The Cat’s Pajamas: Catherine Holstein talks past, present and future collections and about how hard it is for a small designer to make quality clothes at a reasonable price point. {Coutorture}

Hair Raising Good Time: We’re just completely obsessed with this picture. And Agyness clearly agrees with our stance on pants. {Jezebel}

Ohh Johnny: This must related to fashion somehow - outtakes from Johnny Depp’s Vanity Fair cover shoot styled by Samantha McMillen and shot by François-Marie Banier. {VF}

Star Trek: A sit down with jewelry designer and Central Saint Martins alum Tomasz Donocik and a peek at his super awesome jewelry which might be made for men - but we still want it. {Starworks}

Talking Cats: Mad-libs with Catherine Holstein. She loves cut-offs as much as we do, all things purple, dogs and shoes. {Glamour}

Twittered: In case you missed it, here’s a tweet by tweet account of Anna Wintour’s 92Y talk last night. It started with Peta and ended with Andre’s blogging. {NYMag}

Dig Deep: Ali from The City gets questioned. She really likes Splenda and scented candles and ended up on the show after Adam was cast. {Nylon}

Suzy Says: Suzy Menkes took a trip to SF. Alas, she doesn’t have time for tweets. {FabSugar}

1. A line of antsy editors almost wrapped around the corner of Broadway and White, waiting to get in the show while trying to keep their skirts down and their hair from blowing around in the wind.

2. Teen Vogue’s Jane Keltner coming and going before the show even started.

3. Vogue girls cutting the line.

4. A slouchy pair of purple pants that everyone will want to wear.

5. Models so busy catching up with each other on stage that they forget to pose or even look at the cameras

6. Revelers commenting on the distinct “witch” vibe and how it makes them think of Luella Fall 08.

7. Model Hollis strutting, posing like she’s on a shoot, and working a languid plaid top you know MK’ll rock at Starbucks this Spring (please enjoy the many photos of Hollis doing something that can only be described as “working it”).

8. A crush of girls in a tiny space, all clamoring to see what Cat’s done for next season, picking out each piece they’d totally wear.

There was a little line tucked into WWD today:

Bumble & Bumble’s Meatpacking District location is not an option this season.

But, um, macaroons? Big windows? Amazing photo ops?

We got in touch with Bumble and apparently, after eights seasons of housing emerging designers they love - Cat Holstein, Ohne Titel, Victoria Bartlett, Liz McLean, Staerk - they feel like their Fashion Week role’s become a bit stale and they’re ready to try something new.

While they want to stay in the fashion game, they’re hoping to take on a more comprehensive role when it comes to sponsoring designers and think it’s important to take a short break from the fashion game to earn a clean slate.

We can’t wait to see what they come up with, but oh how they’ll be missed!

If tomorrow’s outdoor showers are dampening your al fresco brunch plans, here’s some sunny news:

Catherine Holstein’s Fall 08 collection is way on sale, but for this weekend only!

Where: 213 West 35th Street, 7th Floor

When: Tomorrow, 10am - 6pm; Sunday, 12pm - 6pm

What: Bright pants, super structured skirts, Miro-inspried tees, all up to 75% off.

Why: Do we have to talk about supporting the economy again?

Seriously, $750 coats are now $200.

Go!

Or the more appropriate question is, “Will you wear spring’s head gear?”

The runways have been inundated with hats. Catherine Holstein wrapped whole sweaters around the heads of her models. PPQ added I Dream of Jeannie-like toppers to their ruffly dresses and Luella splashed retro veiled hats and riding caps across her floral outfits.

We think some, like the sweaters at Holstein, might look super cool on the runway but stop short of realistically working on a regular girl’s head. Same goes for the PPQ hats - they’d induce a giggle or two at the even the most wacky New York party. And the swim caps at D&G - are they serious?

Luella’s little hats, while cute on Ali, Jourdan et. al, are the kind of thing we want to rock when we’re eighty-year-old eccentric ladies with a murky fashion past.

Right now, we’d love one of the sun hats from Trovata and Nicole Farhi, or even a mini Mary Poppins hat from Marc. And we’d obviously rock the giant bobby pins from Basso & Brooke, but we’re not even sure those are for sale.

If you don’t usually wear hats, will this spring’s wide selection make you change your mind? Or is this a look better left to runways/editorials/ads/models rather than mere mortals?

I may as well stop going to shows now.

The only thing I want to wear next Spring is Catherine Holstein’s collection, though I don’t think I could manage the 6-inch Cesare Paciotti sandals that topped it off.

Her clothes, shown on the runway at Bumble & Bumble, were my idea of perfect. The show opened with blush pink dresses, shorts and tops paired with chunky brown belts and woven knit hats worn throughout. It took a slow turn toward nautical, not Trovata nautical, but the subtler nautical of faded navy and white stripes with touches of red and mustard. Then, toward the end of the show, Holstein did lace on her own terms, in an off-white, antique pattern - and very sheer.

Often times it feels like designers try to tell too many stories in one collection with piece-y results, but Holstein’s felt like parts of a greater whole.

As in, I want the whole thing - and judging by the looks on front row faces, I’m not the only one.

