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Just for Kanye: Kim Kardashian Wears ‘KW’ Earrings

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Some celebrities confirm relationships with a kiss, but Kim Kardashian isn’t always one to play by the rules.

The reality starlet — still mum on her rumored romance with Kanye West — wore simple gold “KW” earrings while arriving at Los Angeles International Airport Sunday, possibly giving a silent statement of her own. (She completed the look with a Rachel Roy coat, vintage Gianfranco Ferré sunglasses and a Céline necklace.)

Kardashian, who spent the weekend in New York and was spotted out with West, was first linked to the rapper in early April. Though she lives in L.A., she’s made two trips to New York recently, joining West for lunch several times — and even catching a showing of The Hunger Games with him earlier in the month.

Kardashian is expected back in New York on Monday; wonder if she’ll wear any West-inspired jewelry this time around?

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Which of Olivia Wilde’s Weekend Looks Is Your Favorite?

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Olivia Wilde was one busy lady this weekend, popping up at two Tribeca Film Festival premieres in New York.

On Saturday, the actress hit the carpet for the Help Wanted premiere, wearing a lacy black Prada dress with a yellow bodice paired with Aperlai’s red leather and suede “Spoky” pumps. Her recently dyed hair was pulled back into a pretty updo.

Sunday, Wilde resurfaced for a screening of her film Deadfall wearing a black peplum dress with a deep-V neckline, plus chunky black Brian Atwood sandals and Adina Reyter jewels. The movie, which costars Eric Bana, focuses on two siblings on the run after their casino job goes wrong.

The Tribeca Film Festival runs through April 29, and there are still tons of films to screen — and we can’t wait to see what Wilde (and other stylish stars) wear next. But in the meantime, tell us: Which of Wilde’s weekend looks is your favorite?

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Browns bounty

We can't get these crafty bracelets (Dezso by Sara Beltrán) and beautiful hand-embroidered literary clutches (by Olympia Le-Tan) out of our heads since seeing them at Browns last week.

Why Following Trends Makes Thandie Newton’s Palms Sweat

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Thandie Newton’s fashion icons run the gamut from her mother to Jimi Hendrix, which in part explains her eclectic sense of style. But an aversion to trends is another element of the star’s one-of-a-kind aesthetic.

“The idea of following trends makes my palms sweaty,” she tells PEOPLE. “I think that we have all these wonderful things available, [and] you have to find whatever speaks to you in terms of style — something that allows you to then speak to the world.”

For Newton, that means everything from Monique Lhuillier gowns and Stella McCartney dresses to T-shirts and yes, even Birkenstocks. “I have a gold pair that I’ve had like for the last decade,” she admits.

But she obviously has an eye for fashion; the actress styles herself (“I’ll find the dresses [for events],” she says) and often does her own hair and makeup for the red carpet. “If my favorites are busy, or I’m in another country and they’re not around, I’m doing my own,” she shares.

However, in her everyday life, Olay spokeswoman Newton — a mom of two — is a bit less glam. “If I’m getting ready for the school run and I look in the mirror and I just look exhausted, I will get some Julie Hewett cheek rogue,” she admits. “I’ll put that on the apples of my cheeks to make it look as though I’ve had a wonderful run in the morning — even though I haven’t!” For more with Newton, pick up the April 23 issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now.

–Reporting by Pamela Edwards-Christiani

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Is It All About The Red Carpet?

The Vogue Festival's final session was about the power of the red carpet - so stylist Rachel Zoe, actress Joely Richardson, prolific red carpet photographer Richard Young and vintage dealer William Banks-Blaney made up the perfect panel.

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Unsurprisingly, everyone wanted to know which red carpet look Zoe was most proud of having created throughout her career.

"Picking your favourite look is like picking your favourite child! I get so emotionally attached to each one," she said. "Anne Hathaway at the Venice Film Festival 2008 was a really good one. She wore an Atelier Versace celadon green gown and she looked just like the quintessential movie star. Literally - I gasped for air."

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However, speaking from the perspective of someone who has walked red carpets for 18 years, Joely Richardson offered up an example of a dress choice regret.

"When I first appeared on the red carpet there weren't really stylists. The English actresses were quite humiliated really - we had a reputation for dressing badly," said Richardson. "I once wore a Matthew Williamson peacock feather dress and in the photographs the colours on the feathers didn't come out so they looked black - I looked like I was wearing cobwebs! It was one of those moments where you say 'what was I thinking!'"

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Also on the discussion agenda were knickers and nipples - or rather their unwelcome appearance in post-event photographs.

"One of the things I'm most militant about is proper undergarments. Dress transparency can be a real issue!" said Zoe. "I photograph my clients in their dresses from the front, from the back, from the side, inside, outside, under hot lights... it needs to be an outfit that looks good from all angles and where potential disasters are kept to a minimum."

