Kanye West and Joan Smalls dance for Balmain

The rapper and designer has been unveiled as the star of the label's new fall campaign, alongside supermodel Joan Smalls. The house took to Instagram to announce the news, posting a black and white image of West and Smalls in a dramatic balletic pose. Smalls sports a pair of ruffled trousers and a cropped top, while West is captured in the ripped jeans and embellished jacket combination he debuted on the red carpet of the MET Ball back in May. The shot is accompanied by the caption 'The ♯BalmainArmy is back'.

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Kanye West and Joan Smalls dance for Balmain

Stars give their jeans to help refugees

Singers Elton John and Lily Allen have also handed over their denims to the American artist and designer Johny Dar to transform and then auction them off for the International Committee for Refugees (ICR). Within hours of the jeans going up on the online auction site Catawiki, someone had already bid 5,000 euros ($5,500) for Stone's, while the multicoloured makeover of the singer Pink's jeans had reached 3,000 euros Tuesday. “The world refugee crisis has had an impact on everyone,” said the designer Dar, adding that the online auction would close in October.

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Jason Wu launches sister label Grey Jason Wu

Named after Wu's favorite color, the more affordable sister label has been in the works for the past 12 months and is set to launch in June. The news was announced with a photo of the label's grey clothing tags alongside the caption, “Introducing #GreyJasonWu, a new sister label I've created that has been under wraps for the last 12 months.

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