Everybody’s been talking about Chairlift’s show at Saks this weekend.

And the four videos of the Brooklyn band wearing clothing and accessories from Marc by Marc Jacobs’ Fall 09 collection in which Chairlift members Aaron Pfenning, Patrick Wimberly and Caroline Polachek hang out in their native borough looking cool and making us jealous of their musical talents and attire.

New music, Marc Jacobs, and Saks is already a very exciting combo but that’s not even the best part.

The International Film School Festival wants to see your short films.

They, in collaboration with CraneTV, launched their competition at the end of November, but you have until the end of February to enter a one to five minute short film in any one of the following categories: culture, art and design, fashion, green, lifestyle, ideas and travel.

So, technically, it can be about anything. The only guidelines they’ve set forth: We reward creativity and encourage you to offer fresh insider perspectives into your topic of choice. We would like to feel inspired and enriched by your contribution.

However, we’d obviously encourage diving into the world of fashion. Especially since Karl Lagerfeld’s on the jury and we’re told, “Projects with our jurors may materialize from this.”

If you’re feeling inspired or have some spare time on your hands, make your movie, upload it here and then send it our way. You might win money and equipment and your movie will be broadcast on international TV.

And if you’re not feeling inspired, watch Karl’s silent Chanel video at left - it may help.

It’s that time of year again -

UNIQLO’s annual UT Grand Prix t-shirt design contest is officially underway, and we know there must be some of you out there wanting to get in on the chance to win the 3,000,000 yen first prize (that’s about $30,000).

The winner’s design will also be sold in UNIQLO stores worldwide, in addition to bragging rights for the season of Fall 08.

You can get all the details and fill out the application here until September 21st.

So good luck, and send us snapshots!

Don’t ask us how or why, but we somehow ended up with one extra ticket to Sex and the City: The Movie tonight.

It’s for the 6:30pm showing at the Battery Park Regal theater, and we’ve decided to just give it away to one of our lovely readers.

Here’s how: The first person to e-mail Tips@Fashionista.com with the correct answer to the question below, gets it.

The catch? You’ll have to swing by our office before 4pm today to get it.

So here goes:

Which model once ran for European Parliament?

GO!

(Also, we’ll give you a shiny, new copy of the SATC: The Movie book to go along with it, just because we’re actually super nice people.)

Update: Actually reader Ana got it!

[**Note: We’ve only got one pair, in one size, so the first correct answer wins! If nobody gets this (which Jazzi is seriously doubting anyone will) we’ll give you a new letter every day until you do. Ok, Ready… Go!]

Update: OK wow, contest over. Reader Chris will be getting them!

You might be able to turn all that Met Ball office banter into some actual cash -

Vogue just announced their first ever Viewer’s Choice Awards for the clothes we’ve all seen a zillion times since Monday night.

Starting Friday, you can log on to the Vogue.tv site and vote for your favorite look from the gala, and enter to win two round trip tickets to a $2,500 shopping spree at J. Mendel and two nights at the Lowell Luxury Hotel in NYC.

You have until May 16, but if you think that’s a tough deadline, just think of poor Alexandra Kotur who has to manage the politics of the ten best dressed by Monday morning.

Our votes?

Britt can’t decide between Christina Ricci and Lou Doillon, Brett likes Zac/Kate Mara and Kate Bosworth, and Natalie thinks both Christina Ricci and Julie Gilhart walked the ball attire/superhero line to great effect.

You?

It looks like nobody can get enough of contests lately.

Givenchy’s teamed up with social advertising site Brickfish to bring us the latest think-of-it-yourself beauty campaign for their bestselling Prisme Foundation Compact.

Those with a serious love for collectible beauty products, or those with a ton of time on their hands, are asked to come up with a “sassy slogan” for the compact, which will be printed right into the foundation of actual compacts should you think of something cute enough.

The person with the wittiest sentence, chosen by Givenchy’s judges, will receive copies of the actual compact printed with their slogan to keep or to give out (or sell on eBay?) and a year’s supply of Givenchy products worth $3,000.

Submit your entries on the campaign’s site to enter - you have until June 16.

We think our readers could do particularly well - so far the entries are mostly of the “Be You, Always” variety.

Our vote for the best so far? “Right angles rarely occur in nature”.

While everyone continues to try and guess whether Nina Garcia just happened to be hanging out at the Hearst building yesterday, or if she is in fact being courted by Harper’s Bazaar, we offer some more fun Nina news to brighten your morning -

The former ELLE Fashion Director has partnered with Step Up Women’s Network and Bayer to bring us another kind of design contest for which (we’re guessing) she’ll be a judge - the “YAZ: Step Up and Go Beyond” contest.