But Young had a story about a famous situation where underwear barely came into the equation.

"Four days before the Four Weddings and a Funeral premiere I got a phone call from Versace. They said: 'Elizabeth Hurley is going to be wearing a very special dress on the red carpet and we'd suggest that you stand to her right and you'll get a much better picture than the left, as Hugh Grant will be standing on the left'" Young explained. "And of course she was wearing that dress held together entirely by safety pins and ended up on every front page all over the world. That was a money shot, if ever there was one."

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Banks-Blaney's favourite red carpet memories were unsurprisingly of actresses wearing vintage gowns, from Natalie Portman in 1954 Dior Couture at the 2012 Oscars, to Julia Roberts in vintage Valentino at the 2001 Academy Awards: "It's nice when you just feel an actress is truly happy to be wearing something - when it's a Givenchy dress that's actually by Hubert de Givenchy. It's pretty amazing when an actress can wear a dress that's older than she is."

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And Zoe was quick to speak up in praise of the vintage dealer.

"I've been to William's shop and it's amazing. I thought I was just visiting to meet this nice guy, but we were there for over six hours. My son took a nap, Rodger and I had about five espressos each, I got stuck in the basement for hours - I swear to God, his buy is incredible. I don't think I've ever bought so many pieces in any shop at any one time."

And the session ended with a vote on the audience's favourite red carpet gown, with Gwyneth Paltrow's Tom Ford number - worn to the 2012 Oscars - emerging as a clear winner.

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"I had the privilege of being in the room when she was putting it on - prior to the event," Zoe said. "It was even better in real life - it was perfection." 

Ask The Models

Four of the world's most famous model stars, Natalia Vodianova,  Jourdan Dunn, Eva Herzigova and  Lily Cole, took their seats on the Vogue Festival stage this afternoon to huge rounds of applause from the audience - for a Q&A about their lives. Conversation was remarkably frank as Cole revealed how staying at school was a "saving grace", Dunn spoke about her acting ambitions, and Herzigova discussed how "this job is about other people having opinions about you - it's always someone else's point of view".

"One of the problems I had with modelling was that I could never direct my path - it's difficult being part of trends," added Cole.

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"I think I always have to do what my heart tells me and find something that suits me," said Vodianova.

"I've learnt to accept my flaws - I hated being skinny and lanky growing up," recalled Dunn of her younger years. "I think I'm fine so I've decided that no one can tell me otherwise. OK I'm skinny - what's next, let's move on!"

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The group also discussed dieting, health and their respective exercise routines.

"The only diet I have ever done is the blood type diet - I have done it for five years now," said Vodianova. "The big contracts go to the girls who are healthy - they need to have a sparkle in their eyes and you can't fake that if you're unhealthy."

"I run once a year - I do the marathon for my charity," she added. "I don't train, I just make sure my children are the other side of the finishing line so I won't give up. But I change my mind with these things, once I did yoga every day for a whole year. When the year came to an end I was very happy to stop."

Dunn revealed she has recently employed a personal trainer - "kickboxing is fun!" - whilst Herzigova said she has been to a yoga class "twice".

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And as part of the original Nineties supermodel line-up, Herzigova remarked that the industry has changed since she first made the model big-time.

""It's a different time now - [the supermodel phenomenon] was a trend," she said. "The woman was much more feminine then, and we took longer to build up our careers. Modelling is very much based on experience."

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"I think our whole culture puts values on an ideal image and people have to find their own true value of what's important," continued Cole.

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Customised It

A panel of London's coolest (and arguably most handsome), designers gathered today to reveal the results of part two of The Vogue Festival's customisation project and - in the style of the M&S ad - this wasn't just customisation, this was Vogue customisation.

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Wardrobe mistress for the event, Vogue market editor Emma Elwick-Bates unveiled four very different garments that had been deconstructed from a simple grey American Apparel sweatshirt and imbued with the designers' respective signature aesthetics.

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DAVID KOMA

"At first I didn't want to customise it, I really liked it! But then I thought, 'ok, how would I do a sweatshirt?' I wanted to do a piece with a waistline - because that hourglass shape is really important to my designs - and the sheer sleeves and eyelets came later. We added leather trims too."

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JW ANDERSON

"I love grey track tops - I love a full grey look. It's such a classic garment, so I just cut it simply and made it halter-necked and open at the back, inspired by the idea of the Festival. Customisation feels really relevant, because design is always a reinvention of something."

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JAMES LONG

"I turned the sweatshirt inside out because for me that fabric has a more interesting feeling; sort of like sheepskin. Then I quilted it and added the knit sleeves to make a sort of gym-friendly biker jacket. It's Juicy Couture James Long."

