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Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

• "You may think I am high maintenance, but I assure you, the attention is worth it," Choupette Lagerfeld writes in the infamous diary her two maids keep detailing her every move. "Even my fur balls are glossy." [Grazia]
  

• Lady Gaga has sided with Oscar de la Renta in his tiff with fashion critic Cathy Horyn. "Bravo Oscar," the singer tweeted. "Only you would be so chic as to purchase an entire page in WWD, making statements like a good fashion citizen." [Styleite]
  

• Mugler creative director Christophe de Lataillade has revealed the secrets behind campaigns for the house's iconic fragrance Angel — including the set that nearly burned a model's flesh. [The Cut]
  

• Calvin Klein's ex-boyfriend Nick Gruber has accused the fashion icon of paying private eyes to "stalk" him and his new boyfriend, animator John Luciano. "Calvin can hire goons to follow John and me all he wants — we have nothing to hide. I've moved on. I've never been happier." [Page Six]
  

• Hedi Slimane will unveil his new Saint Laurent Paris store concept when he opens a store in Shanghai next week. The design, involving a lot of dark stone and mirrored surfaces, references the French art deco and Union des Artistes Modernes movements. [WWD]
  

• Versace has opened another store, too — online. Customers in Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France can now buy the house's wares through a new ecommerce site. [Versace]
  

• Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet has been appointed chairwoman of the British Fashion Council, succeeding its leader of five years, Harold Tillman. [The Independent]
  
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This one's for all the rabid fans of Thierry Mugler Angel, the cotton-candy-caramel-vanilla juggernaut that launched the entire gourmand fragrance genre. This year, the brand decided to create a fancy little stocking stuffer, the Angel Solid Perfume Ring, which is silver plated and encrusted with diamantes. It's a little bigger and bolder than I might go, but I'd be surprised if it didn't sell out when it hits Saks Fifth Avenue shelves later this month. Would you be pleased to receive one of these, or would you rather just get a nice bottle of the stuff?

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• Warning: the trailer for I Love You Phillip Morris is NSFW — HitFix
• Zoolander to spawn a series of animated digital shorts online — MTV Movies Blog
• Glee's Naya Rivera shares her secrets to staying fit — FitSugar
• Angel alums team with the writer of The Vampire Diaries for new series — TV Squad
• 5 insider tidbits from Green Lantern — Moviefone
• Patton Oswalt is developing a new comedy for Fox — Cinema Blend
• Meg Ryan, 50 Cent, and Kat Dennings join Lives of the Saints — Collider
• Favorite TV parents! — TV.com

Chris Han, one of the subjects for our pre-fashion week video series, showed her A/W 08 collection in the tents last night. Angelic images served as inspiration for the collection and if it were someone else, you might expect weightless frocks and feathered headbands. Han, though, presented a collection that was angelic in a darker, more classical sense. The pieces, a dusty plum transparent shell top, a pair of sleek wool trousers, a stained glass yellow blouse, came together to create a collection that was more dynamic than one would expect to come from angels (though not from Han). Though some textures where particularly high fashion most of the collection was wearable and accessible.