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Vogue.com recently toured the Gramercy Park home of model Coco Rocha and her artist husband James Conran. The apartment is luxurious in many ways (custom dream closet, check!), but it's also honest with a rough-around-the-edges look. Rocha's flawless face may be plastered on billboards a mile high in the sky, but her home gives me the feeling that she's still very down-to-earth.

One thing in particular that struck me as quite relatable was when Rocha said, “James is always laughing at me for buying things like very expensive pillows for the bed. He thinks they just end up on the floor.” I've had that very conversation with boyfriends in the past, and not always concerning expensive pillows (but I admit, I do fancy myself a frou frou bolster). No matter how expensive, I don't think men understand the concept of a throw pillow. They're decoration. And when we go to sleep, they do wind up on the floor. The rest of the time, they make a bed look like it's supposed to look: made.

Do you agree? Or do you know men who like to pile on the pillows? Sound off below.

• We saw LOVE's new cover with Kate Moss and Lea T. kissing last week; now the second cover, featuring Justin Bieber shot by Terry Richardson, has appeared [@THELOVEMAGAZINE]
• Andre Courreges and his wife and creative partner, Coqueline, have sold their company to two investors, Frederic Torloting and Jacques Bungert, who run the French division of advertising agency Young & Rubicam. Coqueline has been running the design house since Andre retired from fashion in the mid-'90s [WWD]
• After months of rumors, February's Vogue reports that Theory CEO and Rag & Bone investor Andrew Rosen is about to sign a deal with Proenza Schouler; and Meredith Melling Burke, not Candy Pratts Price, is reportedly overseeing Vogue.com [Fashionista]
• Yesterday during a DLD Conference panel, Natalie Massenet talked about her plans for Net-A-Porter Live, a platform on which Net-a-Porter customers will be able to see who’s online and what they put in their baskets in real time; “We want to start a conversation between them,” she explained [DLD Conference]
• Naomi Campbell is headed back to court this Thursday over a breach-of-contract lawsuit; the contract, which involved promoting a perfume called Cat Deluxe with Kisses, was signed 12 years ago [The Cut]
• Prada could make a final decision on their IPO by the end of the month [Bloomberg]
• Alejandro Ingelmo is aiming to introduce handbags and accessories into his collection for Spring 2012 [Fashionetc.]
• Anna Wintour, Steven Klein, Donna Karan, Daphne Guinness, Ingrid Sischy, Sandy Brant, and Vera Wang all attended the elaborate 21st birthday party Calvin Klein threw on Friday at Indochine for his boyfriend, Nick Gruber [NY Post]
• Tanner Hall, the film co-directed by Diane von Furstenberg's daughter Tatiana von Furstenberg and starring Rooney Mara, just scored a distribution deal and is expected to be released at the end of this year, around when Mara's upcoming film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, debuts [Deadline]
• Libertine is headed back to New York Fashion Week this February, minus a partner and with a new direction, says designer Johnson Hartig: "It’ll be different in that once Cindy [Greene] and I separated, I stopped using placement prints — I mean literal images — and it’s become more abstract. And there’s going to be a lot more color. I haven’t met a color I haven’t liked this season" [Fashionetc.]

When it comes to carpeting, sometimes the simplest way to save is to turn your head. Vogue.com writer Lauren Santo Domingo did just that when she decided to have the carpet in her Flatiron, NYC loft laid at an angle. "This was a regular striped carpet," she writes, "but we had them lay it diagonally, which I think makes for a very cool effect." From the looks of it, there wasn't much of a decor budget for her apartment, which is punctuated with works by Claude Lalanne, Salvador Dalí (yes, you heard that), and Andy Warhol. But for the rest of us, a tip like laying affordable striped carpet on a diagonal may be our saving grace — literally.

• Rachel Zoe confirms she is having a baby boy — PopSugar
• "Visionary" Lady Gaga unveils her new Polaroid collection — People
• Alber Elbaz doesn't have email, but his Pre-Fall collection for Lanvin was born from the Internet — The Cut
• Dennis Freedman named Barneys creative director, Simon Doonan bumped to "creative ambassador-at-large" — Stylelist
• Behold: the Viktor & Rolf "It" bag — Nylon Blog
• Happy 1.11.11! Designers share their favorite numbers — Vogue Daily
• Fab looks from the Stella McCartney Autumn collection — FabSugar UK
• Vogue.com celebrates its 15th anniversary — Vogue UK
• Watch Karl Lagerfeld's latest Chanel short film, "Window World" — Fashionologie
• Alexander McQueen 3D Leaves Knuckle box clutch — Bag Snob
• Outfits under $100: stylish and comfy travel clothes — College Fashion

>> Now that Style.com has moved out from under Conde Nast Digital and likewise goes for the Conde magazines' websites — including Vogue.com and WMagazine.com — which are now fully under their publishers' control, there are a few more staffing changes happening over at Conde Nast.

