The tiny mogul and her twin sister both showed up at the Chanel show this morning, highly guarded and looking rather sprightly (and spritely, but that's probably due to the fairy princess trend of the season).

MK + A were joined by Rihanna and a lot of French girls in the front row, but you could tell they were the Americans because they refused to take off their sunglasses the entire time.

As for the collection itself, it was sort of great - very young, nipped at the waist or slouched and super-short, lots of light gray and light blue and black, basically the way we want to look every day but for a lot more money.

A lot of the models wore huge glasses and everyone had dirty hair.

Sarah Lawrence, your time has come.

How much is too much for a mass-produced, "cheap" accessory?

Justin Giunta's latest collection of layered necklaces, bracelets, and earrings retails for higher than we'd expect:

$14.50 for a plastic bangle; $59.50 for the necklace at left.

We really like most of the stuff, but we don't know if we could fork over $60 for a string of Target jangles, especially since we know on clearance, it'll go down to like, $6.03 (the amount of our Erin-for-Target dress).

Since Justin's already made the money from his Target deal, we don't feel guilty if we wait to buy his jewels - but maybe we're being too stingy?

"Art, film and music have nothing to do with fashion asides from fashion, by necessity, having to associate itself with other art forms because it is in itself vapid and cannot stand alone." - Julian Schnabel in Dazed and Confused.

WHICH model took a date with a famous designer's son in hopes of booking their latest campaign?

This season, it seems to be hair color, which has been dulled and deepened until yellow blondes and platinum blondes have all but vanished from the runways.

Some of this season's biggest newbies are Masha Tyelna, Ali Stephens, and Heloise Guerin - all with ashy brown hair. Meanwhile, Mariacarla Boscono seems to be making a major runway comeback, with hair restored back to its natural brown (two years ago, she reigned supreme on the runways with a brand new white-blonde bob).

Meanwhile, Jessica Stam, Tanya Dziahileva, and Karlie Kloss seem to have toned down their sunkissed streaks to match Abby Lee's chamomile tint, and the white-blonde girls among them - Agyness Deyn and Sasha Pivovarova - have crawled home sick.

Does this mean we can cancel our appointment at Bumble & Bumble, and grow everything out?

But perhaps the folks at LVMH also want to scream, since apparently they're paying a hefty bill for taking Karl Lagerfeld's muse and putting her up on a rival catwalk:

We hear Amy will snag $1 million for her appearance, which shakes down to about 1000 Louis Vuitton bags.

Seriously, for that kind of money, she better be getting an LV tattoo on her ass.

Not that we'd ever, ever want to see it...

Although, you know, Juergen Teller probably would.

Oh Forever 21, have you been slacking off?

We've come to expect fast fashion knock-offs - key word being fast. But it took you almost two years to rip-off Marc Jacob's Trish bag.

It debuted on his Fall 06 runway and now it's debuted on your Spring 08 website. While we actually like the grey and black color combination, the "leather" looks like plastic - even on the screen.

We don't understand knocking off handbags in the first place, but if you make a living doing so - do it faster.

"Sure high fashion clothes look better on tall and slender figures, and there is the fantasy and artistic aspect to fashion that asks us to suspend reality. And of course fashion should be taken and interpreted individually. But these models are real 16 year-old girls, who are not only still physically growing, but emotionally, too. Is it fair to ask them to keep off that extra five pounds? Absolutely not. I would love to see a popular designer take a stand and have their models be sizes 6 or 8." - Reader shinyredthermos.

"The fact that she was sent home over five pounds makes me so mad! After all the stink last season about the underweight models, then they turn around and send Ali home, but it seems Lily Donaldson's new bobble-head look is all the rage this season!" - Reader leia.

"This is disgraceful. I had finally warmed up to Ali Michael's look this season, she was positively glowing. If that healthy beauty comes with five pounds, then screw anyone who would tell her she somehow failed as a model. French designers are officially dead to me." - Anonymous reader.

All from yesterday's story on Ali Michael.

Natalie: Topshop releases a floral print mini dress like everyday.

Brett: I know.

Natalie: How did this start?

Brett: Liberty of London?

Natalie: I bet it was the Kate Moss one.

So we were delighted this morning to see not a floral print spaghetti strap ra-ra opening the "New In" page, but a star-print version instead.

Not exactly a 180 degree turn, but still, welcomed and a nice addition to our stash of April-ready clothes.

Thanks, Karl!

We're going to start seeing you around even more?

