1. CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
2. ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
3. PARSONS, THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
4. KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
5. ECOLE DE LA CHAMBRE SYNDICALE
6. LA CAMBRE

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If you’re currently hunting for the right college and are set on a career in fashion, the options can be overwhelming. To help you on your way, Fashionista has ranked the 50 best fashion schools in the world. (Click here for the full list.)

While fashion design might be the most popular freshman-year major documented here, we’ve included more than design schools. In particular, colleges and universities that offer stellar fashion business, marketing, styling, and technology programs. Because, after all, there a ton of great fashion careers that have very little to do with actual design.

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Nowadays the face behind any given product, be that a blog, magazine or designer label, is just as important as the product itself–if not more so.

“Consumers today are buying into a lot more than just a commodity,” said Marc Beckman, co-founder of Designers Management Agency which reps Proenza Schouler, Andre Leon Talley and Nicola Formichetti.

Consider Anna Wintour or Karl Lagerfeld–their personal brands are inextricably connected to those of the companies they work for. When people buy a Chanel lego bag, they’re buying into Lagerfeld’s kooky, high-fashion lifestyle almost as much as the brand itself.

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Ever wonder how Leonardo DiCaprio manages to lure in so many supermodels (besides, you know, just being really rich and famous and handsome)? Now, we know. He lunges at them.

While DiCaprio’s exes Gisele Bundchen, Bar Rafaeli, and Erin Heatherton were unable to resist the allure of Leo’s lunging, Cara Delevingne is somehow immune, according to a report in Page Six.

As the two of them partied at Cannes, DiCaprio was apparently relentless in pursuit of the model-of-the-moment, who is 18 years his junior. A source told the Post that he “kept hitting on her,” and “even lunged at her at one point, and she dodged him.”

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We thought Julianne Moore looked as beautiful and radiant as ever gliding down yesterday’s Cannes opening ceremony red carpet in Dior. She was easily one of the evening’s best dressed and happiest-looking stars (despite the rain). Then, we noticed her feet.

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On any afternoon in Crown Heights on Kingston Avenue, there are sliver sightings of forearms, the sounds of heels clacking, the humming of stroller wheels, and tribes of young mothers wearing long, tressed wigs. The Brooklyn enclave is home to the Hasidic Jewish sect, Chabad-Lubavitch. Women follow the Torah’s strict laws of modesty or “tznius”–their elbows and collarbones must be covered, they have to wear skirts (not pants) that go past the knee, as well as stockings. Once they are married, women must cover their hair by wearing a wig (a “sheitel”) or a scarf.

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It’s here! It’s here! The Met Ball red carpet is finally underway.

So the fashion is great–though not exactly punk. According to Anna Wintour, though, her florals are punk, in a way: Andrew Bolton, the currator of the exhibit told her that pink was the real color of punk. Hence the color scheme. So there.

Click through to see what everyone from Anna to Rooney Mara to Beyonce to Kim and Kanye and many many more wore.

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When Gwyneth Paltrow hit the red carpet earlier this week wearing a sheer paneled Antonio Berardi dress all we could focus on was her incredibly perky side ass, on display for all to see.

But that dress could have potentially revealed a lot more than Paltrow’s toned-by-Tracy-Anderson rear. Turns out People‘s “Most Beautiful Woman” doesn’t do regular bikini line maintenance, making for a potentially prickly situation, and making us really really like her.

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The Blonds are known for combining couture-level embellishment with Bob Mackie kitsch. The duo’s Swarovski-covered corsets have become signatures for many a pop star (Rihanna, Katy Perry, to name a few).

Designers Phillipe and David Blond’s latest creation was a commission for superstar Beyoncé’s latest world tour, The Mrs. Carter Show, and although the set list provides no new material (sad face), she’s retired her vintage Thierry Mugler for a provocative new number by the pair that’s making news the world over. Yeah, we’re talking about that crazy sparkly boob corset. We chat with the designers about the shocking look, their inspiration behind it, and working for Queen Bey.

Fashionista: Who was the first star to wear one of your design?

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Somehow, in 2013, yet another magazine has decided it would be a good idea to put a Caucasian model in literal blackface for a fashion editorial. This time, the culprit is Vogue Netherlands. (In the recent past, Numéro, L’Officiel and Vogue Paris, have all come under for using blackface.)

Model Querelle Jansen stars in the May 2013 issue’s “Heritage Heroes,” sort of a retrospective editorial of some of Marc Jacobs’s work for Louis Vuitton. The styling of each look is, we guess, somehow meant to illustrate the inspiration of a particular collection. Marc Jacobs found inspiration in African-American cultural icons for his Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 collections–Grace Jones and Josephine Baker, respectively. Vogue Netherlands decided that the best way to convey those inspirations would be with some white models, black face paint and wigs of what looks like black hair, worn throughout. A caption from the editorial translates to “This collection is inspired by the style of the Parisian showgirl Josephine Baker, mixed with tribal influences.”

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