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The New York Times Style Magazine will feature a new website that will feature celebrity designer guest bloggers . Proenza Schouler designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez will kick things off on Monday, blogging a minimum of five entries throughout the week. The next week will feature Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton, who will blog about their upcoming exhibit, “blog.mode: addressing fashion.” In January 2008, the website with have guest bloggers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of Dolce & Gabbana, as well as Rick Owens.

Kinda loving this ghetto-fab “Nail Wrap” by Bijules NYC, especially the hissing snake, wrapped around the nail.

The best outfits from the New Museum party in New York on Wednesday.

Hedi Slimane, the man who used to head Dior Homme, but more importantly, the man whose razor-thin black suits revolutionized menswear, is now heading his own photography exhibit “Perfect Stranger.” His exhibit opened yesterday in Paris at Galerie Almine Rech and will feature Hedi’s explorations with “vaporous abstractions.”

To see more on what Hedi Slimane will be doing in the future, check out this Hint Mag interview.

(From the pages of Vogue Dec 2007)

The classic ( well, classic because it’s been around for ten years now) Fendi Baguette is now available in white-canvas with a set of 48 Pantone markers and a logo-embossed wooden box to allow the buyer to color and decorate their Fendi anyway they choose.

This package goes for $5,500. The original Fendi Baguette goes for $2,720. So I guess a set of 48 Pantone markers (which can be found for less than $120) and the logo-embossed box ( it’s a box ,c’mon!) jacks the price up $2,780.

For Spring 2008, the next celebrity faces to head fashion campaigns are Jennifer Connelly for Balenciaga, Kirsten Dunst for Miu Miu, and Victoria Beckham for Marc Jacobs.

Jennifer Connolly still looks exactly the way I remember her in The Rocketeer, and that was 17 years ago!

For Fall 2007, Jen Kao focuses sophisticated high-end wear packed with street credibility. Detail and functionality are the core for this designer. Her individual pieces are adjustable, in that the wearer can change shape with their mood.

These are the sketches by Roberto Cavalli for the Spice Girls World Tour. An updated though still reminiscent look.

This is Thousand Reason’s Why debut collection ” The Junk Generation.” Started by Ben Turner and Daniel Lindsay in Melbourne, the boys behind the brand are pleased to find their items stocked in stores across Australia.Their Summer 07/08 line is a fantastic plastic array of loud prints and colors and the theme revolves around the pleasures we encountered as children.

From the Opening Party of Silver And Gold And Gold And Silver Pop-Up Store

Joining the increasingly popular pop-up store frenzy, Silver Spoon Attire has opened their first Silver Spoon Attire shop space in London, in collaboration with their friends Real Gold. This short-lived store will be reminiscent of “that place” in early ’90s movies where all the cool ( and un-cool) kids went to hang out. Silver and Gold and Gold and Silver is at 2 Ganton Street, London until Christmas time.

Each country has their own people dedicated to a tradition of technique and craftsmanship. Coopa-Roca, a community outreach program in fashion based in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, was founded in 1981 to provide and improve safe working conditions for it’s members who are living in Rocinha, to work from home, and thus be able to contribute to family survival without neglecting their familial duties.Coopa-Roca, which stands for the Handicraft and Sewing Cooperative of Rocinha Ltd, uses traditional Brasilian techniques such as embroidery, crochet, knitting, and patchwork. The cooperative has over 100 talented members, and has gained international reputation for the quality of their work and for being an exemplary socially inclusive project.The cooperative members have colloborated with top designers such as Carlos Miele. These craftswomen will also get their own fashion show called “So Ethic” at the up-coming Paris fashion show.

The Billionaire Boys Club opened Tuesday to a warm reception. People waited outside the store to get a sneak peek of the merchandise offered. Though it is closed today for a private party, BBC will open its doors to the public again on Thursday, November 29.