Fashion obsession Agyness, of course, is the face of the newest Burberry fragrance. And, of course, it's called "The Beat," meant to be a combination of attitude and energy (so edgy, so cool, so street, just like her!)

And the fragrance? Reportedly, "woodsy, sparkling and tea-infused."

As always, Aggy looks stunning. But we're having a hard time taking her facial expressions in the ads seriously -

There's something about the middle pose that says Zoolander a little too knowingly.

Though she does pull off the bra-over-top look quite well.

Well, today we've got one:

Behati Prinsloo.

The 20-year-old Namibian will make her first big appearance for Victoria's Secret next month at the Raleigh Hotel in Miami, when the Pink line has a giant pool and pajama party.

Behati will be joined by veteran VS babe Miranda Kerr, plus Brody Jenner and Frankie Delgado from Laguna Beach... wait, sorry The Hills... wait sorry, Total Uselessness.

Although, we guess anyone from US Weekly will be interested to know they're hosting a bikini party - surely if Brody were still with Lauren Conrad, she wouldn't allow such behavior?

1. Books

2. Buttons

3. Stickers

4. "Rare Vinyl"

5. Furbys

6. Shoes

7. Cory's old gym socks

Be there or be a totally normal, well-adjusted person.

This Sunday at Hotel Amour on the back patio, 8 rue Navarain, Paris - France, not Texas.

March 2nd, 2-7pm - NYLON TV will be there to film the French frenzy.

We imagine it will smell just like Vera Wang Princess.

Except with a $500,000 bonus for driving sales.

And also probably a little bit like "Oh yeah, I meant to see that movie..."

Stay tuned for the ads, which we'll hopefully have soon.

xo.

"If you look at the girls, they are not beautiful like models were 20 years ago...The girls are thin, they have strange faces... At first, you look at them and you're not sure if they're beautiful or disgusting." - Jimmy Pihet, Spokesman for the Federation Française de la Couture, in the Wall Street Journal, in relation to Ali Michael being sent home from Paris for having gained five pounds.

And maybe Stefano Pilati agrees.

The head designer of Yves Saint Laurent has sent out another Manifesto - this time a series of Kate Moss photographs - and decked Houston Street in New York City with giant Kate Moss panels backed with mirrors and glass.

The effect is a little too small for the massive Manhattan energy - and further dwarfed by a Kate Bosworth for Calvin Klein billboard hanging above the YSL space - but it's still pretty cool, if you like Kate and luxury brands and weird branding and all that.

If you're insulted that a company demanding $300 for a t-shirt and $1000 for a dress would deign to use the word "manifesto" as anything but a prediction of their own proletariat demise...

Well, we can't help you there. Kate looks cute though.

It might sound far too busy, but if you took one piece from each, you'd end up in an eye-catching, original outfit that says, "I'm a little bit nutty, but I'm filthy rich, so whatever."

Or, you could just end up in this dress from Reine designer, Mirit Weinstock.

There's baby pink and a bow for Blair, slouchy sexiness for Serena, and an incredibly flattering open back revealing plenty of skin for you-know-who.

So now that we have the perfect dress, we just have to find Chuck. He can't be that bad in real life, right?

UK shopping site Icecool is resurrecting the nameplate in all its tacky glory in honor of of the Sex and the City movie.

But we secretly think (ok, hope) that this has more to do with the comeback of The Hills.

Maybe if Heidi gets one, too, she and Lauren can go back to BFF?

WHICH beautiful socialite is often on the Vogue Best Dressed list despite the fact that she carries counterfeit designer bags? She says she likes them because "they're funny."

While a nice bag can last a lifetime, a white tee will never last more than a year, (you might still have it in your closet, but there's no way it looks good). However, the satisfaction of finding the best-fitting, softest, most flattering t-shirt to be the blank canvas for everything else in your closet is enough to validate its short life span.

Britt guesses she has about twenty white t-shirts ranging from $7 Hanes undershirts to a $100 James Perse linen tee, (the most she's ever spent). But then again that's pretty much all she wears, whether with a brocade skirt or ripped jeans. She's currently lusting after this Alexander Wang version, and would like you to justify the $138 purchase.

Natalie is in the same boat (shoe...ha!), although she usually just stocks up at American Apparel (still overpriced remembering the price of those Hanes.) She's bought a few James Perse items in her past, but she doesn't feel so bad about it, because she knows that you're not just paying for cotton, you're paying for the perfect fit and the ability to practically triple your wardrobe via strategic layering and other slights of fashion.

