Lately, designers have been uprooting from the usual digs and moving to completely different cities to work and show their collections in.

She's bacccccckkk.

On September 9th, Kate Moss will be dropping her autumn/winter collection at Topshop. Apparently, there will be lots of "printed chiffon, intricate embroidery, mohair knits, and dropped waist dresses" in this winter wardrobe.

The all-important September issue of Vogue has dropped and the majority of it is ads. But after collecting this particular issue over the past couple of years, we already knew that was going to happen.

No, the real surprise is actually the cover girl, Keira Knightley. First, because the last time she was on the cover of Vogue it was one of the fashion glossy's lowest selling issues of that year. And secondly, Keira had just made an appearance on the cover of the mag not too long ago. Plus, Keira, while we for the most part love her films, has always seemed quite boring to us.

Anyways, Vogue managed to get the actress to do a little interview at her cover shoot with Mario Testino while she was trying on Balenciaga. In this clip, she discusses being a femme fatal and playing different roles in her photographs.

Urlesque just made our day. They took the time (and we're guessing they enjoyed it) to put together this collection of the "Top 5 SNL Skits About Jeans."

We couldn't help but noticing that all of the videos are fairly old. The Mom Jeans clip is already considered a classic at this point and everything else is from even older casts. Where's the love SNL? Aren't jeans still funny? Where's Andy Samberg's jean short about jean shorts? Laser Cats can't touch denim blue gold in a box!

At least we have these gems. SNL and Urlesque, we thank you from the bottom of our Bad Ideas.


The two we featured are our favorites, but they're all good. See them all at Urlesque!

The gossip rags are saying that the May-December romance of the century, Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer, is over. So soon? But they didn't even have a cute name yet!

Actually we are delighted for Jen, especially since People reports that she looks better than ever. John Mayer is such a tool, and he's had an insidious effect on the style of previous girlfriends, most notably Jessica Simpson.

As huge Tim Gunn fans, we've been waiting for the second season of Tim Gunn's Guide To Style, seemingly forever. Bravo finally announced that we'll see new episodes starting on October 2nd, at 11 pm, which would be a bizarre time if anyone ever watched anything live anymore. Thank you Tivo!

There was buzz that they were going to rework the show, and now we know that at least one of the changes is a new fashion accomplice. The beautiful but disproving Veronica Webb will be replaced by stylist Gretta Monahan, who we can already tell is way more fun. For a preview of her makeover style, check out this video of her helping a girl actually look like a girl.

Gretta's from Boston, so we automatically like her. She's on Rachel Ray all the time, and has that same gravelly voice and perkiness, which is good in small doses. And she sorta reminds us of makeover queen Stacy London, but without the evil ability to make us cry.

We can't wait to watch Gretta go through some underwear drawers!

Oh, Marc. What would we do without your cryptic ad campaigns and over-the-top runway productions?

Being the Marc Jacobs fiends that we are, we're constantly checking out his brand's website for images of the season's new handbags, footwear, and all of that covetable ready-to-wear that makes us swoon every time we check out the complete looks over at Style.com.

And a couple of weeks ago, our boy put up a very peculiar looking home screen to keep us perusing his fabulous site a little bit longer. As Fashion Week Daily points out, Marc has just put a video of perfectly coiffured drag queens doing some epic lip-syncing routine that would put all of B. Spears' MTV performances to shame. Don't believe us? Check it out for yourselves here.

We haven't heard any new music from Mr. Justin Timberlake in a while, but that may change next month with his two upcoming fashion related appearances.

After crooning for the folks lucky enough to snag a ticket to the Fashion Rocks event being held on September 5th, the Grammy award winner will be rushing over to the tents to present his line of denim jeans, William Rast. This will be the second time ever the collection is given a proper runway production.

The brand has been suffering from slagging sales, so it was recently bought by a new set of owners. However, they asked Justin to front the brand this season, alongside supermodel Erin Wasson. Expect to see a lot more photos of the sexy duo in tight jeans!


