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Model Carmen Kass Shares Some Fashion Tips While Designer Reet Aus Takes Eco Chic To A New Level

Retail Remedy: A fashion collection that self-recyles adds a new spin on being fashionably green Everyday we hear recycle, recycle and more recycle. And now, Estonian designer Reet Aus had made it her fashion statement. With the help of her well-known supermodel friend Carmen Kass, Reet presented her collection last Friday at Beyond 7, at the retail launch of edgy fashion showroom Showroom Seven last Friday in New York's Meatpacking area. The Reet Aus collection is made entirely of the recycled materials. Designer Reet Aus But, here's the spin that makes this collection really edgy and intriquing... We are promised that the designer will not create a new collection every two weeks. However, the collections she creates uses organic materials

Forget Worst Dress, Miley Cyrus Wears the Stupidest Dress We’ve Seen In a While

Mr. Blackwell must be turning over on this one! Miley Cyrus in her TP inspired number We really hate to mean because she is still young and have to admit that in some odd way this outfit is better than a pole dancer's getup. So let's just think of this as a fashion courtesy. Afterall, shouldn't friends tell friends when they have toilet paper stuck to them? At last night's AMA Awards, Miley Cyrus walked the red carpet in what appeared to look like a mega roll of toilet paper that gathered up in her undies and unrolled itself into a infiniteless train down the the red carpet. We understand that it is the American Music Awards and Miley probably

Martha Stewart Keeps The Style Coming with Michael Kors

Reason Number 999 to love Martha Stewart: Oh, snap! That's what Martha said when an audience member asked her how to make 18 dozen cookies in a post-show question yesterday. Then, of course, Martha got down to business with her no-nonsense, down-to-earth way of mastering any task with style I had the pleasure of being invited to yesterday's edition (you can catch the encore today at 1 PM ET) of THE MARTHA STEWART SHOW on The Hallmark Channel. The audience enthusiasm was palatable- notwithstanding the warm-up guy who kept the energy high, these were dedicated everywoman (and a few men) fans of Martha who couldn't get enough of their mistress of haute home ec. I have to say that

In the Realm of the Fashion Senses

Retail Remedy: New shop to focus on foreign & lesser known trendy designers A REALM is a dominion of a monarch or other sovereign ruler. It is also happen to be the name of the new high fashion boutique that just opened in the heart of New York's SOHO at 98 Greene Street by Randi Jacobson. Blake Lively at the Realm boutique opening The idea of the boutique came to Randi after being unable to get access to less known trendy designers that dwell outside of US. Jacobson decided to represent them in New York and establish her own REALM where she rules fashion. The store is spacious and eclectic. Last week there was an official opening fit to a

Giorgio Armani From Sketch to Star, Naomi Watts in Fair Game and The Modern Power Suit

Heightened Reality: The Giorgio Armani film fashions echo the real life Armani wardrobe of Valerie Plame Wilson Giorgio Armani is no stranger to dressing strong woman both as leading ladies and in real life. What's interesting this time is that Armani's collaboration with with costume designer Cindy Evans on select wardrobe looks for the Naomi Watts character, Valerie Plame Wilson in the film, "Fair Game" is based on reality. “Giorgio Armani's clothes are modern and feminine, always making me look my best and confident. This became even more important when I found myself, reluctantly, placed in the public eye,” says Plame Wilson. Couldn't think of a better wardrobe to "scoot" around in... Valerie Plame Wilson wore Giorgio Armani while the

Lanvin for HM Official Video Look Book Looks Great

Cheap(er) Chic: It's not a project that is a dress for less-- Alber Elbaz, Artistic Director of Lanvin We've got our hands on the official Lanvin H&M look and you will want to watch and covet! Come November 23 Lanvin for H&M will hit in around 200 H&M stores worldwide with November 20 scheduled for lucky us in North America. But what's more interesting is that this is not a super cheap chic H&M budget fashionta collab. Think of this gorgeous collection that marks a luxury debut for H&M at prices substantially lower than "real" luxury. Cheap(er)chic, if you will with many dresses and coats coming in at $199. View the official video LANVIN ¦ H&M LOOK BOOK: Lanvin for

