Your morning fashion and beauty report: Andre Leon Talley explains how to dress for Oscars' red carpet, Britney Spears' new video rocks product placement

-- It's only a few more days till the Academy Awards and Vogue's editor at large Andre Leon Talley is hoping for a red carpet that's a bit riskier. "I get so tired of people on the red carpet wearing the same borrowed jewelry, same dress with train and a few little girls with messy hair," Talley told Martha Stewart on her daytime talk show Wednesday. "I want to see people like Cher. She came like she was on her way to Las Vegas. I want to see people who take risks with their Oscar dresses." Are you listening, Hollywood? [StyleList]

-- Britney Spears reportedly made about $500,000 on product placement in the video for "Hold it Against Me." How? In the video, we see her spritzing on her own Radiance perfume, and applying Makeup Forever cosmetics, for example. Sony and the dating site Plenty of Fish are among other featured-on-purpose brands. [StyleList]

-- Kate Moss has laid to rest speculation that she will design her own dress for her wedding to rocker Jamie Hince in July. She says she has asked John Galliano to create the gown. [Telegraph]

-- Keds have been a favorite on young feet for almost 100 years. Now the brand plans to venture into sportswear, with clothing aimed at the Millennials starting in spring 2012. [WWD] (Subscription required)

-- Gogosha Optique, a favorite in Silver Lake, plans to expand with a new shop slated to open on West 3rd Street in April. [Mondette] 

-- Christopher Kane is collaborating with Los Angeles based J Brand on a denim capsule collection for resort 2012. [WWD] 

-- Todd Snyder, formerly with Ralph Lauren and J Crew, plans to launch his own men's line for fall.  [WWD] (Subscription required) 

-- Susan Denley

Photo: Britney Spears, who indeed should be smiling because her new video rocks product placement to the tune of $500,000. Credit: Radek Pietruszka / EPA

Loomstate makes eco-friendly Keds

The colorful collection of Keds designed by Rogan Gregory and Scott Hahn for Loomstate hits Barneys on Monday. 

The shoes are eco-friendly with organic uppers and linings, nickel-free eyelets, recycled insole board and shoe boxes and no tissue paper in the packaging.  Also, a percentage of sales go to the Organic Exchange.

Keds by Loomstate are $75 and available at Barneys and Barneys.com

-- Melissa Magsaysay

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Earth Day 2009: Help the environment in style

Happy Earth Day! We here at the Los Angeles Times Image section know that desire drives fashion. But as the high cost of our wants becomes clear, some businesses are evolving with an eye to helping people and planet. The new vision? Here's a look at some local entrepreneurs who are bringing it to focus.

* Clothing designer Christina Kim weaves recycled materials as well as the work of artisans the world over into her eco-friendly, human-friendly Dosa fashions. Click here for more on Kim, and here for photos of her work.

* Pierre André Senizergues' Sole Technology, a successful Lake Forest-based skatewear company, is using eco-friendly technology and recycled materials in hopes of inspiring others to do the same. Here's more on him, and photos are here.

* Toms Shoes' entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie has, to date, given away 140,000 pairs of shoes in the U.S., Argentina, Ethiopia and South Africa. Read more about him here, or click here for photos.

* Local boutique The Way We Wore brings in designers to give flat frocks new chic (and fuel its Out of the Ordinary charity auction). More about that here, with photos here.

For more on eco-friendly fashions, including what to wear and what green-friendly online publications to bookmark, check out this package.

-- Times staff writers

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Photos: Top, Christina Kim. Credit: Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times; middle, Pierre André Senizergues. Credit:Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times; bottom: Blake Mycoskie.Credit: Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times

Keds launches Green label

Keds’, the shoe brand with the signature blue tag, has gone green. The company known for canvas oxfords has started an all-green line made from organic cotton, recycled rubber and toxic-free inks and dyes. Even the shoe boxes they come in are made from recycled paper.

Keds Green line hits stores March 25 and for every pair of shoes bought this year, Keds will plant a tree. Prices start at $55.

Now that the '80s are back in full swing, maybe people will be wearing their oxfords sans laces and with hot pink scrunch socks.

-- Melissa Magsaysay

Photo: Keds