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Olivia Palermo Is Launching a Blog; Melania Trump Designs Jewelry for QVC
• Melania Trump has designed a line of affordable jewelry for QVC. [NYDN]
• Olivia Palermo is launching a blog about fashion and travel next month. [WWD]
• Here’s Milly Simmonds, Egle Jezepcikaite, and Yana Sotnikova on the August cover of Turkish Vogue. [Models.com]
• Karl Lagerfeld shot Baptiste Giabaconi in the nude for an editorial in Soon magazine. It looks like the front cover of a Harlequin novel, just without a girl. [OhLaLa]
• Geri Halliwell released her latest collection of eveningwear for British high street store Next. [Daily Mail UK]
• PPR is reportedly considering an investment in Brioni to allow the menswear label a relaunch and a chance to clear debts of over $144 million. [WWD]
• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen went to Honduras to give out some TOMS shoes. (But were they cashmere TOMS shoes?) [People StyleWatch]
• Here are some brief interviews with this year’s CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists. [Vogue Daily]
• WWD thinks that John Boehner “should consider raising his own fashion ceiling.” Har har. [WWD]
• 500 people lined up for the opening of the first Forever 21 store in London yesterday, with the most dedicated shoppers in line for over three hours. [Telegraph UK]
• Kelly Cutrone’s ex-assistant Andrew Mukamal may have cut the line just before the Proenza Schouler sample sale started yesterday morning. [Racked]