Chic Report

Carey Mulligan finally breaks down into laughter after appearing on her 2,456th cover this spring. The Great Gatsby stars spends a little time covering the June issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK shot by Tom Allen. You haven’t seen the last of her yet…

At last night’s Vogue Festival Q&A in London, Victoria Beckham took the stage to talk about her brand and her image in the media, along with dishing on her daily habits (“a control freak” in “flats”) and her workout (Tracy Anderson, three times a week). Here’s a couple highlights…

Last night seniors from the design program at Pratt Institute showed their final collections before a packed fashion crowd in Chelsea at Center548. Fashion industry professionals such as Fern Mallis, Julie Gilhart, Bibhu Mohapatra, Alina Cho, Hamish Bowles and Thom Browne sat front row to see the work of fashion’s next generation.

How’s this for coolest boss of the year award…Last night, Alice + Olivia’s Stacey Bendet held a party to celebrate her assistant, Mallane Stanbury’s new art exhibition hanging in their Greene Street pop-up store in SoHo. You read that correctly. Stacey put on a show and opening party for her assistant. (Please forward this to your boss to rub that in a little.)

What a week for Sergio Kletnoy! The right-hand man to Cosmo editrix Joanna Coles not only had a revolving door of fab visitors at the Hearst Tower, but a Blueprint cleanse tested his sanity. It’s all here in another episode of your favorite Friday read… For the last few months I ate everything in sight: casually munching on salt & vinegar chips, popping See’s chocolates in my mouth as if they were Tic Tac’s

A little of this and that…Last night Giorgio Armani and Sean Penn with Vanity Fair hosted a cocktail party at Paramount Studios of photographer Jim Goldberg’s work in Haiti followed by a private dinner at Mr.Chow that brought out Derek Blasberg, Kevin Bacon, Rachel Zoe, and Poppy Delevingne…Billy Reid is opening a new location in Georgetown, D.C. in early May on the corner of M street and Wisconsin…

Don’t mess with the angels! Earlier this week former model Kylie Bisutti, who won the Victoria’s Secret Angel Search competition in 2009, revealed in her new book I’m No Angel that modeling for VS made her feel like a piece of meat. Now the brand is firing back and released a statement clarifying their relationship with the 23-year-old. Here is the statement sent to us from reps for Victoria’s Secret:

When it comes to wedding etiquette and feeling fab about your bod on the big day, who better than fitness legend Richard Simmons to offer his wisdom? Brides take note! It is safe to lose one pound a week. If you lose it fast, you will gain it back in your ass. –On where a bride-to-be should start her regime. Stare at yourself naked in the mirror! –On what you should do when you’re procrastinating working out.

Fern Mallis is back May 7th with another one of her already legendary ‘Fashion Icons’ chats with Suzy Menkes in the hot seat next. What does one ask a legend like Suzy? “I’ll ask her all about her life, and how she came to be a ‘critic’ of fashion,” Mallis tells us. “But I love learning about families and how she found her style surrounded by so much of it in the industry.

Far, far away from NYC’s party circuit this weekend, and post-Coachella, a different kind of shindig du note is going down in the desert.