Actress Kate Bosworth and stylist Cher Coulter have launched an e-commerce site, JewelMint.com which features jewelry designed by the duo. To purchase, consumers must subscribe to the site for a monthly fee of $29.99. Then you can buy one new piece per month (most prices are more than $100.) The site allows you to show off your new jewelry to  friends via Facebook and Twitter. [People]

In case you missed it, the quite round Gossip singer Beth Ditto is a fixture on the front rows of fashion shows, but during Paris Fashion Week she took to the catwalk, strutting for John Paul Gaultier. Ditto has a book of fashion tips slated to come out next spring. [Los Angeles Times]   

Also during the weekend's events in Paris, celebs including Janet Jackson and Rupert Everett attended designer Karl Lagerfeld's screening of a film commemorating his collaboration with Italian brand Hogan. [WWD]

Oregon state health officials say they have found that even supposedly formaldehyde-free Brazilian Blowout formulations contain small amounts of the dangerous chemical. [BellaSugar]  Brazilian Blowout continues to maintain that the formula for the hair-straightening treatment is formaldehyde-free and is conducting its own investigation. 

Beleaguered American Apparel won some breathing room from its lender last week in its bankruptcy case and now is scouting for new management. [WWD] (Subscription required.)

-- Susan Denley

Photo: Kate Bosworth.  Credit: Carlos Chavez / Los Angeles Times

The Girl Scouts wants girls to have their Samoa cookies and eat them too.

The iconic organization is tackling low self-esteem and poor body image through a series of viral videos, "The Changing Face of Fashion," which espouse the importance of cultivating inner beauty and personal empowerment, no matter your dress size.

The short videos features four fresh-faced plus-size models from the Wilhelmina Curve agency (none of whom, unfortunately, look larger than a size 10) telling short stories about their lives. One model shares her experiences in the military, while another talks about getting signed as a model. "It was the first time someone said I was perfect," she says, looking delighted.

The series was directed and shot by lifestyle and beauty photographer Cathrine Westergaard as a part of a new initiative to "address the image of girls in the media."

"The Changing Face of Fashion" was supported by findings from the Girl Scout Research Institute, which, in a nationwide survey that included more than 1,000 girls ages 13 to 17, discovered that many girls consider the body image ideals held forth by the fashion industry unrealistic.

Still, though 89% of those surveyed said the fashion industry places pressure on them to be thin, three out of four of the girls surveyed said fashion is "really important" to them. (Ah, the ubiquitous Catch-22 even us grown-up gals struggle with).

“The fashion industry remains a powerful influence on girls and the way they view themselves and their bodies,” said Kimberlee Salmond, senior researcher at the Girl Scout Research Institute. “Teenage girls take cues about how they should look from models they see in fashion magazines and on TV. It is something they struggle to reconcile with when they look at themselves in the mirror.”

-- Emili Vesilind

Photo: Screen shot from "The Changing Face of Fashion." Credit: Girl Scouts of the USA