I have a well-documented love/hate relationship with earrings. I’ve literally had my ears pierced like six different time since I first got them done back when I was 10. I get fed up with earrings, they close up, and then I get obsessed with some pair or style and decide to get them pierced again.

It’s a stupid cycle that I realize could be easily fixed by wearing the same small simple pair on an everyday basis. But for some reason this just doesn’t work for me. It’s like some sort of mental block.

Erin Fetherston’s S/S 2010 collection was aptly titled “Ladyland”. And I have to say I related to it much more than some of more fantasy-laden ones in the past. But there was still a bit of fairy dust sprinkled over the whole thing. And we all got a pretty pink flower on our seats. Thanks, Erin!

Damon Dash and Erin staples Sarah Sophie Flicker and Kate Schelter seemed to enjoy themselves at the early evening show, chatting each other up before the models came out. And Irina made it to the front row just in time.

Here were some of my favorite things: glittering and sparkly earrings and necklaces that Lulu Frost designer Lisa Salzer created for Erin, the belted khaki cape that opened the show, dainty lace gloves, the lambskin zip dress, and plunging necklines.

Looks like Erin’s clothes just might make their way into a few uptown closets in 2010.

Scratch that.

Erin Fetherston’s short film, Birds of a Fether, just premiered on Style.com. The four minute piece features Paz de la Huerta, Ingrid Schram, Daria Strokous, all-girl punk band Effi Briest and a bevy of models following Erin throughout the West Village. Director Marisa Crawford imagined the designer as a pied piper-like leader and her collection couldn’t be more perfect for the fantasy.

If you’d rather see Erin’s clothes in person, you can log on to Shopbop and win a three day trip to New York, two tickets to Erin’s SS10 show, $1000 shopping spree to Shopbop and $400 spending money for your days in New York.

—PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEREMY KOST

The first solid details on the tentatively titled MAC at Milk shows we’ve been talking about since the cosmetics company decided to end its partnership with IMG leaving Maybelline to jump in as the official makeup sponsor at Bryant Park.

And the initial list of designers signed on for events at Milk Studios is very, very strong: Proenza Schouler, Alexander Wang, Peter Som, Threeasfour, Vena Cava, Band of Outsiders, Adam Lippes, Altuzarra, Barbara Tfank, Costello Tagliapietra, Erin Fetherston, Pamela Love, Preen and Temperley London.

If you’re looking for something to do in the city over the long weekend, perhaps you should consider a trip to the Michali Fine Art Gallery on the Lower East Side to check out Hedi Ferjani’s exhibit “The Art of War”

Now, of course, Hedi’s not new to the scene having created the masks (recently shot by Steven Meisel) for Erin Fetherston’s show last season and directing the short film for her Target collection. (His mom even worked at couture houses like YSL and Lanvin.) And we hear there’s a W profile in the works.

What’s cool about this exhibit (and what has the fash crowd newly obsessed) is the ironic play between something glamorous and something destructive, as in pretty guns and grenades. But we’ll let you make your own interpretations.

Once you’ve seen the show, head on back here and let’s have our own little web discussion group, because we really miss that about college.

We commented on WWD’s Erin Fetherston story this morning - excited that the designer was jumping on the short film bandwagon and bringing Juliette Lewis along with her.

Unfortunately, Erin’s camp’s just asked us to set the record straight. There will be a film, made with filmmaker Marisa Crawford, but it will star the Calfornia native’s friends and muses - not Juliette Lewis.

And contrary to the WWD story, the one Hedi Ferjani confirmed, there’s no confirmed project in the works with QVC either.

So what we really want to know is, who’s talking to WWD and where can we find this Hedi Ferjani impersonator?

What do Erin Fetherston, Juliette Lewis, and Damon Dash have in common?

They’re all working on a short film for Erin that is shooting this week in the West Village. Dash is doing the music, of course. And Juliette is the star.

No word on exactly where it’s going to air or how it’s going to be used. But we’re really hoping Juliette embraces her inner quirk and brings us something incredibly viral-worthy.

Erin’s beau, Hedi Ferjani, does tell WWD that it will be less “fairy-tale” and more “contemporary”.

