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Edita Vilkeviciute, shot by Kai Z. Feng for Numéro China.

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Lucy Sykes Joined Rent the Runway; a Bunch of Victoria’s Secret Angels Biked in Spandex

• Designer and former editor Lucy Sykes (Plum's sister) has signed on as a consultant for Rent the Runway. [Page Six/NYP]

• Here are images of Dior’s latest jewelry collection, all floral-themed. [HuffPo]

• Here's Edita Vilkeviciute on the cover of August's Numéro China, shot by Kai Z. Feng. [Fashion Gone Rogue]

• Spinning gym Soul Cycle got a bunch of people (the majority of whom were totally not-creepy dudes) to shell out $1,000 to $2,500 for tickets to ride stationary bikes alongside spandex-clad Victoria's Secret angels Alessandra Ambrosio, Candice Swanepoel, Lily Aldridge, Erin Heatherton, and Lindsay Ellingson. The proceeds went to Patalonia, a cancer-research nonprofit. [WWD]

• Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son Patrick is rumored to be starring in the new ad campaign for Hudson jeans with Georgia Jagger. [Fashionista]

• Japan Fashion Week has signed a sponsorship deal with Mercedes-Benz and will be renamed Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo. [WWD]

• Oops — the Daily Mail mixed up Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. [Daily Mail UK]

• Here are a bunch of fancy, expensive diapers for wealthy babies to poop in. [WSJ]

• Men are apparently incorporating more color into their footwear these days. [NYT]

• Helmut Lang put 6,000 pieces of clothing from his design archives through a shredder to create raggedy raw material for some sculptures he’s creating. [Elle UK]

• The Times profiles Oscar Pistorious, a (very attractive) South African sprinter with prosthetic metal feet who fronts one of Mugler’s fragrance campaigns. “This idea of the bionic man is so Muglerian," says Joël Palix, the president of Clarins Fragrance Group. [NYT]

• M.I.A.’s sister Kali Arulpragasam is a jewelry designer who says she’s turned down requests from Lady Gaga to wear her work. [StyleList]

• Look, it's Tom Ford’s two dogs, Angus and India. [Another Magazine]

Photo: Courtesy of Numéro China