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Stella McCartney to Make Vegan Shoes With Morrissey; Daisy Lowe Up For Model of the Year

Stella McCartney and Morrissey plan to make vegan footwear together. Finally, the void left by Natalie Portman shall be filled! [Racked]

Veronique Branquinho, who shut her eleven-year-old label this year in the face of the terrible economy, is still designing. Her men’s shoe collection for Camper hits stores in the U.S. in February. [WWD]

• British Fashion Award nominees are out. Georgia Jagger, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Daisy Lowe are pitched in a fierce battle for Model of the Year, an honor previously won by Jourdan Dunn, who is now pregnant. [Telegraph UK]

Catherine McNeil covers January’s Australian Vogue after being off the scene for a little while. [Models.com]

Karl Lagerfeld made over a SpongeBob SquarePants doll (by turning it gold and giving it fingerless gloves) for a recent charity auction. It fetched $1,500, the most of any item sold. [WWD]

• Not only did Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin shoot the spring Lanvin campaign, they starred in it, too. [WWD]

Stella McCartney to Make Vegan Shoes With Morrissey; Daisy Lowe Up For Model of the Year