Un Lapin Chic

he always adorable Fifi has donned her SS 08 Temperley best for vacay this week. Reviewing how fantastic that show was, I felt the need to share.

Super Duper DvF

uperlatives were always the best part of yearbooks, no?


Elle gave out a few of their own for the New York Spring/Summer 2008 shows.

They named the collaboration between Diane Von Furstenberg and Cutler and Gross "some of the season’s chicest sunglasses."

[Source: Elle]

Below, Caroline Trentini, Chanel Iman, Megan McNierney and Han Jin are indeed wearing the sunnies most likely to succeed.


[Source: Style.com]

I'm Feeling Yummy Head to Toe

orget fall's looming duldrums. Its Spring/Summer 2008, baby! Well, in the Ready-to-Wear world, anyway.


I (ticketless, of course) walked by the Bryant Park shows last night at 8 PM, eager to catch a peek of Miss Gwen Stefani and her L.A.M.B. show, but to no avail.

Here's what I would have caught inside: models Georgia Frost and Ines Crnokrak keeping the white wayfarer trend alive both on the runway and in their standard hamming-it-up-backstage photos with Chanel Iman.

[Source: Style.com]

Bottega Backstage [F/W 2007]

hhhh, to be adorned in $1,500 shades and born in 1989. I'd be looking as smug as Chanel Iman does backstage at the Bottega Veneta Fall/Winter 2007 show.

[Source: Style.com]

Dollar Dollar Bills Y'all

imes are tough, y'all. And shades are spendy.


Courtesy of August's Harper's Bazaar:

[Source: Harper's Bazaar]

WWD.com also profiled the costly sunglasses trend in "Accessories Now: Turn Up the Price Points".

Call me crazy, but fifteen hundred bucks for sunglasses is just much too much. Chanel Iman looks cute in them, though.

In my opinion, these Bottega Veneta BV55/S sunglasses with antique brass for $350 are plenty nice. Available on bottegaveneta.com.

Milan II

omas Maier's Autumn/Winter 07 show for Bottega Veneta was praised as being "individualistic and beautifully grown-up." I think Chanel Iman's sunglasses from this week's show fits that description.

[Souce: Style.com]

Bold Faced Names in Big Shades

arlier this week, Michael Kors hosted his Autumn/Winter 07 Ready-to-Wear line which featured a simple pairing of superlux materials (ie: cashmere and fur) with his signature glamorous Americana sportswear. And of course, some of the biggest names on the American runways.

Cathy Horyn had a similar take on the designer's show in her "Cutting to the Bone Without Angst" review:

"One look at the leggy models at Michael Kors’s show yesterday, at their tweed miniskirts, their luxe urban parkas, crocodile bags and swinging clean hair, and you sort of felt the designer was saying: “Oh, let’s not make it complicated. Decadence? Moral decay? Embrace it!”

The show was good clean fun, with the emphasis on classic fabrics like flannel and herringbone done in sexy shapes. A chestnut cable-knit cashmere dress spilled off the shoulders, and there were fur-trimmed parkas in Prince of Wales nylon as well minidresses and shrugs. It was Kors light and easy."

[Source: NYTimes]

And the shades! While there was nothing revolutionary here -- men in aviators, oversized Jackie O's for the ladies -- the sunglasses enhanced the overall Aspen-chic feel of the show.

[Source: Style.com]
1. Hilary Rhoda; 2. Freja Beha Erichsen; 3. Doutzen Kroes; 4. Behati Prinsloo; 5. Chanel Iman; 6. Raquel Zimmermann and Caroline Winberg backstage; 7. Anouck Lepère; 8. Coco Rocha; 9. Emina Cunmulaj; 10. Mr. Kors himself.

A similar (but not identical) look by Mr. Kors is available for less than $100 on his website:
Cost: $80
Colors: Black, Green, Tortoise
Retailer: MichaelKors.com