Photo: Courtesy of Caspar Balslev

This week, Brit singer-songwriter Marina And The Diamonds is back with her new single “Primadonna”, the latest track off her upcoming album, Electra Heart, out July 17. The pop song has tinges of Lady Gaga and Katy Perry (she opened for Katy on select dates of her California Dream Tour) with a bumping beat and entertaining tongue-in-cheek lyrics to boot. We talked to Marina about her new album, love and relationships, her personal style, and her must-have beauty products. Check out the Q&A below and click through to watch the video for “Primadonna”!

Coachella may be one of the biggest music festivals of the year, but this event isn’t just about the tunes. Every year, concert attendees don their most out-there boho threads to rock out to their favorite bands, and celebs are no exception. Coachella newbies Emma Watson and Nina Dobrev and regulars Kate Bosworth and Vanessa Hudgens all flooded the polo fields in Indio, CA in their music festival finest. We’ve rounded up our favorite looks from this past weekend below, and since the festival has been extended to two weekends, you can expect to see even more funky outfits this coming Friday.

A Look From Kitsuné's Fall Collection

Each year (month?), a new French brand crosses the Atlantic. For New Yorkers, many of whom are enthusiastic Francophiles, each one provides new reason to celebrate—and shop! The latest is Maison Kitsuné, the fashion-music label hybrid opening their first stateside boutique today inside the NoMad hotel. The space, designed by Kitsuné’s co-owner and classically-trained architect, Masaya Kuroki, will stock custom products from Aesop and Monocle alongside its eponymous collection, and they’ll spice things up with an in-house florist, too. ”We wanted to think about being a service to the people staying int he hotel and becoming part of the life of this [up-and-coming] neighborhood,” explained Kuroki’s partner, Gildas Loaec, who called en route to Charles de Gaulle airport, on his way to New York for the opening. So now that there’s another Gallic brand to add to your must-have shopping list, we thought it’d be a good idea to compile a primer of all things fashionable and French—an all-encompassing directory to the cool-girl labels getting you a little bit closer to Paris’s seemingly unattainable je ne sais quoi.

Photo: Jake Rosenberg for The Coveteur

There’s no shortage of websites and series dedicated to peeking inside the homes of creative people. But The Coveteur’s subjects for Who What Wear‘s fashion office series only get to show off their work space. What they do with a simple wooden desk or glass cubicle is consistenly inspiring, but today’s edition is also newsworthy. Lauren Bucquet, the head designer of rag & bone’s shoes and accessories, let slip that she’s hard at work on the brand’s first collection of handbags.  Bucquet’s the one responsible for rag & bone’s Newbury boot, the perfectly shaped leather or suede booties spotted on every model from here to Timbuktu. The designer, who was David Neville and Marcus Wainwright’s first intern when they launched five years ago, also tells WWW that the brand is about to “expand our footwear line in a very strong way.” In the meantime, they’re continuing to open up stores as fast at other brands close them.  The latest, which opened on Friday, is at 909 Madison Avenue.

Sarah Sophie Flicker, Melissa Coker & Maximilla Lukacs in front of their film. Photo: Getty Images

After Wren’s Melissa Coker premiered a film starring Tavi Gevinson for her fall 2012 collection in New York last week, the collective reaction among attendees—and, later, those watching and re-watching the video at home—seemed to be: “Wow. Tavi looks so…grown up.” Taking Elle.com through the making of the film, Sarah Sophie Flicker, who co-directed with Maximilla Lucaks, says that keeping things age-appropriate was in fact something she was concerned about from the very beginning. For starters, the title, “Beware of Young Girls,” was borrowed from the 1970 Dory Previn hit that the singer wrote while in despair over her husband, composer Andre Previn, leaving her for the much younger Mia Farrow. (Flicker thought some of the song’s lyrics to be too mature—“And she just took him from my life/Oh yes she did/ so young and vain/ she brought me pain”—and suggested that Gevinson sing only the chorus.) But also Flicker, who has two young children, found herself feeling overly protective of the 15-year-old Gevinson, only to realize that her subject was hardly a rookie. When we reached Flicker at home, she was in the middle of bath time with her kids, Arrow Marie and Wilder Stauning, and packing for a ten-day vacation in France. Passing off duties to her husband, Flicker spoke to Elle.com about redefining the song’s meaning to fit her modern muse, shooting on an unusually cold day in LA, and having Lula Magazine’s Leith Clark style via Skype!

