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Vogue’s Tribute Editorial to Alexander McQueen; Jane Birkin’s Birkin Sold for $160,000

Photo: Steven Meisel for Vogue US

• Here are some of the images from the Alexander McQueen tribute editorial that Steven Meisel shot for this month’s Vogue, which runs alongside an interview with Sarah Burton. [Vogue.com]

• Oleg Cassini and Ralph Rucci will be added to the Fashion Walk of Fame on Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue this summer. [NYDN]

• Jane Birkin’s Hermès Birkin bag sold at a charity auction for over $160,000. The money goes to relief efforts in Japan, which makes such an otherwise obscene dollar amount okay. [InStyle]

• Joan Burstein, who is often credited with having “discovered” Galliano when she bought his entire collection for Browns in 1985, has some advice for what he should do next. Mainly, “go back to the basics.” [Vogue UK]

• Jewelry designer Young&ng made some $1,495 Swarovski crystal-encrusted yarmulkes, just in time for Passover. [Refinery29]

• Only in England: A man in Birmingham dressed up like a mannequin and posed outside a women’s bathroom in a mall so that he could take photos of unsuspecting women’s feet. [Racked]

Vogue’s Tribute Editorial to Alexander McQueen; Jane Birkin’s Birkin Sold for $160,000