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In which we chat with W’s Stefano Tonchi about Miley Cyrus and selfies. Illuminating!

ELLE’s fashion news director Anne Slowey has been a member of the chicster mommy club for years. We checked in on the Slowey clan…

Grazia U.K. editor in chief Jane Bruton breaks it down from the Grazia app to tetiquette (tech etiquette!)

Time Inc. vet Jess Cagle was named editor of People and editorial director of Entertainment Weekly last month, a job he was born to hold. The Daily stopped by his EW office on his last day there to find out what people who need people have in store from the zestiest man alive…BY EDDIE ROCHE

You may have noticed that Alejandro Ingelmo changed venues for his women and men’s footwear presentation on Saturday to the Robert Miller Gallery, but why? We hear that a plumbing accident in the Soho building that houses the store, where the presentation was to be held, destroyed the store and much of the merchandise in it when a frozen pipe burst last week.

J Brand Teams Up With Simone Rocha [Telegraph]
For their newest designer collaboration, the denim experts tap London-based Rocha for a capsule collection slated for later this year…Miranda Kerr Is the Face of H&M Spring 2014 [H&M]
The model herself announced the campaign news via Instagram video but we’ll have to wait until March (also when H&M opens their first Aussie outpost) for more…Hosts With the Most: Best NYFW Invites [Refinery 29]
Check out the most creative iterations that arrived in editors’ mailboxes this season.

On the heels of Cathy Horyn’s retirement from The New York Times last week after 15 years as the paper’s fashion critic, to take care of her ailing partner, Arthur Ortenberg, it was announced today that the former founder and vice chairman of Liz Claiborne Inc. has passed away at the age of 87.

In totally awesome news…Bruce Weber shot nearly 20 transgender models for Barneys’ new catalog and campaign ads, The New York Times reports. It’s the brilliant idea of Dennis Freedman, who tells The Grey Lady: “I was exquisitely aware that in the last decade, the L.G.B. communities have made extraordinary advances, and the transgender community has not shared in that progress.” The campaign features models ranging in age from 17 to early 30s, and the catalog will feature excerpts from Patricia Bosworth’s interviews with the participants. Applause, applause, applause…

Another shot in the arm for the modeling biz is the news that Karlie Kloss, Kate Upton, and Cara Delevingne made the list of Seventeen’s 17 (clever!) most powerful girls 21 and under. It’s the first-ever Power issue for the Hearst title and was conducted in a national survey of teen girls aged 13 to 19.

John Avlon, formerly executive editor at The Daily Beast, has been named editor-in-chief at the publication…Noah Shachtman, formerly executive editor, news at Foreign Policy, has been named executive editor at The Daily Beast…Jane McFarland, formerly fashion writer at The Times UK, has been named deputy fashion features editor at Net-a-Porter’s The Edit…Joyce Bautista Ferrari, formerly director of editorial development and operations at Condé Nast Traveler, has been named executive editorial director at Say Media…