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Noémie Lenoir Back to Work; Karlie Kloss Got the Fall Aquascutum Campaign

• Noémie Lenoir is working again after her reported suicide attempt last month. [Fashionologie]

• Karlie Kloss stars in the fall 2010 Aquascutum campaign with Matt Benstead, Jacob Coupe, and Tristan Knights. [Vogue UK]

• Uniqlo’s collaboration with Velvet hit shelves this week. [Style File/Style.com]

• Preen designed the uniforms for Bungalow 8 in London. Next up, the designers say they’d like to do a kids’ line. Baby Preen!! [Vogue UK]

• Taylor Lautner appears on the cover of GQ’s July issue. His spread is just okay until you get to the photo of him flipping headfirst over a car. [Fashion Indie]

Diane Von Furstenberg collaborated with Springs Global on a line of tabletop, bedding, and bath items. The collection will hit stores in January. [WWD]

• Tory Burch in defense of flats: “Flats, after all, have been in style for millennia. Consider the flip-flop. One could argue that the flip-flop is a stripped-down, rubberized version of something the Egyptian pharaohs and queens wore thousands of years ago. Among the myriad after-life riches archeologists discovered in Tutankhamun’s tomb were several pairs of flat shoes. The boy king himself was found wearing sandals that are, in essence, flip-flops. Of course, King Tut’s are pure gold.” [HuffPo]

• More retailers are attaching Facebook “like” buttons to items for sale online, further clogging our news feeds. [WWD]

Noémie Lenoir Back to Work; Karlie Kloss Got the Fall Aquascutum Campaign