs spring 2011 collection. [Catwalk Queen]

• Jessica Stam was shot by Will Davidson for the cover of Russh magazine. [Models.com]

• Calvin Tran, contestant on Bravo’s The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection, has closed his downtown boutique. [Racked]

• Hermès leather iPad cases cost more than an actual iPad. [Sassybella]

• Brands like Coach, Rebecca Minkoff, Pamela Love, and Swarovski are increasingly diversifying with new and bigger menswear collections. [WWD]