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Lanvin is serious fashion, but that doesn't mean the fancy French house doesn't know how to have fun. Watch Karen Elson and Raquel Zimmermann make like video vixens as the dance in Lanvin's Fall 2012 collection. The best part: Alber Elbaz makes a cameo. Wait for it, waaaait for it!

If you haven't uploaded a video for WikiFashionista.com's Street Style Video Contest, you need to know that Jackie K. just got her 15th Facebook "Like." Just like the latest trends, you should be on top of these kinds of things or you'll be wearing an "out"-fit. And no fashionista wants that.

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Designer George Esquivel knows how to make a good shoe. The fact that his shoes are all made by hand in L.A. makes them even better in our book. The Council of Fashion Designers of America and, um, Anna Wintour agree. In 2009, Esquivel was nominated for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award. Here's cool video about the making of a pair of Esquivel's shoes. And turn the volume up. It sounds as cool as it looks.

Lady Gaga's highly-stylized "Judas" video dropped today, and while it's no "Like A Prayer" or "Beat It," which it is clearly influenced by, you have to give her props for creativeness in incorporating crucifixes into haute couture and transforming a crown of thorns into a macho fashion accessory. Blasphemy never sounded or looked so hip!

Films aren't just for the big screen. Today, they're in fashion. During L.A. Fashion Week, New York-based fashion label Sophomore presented its Spring/Summer 2011 collection via a short video. Titled "Truth or Dare," the short debuted at Paul and Andre's in Hollywood in collaboration with Kanon Organic Vodka. Frankie Rayder, Samaire Armstrong, Nicky Hilton, Roxy Olin, Leo Fitzpatrick and Aaron Bondaroff all turned out for the screening and party.

Heidi Klum is one of the hosts of “Project Runway.”

For those who are dying to be on “Project Runway” but never made it to the finals, there's hope.

Like everything in life, “Project Runway” has now become a video game that can be played on a Nintendo Wii or your personal computer. For only $39.99, you too can be cutting patterns, dressing models, watching them strut down the catwalk and showing how your imagination is something to be reckoned with.

It’s going to be a cute, cute Christmas—if The Gap has anything to do about it.

This holiday ad is currently airing—and (to me, at least) it has all the makings of a viral success: adorable moppets—in clothing I covet for my imaginary Swedish vacation—singing a catchy jingle that has taken root in my brain. 

I sent it around the office today—which drove at least one reporter away complaining of sugar shock.

Last year, designer Nick Verreos talked about his most-memorable Christmas gift (a sewing machine from mom, natch) in a holiday commercial for Sears.

This year, the “Project Runway” alum is going to Sears’ sister store Kmart to talk about the stores' layaway program.

The en español version of Verreos’ Kmart commercial has begun airing on Spanish-language TV and the English-language versions will be airing soon.

The organizers behind the indie BOXEight Fashion Week have launched an online video series featuring both up-and-coming and well-known musicians and bands at the soapBOX Live. 
 

“We wanted to use our online presence to provide an intimate venue for new and established artists,” said BOXEight Operations Director Chad Wilson. “The soapBOX is for the artists that need a direction to get their music out.”