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Monday’s Style Headlines: The bang brigade and Chanel’s wino look

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Bang it up, baby
Keira Knightley is the latest starlet to transform her look with blunt bangs that graze her eyebrows. Katie Holmes and Christina Ricci are also sporting the style, which is severe and youthful -- think Anna Wintour meets Lulu Brooks. It definitely adds polish, but those bangs are a bitch to get straight if you have any wave in your tresses at all.

Care to wear Samantha’s panties?

WWD reports that ‘Sex and the City’ has partnered with Italian lingerie designer Cosabella to release a line of undies and bras named for each character. The line hits stores next April. I suspect that Miranda’s namesake lingerie will see the least sales.

Wino + Bardot = Coco
At the ‘Paris-Londres’ fashion show last week, Karl Lagerfeld payed homage to Amy Winehouse and Brigitte Bardot with mile-high messy beehives and wayward eyeliner, reports Suzy Menkes in the IHT. Read about the ‘Gothic crosses and gilded lace gloves’ and the London cabs emblazoned with Chanel logos. It wasn’t so long ago that Lindsay Lohan was the kaiser’s muse du jour at Chanel’s cruise show here in L.A. Is it that designers have no interest in starlets who hit rehab and clean up their acts?

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Photo credits: Keira, AP and Globe; Chanel runway look, catwalking.com.

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