He also confirmed that Erin is doing a line for QVC that will arrive around Fashion Week. How very shrewdly Hollywood of them. It’s like doing the big budget action pic to finance your beloved indie project.

The white jumpsuit at left was one of the best things about Erin Fetherston’s Spring 09 collection.

So we thought you should know where you can get it - especially since it’s only one place: Revolve’s The List.

That would be their rotating list of super exclusive, high end product. They’re kicking off summer with Erin’s white silk, overalls-like jumpsuit.

They show the slouchy look with a bandeau, like Erin did on the runway, but it’d look equally cute with a cotton tee or silk tank and its forgiving shape might be the best way for most mortals to welcome the jumpsuit trend.

It costs $905 and comes with the added reassurance that you’ll likely be the only one wearing it - no matter where you go.

If you haven’t had your fill of Fashion TV, haven’t been satisfied with copious model interviews and backstage videos of Fall 09 Fashion Month and the return of Blair Waldorf’s Monday night headbands wasn’t enough for you, don’t worry, the TV gods are on the lookout.

This morning marked Carine Roitfeld’s television debut, but since no one seems to know exactly when the CNN International profile will be airing, times are listed all over the place, and not everyone gets CNN International, we’d suggest watching it on-line.

But save it for Saturday and devote your entire day to fashion. Start with the premiere of House of Style at 3pm. According to Erin Fetherston’s Facebook page she’ll be rounding out the Chanel Iman/ Bar Rafaeli trifecta. Then watch Carine’s profile. Take a break before heading over to Film Forum on Houston to catch Valentino: The Last Emperor at 8pm.

And if that doesn’t satiate your fashion appetite, we suggest Barneys.

Way back in Fall 07, Miu Miu became the ringleader of the circus-y trend with their Harlequin collection, which reverberated across the fashion board, all the way from Topshop to Phillip Lim.

This season, the circus look was full-on at Erin Fetherston, Manish Arora and Diesel, making a certain pop princess look especially prescient.

—CARSON GRIFFITH—

I swung backstage at Basso & Brooke about ten minutes before show time.

The first thing I noticed, besides the stunning sheer tea dress with beaded lace embroidered on top of it, was Stephen Jones holding court with his muse Anna Piaggi by a table full of very odd headbands.

“Can you tell me a bit about what you’ve done for the show?” I asked.

And as he answered, he started fitting them on my head. For the answer, check out Teen Vogue, but know that in my mind that’s like Christian Louboutin fitting a shoe on my foot - a major fashion moment.

Anyway, post-moment, I landed in my seat in the Bloomsbury Ballroom and watched Basso’s fantastical, brightly printed collection parade on by. This season their prints seemed focused on texture. Some were made to look like Greek columns, others fur, some lace, some zippers, almost all accessorized with hefty baroque looking jewelry. The shoes were elf-ish and the clutches had pearl handles which doubled as bracelets.

Also, there was crimped hair like the models also rocked at Erin Fetherston. One more show with crimped hair and I’m officially breaking out my vintage crimper when I get home.

We’ll sum up the Miss Sixty show quickly - Stam opened, Coco sat front row next to Mischa Barton, Karlie death-walked, Sasha’s hair looked dirty, there were denim jumpsuits, Pretty Woman hats, slogan tees and this one red coat we really loved - because we need to talk about what American Express is doing to Fashion Week.

Let me preface this by saying that if I wasn’t lucky enough to be invited to fashion shows and had the money to buy my way in, I probably would. But the divide between those in the industry and those looking for a party in the tents is widening and making it increasingly frustrating for those needing to do their jobs.

Chelsea’s the indie version of the tents. Its small venues have housed Vena Cava, Band of Outsiders, Ohne Titel, Preen - all shows mostly attended by those who work in fashion (plus Kanye). Despite lines and small entrances, there is no pushing (ok, Rag & Bone doesn’t count), no grabbing, and no yelling because everyone will get inside, everyone will see the clothes and everyone will politely and graciously do their jobs.

