Fashion Scoop: Eva Mendes Designs Bridesmaid’s Collection, Ralph Rucci Exits Label, Calvin Klein Gets Into Plus-Sized Controversy.

• Eva Mendes’s latest project is an eight-piece bridesmaids collection for New York & Company.  Hitting stores and online January 2015, the line-up includes dresses and accessories from $22 to $119. “An important day needs a special dress,” she said in a statement. “I love this collection for weddings and other special events. Feel great and dance the night away!” (Hollywood Reporter)
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• Giambattista Valli is quite the busy man. With his ready to wear line Giambattista Valli, his couture offshoot, duties for Moncler and even his new, younger brand Giamba, he’s designing over a half a dozen collections per year. And now he’s added to that with a spring collaboration for Seven For All Mankind. The line will include high-waisted jeans, dressy t-shirts, a minidress and a jacket delivered in February and May available in Seven For All Man Kind stores. As for now this is a one-off project. (WWD)

• Ralph Rucci has left his names sake label due to “creative differences” with the current CEO.  CEO Current CEO Joey Laurenti has been in his role since May.  Reports say that Rucci will be replaced before the year ends. The designer was America’s first couturier. (The Daily)

• In case you needed to add some vintage Chanel in your closet, Nasty Gal has you covered. In what probably should be described as a coup of sorts, the online retailer has a collection of over 250 vintage Chanel pieces from the ’80s and early 90’s with prices ranging between $500 and $5,000. It’s a pretty penny but it is vintage Chanel. (Teen Vogue)

• Calvin Klein is in hot water over its latest ad campaign.  The brand’s lingerie ads, entitled “Perfectly Fit”, depict Myla Dalbesio as a curvier counterpart to the likes of Ji Hye Park, Lara Stone, and Jourdan Dunn. The problem for many: at size 10, Dalbesio isn’t curvy enough and totally not plus sized. The main problem with their complaint: Calvin Klein never actually called her curvy or plus-sized.(Style Blazer)