Irina Lazareanu

Irina Lazareanu said that after Sonia Rykiel's show, she is officially retired. [Style.com via Fashionista]

On an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl, Taylor Momsen's character, Jenny Humphrey, will put on her own fashion show and Nine West is providing the grunge-style shoes that will go on sale on the company's Web site the same night the episode airs. [Fashionista]

Karl Lagerfeld didn't concern himself with silly things like the credit crunch as he put together his Chanel show this year. [Vogue UK]  read more »

Sofia Coppola will design a line of handbags and shoes for Louis Vuitton. [WWD]  

Model Irina Lazareanu has been tapped to be the face of Tiffany & Co. And Nylon darling Cory Kennedy is reportedly working out a deal with Dr. Martens. [WWD]  

Marie Claire got only two seats at the Givenchy show--reserved for Joanna Coles and Nina Garcia--while Harper's Bazaar editors took up a large chunk of the front row. [FWD]  

At the Fendi show in Paris on Saturday, Alice Dellal, Daisy Lowe and Pixie Geldof (younger sister of Peaches) will be in charge of the music. [WWD]   read more »

Irina Lazareanu is sitting in the front rows of Fashion Week but not walking in shows because she's still working on an album with Sean Lennon. [WWD]

Ashley Olsen almost fell! [The Cut] 

The low end of high-end fashion is doing really well in the slumping economy. [WSJ] 

Designer Anya Hindmarch handed out something titled Anya Hindmarch’s Little Book of Fashion Week Puzzles to editors who came to her presentation on Wednesday. Inside were puzzles with hints like “Graydon Carter’s firstborn” and “editor host of Stylista.” [WWD]  read more »

Meet Irina Lazareanu, a 25-year-old Canadian model and, more famously, Karl Lagerfeld’s main muse. Admittedly, this clip is kind of mesmerizing. She makes getting ready to go out look like a total blast—far more appealing than the Van Cleef and Arpels party where she ends up getting her groove on anyway. It’s easy to see why Ms. Lazareanu has made such a splash in the fashion world. She is a striking multi-tasker on a stylish vengeance. For one thing, she can D.J. and dance around her apartment at the same time. Even more, she knows how to pick out the perfect $1.45 million diamond necklace to go with her emerald Zac Posen dress.

At the clip’s climax, Ms. Lazareanu fans herself in the back of a kitted-out stretch limo—around the time her hair starts “falling apart”—and tells the blotto fellow slouched beside her about the time she met Leonard Cohen in Paris. In fact, she says, Mr. Cohen, a fellow Canadian, is the reason she started writing. “I literally hyperventilated, and I never do that with anybody!” she tells her disinterested pal. More than a mere writer-muse-model-dancing-D.J., Ms. Lazareanu is also a musician. Having reportedly worked with Pete Doherty and Kate Moss on a Babyshambles tune in the past, she is currently working on a duet album with Sean Lennon.