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CHRISTOPHER RAEBURN

"This project is basically exactly what I've been doing for ten years: taking garments and giving them new life by reworking them. A lot of the work I do is about eliminating waste, so when Emma gave us two sweatshirts - one to practice on - we wanted to use all of the fabric for whatever we made. We added the pink fabric that we had in the studio and used up every piece of the sweatshirts on the jacket underneath. Every season we use up offcuts to make animals - like a fox or a badger, a British animal - so for this project we made a dog."

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Tom Ford Talking

Tom Ford was his usual charming self in conversation with Alexandra Shulman today at The Vogue Festival, in partnership with Vertu, joking through discussion of his film, fashion and beauty empires.

"The first thing I ever saw my name on was a pair of sunglasses in about 2005. Before that my name had always been attached to a label, so that really meant something to me," his said of his eponymous line, which he later described as "couture-like" in style.

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Describing himself as a "perfectionist to the point of insanity," he revealed that he tests out his entire beauty collection himself: "I put every single thing on - I don't wear it down the street, but I want to see how it covers, how it works. When you put your name on something, you want people to know you believe in it."

Similarly, Ford revealed that his appearance in many of his own advertising campaigns is not due to a desire to be photographed - "in fact I'm very shy" - but rather to further cement the personality of his brand.

"I'm the face of the brand. With Chanel, you feel that Karl Lagerfeld's personality has really melded with Coco's -  but not everyone knows yet who I am, so that's why I'm in the pictures. I don't like having my picture taken but it helps people to respond," he said. "My real life's not like the fantasy Tom Ford world - with naked girls pouring perfume everywhere. It's more staying in and watching Friends on television."

Yes, Ford does know how to relax - he spent his 50th birthday white water rafting in the middle of nowhere: "I like to do things that challenge me. Plus, nature is totally perfect but absolutely imperfect. I'm not there to try to redesign a tree, so it's restful for me. That's how I wanted to spend my 50th birthday - in the middle of nowhere."

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The designer also discussed the intimate presentations he uses to show his womenswear collections: "The reason I present in a small controlled way is that so much of what makes my clothes special is the cut, the stitching, the lining - things that would be lost on the catwalk. On the catwalk you have to exaggerate, almost."

Keeping the crowd entertained throughout, he even turned the tables on Shulman. When she commented on how open he was about his sexuality he retorted: "have you ever slept with a woman?" A prompt response of "no" was accompanied by giggles from both the Vogue editor and the audience.

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David Bailey

When Vogue's features director Jo Ellison talked with photographer David Bailey this afternoon - a man she described as "the very definition of a modern legend" - we wondered what the meeting of the two ferociously intelligent, perceptive minds would bring us. Cheeky and charming as ever, Bailey smirked and touched her knee as she introduced him, leaving us in no doubt about the fun that was to follow.

From anecdotes of his "miserable" school days beset by undiagnosed and misunderstood dyslexia, to his subsequent education - "the only thing they can't teach you at art school is art" - Bailey moved on to talk about his early career.

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"John Parsons, the gay art director at Vogue, really started my career," he said. "I think he just liked a bit of rough. He wasn't snobby like Cecil. I mean, I was always a big fan of Cecil - but he was the most terrible middle-class snob."

"And Lord Lichfield," he said, shaking his head slowly. "I mean, he only got into Vogue because he was a Lord. It wasn't his fucking photographic skills, anyway. Nice guy, but he was visually blind."

Inevitably, where Bailey is involved, the talk turned to women and - among stories of Jean Shrimpton and Penelope Tree - Bailey was keen to put paid to one recurring rumour.

"That myth of Bailey making models cry," he said dismissively. "I mean, they were usually lovers," he said by way of explanation, before adding of his wife of over 30 years, Catherine: "I'm crazy about her. More crazy now than I was 30 years ago. She's had an enormously grounding effect on me. She's the second best thing that's ever happened to me."

And the first?

"Being born, of course," he deadpanned.

But he did spare a few words for men alongside tales of seducing beautiful women.

"He's a good-looking guy," he said of Aneurin Bernard - who played him in a recent BBC adaptation, alongside Karen Gillan as Jean Shrimpton. "I'd rather sleep with him than her. I don't know why they didn't get a model to play Jean. They said 'models can't act' and I thought, 'I know, so why not get a model to play a model?'"

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Adding about his male friends: "My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them."

Amid moments of pertinent observation and sage advice - "colour distracts you, with black and white you go straight to the image" and "I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it" - there were some moments of pure Bailey magic.

"I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies," he said. "They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything."

"Do you think they didn't understand you?" Ellison enquired.

"No," Bailey replied. "I think they were stupid."

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