We tell you all the time that music is a great source of inspiration for tons of designers everywhere. It’s only a matter of time before people started to wonder what that music was, and now you can listen to it! The website Tonic has launched a Celebrity Ipod Auction Series. Listen to all of your beloved designers’ favorite tunes. Every week a new group of signed ipods is up for auction.

 The auctions are all intended to benefit Music Rising, an organization that works to replace damaged or lost instruments in a particular hurricane affected region.  This week Donna Karan and Marc Jacobs are on the list!

Alice Temperley has closed the door on the runway show in London, stating that the economy is a bitch yada, yada, yada.  This is one of the first London based designers to skip the runway in exchange for the modeless presentation/installation route.

The designer is currently working on a presentation to take place in New York, London and Paris in association with MILK Studios and Starworks.

If this is a route more and more designers take we could be seeing to the end of fashion week as we know it.

Source Fashionista – Temperley Ditches the Runway.

Alice Temperley has designed the One & Only Tipi by Temperley London, which is now offered to guests at One & Only Le Saint Géran. The 17 foot-tall tent is hand-stitched and decorated with jewels with a Parisian glass chandelier–perfect for romantic escapes, yoga, lavish spa treatments or a fine “glampfire” dinner.

Can someone please explain to me why anyone would need a jewel encrusted tipi with a chandelier (you are in the middle of the beach for god’s sake)? Honestly, I guess in exclusive resorts or spas, but do we need designers hand stiching these. Only for the rich and famous…

Thanks FashionWeekDaily for pointing this out.