Gwen Stefani's little cherub before and after his blue dye job.Photo: Splash News HAIR • Gwen Stefani's 5-year-old son, Kingston, has a snazzy blue Mohawk. • Lauren Conrad is also exploring the world of unnaturally colored hair. COSMETIC SURGERY • Betsey Johnson thinks if Andy Warhol were alive today, he'd "probably" get Botox. FRAGRANCE • Bottega Veneta's first fragrance... more.

From left: Armani Privé, Alexis Mabille, and Giambattista Valli.Photo: ImaxtreeThe fall 2011 couture season is well under way in Paris, and we have lots of new runway slideshows you probably ignored in your Fourth of July stupor yesterday. Armani went Asian, Giambattista Valli went big and textured as he tends to, and Alexis Mabille put a veritable couture Tinkerbell on the runway.Armani Privé G... more.

Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images (2), David Rose - Pool/Getty Images Kate Middleton is growing into her new role with each public appearance in Canada, where she and Prince William are in the middle of their North American tour. Of course she continues to be known for wearing clothes, most of all, and those clothes continue to look increasingly polished as she goes about her mundane public tas... more.

Practicing wearing white, eh?Photo: Mario Testino/Clarence House Press Office via Getty Images Issa WHO? Kate Middleton wore a cream dress by British label Reiss that is no longer in stores for her official engagement portrait with her fiancé, Prince William. The Daily Mail believes the dress cost ?159, or about $250, and reports it was part of the last fall collection. For the other shot, in ... more.

The finale.Photo: Gennadi Avramenko/Epsilon/Getty Images Today, the John Galliano spring 2012 men's show walked in Paris without John Galliano, who could not be there since he has been fired. Instead, his friend and right-hand man at the house, Bill Gaytten, headed the design team, and took a bow at the end of the show. And the label's CEO was right when he said yesterday that the design team w... more.

Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Time Out Hong Kong interviewed Tom Ford as he opened a new store in the city. Though it proved to be a delightfully awkward affair, with reportedly a lot of reticence on Tom's part (not to mention his refusal to tell jokes), he certainly didn't hold back when discussing potential fit issues with his clothes: "Americans are too fat. And in London they are starti... more.

Photo: Courtesy of Valentino Today's new fall fashion ads were mostly shot soft-focus, with Balenciaga's sharp, bright images being an exception. Glen Luchford photographed a seemingly very retouched Arizona Muse for Alberta Ferretti, and David Sims used lots of artful shadows and blurriness for the new Valentino campaign. Then there's also DSquared2, Hugo by Hugo Boss, and even more from Hailee ... more.

Photo: Andy Clark/AFP/Getty Images As part of an outdoorsy afternoon on her tour of Canada yesterday Kate Middleton met with a group of Canadian Rangers, who made her an honorary member of their organization. They even gifted her with a bright-red hoodie embroidered with name and title, just so it won't get mixed up in laundry at the palace. She also paddled a canoe and rode in a sea plane. Oh, t... more.

Photo: Terry Tsiolis for W If the Internet is about to completely change the fashion industry — and the attitudes of print editors toward technology does, at times, reek of fear of this — Nicola Formichetti will surely be one of the people we look back on and say, he really started something. The Mugler creative director, stylist to Lady Gaga, and Dazed & Confused fashion director d... more.

In 90-degree heat, shorts reign as a weekend staple, whether you’re barbecuing or biking around the city. Steven Alan’s Alexis short offers a versatile alternative to ubiquitous denim. The heather gray organic cotton is breathable and comfortable, but the front tie and flattering fit keep the shorts from looking like gym attire. And like the best go-to pieces from your summer wardrobe... more.

• Carla Bruni's baby bump is living up to its reputation as "the worst kept secret in French politics," as you can see in new photos. • Saks will open a store in Kazakhstan. Clearly there’s potential for some sort of Ka-Saks-stan–style pun. • David Beckham said he’s really busy at the moment, so he might not be able to hang with Duchess Kate and Duke Willi... more.

Photo: Courtesy of Marc by Marc Jacobs Over the nice and long holiday weekend, images from more fall fashion campaigns dropped online, including more from the whimsical Tim Walker–shot Mulberry ads, as well as super hottie Adriana Lima for Blumarine. And we got a first look at the campaigns from Loewe, DKNY, and the not-to-be-missed Marc by Marc Jacobs campaign — which features Elle F... more.

A look from the new couture collection.Photo: Imaxtree Critics panned the Christian Dior cartoon couture that walked in Paris yesterday, suggesting that the house simply cannot produce a stellar couture collection without a head designer. One wonders if Dior and LVMH will try to hurry up the hire in advance of the label's ready-to-wear show, which is just about a couple months away. At the cout... more.

Here's Jane at a Chanel dinner last year. So that stuff she goes to.Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Chanel While Bryan Boy and Rumi "Fashion Toast" Neely are Fashion Week regulars, Aldridge says, "I would love to go to a designer’s show that I really love but at the same time it’s such a circus. It’s more in my comfort zone to stay away from that. That’s not what I&... more.

Photo: Phil Noble-Pool/Getty Images Kate Middleton visited the Somba K'e Civic Plaza in Yellowknife, Canada, today, where she met with local residents and watched demonstrations of arctic sports and native drumming. (Prince William, should you be the rare person who cares about what he does when he's with her, also shot some ice hockey pucks, as you would.) The duchess wore a light beige tailored... more.

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This Balmain T-shirt is $2,045 on Net-a-Porter. "Certainly, the fashion industry — as a purveyor of beauty ideals, fine craftsmanship, and creativity — is better off without the aesthetic that he and Balmain popularized ... The cost of his fully bedazzled mini-dresses could reach well into tens of thousands of dollars, easily making a couture client hyperventilate. His tailored jacket... more.

A different, but no doubt also very expensive, Balmain tee.Photo: Courtesy of Balmain A recent T Magazine blog post got staffers from e-commerce site Outnet.com to style summer outfits, and fashion editor Eve Thomas's selections included a glittery Balmain tee. Unfortunately, as a correction to the article now states, the tee was originally mistakenly credited as costing $10,604 — in realit... more.

• Singer Robbie Williams is launching a fashion line, called Ferrell. He hasn’t actually designed the clothes, but “is integrally involved and regularly comes to meetings,” according to a spokesperson. • Many U.S. retailers are boycotting cotton produced in Uzbekistan because children are often forced to work as cotton pickers, with a daily quota of 50 pounds of c... more.

This morning, Kate Middleton continued making it seem like Prince William may as well be invisible as Their Royal Highnesses headed to the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Quebec on day two of their North American journey. Kate exited her black car wearing the same white Reiss dress she wore for her engagement portrait, red pumps, and a maple leaf fascinator, essentially making her the upper-m... more.