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Tyra Banks Likes to Howl; Brightly Dyed Sheep Are Frolicking Around London

• The Guardian on Tyra Banks: “When Banks presents a show, it stays presented. She usually makes her entrance in dramatic fashion and barely takes a breath before the eye-boggling, eyelash fluttering and howling begins. Her presenting style swings between dreamily gazing one minute, followed by savaging a contestant the next.” [Guardian UK]

• Kim Kardashian is interviewing potential employees for her family’s soon-to-open Soho boutique, Dash. [Racked NY]

Alexander Wang is rumored to be working on a collaboration with Nike. [Fashionologie]

• Brightly dyed sheep are frolicking around London in celebration of the city’s first Wool Week. [WWD]

• Cathy Horyn hung out with Alexander Wang and Simon Le Bon at Azzedine Alaïa’s studio, where the designer is working on black python skirts. [WWD]

• Net-a-Porter has bought discount e-tailer Koodos, and it plans to use the site’s customer database for its spinoff business, The Outnet. [Vogue UK]

• Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders is collaborating with South Korean label Bean Pole on a lower-priced clothing line. [Racked]

• Hedi Slimane made a film called “I Love USA,” featuring a cello-playing werewolf and a cheerleader. [Corner]

• Kate Spade is opening a pop-up shop in London, where she will test the waters of the European market. [WWD]

• Maidenform’s Fat Free Dressing by Flexees line and Times Three’s Yummie Tummie brand are suing each other over a design patent. [StyleList]

Tyra Banks Likes to Howl; Brightly Dyed Sheep Are Frolicking Around London