In Portland, Oregon, Stand Up Comedy has just been added to all quirky delights the city has to offer.Coming from an avant-garde viewpoint, the focus of the store is conceptual design and the interaction between art and fashion. Stand Up Comedy carries a range of experimental fashions, with international designers like Acne, Pelican Avenue, Pleasure Principle, Wood Wood, and a plethora of other unique and ironic designers.

For winter, take a look at Sandra Backlund’s newest collection, and her origami style knits for more interesting ways to wear knits. Stay warm, look amazing.

Started by Carly Margolis and Ophir Tanz, Cavern was a life-long dream by two design-oriented friends who saw a need for an industry renaissance in interior design. The two aim to bring abstracted natural elemnts into urban spaces, and the designs are all inspired from the natural world and clean lines of mid-century modern architecture. At the top is the Cavalry wallpaper. From afar, it looks very graphic and stylized. However, the pattern seen is actually 2 mirrored horse heads.

With stores already in Tokyo and Hong Kong, Billion Boys Club/Ice Cream is opening up their third store as a flagship in New York. The store will carry some items that will be exclusive to their NY store, like the baby blue Boardflip sneakers.

We all thought that the Neo Californian Posh or even Donatella Versace will by taking care of the wardrobe for the Spice Girl last tour, but apparently it seems that its Cavalli himself who will design the costumes…

Master in the Art of Glamorous VIP, Roberto Cavalli is really happy to be the one in charge of the re-imaging of the Spice girls. From the five Spice Girls, its Victoria Beckham that has the in with Roberto. She is the one that asked him to design the outfits for the crew.  He has designed a few silver outfits for all of them.

Really cool limited ( due to the availability of fabrics ) collection Vane Clothing have some nicely cut hoodies, sweaters and women pieces And if you’re in New York, make sure to swing by Union or Reed Space or on her online shop there’s some cool shit sitting there…

Exquisite sewing skills are a fashion forecast for this fall. Truly impeccable works of art,investing in a piece or two would be smart, as these specific garments will be staples/classics.

From Left to Right:  Antonio Berardi, Lanvin,Christopher Kane,

Louis Vuitton held a contest a Central St. Martins for 2007 Christmas window display. The winning entry’s designs must feature the product and be compatible to the different store sizes of the LV windows around the world. Marcos Villalba and Christopher Lawson won with their Latitude 48,914/Longituude 02.286. Their idea was inspired by the area around Asnieres, where the original Vuitton workshop is based. The design was a topographical map, made from layers of Balsa wood. Latitude 48,914/Longituude 02.286 will be displayed in Paris, Hong Kong, and New York.

A concurrent theme for Spring 2008 amongst the designers was Asian-inspired prints. Elements of Japanese, Chinese and Korean dress were infused in their designs. The Maxmara Communist China look is hot.

First Row: Martin Grant, Maxmara,

Second Row: Prada, Rubin Singer,

Third Row: Yohji Yamamoto, Dior

First Season: Mercedes-Benz 2008 Berlin

After the success of their initial season in Berlin, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is headed back to Deutschland for Fall/Winter 2008 Collections. The show will be at the Postbanhof from January 27 to 31. The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin Spring/Summer 2008 season preview was a global platform for local up-and-coming designers as well as a showcase for international brands in Northern Europe, attracting almost 10,000 attendees. Headliners include Hugo, Anglomania by Vivienne Westwood, Strenesse, Michalsky, and Rudolf Dassler for Puma. The upcoming season will feature designers such as Heiress, Marcel Ostertag, Strenesse, and Unrath & Strano at the Postbahnhof location, as well as Hugo, Michalsky, and Rudolf Dassler for Puma at off-site locations.

We’ll be sure to keep you posted for our favorited shows, outfits, and all things fashion related.

Young Belgium designer Peter Bertcsh just won the Festival de Hyères, with jury such as Christian Lacroix, Kim Jones and many more… Some of the jury thought that he we too handsome and that his collection was too perfect ! Funny…
We love his collection ” half plant, half human “

You can find the runway show pictures on his page at the Antwerp Fashion School