• Sonia Rykiel has named April Crichton as the label’s new creative director. [WWD]

• Ungaro will purposely avoid hiring a new designer for a while, instead proceeding with a design team to help focus the brand's image. [WSJ]

• Karen Elson is on the new cover of Italian Vogue. [Design Scene]

• In response to the yesterday’s amusing viral e-mail from a customer service rep at an Australian clothing store to a disgruntled customer, an Australian news show panelist summed up the story: “People who work in fashion are wankers.” [ONTD]

• Karl Lagerfeld has a new project out with Hogan to showcase his new collection for the label. It’s basically a catalogue, but he’s referring to it as a 32-page book (of models wearing the newly designed clothes). [WWD]

• Racked has a tipster reporting that Catherine Malandrino’s NYC store employees haven’t been paid in weeks, due to the label’s financial woes. [Racked]

• Anna Dello Russo makes a cameo appearance in this video for a Giorgio Armani collection, and she plays backgammon against Karolina Kurkova. [Beauty Counter Blog]

• Tired of too-tight do-rags that left marks on his forehead, a Harlem resident designed an alternative with a Velcro fastening, for a more comfortable fit. This new product is called the TsuRag. [NYDN]

• Man Repeller blogger Leandra Medine says she’s earned $10,000 in the last two months thanks to an affiliate program she’s recently signed up for. [Fashionologie]

• Tenuously fashion-related, but still of note: To avoid paparazzi in Brazil, Ke$ha wore a plushie shark on her face. [Us]

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