Harper's Bazaar Published Lots of Nude Photos of Miranda Kerr [Video]

Harper's Bazaar shot Miranda Kerr for a fall fashion editorial showcasing boots. As should be obvious, the magazine really wanted the boots to be the focus of the spread. So Kerr is depicted naked. Having Kerr be nude to sell boots is far from "gratuitous" or "objectifying" or "tired and obvious"; it is an aesthetic choice completely justified — nay, demanded! — by the subject matter of the story. Exactly how else are you supposed to advertise boots, hm? (This is, incidentally, the second time this week we've seen Kerr's business.) So just look at those boots. Look long and hard at those boots. Do you think you'll be buying any boots this season? Boots. [HB]

Here is Lady Gaga Photoshopped as RuPaul on the cover of Vogue. Or maybe it's RuPaul Photoshopped as Lady Gaga on the cover of Vogue. Either way, you're welcome! [WOW] This is Jennifer Lopez wearing some t-shirts from Teeology, the new Threadless-for-rich-people crowd-sourced Internet t-shirt boutique she both invests in and fronts. [WWD] In this ad for her Marks & Spencer lingerie line, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley describes the goods as "young and modern" but also "classic and sexy" and "buzzword and buzzword." [YouTube] Here are some hilarious pictures of Zac Efron modeling for some denim line nobody has ever heard of. [The Gloss] For the first issue of cult boutique Opening Ceremony's new annual magazine thing, the folks behind our favorite art/fashion site DIS styled and shot a fashion spread featuring Carol Alt and Pat Cleveland racewalking. The sport/fashion thing (and heightening the unreality of fashion photography with Photoshop) is exactly up DIS's alley. [The Cut] Interview did a fashion shoot themed around the male hookup app Grindr. It features America's Next Top Model judge Rob Evans (right). [Interview] Marchesa is launching a perfume. [WWD] Reem Acra also has a fragrance that will go on sale in October. The ad features Crystal Renn, allegedly — she's so Photoshopped we didn't recognize her. It is believed to be Renn's first fragrance campaign. [WWD] And in yet more news of smelly things, Chanel is launching a new scent called Coco Noir. [WWD] If Ryan Lochte indeed gets a clothing line, Brad Goreski would please, please, please like to style the ad campaigns. [The Cut]J.C. Penney — which is in the middle of a difficult restructuring — lost $147 million in the quarter just ended. Executives from the company took four of the top 10 spots on Women's Wear Daily's annual list of the highest-paid U.S. apparel and retail executives; total 2011 compensation for just those four people, including newish C.E.O. Ron Johnson, was more than $1.4 billion. The company has also cut more than 1,000 jobs, not even counting store associates. Johnson's strategy has been to lower prices slightly but hold fewer actual sales. The quarter was a rotten one: same-store sales decreased year-on-year by 21.7% and total sales were down 22.6%. Online sales fell by a whopping 32.6%. "While business continues to be softer than anticipated, we are con?dent the transformation of J.C. Penney is on track," says Johnson. "We will stay the course." He now says he expects growth to resume in early 2013. [WWD]Nordstrom's quarterly earnings, meanwhile, were still comfortably in the black but declined 11% year-on-year to $156 million. Nordstrom Rack saw particularly strong growth, with same-store sales rising 7.7%. [WWD]Something called Harry Styles might be dating model Cara Delevigne. [Daily Mail]In further evidence that designer accessories are really fucking profitable in general (and that designer shoes are really fucking overpriced in particular), three top U.S. department stores are revamping or have recently revamped their shoe departments: Barney's New York, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Macy's Herald Square flagship, which now claims to have the largest shoe floor in the world with 280,000 pairs. [WWD]James Middleton, an actual Middleton sibling of the Middleton family, attended Mischa Barton's clothing line launch party in London. [Hello!]Cambodian garment workers went on strike at an apparel factory in Malaysia that's part of a company that manufactures for such brands as Saks, Nike, Oshkosh, ASICS, Fila, Disney, and Umbro. Indonesian and Nepali workers employed by the same factory also engaged in industrial action. At issue was the company's alleged failure to pay its employees for more than a month — and its failure to pay the contracted daily rate of 26 Malaysian ringgits, or $8.35. Instead, workers were paid a daily rate of only 21 ringgits, or $6.74. And the company was docking each worker's pay by 130 ringgits ($41.75) per month for room and board at the company dormitory. When workers rejected a new contract offer, they were allegedly locked in the factory by management. [WWD, Phnom Penh Post]Move over, Kim Kardashian: Mariah Carey has signed on to lend her name to two O.P.I. nail polish collections that will drop over the next year. [WWD]Donna Karan likes to vacation at her house in Turks and Caicos. If you had a house in Turks and Caicos, we'd wager you would vacation there, too. [VF]Sephora is reopening three Manhattan stores — Union Square, Columbus Circle, and SoHo — after renovations. The shops feature a revamped perfume counter and employees will wear new uniforms designed by Prabal Gurung. Nail artist Naomi Yasuda (that's Tracie's manicurist!) will be performing live demonstrations of nail art designs at the Union Square Sephora on Saturday. [NYDN]