Yep, that YAZ.

The contestant who can best redesign what Nina calls, “an iconic accessory,” the little plastic cases that house birth control pills, wins $10,000 to invest in a future career in design. You can enter until June 30, and the winner will be announced around Fashion Week this September.

Nina thinks the winner should be able to redesign the birth control case that Duane Reade gives out for free into “a chic, more sophisticated carrying case that they could slip into their purses” because apparently all women are secretly yearning to eye up each other’s plastic pill packs.

You heard it here first - Lutera’s so out for S/S ‘09.

Remember when Sex and the City was still on TV, and some people would seriously say stuff like, “You’re such a Carrie!” or “I have a little Samantha in me!” ?

Well, we hope those people are reading, because their silly thinking might just get them the chance to win a trip to NYC to attend the Sex and the City movie premier.

Bag Borrow or Steal is launching the Style Profile You Tube contest - all you have to do is submit a video explaining which Sex and the City character’s style resembles your own the most, as represented through the character’s handbags. So if all you tote around town is a Fendi baguette, then half the work is done.

You only have until May 9th, so start reflecting on your Miranda tendencies now.

(And if you seriously do this, please, please, send us the video!)

Vogue has joined with the Fragrance Foundation to bring you one of the best contests we’ve ever heard of:

The Fragrance & Film Festival.

In honor of the 36th Annual Fifi Awards (it’s like the Oscars for perfume,) Vogue is calling upon the creative masses to shoot a short (2 - 3 minutes!), inspirational film about any of the participating fragrances for a chance to win a trip to the 2008 Fifi Awards in NYC (where the film will be shown to industry execs and celebrities), national exposure on ShopVogue.tv, and, oh yeah, $10,000.

The winner will be chosen based on “creativity and the ability to express the brand identity of the featured fragrance.”

And which fragrances can you choose from for inspiration? Missoni, Gucci by Gucci, Paris Hilton’s Can Can (this is no joke), and Usher for Men and Usher for Women.

Oh, one catch - you cannot make fun of the fragrances in any way, so no to everything that popped into your head when you read “Can Can.”

Hopefuls must submit their shorts by May 1.

But you can send us your entry at any time.

Most random news of the day: Model Erin O’Connor is on the hunt for a date for London Fashion Week in September.

The British beauty is promising “front row seats and VVIP room treatment all the way” - we can already picture the date ending backstage after the show (maybe Vivienne Westwood?), and turning into a game of Truth or Dare with Agyness and Coco…

So how does one win this amazing date? Erin asks for a “wee fashionable limerick”, on her Vogue UK blog, of which the wittiest will win.

Our favorite so far? “There’s nothing like a tweed Chanel jacket (Provided there’s a banker to back it). Lagerfeld’s fashioned it. For it you’re passionate! But make sure your account has the cash in it”, by Erin’s reader Ben Seidler. Just try to beat that!

Good luck and cheers!

If you missed your chance at the Tim Gunn doll, here’s your big chance:

Fafarazzi, whose Project Runway game we’re a little obsessed with, is giving away another one of the signed, talking bobbleheads to whomever has the winning team for next week’s new episode.

So if your team is in 5,498th place, or if you never made a team in the first place, it doesn’t matter at all. Points are based only on that next Wednesday’s episode.

We highly suggest going for this if you’re a design student - we know we’d feel so official if Tim bobbled “Make it work!” to us late in the night.

Check him out here…

If you are:

1. Over 18 years old

2. U.S. based

3. Can design a great dress

4. Want to win an apprenticeship with Adam Lippes

Then get yourself over to Glam so you can enter your sketch as part of their Be Discovered contest.

But you only have until next week - so lock the door, bust out your pencils, and have one of your friends come in periodically to say things like, “Hmmm. Be careful not to alienate the judges - Make it work!”

Like free designer handbags? How about four of them?

W Magazine is about to unveil their Spring Bag Sweepstakes.

What’s up for grabs? The Chloe, Dior, Jimmy Choo and Marc Jacobs bags at left.

Head over to their site at noon, when the contest officially begins. All you have to do is fill out your info and sit pretty until March 31 when the winner is announced.

Only one person can win all four bags, so we suggest putting in your name as many times as you can type it without chipping away all your Blue Satin.

Bonne chance! (you’ll need it)…