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Your morning fashion and beauty report: Phoebe Philo, Alexa Chung, Naomi Campbell among honorees at British Fashion Awards

By Susan Denley
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Phoebe Philo, creative director of Celine, was named designer of the year at the British Fashion Awards on Tuesday. Alexa Chung (above, left, with Taylor Momsen at a previous event) nabbed the award for British Style, and Alexander McQueen was recognized for Outstanding Achievement in Fashion Design. Other winners were Mulberry, for designer brand; Nicholas Kirkwood for accessory designer; Patrick Grant of E. Tautz for menswear designer; Meadham Kirchhoff for emerging talent in ready-to-wear; and Husam El Odeh for emerging talent, accessories. Nicola Formichetti won the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator. This year, two new awards were added: Naomi Campbell won the Special Recognition Award for her 25-year career, and Burberry walked off with the Digital Innovation Award. [WWD]

Please, Barbie, no, not the Meat Dress! Hard as it is for me -- a lover of Barbie and hater of the Meat Dress -- to imagine, there was the supermodel doll decked out in several Lady Gaga looks from 2010, including the most infamous. We owe it all to Entertainment Weekly, which set up a photo gallery online with the doll styled as the outre entertainer. (They used dental floss to keep the meat booties from falling off Barbie’s tiny feet.)

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Fashion “It” girl Blake Lively and Karl Lagerfeld seem to have a mutual admiration going on and Tuesday it was announced that the “Gossip Girl” star will appear in a new Chanel advertising campaign. [FabSugar]

John Galliano, in New York for the reopening of Dior’s flagship on 57th Street, loves the diversity of today’s fashion, is a little dubious about online shopping and says never, ever take a friend with you on a serious shopping trip. “Because she’s only shopping for herself...the last person she’s thinking of is you,” he tells fashion writer Bridget Foley. [WWD]

Speaking of openings, Donna Karan is opening her Collections store at the upscale Crystals at CityCenter in Las Vegas any minute now. [WWD] (Subscription required.)

Vera Wang plans to launch a cosmetics line at Kohl’s. [WWD] (Subscription required.)

--Susan Denley

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Susan Denley

Susan Denley is a former contributor to the All the Rage blog, associate features editor and editor of the Image section, which covers fashion, style, beauty – and their intersection with Hollywood and California culture. Over a career spanning four newspapers and two coasts, she’s been responsible for a wide variety of features and hard news beats as a reporter, editor or department manager. Denley left The Times in 2015.

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