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Unretouched Photos of Victoria's Secret Angel Doutzen Kroes Reveal How Much Photoshop Happens [Fashion]

Aug 9, 2012 6:20 PM   Some apparently unretouched photographs from a Victoria's Secret catalog have surfaced online under mysterious circumstances. The shots, featuring VS angel Doutzen Kroes, are stunning — Kroes, of course, looks amazing in all of them. But what's really interesting is what they reveal about Victoria's Secret's Photoshop standards.

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There Are Nude Photos of Miranda Kerr on the Internet [NSFW] [Video]

These nude photographs of Miranda Kerr of unknown vintage have surfaced online. Shot by photographer Laurent Darmon, they were uploaded to his Web site yesterday (and have since been removed). It's not unheard of for nude work from early in a model's career to become the subject of editorial or even tabloid interest later, when that model has made it big: in 2010, Lara Stone successfully sued a photographer who cashed in on her rising fame by selling nude images of her from a 2008 test shoot to French Playboy. Kerr has done her share of nude work, posing for, among others, the Pirelli calendar and the cover of Australian Rolling Stone. Copyright law where photographs of a well-known person are concerned is tricky; photographers are in most nations considered to hold authorship rights over every image they shoot, but public figures also can have rights of publicity over images of themselves, too. [Fashion Copious, Frockwriter]

Chris Burch's new line, C. Wonder, has been criticized by his ex-wife Tory Burch for allegedly being a little too close to her own business idea. But now he's being sued by an artist named Zlatka Paneva who noticed striking similarities between some C. Wonder homewares and her own text-based artworks. [You Thought We Wouldn't Notice] Hugo Boss picked Gwyneth Paltrow to be the face of its new women's perfume. [WWD] Prada models play a human-sized game of full-contact chess, Alexander McQueen-style, in the fall campaign video. [YouTube] J.W. Anderson knocked off a vintage J. Crew sweater that BryanBoy has been wearing on his blog. [Fashionista] Nina Garcia apparently earns so much money that she thinks a Birkin is only "a few weeks' salary." [@NinaGarcia] Happy 20th birthday to Karlie Kloss. And happy 22nd birthday to Jourdan Dunn. The two supermodel friends share a birthday. Dunn, for her part, spent the evening of her birthday in an airport bar. [Facebook, @MissJourdanDunn] Katie Holmes took Suri to J. Crew four times in one week, sparking rumors she is working with the brand in some capacity. Meanwhile, the actress has set a time for her first-ever New York fashion week presentation of Holmes & Yang, the clothing line she designs with stylist Jeanne Yang: it'll be Saturday, September 8th, at 9 p.m. [WWD]Kanye West and Kim Kardashian met for lunch with François Pinault, the billionaire head of luxury retail company PPR. The topic of discussion? A potential shoe line, allegedly. [RadarOnline]Speaking of shoes, Kari Sigerson and Miranda Morrison — who together founded Sigerson Morrison in 1991 — talked to the Times about the contretemps with their financial backer, Marc Fisher, that led to them both being fired from the company last year. A lawsuit between Fisher and the former designers is ongoing. Morrison and Sigerson sold an 80% stake to Fisher, and went from being owners to employees (at $350,000 per year):

