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Swaim and Christina Hutson Design Together Again; Madonna and Lourdes Debut Mom and Daughter Dolce & Gabbana

• Former Obedient Sons & Daughters designers Swaim and Christina Hutson are working together again. Last season Swaim started designing Generra; this season Christina will help him do that. [Style File/Style.com]

• The British department store House of Fraser acquired the rights to Biba and is planning to revive the label for the fall 2010 season under the name Biba Collection for House of Fraser. [WWD]

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana make cameos as priests in the new movie Nine. [StyleWatch/People]

• Speaking of, Dolce & Gabbana’s new face, Madonna, wore the label, as did her daughter Lourdes, to the premiere of Nine last night in New York. [Just Jared]

Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Amy Astley filmed a cameo for Gossip Girl. [WWD]

• Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott shot Dree Hemingway for the spring 2010 Valentino campaign. [Modelinia]

• Kendall Jenner, the 14-year-old half-sister of Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe Kardashian, stars in the new campaign for Forever 21. Sounds so right and yet so wrong. [StyleWatch/People]

Swaim and Christina Hutson Design Together Again; Madonna and Lourdes Debut Mom and Daughter Dolce & Gabbana