Ever

Surface to Air tunic

Henrik Vibskov

Henrik Vibskov

HTC

Surface to Air tunic-love……the print!

Beatrix Ong

Undercover-this would also look fabulous with the Pelle Moda sandal. (this and all prior, farfetch.com)

Manolo Blahnik-this is one actually gives me a tingle….. it’s so beautiful! Certainly one of Manolo’s best! (neimanmarcus.com)

Chloe-nice and compact.

Proenza Schouler

Proenza Schouler-ultra sleek!

Oscar de la Renta

Elizabeth & James

Elizabeth & James-this is one killer shoe…. The sisters have certainly hit the mark! (this and those prior, saks.com)

Tashkent-another luscious beauty!

Ash-nicely “decorated.”

Jill Stuart-this is another “bit of magic”…….love the details.

Joe’s Jeans

Jean-Michel Cazabat

Giuseppe Zanotti for Thakoon-um, um good!

Joe’s Jeans-this is a great little year round bootie….great in summer with denim shorts, a tank and “big ole” sunglasses!

Joes’s Jeans

Soft Joie

Alexander Wang-the man can do no wrong!

Torn by Ronny Kobo-I’m still on the lookout in my area for these, but haven’t had any luck as of yet. I’m sure they have some version of them at the Saks here, but I don’t really want to invest a great deal of money in them. I’m trying to resist buying them online, as I would like to try them on to make sure the fit is just what I want. I’ll be heading to Dallas in a few weeks, so if I haven’t found them by that time, I’m sure that I will there.

Torn by Ronny Kobo

BCBG Max Azria

BCBG Max Azria

Gemma

Gemma

Madison Harding-isn’t this a hot little number…..I love it!

Patterson J. Kincaid

Rachel Pally-they look cool and comfy.

Helmut Lang-I like them with the platform sandals, just to “jazz” things up a bit.

Elizabeth & James

Elizabeth & James

Dolce Vita

Dolce Vita-love ‘em!

Dolce Vita

Pelle Moda

Twelfth St. by Cynthia Vincent

The cute stuff is just never ending; thank goodness!

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To celabrate the 60th anniversary of the Desert Boots, Clarks Original takes us down the memory lane with their six new unique designs.Each of the six styles, three for men and three for women, is inspired by one of the decades, between 1950 -2000, that Desert Boot has been an essential item in your shoe collection.

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Pirates are back on the Runway!

Shark fins, Disney characters, hula skirts and color explosion,  is what Jean-Charles de Castelbajac had served us with in his new sailor/pirate inspired collection.

I guess somebody has to keep pirates in fashion while Jonny is taking a break.

Find more photos like this on CULT

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Hilary Duff made her first appearance in yesterdays Gossip Girl episode. The result is not very unexpected, but still tragic, and wearing something that better left unmentioned.Although Gossip girl could never clam to be an Emmy material, at least until now it was maintaining a certain level of style and looks. With Hilary on board, the show just might have lost that essence.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and understandably enough, the producers are  trying to put as many celebrity guests  on the set as possible to draw attention to the show. However when you don’t have a better package, at least make sure the wrapping is good!

Make no mistake we LOVE  peacock feathers as accessories and can live with it  as a print. We also adore Leigh Lezark, from Misshapes, but seeing her wearing this outfit awakes only one reaction; WTF?!

No matter what kind of exquisite feathers the chicken suit is made of, it is exactly what it is, and we all think that Leigh can do better than posing as a KFC mascot.

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Elle editor, Jade Frampton, presents Diesel’s new female intimate collection at Bloomingdale’s this Saturday, October the 3.

Don’ t miss out on cocktails, deserts, Dj, and exclusive lingerie bag with your own monogram with any Diesel  purchase over 35$  between 1-3 pm.

You can have your cake and get your lingerie too!

Shooting Feist and Seu George, Jorge Camarotti is now working on his first feature documentary  ”Viuvas de Seca”, and we can’t wait to see the results!

Find out more  on Cult Indie.

