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Tobey Maguire Models for Prada; See Eleven Arty Illustrations of Lady Gaga for V

• Tobey Maguire stars in new ads for Prada’s fall 2011 menswear line. (That pink sweater looks a bit too much like a chest rash, no?) [HuffPo]

• The Italian Chamber of Fashion reported a 7.1 percent growth in Italy’s fashion industry compared to this time last year. [WWD]

• Here are the eleven finalists in a competition to be the illustration accompanying Lady Gaga’s new V column. [V]

• A woman was charged with criminal possession of a weapon when she tried to go through airport security wearing a large metal ring. [Slaves to Fashion/Glamour]

• There’s a new “Icons” collection of Jimmy Choo designs — a capsule line of fifteen reissued shoes from the brand’s archives. (It’s fifteen because the company is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary.) [WWD]

• The St. Regis New York hotel now has a Tiffany’s-themed suite on it’s fourteenth floor. To stay there costs $8,500 a night. [WWD]

Tobey Maguire Models for Prada; See Eleven Arty Illustrations of Lady Gaga for V