Tim Gunn was in fine fettle for last night's season ten premiere of Project Runway, despite his befuddlement over some of the garments. Because — be honest! — we all wish Tim Gunn could be our own personal mentor, we've clipped together his best moments from the episode so that you can close your eyes and imagine he's speaking to you. Happy Friday!
• BuzzFeed Shift talked to a photo retoucher who said, among many other interesting things: "I work on supermodels, and people are always asking, what do you do to them? We do a lot of skin clean-up to make their skin look perfect, but I don't do any distortion of their bodies because these girls are really genetically blessed. I have smoothed boniness before — like when models have bones sticking out of their chest, they want that subdued. That's somewhat common." [BuzzFeed Shift]
• Anne V is apparently "ready for something serious" with Alexander Skarsgård. [Us Weekly]
• In other Anne V news, she covers the August 2012 issue of Numéro, photographed by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones. [Design Scene]
• Salvatore Ferragamo is designing the Olympic uniforms for the Republic of San Marino. Hopefully the outfits will be made in the Republic of San Marino. [WWD]
• Kate Middleton's w edding dress has raised £10 million (about $15.6 million) in ticket sales since going on display at Buckingham Palace last year. [Vogue UK]
• Prince Harry has a new love interest, reported to be model Cara Delevingne by some media outlets and socialite Cressida Bonas by others. Either way: booooo. [Fashionista]
Sounds like the French and the Germans really need to step up their game. (Ugh.)
Mischa Barton wore a long-sleeved black gown from Temperley London's fall 2012 collection to the launch of Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve in London last night. She accessorized with black pumps.
Aside from her bare shoulders, this look is pretty covered up. Should she have picked something more summery? Or do you enjoy a good medieval dress in July?
In Lady Gaga's first promotional video for her forthcoming fragrance, Fame, bare-chested male models slave away over bubbling beakers in the so-called "Haus Laboratories" in Paris. While the camera pans over honey-drizzled apricots and white orchid petals, a dour-sounding voice informs us, in French, that the fragrance is "black like the heart of fame." But where is naked Gaga and her tiny man-thong-wearing army?!
In addition to being the style director of Marie Claire, a judge on Project Runway, and an adviser for Moda Operandi, Nina Garcia has signed on as J.C. Penney's "Style Voice and fashion collection curator," according to her website. This means she'll help the retailer's merchandise and design teams figure out what's trendy, as well as drum up publicity through social media and public appearances. The announcement was surely pegged to all the fuss over Project Runway's season 10 premiere (tonight!).
Dressed in electric blue Stella McCartney for a visit to the National Portrait Gallery, Kate Middleton's midsection has become a litmus test for body dysmorphic disorder: Whereas The Daily Beast's resident royalist thinks Kate looks "pregnant?" in this shift, Us Weekly says she looks "slim, sexy."
Middleton's middle: a Rorschach blot for determining whether you are more obsessed with babies or bodies.