[via WWD]

Haven't you ever walked by a store window, or seen an ad for something and thought, "Boy, I'd like to buy that right now without setting foot in a store"? Ralph Lauren is working hard to make that happen, by launching into mobile commerce (m-commerce) which will allow potential consumers to scan a code on a display, ad, or mailer with their phones and shop for the Polo items they adore.

To do this, the company will use Quick Response Technology, which is already popular in Asia and Europe. This makes Polo the first luxury retailer in the U.S. to do so.

Despite the fact that men prefer size 10, the idea that skinny models = tons of women with body image issues has been a hot topic for crusading do-gooders for decades. But with all the outrage over the supposedly sickly-looking models, nobody's ever been able to put a stop to the anorexic reign of size zeros. Even now, the UK's best chance at banning "unhealthy" models in the looks like it's wilting away.

The British government has been eyeing new regulations that would require catwalk models to pay for a £500 ($933) health exam and certificate before they could do any work on the runway. While we think that seems kinda steep, it actually gathered a lot of support. Now, without similar bans in major fashion cities like New York or Milan, London is worried about all kinds of negative fallout -- especially at London Fashion Week.

Other, less-severe measures are being put in place to protect the health of British models, like promoting a drug and alcohol free backstage environment. Why alcohol-free?

[via Jezebel]

Last night, each designer was asked to sketch an outfit that could go from the boardroom to an evening out. Afterwards, they pitched their looks to Brooke Shields, who was the resident guest judge this week, and she in turn chose her favorite five ensembles . Like seasons past, the five winners then chose a partner to work with on bringing their sketch on paper to life.

When we were in the sixth grade, we already had a pretty firm grip on reality and pretty much knew that talk shows like Jerry Springer and Rikki Lake were for our amusement more so than they were for us to, well, learn anything from.

So we know that some of our fabulous readers, while extremely wise and intelligent, are probably that of a younger breed, which is why we want to inform you guys of this really cool contest Teen Vogue is currently running:

Anyone who thinks their outfits are just aching for a couple of minutes of fame can upload snapshots of themselves to Teen Vogue for a chance to be featured in the style mag's coveted pages. In addition, runner-ups could receive a Jill Stuart handbag or a $500 gift certificate to Shopbop.

Good luck!

Another week. Another episode of Project Runway. While we're slowly starting to like this season's set of designer's, the guest judges have had us sold since day one. Our favorite so far has been Miss Natalie Portman in all of her vegan-ess, but Apollo Ohno was very impressive with his selective eye in the Olympic fashion challenge.

Thanks to boring styles, plummeting consumer spending, and a tendency to leave their employees with Post Retail Folding Disorder, the Gap has finally been overtaken by as the world's largest clothing retailer. All hail the new #1: Spain's mega fashion retailer Zara, who we've really never even heard of. The chain, based in A Coruña, Spain, has apparently been a dominating force in Europe and Latin America -- but has only a handful of stores in the US.

Zara's parent company Inditex has managed to spread its successful chain of stores far and wide by some kind of weird business model that involves keeping up with the latest trends in fashion -- something that the Gap probably should have been focusing on. Zara's unique model includes in-house design teams and encourages staff members to point out any new trends to keep the designers up to date. Not only that, but Zara apparently spends very little on advertising. Instead, they use their stores as a means of drawing attention to their brands.

Sure, the Victoria Secret fashion show has all of those supermodels, but it's sort of sanitized sexiness. Plus you know that everything in the show will eventually turn up a mall near you, piled on a table next to a pyramid of "Pink-scented" lotion.

If you want creativity and adventure in your underwear, you have to check out the new Triumph Inspiration Awards. An international design competition for students, this year the theme was Female Fascination. Designers from 31 countries participated and the judges included supermodel Helena Christensen, Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf, and noted sexy photographer Ellen von Unwerth.