Fashion Scoop: Rihanna To Release Rogue Love Fragrance, Valentino To Show Couture In New York, Paul Andrew Wins CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund.

• Haven’t you heard? #BadGalBack. And since Rihanna was #RIHunited with Instagram, the singer — although to be quite honest her life hasn’t been about singing for quite a while — announced her latest fragrance: Rogue Love.  As a follow up to both Rogue and Rogue Man, which are already in stores, the fragrance has no launch date yet.  While a February 14th drop would be pretty cute — love, Valentine’s day, you know it was clever — we’ll have to wait and see. (StyleBlazer)
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• Michael Kors is always growing his business. The latest expansion? Tech accessories.  As his customer is always on the go, the designer has cobbled together some phone charging cases, chargers, and earbuds made to look like some things you already carry: lipstick tubes and cosmetic cases. With an emphasis on fashion as well as function, the PowerCase will charge an iPhone for a full battery life. Best part, you can expect the tech to be out this month. (Fashion Times)

• Couture is about to go international.  Come this December the house of Valentino will take its couture show on the road, debuting a couture collection in New York City, marking the third couture presentation for the brand this year to celebrate it’s Fifth Avenue boutique.  Then in January the brand will debut their normally scheduled couture show as well. This comes in addition to a pre-collection and a men’s wear show both in January and a women’s ready to wear show in February. Next July the brand will skip the Paris couture shows in total to show couture in Rome to celebrate a store opening there. (NY Times)

• Just as many of us thought the latest round of fashion musical chairs was ending, news has broken that Marco Zanini might be leaving Schiaparelli.  Having toiled away at the brand creating their “pret-a-couture” wares since July, the designer has reportedly said that the brand “is not exactly his fit.”  No word yet on where he might go nor who may replace him. (Vogue UK)

• Though the buzz seemed considerably quieter than last year, the CFDA/’Vogue’ Fashion Fund crowned their latest winner last night.  Shoe designer Paul Andrew took home top billing while Ryan Roche and Eva Zuckerman took home runners-up awards.  Other designers to compete included teams from Wes Gordon, Tanya Taylor, Orley and Grey Ant amongst others. Andrew will walk away with $300,000 as well as business mentoring while the runners-up have $100,00 as well as mentoring in store for them. (Fashionista)