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Facebook app lets you be the next winner of 'Project Runway'

Just when you thought it was safe to take down your "Mad Men" avatar, MultiChannel News tells us of "Project Runway's" subtle reminder that its seventh season starts Jan. 14.

The show's 2010 Designer Darling Facebook app pulls those profile pics you've long forgotten about onto the covers of fictitious fashion magazines (somewhat surprising, considering "PR" judge Nina Garcia is fashion director at Marie Claire), complete with cover taglines telling how you conquered the catwalk. One glossy even opens to a story featuring "quotes" from your Facebook-friends-turned-industry-experts on this sudden stardom (my high school buddy Toby apparently thinks I'm "this season's hottest new designer").

Don't want to make it work with your make-your-own magazine layout? More activities and games are at myLifetime.com.

-- Whitney Friedlander

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Marni opens a spacey Las Vegas flagship

With store closings spreading like wildfire in Las Vegas, it's nice to hear some good news from Sin City's retail front. Italian designer label Marni has recently opened its first flagship boutique at Crystals, a swanky indoor/outdoor shopping center at the CityCenter.

The store's interiors were conceptualized by Marni designer Consuelo Castiglioni, in conjunction with architecture firm Sybarite. And the 800-square-foot shop is as singular as the brand's aesthetics -- boasting a massive glass-paneled facade and a surrealistic interior, defined by a curving floor surrounding a tree-like series of swooping metal racks that showcases the brand's current collection.

The shop's Dr. Suess-like spaciness doesn't end there. Undulating walls are marked by an alternating convex-concave "bubble" relief pattern, while fiberglass display cases house accessories and shoes. Mannequin bodies dolled up in Marni looks hang suspended from the ceiling like aliens -- albeit super-stylish ones -- dropping down to Earth.

--Emili Vesilind

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Photo: Marni's new Las Vegas outpost. Credit: Marni.

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Kings of Leon clothing line drops Jan. 25
Yesterday, our compatriots over at the Brand X blog vented about the latest in celebrity/fashion collaborations: a capsule clothing collection from the Grammy-winning Kings of Leon done in conjunction with Paris-based design agency Surface to Air.

Dubbed S2A x KOL, the 12-piece collection includes just about what you might expect from musician-designed and -influenced duds, including leather jackets, skinny-leg jeans, red check button-front shirts, guitar straps and a painfully hip fedora. Prices are expected to range from about $100 (for a bandana) to nearly $2,000 (for the leather jacket).

S2A x KOL is slated to hit select stores in the U.S. (including Barneys New York, Bblessing in New York City and online at Gargyle) on Jan. 25.

Since that's just a few days before the 52nd annual Grammy Awards -- and this year the group has been nominated in four categories -- I'll go out on a limb and guess we might see the members kitted out in some of their own threads during that Jan. 31 telecast.

-- Adam Tschorn

Photos: The 12-piece Surface to Air/Kings of Leon capsule clothing collection, dubbed S2A x KOL, includes a red check button-front shirt, above left, and a fedora, above right. The line will be available at select stores, including Barneys New York and Gargyle.com starting Jan. 25. Credit: Surface to Air

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L.A. artist Kimberly Brooks targets the style set in her latest show
Artist Kimberly Brooks has been in and around L.A.'s style scene for years -- as a painter, Web designer, fashion lover and Hollywood wife (she's hitched to Albert Brooks). So it makes perfect sense that she would choose some of the city's top style-makers as her latest artistic subjects.

"The Stylist Project," a series of oil paintings by Brooks of some of L.A.'s most well-known fashion names, will debut at the Taylor De Cordoba Gallery on Feb. 27 and run through April 3.

Among those who posed for Brooks -- in their own clothes -- were celebrity stylists Arianne Phillips, Rachel Zoe, Andrea Lieberman, Jessica Paster and Jeanne Yang, local retailers Rose Apodaca and Cameron Silver, New York Times Magazine stylist Elizabeth Stewart, "Mad Men" costume designer Janie Bryant and fellow artist/fashion maven Liz Goldwyn.

Brooks, who was unavailable for comment, according to her publicist, will debut Part 2 of "The Stylist Project" in spring 2011 -- featuring a who's who of New York-based style names, including Grace Coddington of Vogue, Joe Zee from Elle, Brana Wolf of Harper's Bazaar and Nina Garcia from Marie Claire and "Project Runway."

-- Emili Vesilind

Photo: A painting of stylist Elizabeth Stewart by Kimberly Brooks. Credit: Kimberly Brooks

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