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Fashion and art have long made goo-goo eyes at each other. But UNIQLO, known for doing good things, is so smitten with MoMA that it's actually gone and made a standing Friday date: as of May 3rd, the retailer will sponsor UNIQLO Free Friday Nights--with the first 1000 art lovers arriving that evening scoring a free tote bag.

DSquared2 isn't the only designer privileged to cloak Queen Beyonce for her highly-anticipated world tour. WWD reveals that famed fashion house Pucci and cult-cool brand The Blonds have been tapped for the prestigous gig, too. Adding to Dean and Dan Caten's '90s supermodel vibe is Pucci's Peter Dundas, who drew inspiration from his fall range that's chock-full of "thigh-high boots and form fitting tops. As for The Blonds, Phillipe and David Blond's unexpected muse is Tamara de Lempicka’s female body painting that are "meant to give the illusion of being covered in crystallized honey." A hand-painted bustier with 30,000 Swarovski crystals is involved. Until that design is revealed, peep one of Pucci's looks below.

Fact: the French don't know how not to be cool. From Celine to Vanessa Bruno to Isabel Marant, Parisian labels continue to enchant global tastemakers, offering stars a foolproof way to landed on best-dressed lists the second they slip these chic creations on. One of said superior style purveyors is IRO, who just opened their first US standalone store in SoHo. 

If you don't know who Crybaby Presents is, get familiar. The Los Angeles-based clothing brand is known for crafting out-of-the-box garments for retro-inspired girls that never take themselves too seriously, because snobby style is simply boring. To drive Crybaby's fun-all-the-time vibe home, founders Dakota Solt and Lisa Ziven has just released an adorable new video promoting their spring/summer 2013 collection. 

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes,” and while I do quite admire the man (where would we be without bifocals?) - he’s wrong. In NYC, there are many other things we can be 100 percent certain of. I’ve gathered a list of this city’s top 10 occurrences that are bound to happen. And if they don’t happen, then you know the world is ending and you don’t need to buy a new laptop and summer clothes.

This is a true story. Hatsune Miku is a holographic projection and is one of Japan's biggest popstars. Known for sporting school uniforms and crazy-hued hair, this  singing synthesizer application with a humanoid persona often sells out stadiums. Louis Vuitton has been tapped to dress her.

In case you missed it, supermodel Gisele Bundchen joined Instagram yesterday. She only has one photo up at the moment, and it's of her wrapped in the Brazil flag. She captioned it with, "Welcome to my official Instagram! Shooting in my beloved country." 

With two weekends of Ultra behind us, and Coachella fast approaching, everyone has been coming down with a case of festival fever, and the retailers have taken notice. Like its hip-hop predecessor, the EDM genre has caught the eye of the fashion industry, which has now adopted the trending festival styles into their own fashion campaigns. 

Courtney Love recently sat down with cool-kid beauty blog, Into the Gloss, to talk vanity. Fresh off her Saint Laurent campaign gig, the outspoken grunge goddess breaks down her beauty routine with the help of hilarious name drops and profanity. Read on for a few key takeaways.

Just like that, Nicola Formichetti has a new, high-profile gig. Hot off this week's news hat the outre stylist/designer was exiting his two-year stint as creative director of Mugler, it has just been revealed that he's been crowned Diesel's new artistic director.