Despite the fact that Lara Stone may see her curvaceous, size-4 frame as "fat" when compared with her stick-thin runway mannequin counterparts, the model's rapidly rising star is showing no signs of slowing. Having opened numerous high-profile shows, an entire issue of Paris Vogue dedicated to her (not to mention reappearing recently in the rag sporting blackface and spawning loads of controversy), and gracing an enviable collection of magazine covers, Stone has now caught the eye of Marc Jacobs. According to Women's Wear Daily, Stone will be following in Madonna's footsteps and appearing in the next series of ads for Louis Vuitton.

Weren't lucky enough to land a Marc Jacobs tee emblazoned with a nude Chloë Sevigny the first time around? Don't fret. The designer and arguable mayor of Bleecker Street is reissuing his much loved "Protect the Skin You’re In" line of t-shirts. Thanks to the relaunch, in addition to Sevigny you can now also outfit yourself with fleshy images of Victoria Beckham, Heidi Klum, Dita Von Teese, Doutzen Kroes, or Erin Wasson overlaid with the aforementioned phrase.

Amid a softly lit room littered with old carnival props (courtesy of prop-master and former Selby subject Kenyan), Alison Lewis showcased a classically feminine yet decidedly modern collection on Manhattan's west side yesterday. The designer, whose namesake line Lewis is her second sartorial endeavor (she co-founded the now defunct Mooka Kinney), has seemingly perfected achieving a vintage feel without rehashing styles that feel dated. "I don't want it to be too kitschy," Lewis says of the line. "I don't want to put it too much into a genre." The SS10 line itself is full of cut-out floral dresses and separates (including one fashioned in a print of Lewis' own creation) that are the kind of looks one could wear to work, but just as easily take spinning around the dance floor at a dark bar until last call.

Rodarte might have sent skyscraper heels courtesy of Nicholas Kirkwood down its runway this afternoon (resulting in at least one model tumble), but don't count on the footwear trend that's been putting ankles at risk all year long to stick around come SS10. In fact a number of designers have been boarding the flats bandwagon, not least of which is Marc Jacobs. The designer--one it's likely nearly the entire industry can agree on as a tried-and-true trendsetter --put his Kabuki-meets-the bedroom models in flat footwear that included wedges with so slight an incline it was barely noticeable (not to mention the shoe styles in question came equipped with toe-guards... pretty much a 180 degree turnaround from the 8" monstrosities of FW09).

From my humble point of view this has been a fantastic Fashion Week, and it's not over yet. The looming Marc Jacobs party is the talk of the town. It's a game of musical chairs with so many fabulous people getting a dose of humility as invites are seen as status. A longtime friend of Mr. Jacobs was lamenting on Facebook getting shut out this year. The gist was that Mr. Jacobs had abandoned the old for the new. Meanwhile, a well-known liquor marketing dude was hawking tickets online to last night's Kanye-mess-stricken VMA event for $2,500.

● Did Usher’s soon-to-be ex-wife Tameka Foster lift her Huffington Post blog “She's Pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl ...” from Aisha Curry’s book Pretty for a Black Girl? [BVBuzz]
● After months of false reports, are Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone finally tying the knot? It seems so. The couple will have a small ceremony in Massachusetts with an after-party for their fashion posse this weekend. [P6]
● The GOOP Empire, continues to expand with Gwyneth Paltrow designing a line of luxe basics for French label Zoetee’s. [MarieClaireUK]

Elisabeth Moss is a smoldering star on AMC's Mad Men, which happens to be a universe thickly populated with slow burners. As Peggy Olson, Moss fist came across as a clueless naïf in the high-flying world of Madison Avenue in the early 1960s. However, though she seemed like a true tabula rasa in office assistant form, her opaque persona concealed a calculating and at times ruthless ambition. Peggy serves as both foil and reflection for Jon Hamm's Don Draper, and the two embody one of the most nuanced male-female relationships on television within one of the most creatively complex shows on television. On the heels of her own Emmy nomination for best lead actress in a drama -- among 16 other nominations for Mad Men -- Moss talks about awards, life on a "small" show, her devotion to Urban Outfitters, and that thing with Don Draper.

In terms of buzz-inducing events at this year's Costume Gala, second only to Kiefer Sutherland's headbutt heard round the fashion industry were the Louis Vuitton bunny ears that Madonna wore to the red carpet affair. (The latter even helped incite Cathy Horyn's New York Times piece "Irony and the Old Lady," which explored just how eccentrically women of a certain age can dress.) Now the man behind the hare-inspired headgear, Marc Jacobs, is speaking out about the accessory's roots. It turns out Jacobs likes the "kind of Playboy, French coquettish aspect" of the bunny ears.

He's shot everyone from Charlotte Rampling and Thurston Moore to Victoria Beckham. Yet Juergen Teller seems to prefer life behind the scenes. The German photographer rarely gives interviews, but in light of a soon-to-be released Steidl tome documenting the photog's last 20 years of ads for Marc Jacobs, Teller is speaking out. The Independent sat down with the iconic artist and fashion photographer to talk the past two decades of MJ advertising photos. Some of the best moments from the piece are after the jump.

Remember folks: nudity of any kind, including t-shirts depicting near-nudity by a famous designer, is illegal in Dubai. Last week, Lebanese tourist Raffi Nernekian was visiting the emirate and went for a little stroll down the street sporting the Victoria Beckham version of the naked celebrity t-shirt campaign "Protect the Skin You're In." Designed by Marc Jacobs and featuring several different celebs, the t-shirt in question featured a nude Victoria with lettering strategically placed to cover up anything really indecent. The shirts were part of a 2008 cancer awareness campaign with proceeds benefitting the NYU School of Medicine Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group.