Lauren Hutton’s Self-Defense Shoes: In a candid interview with Net-A-Porter’s digital magazine, The Edit, longtime model Lauren Hutton expresses her disdain for “silly shoes” and encourages women to use their footwear as a weapon with a special self-defense shoe test. “I see girls in New York who can’t run in their heels,” she said. “I used to live on the Bowery when it was crack city, and I’d never go out in heels unless I had done The Test: standing on one heel, whipping off the other and holding it up to someone’s head in three seconds.” [The Edit] 

Tatler’s Tit List: British society magazine Tatler has come under fire for a controversial spread in its May issue that rates the cleavage of English society swans. The three-page feature, titled “Titler,” includes well-known names like Helen Mirren, Pixie Geldof, and even Princess Eugenie. Feminist protesters have banded together on social media to protest the feature, launching a Facebook page and Twitter account called "No to Titler at Tatler," which states that “characterising respected women’s ‘tits’ is demeaning, degrading and will not be tolerated.’” [The Daily Mail]

Ladies—and, yes, gentlemen—are you nervous about your nipples? Anxious about your areolae? Is your left larger than your right? Is the right darker than the left? Is one too high? Is the other cracked? Or are they just too big, too bumpy, too smooth, or too small?

Time 100’s Fashion Stars: Time released its annual 100 Most Influential People list on Thursday, featuring a diverse array of world leaders, entertainment figures, and icons. Among them are designer Michael Kors, who was listed in the ‘Titans’ category, and J.Crew’s creative director Jenna Lyons, who is categorized as one of the list’s ‘Artists.’ [Time]

Hedi Slimane Sells: Hedi Slimane’s tumultuous first year at the helm of Saint Laurent has come under The New York Times’s review. Fashion reporter Eric Wilson explains that although Slimane’s designs have been widely panned by industry critics, that hasn’t stopped consumers from buying it at full price. He writes: “From PPR’s perspective, Mr. Slimane is doing exactly what the company wants, engaging in the commercial side of the business, including store design, and communicating directly with younger customers online.” [NYT]

Much has been written about the late Baroness Margaret Thatcher’s affinity for handbags. But the former prime minister, who was laid to rest Wednesday, has now posthumously affected sales for her favorite purse brand.

The Telegraph reports that in the wake of Thatcher’s death, British handbag brand Launer has experienced a 53 percent spike in the sales of its Bellini and Adagio styles—the Iron Lady’s preferred shapes. The brand unsurprisingly experienced its biggest surge on the morning of Thatcher’s funeral and the evening of her passing.

The legendary couturier Christian Lacroix will design a capsule haute couture collection of just 15 pieces for the soon-to-be-relaunched house of Schiaparelli, to be presented during couture week in Paris this July.

Italian businessman Diego Della Valle (the owner of Tod’s and Roger Vivier) has been on the hunt for a Creative Director for the house since he announced the relaunch of Schiaparelli last May, appointing ex-model and muse Farida Khelfa as a spokesperson not long afterwards (presumably in the hope that she would whet everyone’s appetites in the interim.)

Andy Cohen at CFDA's: Bravo executive and television host Andy Cohen has been tapped to host this year’s CFDA Awards at Lincoln Center on June 3. The reality TV enthusiast has some serious shoes to fill, as he’s been tasked with following in the footsteps of last year’s host, Seth Myers. [WWD]

More Fashion Magazine Blackface: Another fashion magazine has published an editorial featuring a Caucasian model in blackface makeup. Vogue Netherlands painted Dutch model Querelle Jansen’s in black makeup for a retrospective editorial spread of Marc Jacobs’s career. The makeup was used to help illustrate the African-American inspirations Jacobs looked to for his Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 collections. The photo’s caption reads “this collection is inspired by the style of the Parisian showgirl Josephine Baker, mixed with tribal influences.” [Fashionista]

Amid rumors that Rochas designer Marco Zanini would be appointed to helm Schiaparelli’s re-launch comes more news about the revival of the brand: French designer Christian Lacroix has been tapped to create a 15-piece couture collection as a “one-time tribute to Elsa Schiaparelli,” writes The New York Times’s Suzy Menkes. 