Club Monaco Launches at Shopbop Now

Here's a capsule collection that wins my approval! If you want effortless chic at an affordable price, you'll love this curated collaboration... In all honesty, the whole collaboration idea is getting over-saturated and over-rated. Who cares if a high-end handbag designer slaps their name on a plastique bag and sends it out to the masses? It's still an extension of a marketing scheme and something that you wouldn't/shouldn't be caught dead wearing with or without the "designer" name? But every so often there is a colloboration that makes style sense. Club Monaco at Shopbop is one. Club Monaco has been a fashion insider's not-so-secret spot for picking up fashionable pieces without an eyeball bursting price tag. Shopbop has some of

Printemps Paris Store Windows Love New York, Mr. Brainwash Style

Retail Remedy: While we are obsessing about Paris Fashion Week, Primtemps is in LOVE with New York! The grass is always greener on the other side of a trans-Atlantic flight... Here I am living in Paris and fending off questions about the Paris Fashion Week and the Parisain department store Printemps loves New York, my former hometown. Go figure. While Paris is overflowing with some of the most styled out fashion peeps in the world and celebrating French Chic like nobody's business, Printemps is celebrating the Big Apple with these clever window displays. Michael Kors and Campbell's Soup Spray Paint Fifteen iconic New york designers including Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Diane Von Furstenberg, Alexander Wang, Ralph Lauren, Proenza Schueller and

Runway Review: The Anna Sui woman is a frisky pioneer chick by way of the late 1960's, all wrapped up in a very modern package! It's home on a VERY fashionable range for Anna Sui... Twenty years of Anna Sui and it will always be dreamy in my book! Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York went to the countryside for this show of pretty pioneer girls circa 1969 making daisy chains and playing the tambourine! Flirty dresses in mixed prints with fluttering hems were the highlight and perfect for spring paired with soft accessories. >> SHOP: Anna Sui at ShopBop Anna Sui - Spring 2011 Fashion Show Besides the perfectly pretty clothes, there was the accessorizing of feather necklaces, flower head

Runway Review: Something for everyone in this line and I think certain pieces are very wearable no matter what your age A sleek, sexy, confident and practical woman is who will be strutting around in Mackage next Spring 2011. Mackage - Spring 2011 The Mackage presentation at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week was calling out to all ages of smokin' city gals wanting to play up their attitude and stand out in a remarkable, but not extreme, manner. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews If you picture yourself looking for a new outerwear jacket and dress pants I would head to Mackage. Those two items in particular had me wide eyed. >> SHOP: Mackage online Beautifully fit pants in skinny, peg

Runway Review: The sexy and sweet boudoir look is so fun for spring, and especially in these soft champagne and rose colors Playing up the feminine side of dressing has been a key feature at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and the young line Odd Molly certainly wasn't going to take a backseat in that department. Odd Molly - Spring 2011 Fashion Show I will never look down on a girly line, but there is an extreme that Odd Molly hovers on and I feel these delicate, super feminine pieces are best worn pared down, in small doses. >> SHOP: Odd Molly at Farfetch Odd Molly - Spring 2011 Fashion Show Thin knits with shimmering gold were lovely compliments to the silk

Donna Karan- Spring 2011 Lighter, Softer and Very Beautiful

Runway Review: The "Raw Romance" Donna Karan collection, soft yet strong perfection. Most hair stylists will tell you that at a certain age we look better with softer edges and a lighter color. Well, Donna Karan is celebrating her 25th Anniversary in fashion this year and she has all but softened and lightened the look for Spring 2011. >> SEE DONNA KARAN FASHION SHOW PHOTOS- COMPLETE SPRING COLLECTION Once the almost shock of the all sand color palette passed, it was clear that the hallmarks of an urban wardrobe were still present, but this time the city looks were meant to travel to a more relaxed place and time. SHOP: Donna Karan at Bloomingdale's Groisgrain ribbon belts gently defines the

Edition by Georges Chakra NY Fashion Week- Spring 2011

Runway Review: What to wear when life is your red carpet I don't know about you, but I have certainly gotten tired of looking at overdone "Princess" fantasy dresses worn by celebrities on the red carpet. They are ostentatious dresses that often wear the wearer rather than spotlight her total beauty. I'm all for a bit of eccentricity and quirkiness, but when everyone wears the same quirky big number, it all looks the the same. For me, those over-the-top dresses look like a young girl's small town dream of what a "fancy" dress should be rather than an elegant ideal of what a real grown-up woman should wear when she has the opportunity to glam it up. >> Fashion Shows

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