CakePops

Just in time for fashion week, London-based bakery Molly Bakes has revealed a set of cake-pops that feature the faces of all your favorite fashion designers and influencers. Pictured are pops inspired by Andre Leon Talley, Karl Lagerfeld and Anna Wintour, and they also carry cakes with the faces of Donatella Versace, Victoria Beckham and Vivienne Westwood (really). 

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What a difference a year makes. Since we first named Hanneli Mustaparta "The New Sartorialist," the former model has become a top street-style photographer and quite the media darling. She's developed a sharp eye behind the camera, but is also a style icon in her own right, thanks to photobloggers like Tommy Ton capturing her high-fashion-meets-high-street looks in action. And there's no question that Mustaparta's career reached new heights when she was tapped by Vogue and CBS to co-host a live webcast of Fashion's Night Out: The Show, the kick-off event for Fashion's Night Out—and the largest public fashion show in New York City history. Streamed on CBS.com, she hosted the designer and celebrity arrivals with none other than Vogue Editor-at-Large André Leon Talley, and interviewed the likes of Vera Wang, Donna Karan, and Blake Lively. Landing a role amongst such fashion heavy-hitters seems like a natural progression for the Norwegian transplant, especially now that she's established a solid American fan base on top of her existing international audience.

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● Whoopi Goldberg brings it today: watch her in eight ads about peeing her pants and then read about her hanging with Andre Leon Talley. [Videogum, NYTimes] ● The follow up to Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter gets a book trailer. [Daily What] ● Instead of putting together a new show about a funny, wacky, single chick, NBC gets lazy, considers turning Bridget Jones into a TV show. [Perez]

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"Meredith Melling Burke ... walked in off the elevator in a beige 3.1 Phillip Lim chesterfield and beige trousers tucked into an impeccable black pair from Miu Miu -- that were completely flat! A sign of things to come?" Andre Leon Talley wrote in a recent blog post for Vogue. Blame it on Michelle Obama (who never seems to rise above a kitten heel) or fashion designer Maria Cornejo, who famously outfitted her models in flats-only this past Fashion Week, but the sky-high heel that garnered so much attention on SS09 runways may be being thrown out the window, or at least temporarily laid to rest.

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Midway through May -- a slew of fashion aficionados, many of whom had flown down from New York for the weekend -- gathered in Savannah, Georgia, for the Savannah College of Art & Design's annual senior fashion show. Vogue's Editor-at-Large Andre Leon Talley (who holds an honorary Doctorate of Humanities from SCAD) was on hand to present Isabel and Ruben Toledo with the college's Lifetime Achievement Award. Designers Yigal Azrouël and Lars Nilsson were also present, taking in the collection presentations (partially the fruits of their own labor, as each designer played mentor to members of SCAD's senior class via its StyleLab program) from the front row. None seemed disappointed by the exciting and evocative show, which reaffirmed SCAD's reputation as one of the premiere fashion programs in the world. Given the collegiate atmosphere, when we caught up with the Toledos pre-show (Isabel having recently become a household name thanks to Michelle Obama wearing her design for President Obama's Inauguration, and Ruben revered for his iconic illustrations), our first question was what the couple, who met at school in New Jersey at the age of 13, were like as students.

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● Style site Chictopia has combined forces with American Apparel for a hybrid ad campaign incorporating Chictopia users. [Chictopia] ● Is that Andre Leon Talley or Jay-Z in that fur cap? [Cityfile] ● Michelle Obama channeled Nancy Regan at the Inaugural Ball, rocking a Jason Wu cream-colored asymmetrical gown. [JustJared]

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● Best thing ever: Get Anna Wintour and Andre Leon Talley’s fashion advice as your ringtone. [Cityfile] ● Recession be damned. Tomorrow, Louis Vuitton will offer a limited edition of their “Sprouse Collection” skateboard -- price tag $8,250. Proceeds go to Free Arts NYC program. [LifeFiles] ● Hard to believe: Rumor has it Vivienne Westwood would like to write the SATC sequel. [British Vogue]

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Andre Leon Talley will not be styling Michelle Obama! Non-existent crisis averted. Confused? Let me back up a few months to June, when Mrs. Obama made a trip to New York to attend several fundraisers. The New York Post reported that certain unnamed political advisors became nervous after one fundraiser hosted by Andre Leon Talley (Anna Wintour's right hand man). These advisors worried that Talley would become a style Svengali to Michelle Obama and steer her towards unfortunate fashion choices, like the metallic bolero jacket he created for Jennifer Hudson at the Oscars. No less than Derek Blasberg recently caught up with Talley and got the real story: He hasn't offered any advice to Obama about what to wear. "I think that Michelle Obama does not need advice," intoned Talley.

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