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Film: We line up the 9 most intriguing movies for fall

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Film: We line up the 9 most intriguing movies for fall

Popcorn at the ready, we’re looking forward to a season of intriguing fare.

FALL FILMS

OUR IDIOT BROTHER
Paul Rudd as a cheerful stoner.
A grinning, bearded Paul Rudd—clad in baggy attire and Crocs—sweetly agrees to sell a little non-sanctioned herb to a despondent police officer in uniform while manning a farmer’s market stall. Promptly carted off to jail, he gets out early on good behaviour and returns to the fold of his three successful sisters—Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer and Elizabeth Banks—where family life proves to be entertainingly discordant.

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Fashion

Fashion news: Anna goes to London, Escada goes bye-bye and the Swedes go to Copenhagen

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The Gap's Patrick Robinson. Photography by Peter Stigter

The Gap's Patrick Robinson. Photography by Peter Stigter

Anna Wintour will be heading to London Fashion Week, because, like, everyone is going to be there. [The Cut]

Escada’s dunzo–the German brand will file for insolvency this week. [Bloomberg]

Once and for all, Kanye is not interning at the Gap. So says head designer Patrick Robinson, who would know. [Fashionologie]

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Daily Reads: New York Fashion Week is on the move and we’re reminded of grade 8

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Photography by Angela Martin

New York Fashion Week is moving to Lincoln Centre next year. So we can all go to the opera afterwards, obviously. [nytimes.com]

Recessionista, indeed. Liz Claiborne cuts 725 jobs, while Macy’s axes 7,000. [IHT, CNN]

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Animal Collective, Cut Off Your Hands and Fever Ray

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At FASHION, we’re always on the lookout for a good design collab. So when, for their latest album, trippy indie tribe Animal Collective found both inspiration and title—Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino Records/Outside Music)—in a Frank Gehry-designed building by that name, we felt compelled to love it. Luckily, the Baltimore-based band of odd fellows is (finally) making it easy. Read more »


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Sweet Swedes

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With Sally Shapiro and Robyn burning up iTunes everywhere, the girls of Sweden are certainly having a little moment in le soleil. The latest addition? Twenty-two-year-old Lykke Li, with her breathy, electronic alt-pop album Youth Novels (Warner) in stores now. Already a hit in her native land, Lykke Li’s debut album tells stories from her nomadic life spent everywhere from the mountains of Portugal to winters in India to a Stockholm gospel choir.


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Remix Romance Vol. 2

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Sally Shapiro: Remix Romance Vol. 2 (Paper Bag Records)

The world just can’t seem to get enough of this Swedish sweetheart. This is the second remix album out of Sally Shapiro’s 2007 debut Disco Romance (which we, like, covered and stuff before other people. Just sayin’).

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Disco Romance

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Disco Romance by Sally Shapiro

Riding the wave of disco-infused electropop (say that three times fast) is Sally Shapiro’s shimmering debut, Disco Romance, which is finally appearing in Canada after making bouncy waves in Europe since the spring.

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