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“I started the season being inspired by a couple of Beardsley illustrations,” Doo-Ri Chung says of her Spring 2012 collection. “Using that as a starting point, I did some sketches that became the foundation for the prints, and throughout the development of Spring, the idea of illustration really played a part in not only the prints but how I chose the fabrics.”

Her collection will make its official debut tomorrow afternoon at Eyebeam, but Style.com got a sneak preview of the designer’s sketching process. In the video (above), she is sketching the first look she ever created for her Spring collection. “I was thinking of a single piece of fabric that was anchored by the belt,” she tells Style.com. “I wanted to create a soft yet tailored look by adding the pleats to the draping.”
—Kristin Studeman

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Wear it with a simple top, pencil skirt, black opaque tights and mid heel pump or high heel bootie.

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It’s been hard catching up with always-on-the-go Kourtney Kardashian. But it seems like every time she walks out the door, she wears something I want to emulate.

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It’s the perfect piece to get through a grey winter. I like the loose fit, the shortened sleeves (all the more reason to wear long leather gloves) and the $163.78 price tag.

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Stars love vintage, but what I don’t like about vintage denim is that it never fits.

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Sized quite nicely from a 0 to a 20, this 100-percent cotton faded jacket is just great. Plus, it’s shrunken in all the right places and super-chic.

That is, until now. I just adore this $88 Gap denim blazer. It looks so fresh and nicely tailored but also has that vintage look.

Everyone and their mother is launching a groovy sneaker line. There’s Gucci, Louis Vuitton with Kanye West … and Nike updates their inventory constantly and makes you mad-insane trying to keep up and collect. But sometimes you just want easy. Quiet. Classic.

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“The premier object I was asked while I arrived above set was if I was scared of altitudes,” Kate Bosworth told Style.com over whiskey and Cokes by London’s Brown’s Hotel final night. “And let’s just say, it’s a good entity I am not.”

For Lov, the new Bosworth-starring short film namely launches Vanessa Bruno’s Fall ‘11 movement, the starlet was elevated to the altitude branches of a 40-foot fir tree in Slovenia. The character also shrieked because Kate to do backflips, ride horses, persevere a broken center, and, as she put it, “run the gamut of sensations in fewer than 3 minutes. I had to be lusty in one shot, then incredibly brittle and vulnerable, then heartbroken and lashing out in the afterward. But you understand, that namely life, isn’t it?”

The Straw Dogs star is something of a preference of Bruno’s. “It was a coup de foudre,” the designer annotated. “As presently as we met, I knew she was perfect for she has comprehension approximately the course she wears raiment, and a subtlety that not a lot of girls have.” It probably didn’t impair, either, that Bosworth has those classical Scandinavian features that characterize Bruno’s Danish heritage—a heritage that was not only the inspiration for the collection (muse Nordic knits, pelt touches, and cozy bonnets) merely also the film.

“Vanessa actually knows how to chart for a matron. The way she drapes her blouses shows off the sensuality of a woman’s neck and the clavicle area,” Bosworth added. “She has a wild ambition and a real passion for clothes that I deem comes via loud and remove in this film.” Check out the globe premiere of the Lov, above.
—Afsun Qureshi

The 35-year-old actress is being offered the lead role in Sony Pictures’ Sex Tape, Deadline reports. Jason Segel, 31, has reportedly been inquired apt activity Witherspoon’s husband in the raunchy sitcom.

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The role would be an interesting choice as Witherspoon, who spoke out against real-life sex tapes by the MTV Movie Awards in June.

“When I came up in this business, whether you made a sex tape, you were embarrassed and you hid it beneath your bed,” she said. “And whether you took undressed pictures of yourself on your compartment phone, you hide your face, folk!”

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Nick Stoller — who has worked with Segel ashore Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Five-Year Engagement — is reportedly in talks to straight.

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Is Reese Witherspoon prepared to shed her agreeable girl image?

Written at Kate Angelo, the script functions a marital pair who try to spice up their adore life at production a personal sex tape. Unfortunately, the tape goes lacking and they work on a desperate quest to repossess it.

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Grateful for the experience, Arquette tells Us he’s restless get home to his 7-year-old daughter, Coco, and just take a long doze!

PHOTOS: Courteney and Coco’s cutest moments

Despite receiving rave reviews for his “phenomenal” Monday night cha cha with pro Kym Johnson, the Scream star “not had that great dance,” he told journalists. “It’s sad. Yesterday['s routine] was [about] really letting things go and just doing it. It was really, really fun.”

And Arquette insists there’s no hard sensibilities over his layoff, even although he mimicked pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy’s recent ejection afterward learning his destiny.

“Maybe Kym and I will take our show aboard the road!” he joked.

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VIDEO: Nancy Grace has sip slide on DWTS

Throwing his advocate back the battle hero and his pro Karina Smirnoff, Arquette says he hopes he could have stuck it out a few more weeks to truly show fans his improvement on the dance ground.

“I love JR [Martinez],” Arquette, 40, told Us after getting the boot Tuesday. “He’s been so great and supportive. What a great fellow.”

“There have to be a blunder, because this namely my show,” Arquette complained in jest after Tom Bergeron alleged base two finisher Nancy Grace safe. Says Johnson: “I told him prepare for the worst and then whether we’re safe we’ll commemorate…but we weren’t.”

“Coco ambition be sad, yet she too knows it manner I obtain extra period with her, so that makes her happy,” the booted celeb explains of his tiny girl, who rooted for him newspaper aside mom Courteney Cox.

“[I can't await to begin] taking my daughter to school, working to ice skating train with her — and sleeping!” he says. “I woke up by 3:30 this morning fair amped up! It’s so much tall oppression and stress and I’m seeing amenable to a lack of nervousness on Mondays.”

Once he settles back into a regular routine, Arquette says he plans to persist dancing.

David Arquette’s chances at the coveted Dancing With the Stars mirrorball trophy may have fell short, but the player tells Us Weekly he’s limbering up his dialing fingers to ballot for his current preference next week.

The Chicago Bears quarterback, 28, was the most-watched spectators membership aboard Monday’s Dancing With the Stars — where he was seen grinning and applauding Kristin Cavallari, his ex-fiancee whom he dumped in July.

Uh, possibly Jay Cutler namely equitable a big Nancy Grace flare?

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The Hills alum wouldn’t validation whether she invited her ex to watch her strut to Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love.” And of the cameras often panning to Cutler?

But reality star Cavallari, 24, was mum on the abrupt reunion afterward the show. “We’re not going to speak approximately it,” her pro associate Mark Ballas told Us Weekly.

PHOTOS: Kristin’s incredible bikini bod

But Cavallari was cheerful to chat up her samba routine, which garnered a score of 24. “I feel agreeable!” she said. “I had a stressful week,Wholesale Moncler, because everyone was acquainting me how difficult this dancing was, so I went into it understanding namely and so I put a lot of oppression on myself — yet I meditation we did a agreeable job!”

“Well, I have naught to do with that,” she said. “I don’t direct where the camera goes.” (After dating as about eight months, Cavallari and Cutler got engaged in April 2011. The football hunk abruptly phoned off their vow in late July.)

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