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As the Elle turns. So Nina Garcia was sort-of-maybe fired on Friday, but the relationship between her, Elle, and Project Runway is so tangled that everyone may have jumped the gun a bit. Oops!

The scoop according to Fashion Week Daily:

Nina Garcia may have parted ways with Elle as fashion director, but in lieu of an outright dismissal, Fashion Week Daily has learned that Garcia has been offered a new role at the magazine: editor-at-large or contributing editor.

Should Garcia, whose contract was up for renewal this month, accept this lesser role, she would be allowed to remain on Project Runway for at least one more season. The hit reality series has just started casting for season five, with Elle as a confirmed partner, and will start filming June 8 and premiere on Bravo. According to sources, however, Elle is not expected to continue its partnership with Project Runway once the show transitions over to the Lifetime Network beginning with season six.

Fashion Director Nina Garcia is officially out at Elle. According to WWD, the muy influential fashionista was ousted on Friday afternoon when she and the fashion glossy “parted ways” (read: she was fired).

So many questions.

Will future winners of Project Runway still get the prized fashion spread in Elle?

Was there a conflict with Nina doing Project Runway on one network and Elle mag soon to launch Fashionista, a reality show for the CW network?

Most importantly: will Nina Garcia start her own mag? (oooh…I hope so)

Either way, between Project Runway, book deals, and Blackberry endorsements, I don’t think Ms. Garcia is going to be worrying about how to afford another pair of Manolos anytime soon.

Can you believe Sean John has been ripping the runway for 10 years now? Time flies and even though Diddy has established Sean John as a major fashion brand, it feels like they just came on the scene.

Tune into MTV tonight to watch If I Were King, a 90-minute documentary that celebrates the 10th anniversary of the label by giving you a behind-the-scenes glimpse at what goes into designing the line and pulling together a runway show. The documentary shows the huge amount of work that goes into any show and what it took to bring the label back to Fashion Week for the Fall/Winter ‘08 season after a five year hiatus from the catwalk.

On April 2nd, MTV will debut Sean John: Internship by Design (Making the Band for the fashion set) where four fashion students complete design challenges and compete to see who will win a Sean John internship. Judges include designer (and my homeboi) Zac Posen, stylists June Ambrose and Marni Senofonte, as well as Diddy himself.

Diddy’s documentary airs tonight at 10 pm EST following True Life: I’m Going to Fashion Week at 9 pm EST.

Catch a sneak peak of If I Were King under the cut. (more…)

The Takashi Murakami exhibit that first opened in Los Angeles has made the trek to the East Coast and set up shop in the Brooklyn Museum. The show is a 90 piece collection of work including paintings, sculpture and an animated short.

But of course it wouldn’t be a Murakami exhibit without a little Louis Vuitton and just like the West Coast exhibit, this one will also feature an in-house Louis Vuitton boutique where fashionistas can feed their Murakami lust with a range of bags and accessories. Pricing on the arthaus swag? According to the NYT, “a leather strap for a cellphone carries a $220 price tag; handbags range from $1,310 to $2,210″. Other leather goods will also be available.

The show opens tomorrow and runs through July 5 in Brooklyn, so get out there and soak up Murakami’s Superflat vibe and score some LV while you’re there.

How does an avant garde designer translate her looks for the masses? We’re about to see when Rei Kawakubo goes to H&M. Commes de Garcons has been tapped as the next designer collection for H&M.

She’s doing the whole shebang — men, women, children, some accessories and a unisex perfume. I can’t wait to see little tykes in slashed and deconstructed onesies.

The collection is set to debut in November around the same time that H&M opens its first stores in the Ginza and Harajuku districts of Tokyo. If you have an H&M in your city, I am SO jealous of you right now.