• Yesterday Giles Deacon won the 2009 ANDAM Award, which comes with a €160,000 prize. Expect him to move his show from London to Paris, like last year’s winner, Gareth Pugh, did. [Hint via Fashionologie]
• H&M’s profits rose 6.4 percent in the second quarter, beating analysts’ expectations. [Reuters]
• Rick Owens on the inspiration for his spring 2010 menswear collection: “I’ve been looking at a self-portrait of Peter Berlin, Seventies porn star, as a starting point. Lotsa leather and denim.” [WWD]
• Here are three pictures of the top-secret Christopher Kane Topshop line everyone’s raving about. [Lucky Right Now/Lucky]
• Russell Simmons reportedly broke up with grapefruit heiress Julie Henderson and is now dating French actress and model Noémie Lenoir. [NYP]
• Maria Sharapova has her own design team at Nike that decides what she wears on the tennis court. Last year she went to 30 meetings and fittings. [Times UK]
