- The costumes Emilio Spring 2013 collection. [Fashionologie Inbox]
- Did Anna Wintour lose the ambassadorship because of her boyfriend’s taxes? [Telegraph]
- Ten individuals were arrested in Bucharest for stealing about $2.7 million of Giorgio WWD]
- Vogue Thailand hit newsstands last week – and almost immediately sold out. The publication’s Editor-in-Cheif, Kullawit Laosuksri, is the first male EIC of any Vogue edition. [The Nation]
- It turns out women owe the existence of high-heels to the men of the Persian military. The soldiers of the 16th century originated the heels as a way to hook themselves into their stirrups while riding into battle. [Jezebel]
- Meanwhile, Dr. Valerie Steele, the director and chief curator at The Museum at FIT, says that we can attribute the ever-growing height of heels in the 21st century to an “acceptance of hypersexual shoe design as part of fashion.” [Style.com]
- The upcoming exhibition Mannequin- le corps de la mode at Paris’s Cité de la Mode et du Design charts the evolution of modeling from the 19th century to the present day. [New York Daily News]
- South Korean designer Minju Kim is the winner of this year’s H&M design award. [Vogue UK]
- Hedi Slimane designed more than just the clothes in Saint Laurent‘s latest boutique in Bal Harbour – he was also the building’s architect. [Fashionologie Inbox]
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