Modeling the world

Spring’s fanciest pants remain popular and brighten up the gray season. If you stick to plain skinny jeans, pair them with biker or elegant knee-high boots this fall. Skirts are still trendiest if they come in a ‘midi’ (= mid-calf) length, while Polyvore users’ fascination with everything British (Wellies, tartan,…) continues.

• 1. Mid-calf skirts
• 2. Bright coloured pants
• 3. Oversized watches
• 4. Cat eye glasses
• 5. Knee high boots
• 6. Studded handbags
• 7. Jeggings
• 8. Sequin tanks
• 9. Faux fur vests
• 10. Oversized cardigans
• 11. Printed scarves
• 12. Stacked bracelets
• 13. Bucket bags
• 14. Skinny jeans
• 15. High waist trousers

Polyvore, which lets users express their current fashion preferences in the form of collages, receives ten million visits a month.

Those diminutive teaser videos H&M just released to hype its next designer collaboration are not of Bottega Veneta’s Tomas Maier, but Lanvin’s Alber Elbaz, WWD reports. Sources tell the paper a collaboration with the ludicrously — and deservedly — fawned-over house will be announced very soon, presumably September 9, which is the date that flashes on the screen at the end of the videos.

Though the camera never lingers on the faces long sufficient for recognition in the clips, the voice-over of designer musings, while electronically changed, are obvious Elbaz-isms. “Design is very important because it really brings dream to our life,” says one.

Obviously a Lanvin collaboration would be huge for H&M. Everyone loves Lanvin while nearly no one can afford it. This would be a cool one to line up to shop for — just believe of all the Upper East Side ladies in disguises standing next to you.

The Kardashian clan is beginning a fashion line for home shopping channel QVC.

The famous sisters Kim, 29, Kourtney, 31, Khloe, 26, and their mum Kris Jenner, 54, are teaming up with QVC for K-Dash by Kardashian, a latest clothing and accessories collection.

The line comprises everything from belts to faux fur-trimmed vests, with prices ranging between $20-$240.

K-Dash by Kardashian is set to debut on QVC as fraction of Fashion’s Night Out, and will air live from the Rockefeller Centre, New York, on September 10.

The Kardashian design team will be on hand on the show and will be united by other designers such as Bradley Bayou and Marc Bouwer.

A three-year design partnership between Kate Moss and Topshop is to end afterward this year.

When the supermodel reveals her autumn and winter range in October – it will be her 14th and last collection for the chain.

Ms Moss began working with Topshop through her friendship among the firm’s boss, retail tycoon Sir Philip Green.

Both parties refute any rift, with Sir Philip saying the model had “other commitments”.

It is thought that Ms Moss, 36, has made at least £3m from the ranges – many of which proved admired with Topshop customers.

When Ms Moss’s designs were first revealed, thousands of people queued up outside Topshop’s Oxford Street flagship store, leading newspapers to dub the event “Moss mania”.

The tie-up was the earliest in the long line of celebrity deals, with H&M subsequently hiring Stella McCartney, Madonna and Karl Lagerfield to design for them.

Gisele Bundchen made a successful return to the runway in her native Brazil on Sunday, stepping on the catwalk for the first time since becoming a mother six months ago.

The new mom proved off her svelte figure in fashion designs by Colcci as she strutted down the catwalk during Sao Paulo Fashion Week.

But Bundchen confessed she was wracked with nerves as she prepared to step back into the spotlight.

She says: I was incredibly nervous. But I am very cheerful, everything went right.

Bunchen and her husband, American footballer Tom Brady, greeted little Benjamin in December.