Lacroix has been missing from the design circuit since 2009, when his namesake label -- once famous for its flair for fine prints and Edwardian-era romance -- faced liquidation. He’s since channeled his colorful talents towards designing a paper goods line and creating costumes for ballet repertoires across Europe. 

Girls actress Jemima Kirke and jewelry designer Pamela Love locked lips in a new campaign for Stone Fox Bride, a new bridal company whose first made-to-order wedding dress collection is available this week. The brand, which was founded over a year ago by designer Molly Guy, features cool and down-to-earth wedding dresses for brides that like to, as its reads, “throw rugs on the lawn, saunter into City Hall, say I do during a backyard barbeque … Looking like a more radiant version of your regular self.” Their motto is, in fact, “Fuck Weddings.” The campaign—which was shot by Cass Bird—features the two downtown-cool girls in floral crowns. As Guy told The Daily Beast, her line is for women who “want to look like a bride and not feel like Vanna White,” or “a cupcake on steroids.” The starting price point for the collection is $2,500. 

Selena Gomez performed her new single “Come and Get It" at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night -- with a jeweled Bindi between her eyes. Unsurprisingly, the wardrobe choice has prompted some to lash out at her for unnecessary “cultural appropriation.”

“The bindi on the forehead is an ancient tradition in Hinduism and has religious significance,” Hindu statesman Rajan Zed told WENN. “It is also sometimes referred to as the third eye and the flame, and it is an auspicious religious and spiritual symbol….It is not meant to be thrown around loosely for seductive effects or as a fashion accessory aiming at mercantile greed.”

Beyoncé’s Sparkling Nipples: Beyoncé kicked off her Mrs. Carter world tour on Monday in Belgrade, Serbia. But the concert also debuted a whole other type of spectacle: Bey set the crowd on fire with a sparkling gold bodysuit that featured sequined trompe l’oeil nipples and abs. [The Cut]

Marco Zanini to Schiaparelli?: Marco Zanini, the designer who’s steered Rochas towards a quirky Parisian aesthetic since 2008, could possibly be defecting to Schiaparelli, sources tell WWD. The Schiaparelli label was acquired by Tod’s magnate Diego Della Valle in 2006. Re-launch rumors surrounding the storied brand have been swirling for the last year, with many rumors pointing to John Galliano as its likely creative lead. Those whispers have since quieted down, with Zanini now appearing to be the front runner, even though, “the exact nature of his role could not be determined,” via WWD’s intel. The paper reports that Della Valle has plans to re-launch the label in mid-2013. [WWD]

It’s rare that the worlds of art and ice skating collide. But here’s a window into the world of skating unlike any we’ve seen before: American figure skater Sasha Cohen, 28, is the focus of a beautiful new film on Nowness, out Tuesday. In it, the skater (who has won gold at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and silver at the Winter Olympics and the World Figure Skating Championships) reflects on the impact skating has had on her life. Cohen, who wears a Nina Ricci dress in the film, glides around a darkened rink—and walks on Columbia University’s campus, where she is a student. “A couple minutes on the ice will change the rest of your life,” she says. “Nothing will be the same after depending on how you perform.” 

Daft Punk for Saint Laurent: Hedi Slimane has already tapped '90s-era icons Marilyn Manson and Courtney Love for its new black-and-white ad campaign, and now legendary EDM duo Daft Punk is getting the Saint Laurent treatment as well. In a new video and corresponding stills online, the band's two members, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, are pictured in Saint Laurent’s black glitter “Le Smoking” jackets wearing their signature robot-style masks. It's not the first time Daft Punk has collaborated with the designer -- the group composed the soundtrack for Slimane's Saint Laurent runway debut last season. [Highsnobiety]