In comparision, the tents are a battlefield. Just getting in line is a nightmare full of groping, shoving, attitude and foot stomping. At Erin Fetherston, we witnessed a girl try to scare an editor out of his seat by screaming, “I paid good money for this seat!” We’ve overheard AmEx customers speak to the frazzled PR girls like they’re twelve when unhappy with their $200 seats. The girls behind me at Herve (their bought tickets were a gift) laughed obnoxiously at the falling models. And if you dare block the elite skybox in the big tent, which cuts down the standing section considerably, you risk being escorted out by security.

It’s easy to forget that Fashion Week is, essentially, just a semi-glamorous convention. Everyone within a very small industry convenes in one place to discuss its changing nature and see what’s new. It is both exhausting and rewarding work made that much harder by those looking for a Devil Wears Prada moment.

Should AmEx stop their support of fashion week? No, but they should probably include an etiquette book with their ticket package.

It used to be that at every show your seating assignment was written on blank, white index cards when you checked in, and so it was easy for crafty crashers to simply write “S” or “ST” on a card from Duane Reade across the street, and jump into the standing line of a show without any problems.

But this season, maybe because of all the slashed guest lists, the PR’s have caught on.

At Erin Fetherston last night (which is a much more crashed show than people realize), the BPCM girls handed you your seating assignment on oversized index cards, the kind no one ever buys. At Y-3 earlier in the day, assignments were scrawled on blue cards, which we’d never seen before. And at Alexander Wang on Saturday, the security was the tightest we’d ever seen at any show, with seating assignments on neon green cards, flashlight-wielding security guards blocking off the seating section and actually reading your assignment before letting you in at all (the standing section was not let in, and they basically stood in Siberia).

But no show is going to have this new security quite like Marc Jacobs tonight. What was once the most easily crashed show - you would always see throngs of students just rushing the door with the other 2,000 guests - is now totally uncrashable, as KCD has drawn up such a short invite list that most of the show is mono-rowed, meaning you would easily be picked out just by showing your uninvited face.

Just a sign of that more serious and somber Fashion Week everybody’s been describing so far.

This evening’s Erin Fetherston show had us wondering now about how to wear a hooped miniskirt or the appropriateness of three bows down the front of your top past the age of seven, but about who actually buys Erin Fetherston’s clothes.

Because we don’t know any adults - especially ones ready to drop several thousands on a dress - who actually want to look like creepy dolls come to life. From the sleeves that crossed somewhere at “bell” and “clown”, to the oversized polka dot blouse that looked like it was made for a slightly fashionable circus attendant (we can’t even discuss the bunny masks), we didn’t see one wearable (and not even in the dress-up-at-home kind of way) piece, except for the closing white dress which would be the perfect wedding gown for the bride that likes a little giggle with her vows.

We love Erin’s earlier stuff, and especially her pieces for Target, but the past two collection have been so thoroughly whimsical (you might remember that Spring 09 looked like walking cream puffs) that they seem only like an exercise in Erin’s own imagination. So, unless you’re trying to get dressed for a crack tea party in her daydreams, you’re shit out of luck trying to find anything you want to wear from her.

And isn’t that what ready-to-wear is all about?

It’s the last time a mini-fashion village will be built atop Bryant Park and IMG’s going out with a bang.

The canvas tarps that build the tents, the ones plastered with brightly colored “VOTE” buttons last season, will be designed by the designers showing within their flimsy walls.

According to Nylon, they’ll be made to look like an inspiration board complete with sketches, scribbles and swatches from designers including Erin Fetherston and Dennis Basso.

If only they could give us outfits at the door, too. Or is that asking too much?

We don’t have to tell you Fashion Week’s barely three weeks away, but since we love you, we do have to share some fun information about what you can expect at Elise and Erin.

The Elise Overland presentation should be slightly drawn out, as the models will be walking the runway every 5 - 10 minutes (as opposed to the usual seconds) - though the PR team is prepared with champagne and DJ, of course.

And at Erin Fetherston you can expect antique dolls to be the theme in a “parallel wonderland universe” - so expect lots of polka dots, Nutcracker silks, brocade and baubles on heavy necklines (which sounds a little like her Spring 09 in tone, but maybe more like her Fall 08 in practicality.)

And if this hasn’t satisfied your appetite just yet, stay tuned for a glimpse into Abaete…