Lindsay Lohan Lands an Ad Campaign; Michael Kors Launches Men’s Underwear
• After proving, again and again, that she's still very good at getting people's attention, Lindsay Lohan has been tapped for the next ad campaign for German label Philipp Plein (whose previous faces include Mischa Barton). Lohan will attend their fashion show this coming Saturday. [Styleite]
• Michael Kors is getting into men's underwear. [WWD]
• Carla Bruni has had enough of being pregnant: “Quite frankly, I can’t stand it any more. I spend most of my time either sitting down or lying down. I can’t drink or smoke any more. I’m in a hurry to get it over with.” [Daily Mail UK]
• Refinery29 got Tavi to rap in their Fash Cab. [Refinery29]
• Here is a brief story about Joe Zee, the Gucci show, and a roast chicken. [Elle.com]
• A new book reveals that Hugo Boss used workers kidnapped by the Gestapo in factories during World War II, and also that one of the company’s first orders was for brown shirts worn by early Nazi members. The label has issued a retrospective apology, saying it wishes to “express its profound regret to those who suffered harm or hardship at the factory run by Hugo Ferdinand Boss under National Socialist rule.” [Telegraph UK]
• Crystal Renn, Andrej Pejic, Lea T, and Jenny Shimizu are among the models and LGBT representatives in a new PSA to promote this year’s Fashion Forward HIV/AIDS fund-raiser. [WWD]
• The Louis Vuitton exhibition opened in Milan, and the mannequins all have Vuitton bags for heads. [Racked]
• In response to silly new fashion word-plays like jeggings, swackets, and glittens, a representative from a British High Street department-store chain said: “It is now easier to understand complex calculus than some of the words commonly used by commentators within the fashion industry to describe garments." [Telegraph UK]
• At a polo event over the weekend, Valentino Garavani told off Nacho Figueras for forgetting to match his socks (blue) and his loafers (brown). [Page Six/NYP]
• Here’s a video of Anna Dello Russo interviewing Alessandro Dell’Acqua. [Styleite]
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