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Your morning fashion and beauty report: Style advice for Snooki. Shoes and accessories to the retail industry’s rescue. Target shows off the goodies for fall

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Instant celebrity via reality TV does NOT impart instant style. Take Snooki of ‘Jersey Shore’ fame -- she could use a dose of Proenza Schouler. [WWD]

I went shoe shopping this weekend and bought seven pairs of shoes, one pair of boots for my daughter and for myself, and one purse). Turns out I’m in the vanguard: Accessories are helping the retail industry regain its footing; sales increased 20% in the first quarter of this year. [WWD] (subscription required)

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And as if she knew accessories are all the rage, Ivanka Trump is launching a line of handbags. [People]

Jones apparel group has inked a licensing deal with Inter Parfums USA for Nine West fragrances. [WWD] (subscription required)

Word’s out that Orlando Bloom quietly married model girlfriend Miranda Kerr, but details so far are secret. Of course the one thing we want to know is: What’d she wear? [People]

Polo has been on my mind since reading Adam Tschorn’s interview with Black Watch captain Nacho Figueras (who is also the face of Ralph Lauren Polo fragrances) [Los Angeles Times], so it was a treat to see what people were wearing at the Cartier International Day at Guards Polo Club in Windsor Great Park. In game action, England drubbed New Zealand; in fashion action, former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell wore a blue bandage minidress. [Telegraph]

Target’s ‘look book’ for its fall accessories shows covetable leopard pumps, colorful scarves, a chunky leaf necklace and more that will make it easy to slide into autumn fashionably. [FabSugar]

Just call them R-Pants: Marks & Spencer’s new line of slim-fit underwear for men in the U.K. was inspired by ‘Twilight’s’ Robert Pattinson. [Guardian]

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Now that Ms. Lohan is incarcerated, ‘Free Lindsay’ T-shirts, totes and even thong underwear has been showing up on websites including Amazon.com. [StyleList] (I think the R-Pants would be a better investment.)

-- Susan Denley

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