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Zac Posen Is Reportedly Designing Bella Swan’s Wedding Dress for Twilight; Courtney Love Is Having ‘Boy Problems’

Zac Posen is reportedly designing Bella Swan’s wedding dress in the final Twilight film. [Grazia UK]

• Levi’s is launching a new sustainable denim line, called WaterWWD]

• Courtney Love arrived at WWD’s 100th-anniversary party fifteen minutes after it ended because of “apartment problems” and “man problems.” She still insisted on posing on the red carpet in her Marchesa dress because “Marchesa would kill me otherwise.” [Page Six/NYP]

• David Hoey and Linda Fargo will be featured in a coffee-table book called Windows at Bergdorf Goodman, which chronicles the pair’s best window displays. [NYT]

Yves Saint Laurent co-founder Pierre Berge has taken over the troubled French newspaper Le Monde with three other partners. [WWD]

Victoria Beckham might become a U.S. citizen soon. [Vogue UK]

• Fashion photographer Tim Walker is directing a twenty-minute film starring 300 yellow canaries, and he also has a feature-length film in the works. [Style File/Style]

• JCPenney is testing its “Call It Spring” shop-in-shops, which feature shoes and bags co-designed by Aldo. [WWD]

Bottega Veneta is partnering with Swiss watchmaker Girard Perregaux on a unisex watch called BVX. [T/NYT]

Escada’s collections are 30 percent smaller than they were two years ago, and prices are 20 percent cheaper. The brand’s CEO, Bruno Sälzer, says, “We’ve become much more daywear oriented and easier to wear. We want a customer who wants us four times a week, not just three times a year for special occasions.” [WWD]

• After getting stuck in his studio Monday, Mark Ronson realized he wouldn’t make it to Agyness Deyn’s party, so he called Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow to step in and D.J. for him. [Page Six/NYP]

Zac Posen Is Reportedly Designing Bella Swan’s Wedding Dress for Twilight; Courtney Love Is Having ‘Boy Problems’