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Pamela Anderson to Walk for Vivienne Westwood; Oscar Jewelry Already Sold

• Pamela Anderson will walk Vivienne Westwood’s show in Paris next Friday! She also stars in Westwood’s spring 2009 campaign and was a smash hit on Richie Rich’s catwalk for New York Fashion Week. [British Vogue]

Valentino chairman Matteo Marzotto and Marni CEO Gianni Castiglioni bought fashion label Vionnet. Rodolfo Paglialunga, who’s worked at Prada for twelve years, has been named creative director, and new designs will bow in early June. [Fashionologie]

• People have already bought some of the jewelry celebrities wore to the Oscars. Fred Leighton said it received inquiries about Amy Adams’s necklace, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, within 48 hours of its red-carpet debut. [WWD]

• Are you ready for Diesel furniture? Because it debuts in April. [WWD]

• Just in case you don’t know enough about Michelle Obama’s clothes by now, here’s a sneak peek inside the book about her style, Michelle Style: Celebrating the First Lady of Fashion. [Slaves to Fashion/Glamour]

Pamela Anderson to Walk for Vivienne Westwood; Oscar Jewelry Already Sold