When it comes down to it, buying a $100 t-shirt might be as ridiculous as buying a $5,000 handbag, except it's more within reach, it'll actually be on your body rather than just to the side, and it's less of a commitment.

Which makes it OK, right?

The stores might start out as adding vintage pieces into existing American Apparel stores, and then branch out into full-scale boutiques of their own.

The concept is rather brilliant especially since Urban Outfitters' vintage line, Urban Renewal, does awfully well - also, the wannabe Strokes who raid American Apparel on a daily basis are also avid thrift shoppers.

Of course, what we're most interested in is a new ad campaign:

Will the American Apparel heads dress up their girls in vintage lingerie and see-through blouses?

Well, we always knew that much like "Halloween," "vintage" was code for "hypersex" in some people's style vocabulary.

I laughed as she rambled about how much make-up she wore circa 1998, when she finally stopped cold turkey (she resumed a year later after everything on her face calmed down.) Apparently, if I wanted my skin to clear up I had to stop covering it up.

Since Natalie's skin literally glows, I took the challenge and I haven't worn face makeup in two weeks, (I have, however, been wearing extra mascara to make up for it), and voila, my skin is clearer than it's been since 1998.

But no makeup at all? I can't do it. Not even to the grocery store. Wearing mascara is as non-negotiable as wearing a bra as far as I'm concerned.

As too-cool as the models at Burberry looked, showing off totally bare faces (not even lip gloss!), I think this is a look better left to, well, runways and makeup artists skilled in the no-makeup-but-yeah-really-this-took-like-three-hours look.

Do you, would you, leave the house without a single swipe of make-up?

"At least twice a year, a fashion reporter will write an article about 'The New Modesty,' declaring that clothes are finally returning to well-constructed tailoring of subtlety and restraint. Then, in the same publication, you will see a fashion spread of an impossibly chiseled man in a python codpiece straddling a Russian supermodel wearing a bikini made of pink dental floss, and you wonder (1) what that writer was on; and (2) if humanity will ever be sophisticated again." - Writer Mike Albo, in a funny intro as to why Y-3 is cool for the clothes (not just the fashion show,) in the New York Times.

The shoes at left are not, in fact, the same. One is from Dolce Vita, sold at Urban Outfitters.

The other appears to be Urban Outfitters' own take on the show, except with a pointier toe and a slightly altered buckle.

But why?

You're out $30 either way, so we're not really sure why they bothered to knockoff Dolce Vita in the first place.

Why make the knockoff if the higher quality original is the same price, and on the same site?

Better yet - Why copy a shoe at all if it's not more like Miu Miu?

9. Oh Tim, are Christian's pants costume... or Carine? But you're right, the jacket has to go.

8. Who pays for Jillian's apartment? Not Ralph Lauren!

7. Is Jillian an undiscovered heroine of '80s teen movies?

6. Hey Chris, "If it's not Baroque, don't fix it!" Oh... nevermind.

5. Why are Chris and Christian picking on each other?

4. Jillian's hat: Stolen from a high school production of Annie?

3. Is Chris' collection a little bit Laura Bennett, Vampire Slayer?

2. Is Rami's collection a little bit BCBG?

1. Aren't both of them a million times better than Commes des Garcons?

That Derek will host Mary Kate and Ashley, plus The MisShapes and the misfits and Ben Cho and Lily Donaldson, at a Paris party this Sunday.

The bash is also thrown by Opening Ceremony (the store responsible for Chloe Sevigny's line) and GrandLife NYC (even though we're in Paris). It's at Paris Paris, which is probably one of the most fun places we've danced in the whole world.

If you're in Paris, zoom on down.

Oh, and Derek's not the only one holding court this week:

Today, Alexander McQueen and his posse headline the notorious Don't Tell My Booker bash, which is usually a coke-fueled streak of "Oh my gosh, I can't believe I did that" - albeit, not for the models walking in Lanvin, etc, on the weekend.

1. Her own t-shirt.

2. A Mulberry bag.

3. Countless runways.

4. Countless editorials.

5. Gigs with Giorgio Armani, Burberry, et al.

6. Her own mannequin.

7. House of Holland muse.

8. And now, a cover for Time!

Ok- Time: Style & Design, but still, Time nonetheless.

We love Agyness, but... Woah, you know?

The designer just styled Ms. Lohan for an upcoming issue of Paper Magazine, but despite his BFF status with the wrecked starlet, he's still showing Hilton some love:

Specifically, wearing the Paris-and-Cory-Kennedy tee shirt that Ksubi whipped up this year.