Insight 51 designs for the modern day part girl,offering a wide range of sexy bathing suits with confetti like prints. They are perfect for sitting in the sun while slinging back a few cocktails on the beach or on board!!!

-Kristen May Anastasia

Here in Los Angeles Angelyne is a living legend. She bought up billboards in Hollywood promoting herself. A genius idea except she wasn’t really talented in anything, except for marketing. A Paris Hilton of the 90′s, if you will. She’s still out and about and the paps still care to take her photos. Angelyne looks to be about 78 now, but lucky for us she still dresses like a Barbie!

Can we expect Paris to dress as classy at Angelyne’s age?

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Is Jennifer Garner bringing barrettes back? Sure everything that is old is bound to be new again, but barrettes? It’s something that no girl has worn since second grade! Hey they’re cheap, easy, and Jennifer Garner deems them chic-good enough for me!

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Hate to rain on King Diddy’s parade but, this ad looks very similar to these Michael Kors ads from 2005. Kors has been pimping the ultra-luxe lifestyle (helicopters, private jets, yachts, etc etc) in his ads for years now.

When it comes to fashion, Diddy is far from King!

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She ain’t nothin but a hoochie mama- 2 LIve Crew

But here are my favs!

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Lily Donaldson, Chanel Iman, and Georgina Chapman star in the Fall 08 Gap campaign. Liv Tyler is also scheduled to be featured in the print ads. Surprisingly, Gap has continues to be ingenious with their advertisements. Although, these are not as poignant as the Gap(red) ads, Gap’s fall campaign sheds words of wisdom. The dramatic black and white ads all have a fun message. Teen supermodel sensation, Chanel Iman’s, phrase is “name your own destiny.” We think she speaks from experience. 

Thanks to Fashionista for the pics!

Seriously what is this? A sailor sleeping bag fashioned into a dress?

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Holly Stalder is a romanticist. Stalder’s flattering silhouettes, use of lace, ruffles and soft colors are reminiscent of the established brand, Rebecca Taylor. Her clothes embody femininity. The Portland, Oregon native is inspired by the 20′s era and antiques. Her inspiration is evident in her pieces and maintain a distinct girly continuity. Holly Stalder is simply elegant. Check out the rest of the collection here!

WHY MAGGIE WHY?

You are one on my short lists of celebrities who don’t make me gag! You aren’t typical and that’s what I, and others, like about you.

Subversive art students, like myself, fell a little bit in love with you after you made Secretary.

You were one of the only pregnant celebs who didn’t feel the need to do a Demi-inspired nude pregnant layout. And on behalf of the public, ‘We thank you’. Instead you posed in those beautiful Agent Provocateur ads.

But what is this?

This should be a lesson to everyone silk-satin will give you paunch, no matter how much you weigh, it would even give Nicole Richie paunch.

It’s not even that the black jumpsuit is bad, all you had to do was belt it!

And you wonder why you are often placed on the worst dressed lists….

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Betsey Johnson: Beautiful Betsey Johnson frocks are up to 75 percent off;Through 7/22.

Millennium Broadway Hotel, 145 W. 44th St., nr. Sixth Ave., seventh fl.; 10–7:30.

                                                            Acne Jeans

                                                             Staerk 

Acne Jeans: teams up with Staerk, amazingly we can get both brands for 50 to 70 percent off at the joint sample sale. Through 7/24.  

145 W. 18th St., nr. Seventh Ave. (212-388-0339); Tues. (1–8); Wed. and Thurs. (10–8).

Stop at the James Jeans sample sale. Prices range between $25 and $80. Through 7/24.

500 Greenwich St., nr. Spring St., Ste. 202 (212-221-4603); Tues. (9–7); Wed.–Thurs. (9–5:30).  

Sales won’t last for long! 

(The only time I’ve liked this Miu Miu dress)

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And the ‘Making of the Ad’:

Last week Star magazine called for Mary Kate Olsen to get her bony ass into rehab. But judging by these photos, I say Mary Kate needs a Style Rehab. What the fuck is this seriously. It’s like Blossom went to a bondage shop. Gladiator boots with cut-off’s, how classy. Come on MK you have the money to dress better than this.

