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Local
· Design Army's Pum Lefebure judges at Cannes [ITC]
· There's a call for mural artists in Georgetown [The Georgtowner]
· Under Armour set to open Brand House in Chicago [Racked Chicago]
· Fashion blogger Lacey Perspective starts new business [ALP]
· The #DontTaxWellness campaign [HuffPo]
· Diane von Furstenberg: stop obsessing over Hillary Clinton's style [WaPo]
· Style for under $50 at Old Town Manassas's Black Swan Boutique [Northern Virginia]
National
· The history of the smiley face in fashion [InStyle]
· Incredibly handsome man's mugshot goes viral [NYP]
· H&M plans to open 375 new stores in US and China [The Local]
· Vanessa Friedman on fashion criticism and her job at the NYT [Refinery29]
· US-wide ban of microbeads in beauty products by 2018 proposed [CBC News]
· Inside the struggle that culminated in Dov Charney's firing from American Apparel [WSJ]
International
· The style transformation of Spain's new queen [HB]
· Men's striped sweaters a trend on London runways [T]
· Suzy Menkes hangs with Kanye West in Florence [Vogue UK]