• While discussing her brand expansion in China, Diane von Furstenberg said, “I love being here, and really truly, if I were younger, I would live here.” [WSJ]
• Forget Francesca Eastwood! Emma Hill, creative director of Mulberry, says Hermès sets its own bags on fire: “A friend who was working at Hermès said that if there was even the most minor imperfection on a bag they would take it out the back and burn it — no compromise.” [Telegraph UK]
• Rianne ten Haken splashes in the sea for Vogue Netherlands’ July/August 2012 cover, photographed by Petrovsky & Ramone. [Fashion Gone Rogue]
• A New York federal court reduced Marc Fisher’s payout to Gucci by $1.5 million. He now owes $456,183, instead of $1.9 million. [WWD]
• Thierry Mugler sold his 4,000-square-foot penthouse (that’s two bedroom, two and a half baths) in Chelsea for $7.89 million. He purchased the pied-à-terre in 2005 for $4.5 million and mainly lives in Paris. [Observer]
• In the documentary About Face: Supermodels Then and Now, China Machado says she was paid $100 a month — and was the highest-paid model in Europe — when she was working in the fifties. [Fashionista]
• Here are all of the ads for Gisele Bündchen’s second intimates collection. [Fashion Gone Rogue]
• Kate Bosworth is curating a sale for Gilt Groupe this Friday. [Gilt]
• Cynthia Rowley created a four-piece collection for Tweezerman. [WWD]
