>> Corroborating rumors that first popped up last August, Hermes announced today that Jean Paul Gaultier is leaving his post as creative director of the brand.

"After seven fruitful years of creative partnership, Hermès and Jean-Paul Gaultier artistic director of women’s ready-to-wear, have decided to bring to an end their collaboration allowing Jean-Paul Gaultier to concentrate on his own projects," read the release. "The spring-summer 2011 collection to be revealed in October 2010 will be the last collection created by Jean-Paul Gaultier for Hermès. Hermès is deeply grateful to Jean-Paul Gaultier for his outstanding creative contribution during these seven years.”

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>> Tom Ford and Karl Lagerfeld both shoot their own ad campaigns, could Roberto Cavalli be next? The designer recently told Harper's Bazaar that photography was his latest obsession and that he was embarking on a trip to New Guinea to shoot "the last cannibal tribe."

Cavalli also mentioned he is intrigued by Megan Fox and disappointed that so many others are using leopard prints now. "In the beginning, when people copied me I was happy. [But now] I can understand when H&M or Zara copies me, but I hate it when big designers copy me. You have a big name, you should never copy me."

But perhaps most interesting in his contingency plan for his label: if he were hit by a bus tomorrow, he says, Roberto Cavalli would cease to exist. There would be no new designer. "Nobody."



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