• Now that she’ll have some free time, Carla Bruni plans to release a new album this fall, according to her rep. [Daily Mail]
• Elle.com taps Amina Akhtar, former editor of FashionEtc.com (and editor of this very blog before that), to be their new executive editor. She succeeds Keith Pollock, who left a few weeks ago to join Jason Binn’s forthcoming magazine, Du Jour. [WWD]
• Arizona Muse and Agyness Deyn made winky faces for i-D’s summer issue, as photographed by Kayt Jones and Scott Trindle. [Fashion Gone Rogue, Design Scene]
• Someone got fancy with the spray paint outside Marc Jacobs’s Soho store and graffitied the word ART across the front in huge, pink letters. [Styleite]
• Brad Pitt is said to be filming a commercial for Chanel No. 5. [E!]
• Christopher Bailey, Burberry CEO and chair of the U.K.’s Fashion Fringe, named the ten semifinalists for this year’s competition. Later this month, three finalists will be selected to show at London’s fall Fashion Week, where the winner will be chosen. [WWD]
• SCAD students showed off their work at a dinner in New York earlier this week, and Fern Mallis gushed, “I just love the whole Savannah thing — they just own the whole town … It’s nice when you get out of New York because we become so centric here — you realize that people are teaching design other places in the country, and doing it really well.” [Fashionista]
• Business of Fashion wonders if the Met Ball has become the industry’s biggest PR platform. [BoF]
• Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is donating one of the various dresses she’s worn to have caused people to liken her to Jessica Rabbit to the British Heart Foundation’s Tunnel of Love auction, which takes place later this year. [Telegraph UK]
• Bar Refaeli will appear in her first major French-Israeli movie, Kidon, to hit theaters in France and Israel in 2013! [Modelinia]
• The Wall Street Journal rounded up all of the times Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t worn a hoodie. Looking good, Zuck. [WSJ]
• Charlotte Olympia’s Runaway Bride collection has arrived. [SheFinds]
• Chanel’s New York tour for its The Little Black Jacket book will run from June 8 to 15 at 18 Wooster Street. [WWD]