The Bumble and Bumble space on West 13th is one of our favorite venues for the shows.

There’s good light, you can take pictures from several different points, and we love when the out-of-work model waiters serve us fat little macaroons before and after.

So it comes as no surprise that it’s kind of the place to show this season. Their roster of designers: Ohne Titel (for a third time, a Bumble first), Catherine Holstein (doing her first real runway show there), Staerk, Jeremy Laing, Vicente Villarin, Koi Suwannagate, Liz McClean and Victoria Bartlett.

The Bumble people have a way of picking out the next successful designers to show at their space. Not to mention, if you actually have time to kill between shows, you may as well be in the West Village.

We’ve gone back and forth on presentations vs. runway shows for a while -

Actual runway events are more fun, more stressful, quicker, and sometimes include drinks.

Presentations are sometimes fun, not stressful at all (you can come by at whichever point during the time range), and always have drinks.

So we’re kind of excited/stressed over the news that two young designers with a little more cash in their pockets than last season, Catherine Holstein and Frank Tell, are switching to runway shows. (Cat’s showing at the Bumble and Bumble space.)

This means we’ll have a much smaller window to snap pictures of each look, but it does mean we don’t have to figure out what kind of awkward smile to give the models while we stare at their outfits and touch their hemlines.

So it’s kind of win-win.

This morning’s unconfirmed, unannounced, and totally silly rumor comes from the Catherine Holstein presentation last night, where someone had the brilliant idea of mixing Kluge wine with whiskey, leading showgoers to tipple on their toppling, towering heels.

A night so fun could only inspire gossip, but it’s not about the drinks. Instead, it’s the suspiciously bulls-eyed symbols as seen in Catherine’s trippy art backdrops last night.

We know they were all inspired by old Miro paintings probably housed in her parents’ summer estate, but still:

Is there a whiff of Target interest in the works?

Stay tuned - they’re bound to run out of young designers at some point…

It was more about the scene than the clothes at newbie Catherine Holstein’s Fall 2008 presentation at the Thom Bar Thursday night.

Almost all in a row, we spotted Amy Astley, two editors from Vogue and a photographer from Vanity Fair in the crowd of mostly New School students.

The room was so packed with people (from fashion editors to a slew of bystanders in sweatshirts,) it was almost a push/shove situation to make your way over to the little side rooms where the actual clothes (oh, it was a Fashion Week thing?) were on display.

So, the clothes? We loved it, even if the models in fake nerd glasses were a little much. As far as Cat Holstein is concerned, this fall is all about slouchy cool made up with structured bottoms and loose tops. The most striking aspect of her presentation was the use of Miro-inspired prints (Holstein decorated the space with Miro-inspired sketches of her own design,) on flimsy, worn tees - just the kind of off-hand use of something significant that the Parsons crowd adores.

Meanwhile, we’re adoring the super stiff skirts that stand up on their own (check it out after the jump) - but maybe paired with Hanes undershirts to avoid the clash look at work.

And it’s not even officially Day 1 of the Week…

When we were getting our Fashion Week thoughts together, we barely registered the name “Catherine Holstein” on the line up, but had a vague enough memory of her cute/retro designs in Teen Vogue to know it might be fun to go.

Then we noticed her slot’s kicking off the hipsterest day of them all, also known as next Thursday.

Now, we hear her presentation was such a popular request for next week, it’s officially closed off to any more people who think they can snag an invite.

One year ago, no editor could have picked this girl out of a line up of blonde designer wannabes, and now it looks like she might be the next leader of the Parsons Mafia.

Guess it pays to be friends with sisters whose names end in Traina or Olsen.

One of the challenges of New York Fashion Week is the sheer number of capable designers trying to mount their own work.

Since over a hundred catwalks and presentations get rolled out during the week, it’s inevitable that some very stylish traffic jams will occur, and as of now, the first takes place on Thursday, January 31st.

At 5 pm, young designer Catherine Holstein (left) mounts her first full presentation at Milk Studios in the Meatpacking District. Ms. Holstein is a Teen Vogue darling with the personal style of a rock star’s girlfriend and the posse of a regular Miu Miu shopper - Victoria Traina, Mary Kate, and the rest of the blondes too fabulous to be believed.

But also at 5pm is the second showing of Jen Kao, a recent design graduate whose beadwork and black eyeliner has also caught the eye of Teen Vogue, as well as Nylon and a steady stream of Beatrice-going socialites, not to mention the model Darla Baker, who’s one of the designer’s muses. She’s also friends with Ryan McGinley, who was enlisted last year to shoot the look book.

And again at 5pm, there’s Band of Outsiders, the ridiculously cool / successful / buzzy label by Scott Sternberg, a former Hollywood agent who’s since garnered a CFDA nomination and a steady following of celebrities like Cameron Diaz, Vogue editors like Sally Singer, and… well really, if you have those two people in your clothing corner, you don’t really need that much else.

Then at 6 it’s time for EarthPledge, the eco-fashion show to boast clothes by Givenchy, Stella McCartney, and just about every label from Barneys.

Are you tired yet?