Bookclubbin’: Style Book: Fashionable Inspirations by Elizabeth Walker

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

Great style transcends space and time. From a 19th century Indian colonel in head-to-toe tartan to a 70s supermodel in bright yellow plaid, significant fashion statements will always circle back around. Elizabeth Walker explores this trend phenomenon through historic photographs in her gorgeously-done coffee table staple Style Book: Fashionable Inspirations (Flammarion 2011). If you’re ever wondering how to wear that menswear-inspired suit, vintage fur shawl or those sky-high platforms, let style icons like Diane Keaton, Elton John and Sue Coddington be your guides.

Haute Like Hell: Model Muse Poppy Delevigne Covered In Chanel

Edited by Nicole Vardo

London born style muse and now a model signed to Elite Model Management Poppy Delevigne, attended the Chanel Collection Croisiere Show earlier this month, in the chicness of France, where she rocked the best outfit there, along side Alexa Chung of course.

RED CARPET REPORT CARD: Victoria Beckham in Victoria Beckham

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

In this very royal edition of Red Carpet Report Card, Victoria Beckham will be graded on her Victoria Beckham Fall 2011 dress and custom Christian Louboutin shoes worn to the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in London. See how she looked after the jump.

Tom Ford Gets Wet All Over London

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Selfridges in London has dedicated a liquid window display to the new ad for Tom Ford’s Neroli Portofino, which features a very naked Max Motta and Mariana Braga.

RED CARPET REPORT CARD: Helen Mirren in Dolce & Gabbana

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

In this edition of Red Carpet Report Card, Helen Mirren will be graded on her Dolce & Gabbana look worn to the London Premiere of Arthur. See how she looked after the jump.

RED CARPET REPORT CARD: Jena Malone in Juan Carlos Obando

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

In this edition of Red Carpet Report Card, Jena Malone will be graded on her Juan Carlos Obando Spring 2011 dress and Casadei sandals worn to the London premiere of Sucker Punch. See how she looked after the jump.

Boutique Critique:: Début: Look 5

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

All week you’ve seen the debut of this new column, Boutique Critique, and today brings our first shop Début to the final outfit. This look has a whole lot of that green buzzword about it: Sustainability. Storeowner Lisa Weiss runs her store to be socially and environmentally conscious with the small batch runs of new lines alongside handmade jewelry. Reaching even deeper, Début features several designers who take more radical steps to be sustainable. Such as Christopher Raeburn who takes the philosophy of repurposing to warrior status, and Monisha Raja who brings a whole new meaning to outsourcing with her line Love Is Mighty. Read ahead to see the most eco-loving look yet. And a dash of of pattern mashing.

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Boutique Critique:: Début: Look 3

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

Début is the kind of shop where some jewelry hangs on hangers. Designers are making such radically new creations that owner Lisa Weiss must often come up with creative ways to display them. Those displays are ever changing because the average length of time she carries one designer is about three seasons. In order to maintain her store’s philosophy, she cannot get too loyal to one designer. She must live by the essence of if you love it, let it go… What comes back is the success the designers see upon graduating from Début, knowing where they kicked it all off.

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RED CARPET REPORT CARD: Elisabeth Moss in Roksanda Ilincic

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

In this edition of Red Carpet Report Card, Elisabeth Moss will be graded on her Roksanda Ilincic Spring 2011 look worn to the 2011 Olivier Awards in London. See how she looked after the jump.

Vivienne Westwood at World’s End Eighties Trip

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

Vivienne Westwood‘s influential existence in the realm of fashion evolved through its powerful early stages between 1980-89. The Museum at FIT has gathered photos, press and groundbreaking garments into an exhibit that opened yesterday that demonstrates her profound effect on the punk revolution, and how she garnered international interest for the London fashion scene. She created by the philosophy, not of change, but rather surprisingly of tradition. It is how she manipulated past traditions to fit the changing times that resonated with so many.

“If you look at any movement… it’s people rejecting what’s just behind them and pulling something out of the past.” – Vivienne Westwood, 1986