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All that groaning you’re hearing from 4 Times Square today? That’s due to the news that Condé Nast is ending their internship program next year, according to WWD. The publishing giant was sued earlier this year when two former interns filed a lawsuit saying the company didn’t pay them minimum wage while they worked at W and The New Yorker.

Who knew that Bar Refaeli’s lack of love life was front page news? According to New York Daily News it is. They’ve put her on the cover today after she told the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth that she doesn’t understand why she hasn’t met a guy.

Despite reports circulating today that the bodies of Vittorio Missoni and those flying with him at the time of his disappearance in an aircraft on January 4th had been found, a joint statement released today from the Missoni, Castiglioni, Foresti, and Scalvenzi families denied the story.

While Cathy Horyn Did Not Get To Eat Lunch With Giorgio Armani, She Did Get To Explore His Expansive Home [New York Times]
Which did teach her a bit about the designer in an unexpected way…Stuart Vevers Has Arrived In New York, To Begin His Work For Coach [Vogue UK]
The British designer has shipped his belongings from Madrid to the West Village…Marion Cotillard Models The Lady Dior Bags Like A Piece Of Art [Grazia]
And each bag is art, composed of 100 pieces and hand crafted in eight hours.

InStyle has made quite the hiring coup: Eric Wilson will join the Time Inc. title on November 18 as fashion news director, which is a newly-created position at the mag. Wilson has been a beloved fashion voice at The New York Times for the past seven years, serving as a Styles desk reporter as well as co-shouldering the critic role with Cathy Horyn. Before joining The Times in 2005, Wilson was at WWD.

Following the news that COS was setting up shop in Soho and also popping up in Opening Ceremony on October 11th, it seems those three letters have been quite the topic of convo recently. While reports have speculated that online traffic to Opening Ceremony’s e-shop was down this weekend due to COS shoppers inundating the site

Laura Brounstein, formerly editorial director for the Teen Group at Bauer Publishing, has been named special projects director at Cosmopolitan…Piper Weiss, formerly senior features editor at Yahoo! Shine, has been named executive editor of news at Refinery29…Neha Gandhi, formerly deputy editor at Refinery29, has been named executive editor of features at the publication…

Adult film hunk Harry Louis has taken to Instagram (as one does these days) to announce that he and Marc Jacobs are officially ovah. “So I would like to be the first one to share with you all the news…” he wrote to his 40K followers. “Me and Marc have decided not carry on with our relationship as boyfriends… The distance and lack of time because of work schedules aren’t really something realistic, and he’s such a beautiful and amazing person….

Rumors Have Begun Swirling That J.W. Anderson Is Sealing A Deal With LVMH [Vogue UK]
The designer’s team has neither denied nor confirmed the news, so there you go…The Biggest Swag Bag In The Game Is A Suitcase Given By Allure Magazine [The Cut]
Loaded up with the beauty mags top beauty picks, it’s a hefty one to lug home…While It’s Still NYFW, The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Has Began To Amp Up The Hype [Grazia]
The annual televised event will feature Alessandra Ambrosio, Lily Aldridge, Candice Swanepoel, Behati Prinsloo, Karlie Kloss and Doutzen Kroes.

Looks like Pharrell Williams “got lucky,” thanks to the news that he’ll be designing a range of sunglasses for Moncler; he’ll also appear in their ad campaign. WWD reveals that the shades will be “halfway between futurism and ’50s style.” Sounds perf for his buddies Daft Punk. The new line will be presented in Paris on September 26th.