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Geraldine Chaplin stars in Karl Lagerfeld’s short Chanel film

Geraldine Chaplin, portraying Coco Chanel on a mirrored staircase in "The Return," a film written and directed by Karl Lagerfeld.
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Geraldine Chaplin plays designer Coco Chanel circa 1950 in a 30-minute film Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld has made to show before he presents the label’s Paris-Dallas Métiers d’Art collection in Dallas on Dec. 10. [WWD]

People magazine named Adam Levine of “The Voice” and Maroon Five as its “Sexiest Man Alive.” He has some fashion cred too. He’s engaged to Victoria’s Secret model Behati Prinsloo and also launched a clothing collection at Kmart. [People]

Armani posted an Instagram photo of actress Alfre Woodard -- but initially captioned it as being actor Idris Elba. Oops. The mistake was quickly corrected, but the Twitterverse reacted energetically with tweets hashtagged #ArmaniCaptions. [Huffington Post]

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An attorney hired by Barneys New York to investigate allegations of racial profiling of customers found that none of the store’s employees asked police to detain the two customers, who in separate incidents were detained and questioned by police after making expensive purchases. [WWD]

Queen Sofia of Spain, designer Oscar de la Renta and Kim Kardashian were among the notables who attended the kickoff party for photographer Mario Testino’s exhibit of indigenous Peruvian dress at the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute in Manhattan on Monday night. [WWD]

Wal-Mart released safety audits of 75 of the 200 factories it sources from in Bangladesh, becoming the first major retailer to do so. [WWD]

Designer Isaac Mizrahi says models are no longer too thin, as they were in the “heroin chic” days of the 1990s. [Huffington Post]

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