The parties professed mutual admiration. "I've always loved the Sigerson Morrison brand and found Kari and Miranda to have a great eye," Mr. Fisher told Women's Wear Daily at the time of the sale. Ms. Morrison added that he "shares our entrepreneurial spirit and respects our DNA." There was talk of new stores, eyeglasses, even fragrances.

But the honeymoon did not last. Ms. Sigerson and Ms. Morrison came to believe that their designs were being knocked off for Marc Fisher's discount line, they would later claim in court papers. (For example, a black-and-silver flat sandal from their 2008 Ikat collection, they contend, looked eerily similar to an orange Marc Fisher model that retailed for $69 the next summer.)

Fisher is the same Marc Fisher who was, along with Guess Inc., successfully sued for over $450,000 by Gucci for knocking off its shoes over a period of years. Marc Fisher also produces Ivanka Trump's licensed shoe line, which everyone knows knocked off a Derek Lam sandal. Oh, and also:

Perhaps most explosive were the designers' claims that Mr. Fisher had sexually harassed the women on numerous occasions and created a hostile workplace. According to court papers, at one meeting Mr. Fisher allegedly stared down the back of Ms. Sigerson's clothes so lewdly that the president of the company, Susan Itzkowitz, wondered aloud whether Mr. Fisher needed sexual harassment training. (Mr. Fisher's lawyer, Jonathan Minsker, called the harassment claims "entirely frivolous.")

Selling an ownership stake in the company you've built is rarely a good idea, even when it doesn't end in sexual harassment, knock-offs of your intellectual property, and your own dismissal. [NYTimes]

For only "a little under $2 million" you, too, could own a 14-carat diamond necklace designed by Waris Ahluwalia. "I will hand-deliver it to whomever buys it," says the jeweler/actor. "That is a promise." [WWD]Ever wonder how Anna Dello Russo galavants around Paris and New York in January with bare legs and sleeveless minidresses, posing for street style photographers? "Rumor has it," says Glamour's Susan Cernek, "that street style supernova Anna Dello Russo puts athletic heat patches onto the small of her back on chilly Fashion Week days so she can sport skimpy designer duds and still stay toasty." [Refinery29]Giorgio Armani says he has sacrificed his life to the fashion industry. "I have sacrificed life. The life of a young man when I first started out and the life of a grown man at the age I am now." [Elle UK]Daffy's has opted for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The chain says it has $37 million in outstanding debts and finished fiscal 2011 $11.4 million in the red (on net sales of $151.3 million). It expects to raise $59 million from liquidation and other asset sales, meaning both secured and unsecured creditors will get paid in full. [WWD]Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy are apparently on the run from French anti-corruption investigators. The couple is said to be staying with wealthy friends in Canada. Meanwhile in a small suburb east of Paris, someone had the bright idea to commission for public display a statue of Bruni posing as a garment worker. The representation of an Italian industrial heiress and First Lady as a woman of the people has, despite the statue's private funding source, ruffled some feathers. [Telegraph]Sophia Kokosalaki is no longer going to design the high-end Diesel Black Gold denim line she has creative-directed since 2009. [WWD]And now, a moment with male model Isaac Ekblad, who was discovered while studying for a philosophy test at Lewis and Clark university. Isaac, what are you reading?

The New Jim Crow. It's kind of about mass-incarceration and the age of color-blindness. It just talks about the prison system today and how it's very racist and locks up people of color. So I'm reading that and Dostoyevsky — The Brothers Karamazov, one of my favorite books. I've read it three times. Dostoyevsky has a pretty crazy past. He got thrown in this Siberian work camp for fifteen years because he was a Socialist and then started writing to support his gambling habit. I don't know his books are just — they really plumb the heart and depths of the human soul. He develops characters that you can really imagine.

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