A look from Raf Simons' last collection for Jil Sander. Photo: Imaxtree As soon as news broke that Raf Simons would be named the new Artistic Director of Christian Dior, taking on haute couture, ready-to-wear and accessories for the brand, there was a collective gasp—in certain circles, at least—of, “But he’s a minimalist!”  Within hours, critics and observers were pitting him against Hedi Slimane, another minimalist newly in charge of a storied French house, wondering what Simons would make of such a romantic brand. But now that LVMH has confirmed his appointment, Simons is free to talk about the future he’s planning for Dior and is defending his varied interests.  “I don’t think it’s wrong to call me a minimalist,” Simons told WWD.  “It’s wrong to call me a minimalist only. I am also a romantic person.”  Femininity, he says, will guide his designs at Dior.  The designer’s already in Paris, starting work today on winter’s couture collection (shown this July) and says, “When I’m married to a house, I will fully embrace its original intention, its original heritage and meaning.”

A look from last year's Chanel cruise collection. Photo: Chanel

Though Chanel’s runway shows are always an extravaganza—Arctic glaciers, crystal-filled caves, pearl-covered merry go rounds—it’s the resort shows that boggle even the most jaded fashion minds. Each spring, Karl Lagerfeld flies a few hundred guests to an exotic locale to show off Chanel’s pre-spring collection. Last year, the runway ran the length of a beach in Antibes, before that St. Tropez and in 2010 it was the Venice Lido.  This year, he’s sticking closer to home, though by no means toning things down.  The 2013 cruise collection will be shown in the gardens of Versailles on the evening of May 14th. Meanwhile, Jean Paul Gaultier is planning a spectacle farther east.  On May 11th he’ll stage a massive runway show at the Chaoyang Urban Planning Museum in Beijing to celebrate his growing presence in China.  The designer will show a mix of ready-to-wear, menswear and haute couture.

Pierre Balmain in February of 1959, John Galliano in March of 2010. Photos: Getty Images

While flipping through images of Christian Dior for this story on Raf Simons’ new gig, we inexplicably stumbled upon a photo of Pierre Balmain, above left, dressed as a pirate.  It looks like the designer was having a jolly time at a ball in Portugal in February of 1959.  But there’s really only room for one pirate in fashion at a time, and for the past fifteen years that’s been John Galliano, who led Dior from 1996 to 2011.  Before Galliano (way before),  Balmain spent years working closely with Dior before opening his own atelier in Paris in 1945, so maybe a love of pirates is rooted in the house?  Or maybe Galliano saw this photo of Balmain in the archives and thought, “Yes! That is the look I’m going for!” However it happened, the two appear to be more closely linked than we would have thought and we’re afraid the traditional pirate costume may never be seen again. As romantic as Raf Simons might be, he’s hardly one for a sword.

With Jason Sudeikis, Andy Samberg and Kristen Wiig all coming to the end of their Saturday Night Live contracts this summer, there’s a sort of gloom hanging over this second half of the show’s season.  It’s assumed that Wiig in particular, armed with an Oscar nomination and six film projects currently in production, will definitely say good-bye to the sketch comedy show after this season’s finale. On his podcast last night, Alec Baldwin asked her about her plans for the future and Wiig said, “Everyone has to leave. I will say that when I do leave it’s not because I’m sick of it and not because I see something better or anything like that. It’s just that it’s time,” before suggesting her next career move, above.