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Lady Gaga Ditches Facial Prosthetics for Her New ‘Nymph’ Persona; Azzaro Gets a New Creative Director
• Lady Gaga's new video unveils her "Nymph" persona, which apparently involves pale makeup and long, silky hair. [Fashin]
• Azzaro has named a new creative director: Mathilde Castello Branco, previously at Lanvin. [Vogue UK]
• To make sure he looks his best on the forthcoming Abduction press tour, Taylor Lautner has reportedly taken Elle’s Joe Zee as a style consultant. [Hollywood Life]
• Arizona Muse is on the cover of Australian Vogue’s October issue. [Fashion Gone Rogue]
• The former creative director at Sonia Rykiel, Gabrielle Griess, will launch her own line at this season’s fashion week in Paris. [WWD]
• Michael Kors will launch a new “digital venture” next week, at destinationkors.com. The site will offer a mix of e-commerce and editorial content. [WWD]
• Here’s an apartment tour of Lela Rose’s Tribeca pad. [Tribeca Citizen]
• In honor of Coca Cola’s 125th anniversary, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac designed a special collection for the brand. [WWD]
• Doutzen Kroes says if she was to be a D.J., her nickname for the turntables would be MissDK. [Stylelist]
• This entirely gratuitous video shows Clark Cord, one of this year’s VMAN model search winners, doing a bunch of shirtless exercises all around NYC. Woo! [Towleroad]