Vogue senior market editor Meredith Melling Burke will now be straddling both print and online responsibilities — in addition to her current role at the magazine, she has been promoted to fashion market editor at Vogue.com, where she will increase the website's fashion content. And former Elle SVP and chief brand officer Carol Smith, who surprised many when she left after eight years to join Conde Nast as VP and publishing director of Bon Appetit and Gourmet in April, has left the company. “The opportunity turned out not to be what either Conde Nast or I expected,” she said in a statement released by Conde Nast. Tom Florio, who hired Smith, left the company in June.

>> Vogue.com got a redesign because, as Anna Wintour told WWD: “The Vogue reader is completely engaged in the world of technology . . . I felt it was crucial that in this era we take the authority, quality, and beauty of Vogue and bring those values to the digital realm. The fashion world moves so quickly now, everyone here at the magazine wants to be able to bring it to the Vogue reader on an hourly, not just monthly, basis. Also, there is just so much — too much, almost — out there on the Web. Vogue.com isn’t going to be covering everything — just the right things.”

In fact, the site will cover "under 100" designers across New York, London, Milan, and Paris, as opposed to Style.com's much more expansive runway coverage. “We’re giving them a deep treatment,” said Caroline Palmer, editor of Vogue.com. According to one designer's press agent, who spoke to the New York Times on promise of anonymity, Vogue.com has been asking for previews of the major collections, infringing on territory once owned by WWD. According to the agent, “and that’s a little bit scary.”

No expense was spared »

>> Candy Pratts Price Named Creative Director of Vogue.com —Candy Pratts Price, who was laid off last year from her position as executive fashion director of Style.com, has been named the new creative director of Vogue.com. Pratts Price — who Anna Wintour dubbed "Queen of the Internet" in 2008 — has been a contributing editor at Vogue in recent months. Vogue.com is expected to relaunch on Sept. 7, and Pratts Price's appointment is certainly notable, now that Style.com and Vogue.com are expected to co-exist and compete. [@womensweardaily]

>> Instead of shuttering Style.com, as many speculated would happen after Vogue.com's big relaunch — which comes right after Labor Day — Drew Schutte, SVP and chief revenue officer for Conde Nast Digital, is ready for the two to take over the web together: “In my mind, why not have two of the leading brands in the online space? There’s lots of competition coming up, so instead of letting someone else become the number-two competitor, I’d like to make one ourselves and have the number one and two in the space.”

Style.com was once the online home of both W and Vogue, but all three are now entirely separate — no pooling of resources. Style.com will send its own reviewers (Tim Blanks, Nicole Phelps, Meenal Mistry) to the upcoming fashion shows, as will Vogue.com (Jessica Kerwin, former Style contributor Sarah Mower, as well as Vogue senior staffers Mark Holgate, Hamish Bowles, and others).

There's good reason to keep Style around »

Karl Lagerfeld has photographed model Emily Didonato for a series of online ads in which layers of Chanel can be stripped off with a click of the mouse to reveal Eres underthings.

Diego Della Valle of Tod's is donating an undisclosed sum to help restore the Coliseum.

Neiman Marcus CEO Burton Tansky will retire this October.

Despite internet rumors claiming Giles Deacon has been confirmed as the creative director at Emanuel Ungaro, the designer tells Vogue UK that nothing has been decided.

Anna Wintour, who was recently inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame, told reporters she is focusing on the web and launching a new Vogue.com this August.

Skinny, skinny jeans, Chanel bags, and loads of fur paired with Gaultier's sculptural braids and Lagerfeld's gray-streaked bangs—it's Karlie Kloss, Sessilee Lopez, Isabeli Fontana, Jac Jagaciak, Snejana Onopka, and Kasia Struss off-duty during the Paris haute couture shows. Photographed by Hanneli Mustaparta for Vogue.com. Click here for more.

Source: Hanneli Mustaparta/Vogue.com