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Versace Finishes ‘Heavy’ Restructuring; Vivienne Westwood Opens First Stateside Store
• A new campaign shot of Marion Cotillard for Dior’s Lady Dior handbags has been released. [DesignScene]
• Vivienne Westwood opened her first U.S. store, in West Hollywood. [Telegraph UK]
• Versace announced that they've finished some "heavy restructuring" ahead of schedule and fully intends to remain family-owned. [WSJ]
• Giorgio Armani is planning a “major event” in Beijing on May 28 to celebrate the Armani brand’s thirteen-year presence in China. [WWD]
• Breaking: 14-year-old Chloë Moretz does not, in fact, have a stylist. [HollywoodLife]
• Chinese model Xiao Wen has been watching episodes of America’s Next Top Model to improve her English. [Modelinia]
• A new Patricia Field clutch is very similar to one designed by Alexander McQueen. [Fashionista]
• Donna Karan has a new capsule line of casualwear, Donna Karan Casual Luxe. [Refinery29]
• In the premier episode of his new show All on the Line, Joe Zee walked Seventh Avenue in a full-length kimono. [Racked]
• Aziz Ansari covers the 2011 Paper magazine’s "Beautiful People" issue. Also featured: designer Mandy Coon and models Joan Smalls and Elisa Sednaoui. [Papermag]
• Bravo has also picked up a show centered around New York consignment store Second Time Around, following “four eccentric store employees as they go out searching the attics, closets and garages of New York’s elite.” [Racked]
• Three generations of Kardashians cover this month’s Redbook. [Racked]
• And Khloe Kardashian gets a solo cover on the first Middle Eastern edition of Cosmopolitan. No, really. [ONTD]
• Erdem Moralioglu would love to start designing couture, and also costumes for a ballet. [Bazaar Blog]
• Izabel Goulart, Anne Vyalitsyna, and Aline Weber have been shooting a new DKNY campaign in Madison Square Park. [Modelinia]
• Milla Jovovich will be the new face of jewelry brand Jacob & Co. [Jacob&Co./Facebook]
• Georgia May Jagger has joined Twitter. [Modelinia]