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Liya Kebede rollerblades in couture for Italian Elle.

CNN filmed an interview with Karl Lagerfeld while he was in Shanghai presenting Chanel pre-fall 2010. Set your DVRs for tomorrow night, December 23.

Carolina Hererra was in Moscow this week, presenting her spring 2010 collection and opening her first store in Russia.

Vivienne Westwood designed wallpaper with Cole & Sons using signature prints which she's used throughout her career, including reinterpretations of her tartan prints and the Union Jack.

Karl Lagerfeld created a princess doll for Paris' high-end toy store, Au Nain Bleu, proceeds of which will benefit the Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation.

Photos of Topshop's designer collaborations scheduled for 2010—Jonatha Saunder, Ashish, Richard Nicoll, and Ann-Sofie Back.

Fashion consultant Estefania Lacayo launches private label fur vests made of white coyote, brown raccoon and black fox.

There's been a lot of talk in the media about E. coli contamination in ground meat lately, hamburgers specifically. First, The New York Times profiled Stephanie Smith, a young woman who was paralyzed after eating a contaminated hamburger. A week later, Larry King and CNN posed the question "Should Americans banish the burger"? The media is always reporting beef recall stories, which leave me a little freaked out about indulging in the occasional cheeseburger. How about you?

The argument against ground meat goes something like this: in slaughterhouses all sorts of things are flying around, including cow guts, which contain E. coli. Because slaughterhouse practices can be a little iffy, the E. coli can come into contact with the meat to be sold for consumption. Cooking a piece of contaminated steak usually kills the bacteria because the E. coli has only touched the surface, not actually penetrated the meat. The problem with ground meat is that E. coli can easily get onto every small bit of meat, making it harder to eliminate.

I'm not sure if I'm ready to completely banish the burger from my diet, but I do eat less meat these days. Besides being healthier for my heart, the sanitary conditions of large slaughterhouses worry me a bit. When it comes to eating meat I definitely try to follow certain guidelines. To learn them, continue reading.

CNN launched its new iPhone application this morning, featuring breaking news, video, personalization options, and, most notably, an interactive iReport feature.

The application allows you to search for and follow topics of interest to create a personalized "MyCNN" news feed — from breaking stories about your home state to gossip about your favorite celebrity. Tapping any news story from the main screen leads to two summary bullet points, the main story, and any relevant video. An additional tap on the share button allows you to email the story, choose to follow the topic, or save it to read later. The app also pinpoints your current location to provide weather, traffic, and breaking news near you.

Its most interesting and unique feature is the iReport function, based on CNN's popular citizen journalism feature. Users are encouraged to capture photos and video of breaking news and upload it to CNN directly from the application.

The app is available now at CNN.com, and the iTunes App Store for $2. And if you were to ask me, it's well worth the $2.

“You watch the news today, and you don’t know what is real. When I was doing newscasts at CNN, people would come up to me and say, ‘That story can’t be real.’ Now the lines are really getting blurred.”

— Former CNN news anchor Bobbie Battista, now an anchor on the satirical news site The Onion, doing her part to blur the lines between real and fake news even further. Although hesitant at first to accept the job at The Onion for fear that her former CNN colleagues would think less of her, Battista nevertheless doesn't see it as a step down. She thinks cable news itself has taken a dive. To watch an example of her hilarious deadpan reading of ridiculous news, read more

H&M will put out gothic, fashion forward clothing under a new sub-label called Divided Exclusive. 

The premiere episode of Bravo's "The Fashion Show" received solid viewership despite criticism. 

Michael Kors showed neon fur as part of his Fall 2009 collection, but his winter fur collection reveals more conservative options. 

In a new CNN video series, model Natalia Vodianova shows viewers around her hometown of Moscow.