Thanks to Jacques for taking this photo in Paris, and let's muse for a moment on this oddness:

Last year, Paris was on Heatherette's t-shirts.

This season, she's representing a subversive Aussie clothing label.

Identity crisis, or just a need to be in every photo?

Brett: Really? It impressed me!

Britt: If a woman were to actually wear these clothes, Carine and Jennifer Connelly aside, she would look so scary, almost like a modern day warrior. The shoes practically look like weapons! Chic weapons, of course. The clothes are stunning, but more so as pieces of art, not something to actually put on your body.

Brett: But don't you think the Balenciaga Runway is like a petri dish for ideas? Nicolas pushes fashion forward, and to quote one of my favorite Cathy Horyn-isms, “adjusts the eye”. Also, what is the Balenciaga customer if not an urban warrior? All those curved seams, studs - for crying out loud, the house was rebuilt on a motorcycle bag!

Britt: The runway might be a platform on which to present an idea instead of necessarily wearable clothes, but shouldn't we at least aspire to wear that idea, especially if it's supposed to be Ready to Wear?

Brett: Leave all the subsidiary Balenciaga lines to give women something to wear, but let the seasonal shows provide clothes for the daring and the bored!

Discuss!

We're amused that the Prada sandals from 2003 are still carrying so much influence on mass retailers.

Those aren't for sale anymore, but the Urban Outfitters pair are $38.

The Old Navy pair are $19.50.

Weirdly, Forever 21 had a far more convincing pair that straddled both the Prada and the Balenciaga versions last summer.

Or you can just borrow ours.

WHICH former starlet claims a recent magazine article and fashion shoot is disrupting her marriage? Here's a hint - magazines don't ruin relationships. Husbands do.

Ideally, the floral accent would be simple, chic, everyday appropriate, not at all reminiscent of Carrie, and less than $20.00.

Unfortunately, work has been seriously cutting into arts and crafts time, so we're going to buy this one from designer Foundling. She, appropriately, uses all recycled materials for pieces that aren't cheesy or overly crafty.

These poppy brooches are made from vintage silk blouses and recycled glass beads and come in a handful of colors. We'll be pinning the butter yellow one onto our navy linen scarf come May.

Now if we could just skip the April showers on our way into Spring.

That she was a pretty 19-year-old showing off all the shit she could buy.

We haven't seen her since, but yesterday in Paris, we did spot this:

A new Colette art exhibit from the artist Comenius Roethlisberger, with giant chocolate blocks carved with designer logos.

You'll notice the logos are white, and that's because they've been filled with a mix of powdered sugar and cocaine.

We have to laugh because of how it could hold up in court:

Drug laws versus artistic expression?

Also: You think anyone will bust Colette for possession charges?

"For fall, the most perverse thing you can wear might actually be a white shirt. But like in any good Catholic tale there is no pleasure without punishment. Were all of those heart shaped holes at C.D.G. for love or were they for sex?" - Stefano Tonchi, Editor of T: Style in The Moment.

The facts:

1. 32 illegal storefronts were shut down.

2. $1M of knockoffs - from handbags to perfumes - were confiscated.

The reality:

This isn't the first time the city has staged a huge crackdown on counterfeit sellers, and the market for them has bounced back every time.

We'd like to think that this is the beginning of the end - with yesterday's raid, the NYPD has targeted the landlord that seems to be behind the majority of the buildings involved - but we think it's likely that the operation may just move elsewhere. We've seen a lot of sellers by the South Street Seaport and near the World Trade Center, in hopes of catching the Saturday afternoon tourist foot traffic.

But if Canal Street really does go through a change, what will it look like? Could this be the beginning of actual shopping on Canal? We wonder if Steve Madden is looking for a new location...

But last time Ms. Belle had the cover, we were a little confused.

After all, with the exception of a Vera Wang ad campaign and a B-list horror movie, there wasn't much to discuss about the starlet.

This time around, however, things are different:

Camilla has a big budget action movie (10,000 B.C.) breaking this Spring, plus a Sci-Fi thriller called Push with Dakota Fanning and Djimon Honsou happening later this year.

And Vera Wang's launching a sequel to the Princess fragrance, called Flower Princess - so in between movie promos, she'll probably be busy on a commercial set, too.

From: Thomas@BestReaderEver.com

Thought you'd get a kick out of my paintbrush masterpiece.

enjoy

xx
thomas

So cute!