The Daily Front Row

Another one for the T masthead! Life post-Elle for former style director Kate Lanphear has been a guessing game over the past few months—from a purported stab at the EIC seat at WSJ. to involvement in a new mag venture entitled Editorialist—but it’s the T talk that’s proven to be true. Lanphear will take the title of style director with her to T, following speculation back in mid-November that the street style and front row fixture would be joining the mag as part of recently-appointed editor-in-chief Deborah Needleman’s fresh team at T. The folks at T confirmed Lanphear’s new gig to The Daily this afternoon, before which the move got Twitter-vetted earlier today when T retweeted the news to its 1.78 million followers. How will the Grey Lady’s chicest turf look once Lanphear lands at her new job? Stay tuned…

A radiant Heidi Klum covers the February issue of Marie Claire on newsstands January 15th. Klum is kind enough to offer some sex advice to their readers: “Some people are more experimental in bed and others are more boring,” she explains. “If you are wild and crazy, bring it on so the other person is well aware that you have little devil horns that come out every once in a while.

Dame Helen Mirren continues to prove that you can be sexy at any age (She must read Bazaar!) in a red Escada gown over the weekend. The Queen was at the Palm Springs International Film Festival where she picked up the “International Film Star” award and showed her appreciation for the honor by thanking the crowd in different languages. Ain’t nothing like a Dame.

An extensive rescue team of over 385 people is still scouring the Venezuelan coastline for Missoni CEO Vittorio Missoni, his wife Maurizia Castiglioni, and four other passengers (including the pilot) who were aboard the small Britten Norman BN2 Islander prop plane that went off the grid on Friday, January 4. The crew took off from Los Roques on Friday morning after vacationing in Gran Roque, a resort island near the Venezuela mainland. The plane was scheduled to fly to the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, but dropped off the air traffic control’s radar shortly after takeoff at 11:29 a.m. local time, about 95 miles from Venezuela. The Missoni’s elder statesman planned to fly later that night to Madrid and finally Italy, where the Missoni team is busy at work preparing the Fall 2013 collection.

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Bottega Veneta nabbed Peter Lindbergh to shoot their Spring campaign that was shot at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. “There are few photographers who can convey the range of emotion and personality that Peter can,” according to Bottega’s creative director, Tomas Maier. “We are both interested in escaping the clichés and conventions of fashion imagery.

It’s not every day that the legend that is Charo is seen walking the red carpet with the likes of Naomi Watts, Bradley Cooper, and Helen Mirren, but that’s exactly what happened over the weekend in Palm Springs. Ms. Coochie-Coo herself joined the A-listers at the 24th Annual Palm Springs Film Festival on Saturday night and (obviously) stole the show. Could a Cinema Society screening sighting be next?

Milly’s new collab is b-a-n-a-n-a-s. Designer Michelle Smith is whipping up a summery, 60-ish item collection with Banana Republic’s creative director and executive VP of design Simon Kneen that will drop in BR stores this May. The choc de chocs? The new Hamptons-inspired line caters to women and men—a first for Smith. Expect one original print, plus six updated Milly classics.

Tom Ford To Host “Real” London Catwalk Show [Vogue UK]
The designer will host his first full-scale catwalk show during LFW next month

Women Dominate Bafta Rising Star 2013 Following Last Year’s All-Male Shortlist [Independent UK]
Elizabeth Olsen is among the honored female rising stars

The Future Looks Bright for Jigsaw [Telegraph UK]
The British fashion chain reports staggering sales increases

Jean Paul Gaultier has an allstar lineup for his Spring campaign. Case in point: retro Madonna, David Bowie, Grace Jones, and Boy George volunteering their time for their old pal. As any good fashion student remembers, this is actually a continuation of the quirky seventies and eighties themed collection that Gaultier presented in September in Paris.