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del.icio.us fashion links for March 2, 2009:

• Cathy Horyn — Talk to the Newsroom — The New York Times — Reader Questions and Answers – Question – NYTimes.com
  Cathy Horyn, fashion critic, answered questions from readers Feb. 23-27, 2009. To move directly to the most recent answer
• American Vogue's Anna Wintour said to be replaced by French counterpart
  Does it mean – a new era, Parisian invasion, smoking is officially allowed on the 17th floor of the 48-story tower of The Condé Nast Building?

  The era of "The Devil Wears Prada," rumored, is set to be ended in 2009. Anna Wintour, the Editor-in-Chief of American Vogue, is said to be replaced by the French counterpart, Carine Roitfeld, French Vogue Editor-in-Chief.

• Model Behaviors: How Did New York Fashion Week's 116 Shows Treat Models Of Color?
  Everyone's been talking about whether this season, designers and casting directors would be putting more faces of color in their runway lineups. Well! We have the facts and we're voting a qualified yes. Let's explore.
• Roberto Cavalli Sued for Trash-talking Ittierre — The Cut: New York Magazine's Fashion Blog
  Last week, Roberto Cavalli canceled his Just Cavalli runway show and staged an intimate presentation of just twenty outfits in his showroom. He said the production quality of the other half of the collection was sub-par, citing dissatisfaction with Ittierre, the licensing company that produces Just Cavalli and which went into bankruptcy last month. He nearly cried discussing the fate of his younger line and said he wasn't sure if the fall 2009 collection would even be produced.
• Heard on the Runway – WSJ.com : Jil Sander: A Collection to Make Models Weep
  So, when Heard on the Runway saw a young Lithuanian model named Auguste Abeliunaite make her first “exit” wearing a brown wool suit and fluorescent orange heels, tears streaming down her porcelain cheeks, we wondered at first whether this look wasn’t some sort of bizarre new makeup trend. (We admit it is a twisted testament to our understanding of the fashion industry that we even thought such a thing.)
• Italy Plans Fashion-Industry Bailout — The Cut: New York Magazine's Fashion Blog
  While the Obama administration cooks up (boring) bank and auto bailouts, Italy is planning a bailout of its fashion industry. Italian minister of economic development Claudio Scajola promised to present the "first interventions" to help Italy's fashion industry by the middle of the month.