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Here she is leaving her NYC hotel rocking a Gatsby influenced look. Notice the matching shoes and bag! I am loving the 1920′s golf shoes. And she has some balls to go bra-less

Here she is in another 1920′s looking ensemble, at The Tonight Show. She looks like an updated flapper. The hair, that dress, and those bootie-heels! Love, love, love!

This is my favorite look: With so many stars trying to wear jumpsuits, Selma is the only one who gets it right. The length of the short is perfect and the dramatic sleeves give it a more formal look.

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This photo proves the Micheal Jackson has removed all the mirrors in his home, so he doesn’t have to look at himself. But we have to! Doesn’t he know that we all dress for other people not ourselves?

[Faded Youth]

As you can see by these photos fashion may have changed but Armani hasn’t.

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This is what the corporate people at Miu Miu told WWD about the ads: “The impact and drama of the images continue the enduring dialogue of Mrs. Prada, a conversation concerning the subject of womanhood in our times. At once a deconstruction and a pure visual composition, the campaign addresses the exploration of beauty in conjunction with intellect, imagination and divergence.”

Really? All of that from one image?! Looks like this fashion brand takes themselves way too seriously! It’s a pretty image that looks like a piece of art. Nothing more. I don’t think that expensive leather bag and satin wetsuit is going to be solving the problem of sexism that women face in the work place. So lets enjoy it for what it is.

Here is the outfit Paradis is modeling. Notice that each suit is outfitted with the models initials.

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The Cover: Photo circa 1998, minimal amount of photoshop. I’m pretty sure they put her head on someone elses’ body. It’s Russian Marie Claire, they aren’t on the top of anyone’s list.

The Editorial: Photos circa 2008, massive amount of photoshop. And she doesn’t look at day over 129!

You can hide your face with a mask, but we know it’s you, Paris.

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FI:. What is your concept behind John Ferdiand?

MA:The concept behind John Ferdinand was to create a contemporary
lifestyle brand for the global nomad. We’re starting with jewellery,
but we plan to do leather goods and other items in the future.
Initially we planned to solely target men but interesting, many women
really like our jewellery collection too so we broadened our
definition a bit and arrived at the “global nomad” as our perfect
customer. We’re still designing mostly for men but gotta keep the
women happy as they’re a really important core of our fan base
already.

FI: Where do you get your inspirations from?
MA: I get inspired by urban life in Hong Kong, where I’ve lived for 15
years.. but also from our travels around Asia. I go to Bali every
couple of months to visit our workshop there and just chill out and
recharge the batteries. Bali is incredibly inspiring. I’ve even been
inspired by white river rafting there.

FI: What city/location do you get the most influence from?
MA: Hmm thats a tricky question. I guess Hong Kong, but Bali is always in
the back of my mind. Hong Kong has such a wonderful energy and
modernity to it, and visually its quite inspiring — and more often –
overwhelming. Bali is right at the other end of the spectrum, way
more creative and colourful, and everyone there is just so lovely and
creative. Our aim is to blend the influence from those two worlds to
create something beautiful.

FI: What is your process in creating a piece?
MA: We start with a mood board, basically a pasteup board with imagery
from magazines.. it defines the visual style for the collection, the
mood, the colours, sometimes even a place or era in the world, and
textures and forms. This is really the starting point. From that, I
dream up a 3 dimensional form on paper, and make a model. At this
stage its really looking at proportions and how things work on the
body. From there, I extend the concept across the range of items to
create a collection, juggling the proportions and cleaning up the
concept so it presents as a unified collection. Then we have a list
of items and we take a very hard look at them and edit out the items
which don’t seem as strong, or dont work, or dont add anything to the
collection. Our collections are very tight and focussed. From those
drawings I think about colour and materials, and go to my workshop and
then being a whole collaboration process to figure out what is
possible, how it will be made.

