London Fashion Week

Sass and Bide

TopShop

Alexa Chung at the Mulberry show

Basso and Brooke

LaQuan Smith Lets Them Eat Cake: Spring 2011 Collection

Fashion Week mania has bitten the dust and I am back at home caring for my sick kitty cats. I'm hoping for the best for them. Similarly, I'm also thinking positive thoughts for LaQuan Smith who recently unveiled his Spring 2011 collection at the Peninsula Hotel.

According to Fashionista: Guests were seated at round tables and models sashayed about the room pausing at each table to strike a pose. Only this season, as evidenced by the celeb-packed room, buzz has built around this young designer. While Andre Leon Talley has supported LaQuan since the beginning, for his second show, Talley brought along Diane von Furstenberg. Sandra Bernhard and Common were there (not together), and Serena Williams closed the show (maybe she is back with Common?).

Lots of Versailles-inspired looks. Marie Antoinette served as Smith's muse as he imagined her in present-day, “[doning] only Haute Couture luxury while mixing in extreme lighthearted gaudiness.” I love the glitter-glamour of the gemstone embellished tunics and feathered two-pieces, evoking thoughts of 1970s Brian Eno.

Welcome Back, Peter Lindbergh

Fashionista.com reports that July’s American Vogue features fashion great Peter Lindbergh’s first spread for the publication in 18 years. Lindbergh shot Natalia Vodianova and Ewan McGregor acting out family scenes in a setting that’s part Mad Men and part A Single Man.

YSL Resort Is On & Popping With Pretty!

From Fashionista: "Would I wear this collection? Absolutely. I’d wear nearly every pretty piece."

Nice Rack

I don't know how I feel about the new Nordstrom Rack opening in Union Square but I do know that I was brought up to love a good deal. My father, a Lacoste searsucker suit wearing clotheshorse, loves a sale. "They are just giving everything away!" my father would boast after New Jersey mall shopping day.

I'm more apt to check out a sample sale for deep discounted finds as opposed to visiting a discount retailer.

Will you shop at Nordstrom Rack?

Fashionista is Fun

Fashionista asks who did Dior Couture better: American Vogue's Tonne Goodman/Mario Testino feature of this pink and purple Dior couture gown with Sarah Jessica Parker or Vogue UK's version with a Lucinda Chambers-styled/Dorothea Barth Jorgensen-modelled pictorial by Paolo Roversi.

I'm going with Lucinda on this one.