Once the workshop is started on it, they make wax models which we
approve, and they make moulds and masters and cast the items to create
samples. Once we’ve approved or refined the samples, then we move to
production. From concept to production is about 3 months. We’d like
to get that down to 6-8 weeks but already we’re way ahead of the
development curve most fashion brands are working on much longer cycle
times.

FI: How did you decide to only use sterling silver and ebony, have you considered using other materials?
MA: When we sat down to write the business plan we did a list of materials
we loved and hated. Wood and silver were on the “love” list. We
love silver, it looks modern, its relatively easy to work with and
more affordable than gold, although the price of silver is up a lot
too. We’re also looking at platinum-silver alloy too in future. We
ended up using ebony because our workshop had experience with it, and
its very hard and stable, and has a gorgeous grain. Its really
perfect. The problem is its a rainforest timber, so its endangered.
We’ve got a great sustainability story though, the wood we use is from
plantation timber, as is actually offcuts from furniture making. Its
stuff that would have been thrown away. We love being able to say
this, people really care about sustainability now, and its a really
important part of what we do.

Right now we’re finalising some very limited edition bracelets for
women in leather, with silver panels inlaid with mother of pearl and
antique kimono fabric. Its part of a collaboration we’re doing with
Kazumi Nakanishi from Chako (www.chakotkyo.com) who does fabulous
one-off bags. We’re doing the bracelets to match Kazumi’s bags.
We’re both tremendously excited about that. We’re launching those in
a few weeks.

The next collection which should go into production in April is using
silver and inlays of snake skin, and possibly other fabrics or
materials if we can solve a few technical issues. There’s a very
long list of materials we want to use.. and not enough time to get to
them.

FI: How do you feel designing jewelery differs from designing clothing?

MA: Jewellery design to me is way more emotional than clothing design.
There’s a real mystical element to jewellery design. People are
really buying an emotion, a memory of a time or a place or a person.
We have customers who tell me they NEVER taking their John Ferdinand
pieces off. They even go hiking in them. There’s something
incredibly timeless about good jewellery. People buy jewellery to
ground themselves, to connect with something very deep inside their
soul. They’re really connected with the pieces, and even the back is
important, something that only the wearer will see or know about. if
you study the history of jewellery you can see it has always formed a
very important symbolic and totemic part of people’s lives.

Clothing design on the other hand is much more trend and fad driven,
and of course its very practical. We need to wear clothes. I’ve got
a book on jewellery from the Victorian era which I, and most of my
friends would wear in a heartbeat. I doubt we’d wear the clothes from
that era though.

So I think jewellery is often about helping the customer connect with
some internal motivation, like remembering a loved one, whereas
clothes, to me are a more external motivation for the customer. They
want to good or show off some particular label. People seem more
concerned about being fashionable in clothes. In jewellery, at least
from speaking with our customers, its much more internal, more private
and personal. Its about being grounded and feeling whole, in harmony,
or perhaps nostalgic.

FI: Starting a new business must be quite a headache.. what’s on your mind?
MA: Right now our biggest challenge is getting broader retail exposure and
distribution. We’d love to hear from any independent boutiques and
retailers who are keen to carry our collection. Right now we have
zero retail exposure in the US market so we’ve got a lot to do to get
the brand out in front of people. Our collection is really tactile
and people need to see it for themselves.
To see for yourself.. check out www.johnferdinand.com

Hannah Marshall’s third collection, aptly named Code Black, is a call to the strong woman. Inspired by female icons such as Siouxsie Sioux, Grace Jones and Alison Mosshart, as well as panels of steel armor, it is meant to protectively conceal and reshape the female form, focusing on the shoulders, evoking power and emotion. Her signature black dresses have taken on sharp silhouettes and a fabric contrast between hard leathers and soft chiffons. My favorite pieces are a leather cardigan dress with sheer sleeves, a deep v-neck panel dress, a tailored mini with seam detailing and rouched sleeves, and a loose velvet t-shirt dress. An interesting detail, each piece is braille coded with the collections name inside.