Blog-alicious: Meet Caroline. She’s guest blogging for Lucky (how we found her), but she’s actually a textile designer with her own blog full of illustrations, both fashion and otherwise, and other very pretty things. {ItLooksGoodToMe}

Oscar & Valentino: The designer’s doc is on the short-list for an Oscar nom. Sadly, The September Issue is not. But we’re still pulling for a fashion victory. Also, we couldn’t be more excited for Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to host. {Vogue UK}

Thigh High: The kids over at Nylon sound like they had a grand old time recreating Miuccia’s super festive socks and they’re letting us in on the scheme. Just in time for party season. Hooray! {Nylon}

This is the End: They may be denying it, but sources say there’s a major brawl going down between executives at Ungaro over what else? La Lohan. Let’s hope the best man wins. {Page Six}

—PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEREMY KOST

LOVED:

—More side braids. Hooray!!

—The sturdiness meets quirkiness of the shoes, especially these and these.

—The fact that so many women will be embracing the pantsuit again. Those things were sexier than expected.

HATED:

—The cat situation. Even through Miuccia’s lens I’m struggling with this and I’ve heard from other non-cat people that I am far from alone. Also, the kitties led in no small part to this Style.com story which includes a picture that might haunt me for the rest of my life.

—That girls with any sort of boobs of the non-concave variety are going to have some serious issues with many of those cut-out and appliqued tops. Bummer.

“You want to be understood by the sophisticated few, but you also have to be more loud, somehow; otherwise, your message doesn’t go through.” —Miuccia Prada in the new Another Magazine via Eric Wilson’s NY Times piece on defining this decade’s style. On a separate note, are we really going to have to call it the “aughties”?

“I realize that the various threads are connected today and that people like fashion — there is a vitality. But I don’t want to take advantage of artists — I want to be good in my work by myself. Although if you knew how many important artists have asked me to do a collaboration with bags! But I want fashion for fashion and art for art. So the Transformer concept was not for a generic space, but to be very specific, with all things separate in one building.”— Miuccia Prada discussing the Transformer collaboration with Rem Koolhaas in Seoul.

The latest issue of WWWWD’s out today and it, together with lots and lots of coffee, is helping to cure our hangover.

The Intellectual Issue covers Natasha Poly’s catastrophic runway fall, one which left her with telepathic powers, and researches NASA’s interest in Miuccia Prada’s “obnoxious genius.”

We actually laughed out loud at their sartorial timeline: Jesus invented Birkenstocks in 1 A.D. and in 2004, Gabriel Aubry, “first known human with IQ of 23 able to digest food without use of machines, claims Earth is flat on the set of a Versace shoot.”

But Agyness Deyn’s poem, a sort of ode to the Beatrice Inn in which she wonders, “Where shall drink with Ashley and MK / Weep I shall all night and all day,” might be the most random bit.

Summer Lovin’: Thank God P. Runway is returning soon for our viewing pleasure. Entertainment Weekly breaks down the new season…and got Tim Gunn to make that face in a picture. {EW}

Kate, Inc. Grows and Grows: Miss Moss is launching another fragrance called Vintage because of her love for “anything old…except old men.” {Grazia UK}

Miuccia Muses: CNN Asia scored a sit down with the designer. She says frivolity can be a good thing. Since we feel what Miuccia says always goes, we’re taking that mantra into the weekend. {Fashionologie}

We’re Peeling: Seeing how one of us (um, Abby) is way fidgety and has a bad habit of picking off her nail polish and causing unseemly nail breakage, a polish that’s literally designed to be stripped off without remover sounds pretty darn genius. {WWD}

Last month, Diane von Furstenberg posed for the cover of Purple magazine wearing Margiela and not much else.

This month? Miuccia herself is winking on the cover of ID like she’s Agyness or Kate or one of the many other models to grace the glossy’s well known cover.

It’s interesting - On the one hand, there’s always the “please just stick to the models” mantra.

On the other, who better to front a fashion magazine than actual fashion designers?

Just saying.

So, you think we’re obsessed with LOVE?

Maybe.

But only because we’ve been obsessed with POP since we went to London sophomore year of college and spent too much money on mind-blowing magazines.

Since then, we love all things Katie Grand. And while we can’t wait for LOVE’s debut, it’s with great sadness that we mull over her final, Drew Barrymore-covered issue of POP.

Her last letter from the editor, in which she talks beginnings, highlights and ends, after the jump.

Fred Flare named this skirt “The Miuccia” because:

a) They wanted to honor the designer in some way and roller skates just wouldn’t be appropriate.

b) They know she’s into color blocking and think this could be a great winter alternative to her luxe Italian fabrics.

c) When one thinks of skirts, thinking of Miuccia’s inevitable.

d) They want customers to feel like they’re buying into something special and they’d probably get sued if they named it the Prada.

Tough times mean shoppers favor miniature splurges, if any at all, which means loads of designers are quickly shifting their focus to accessories, (even more than usual).

Today, Yigal Azrouel announced that the shoes from his Spring 09 runway will be available for purchase in just his two stores while Miuccia Prada is introducing a line of costume jewelry.

Yigal’s shoes include, or are actually limited to, a caramel colored ankle bootie and a black and white thick-strapped sandal, both with wooden stiletto heels. Though a shoe is by nature more structured than anything Yigal’s ever made, they somehow manage to work perfectly with his flowing neutrals. He’s also upping his scarf quantity, “With my clothes I’m all about draping, and scarves are an extension of that.”

Or, more explicitly, it’s a lot easier to justify a $300 scarf you can wear everyday than a $1000 dress you can wear twice a year.

Prada’s prices range from $390 for earrings to $750 for a necklace, which is about $500 less than a bag and infinitely less than a lace dress which, again, means the brand can grow while the economy shrinks.

Or at least, that’s what they hope it means.

“More and more they seem to be teaching us how to be voyeurs rather than participants. They make interesting clothes that are essentially for photographs.” - Cathy Horyn on Miuccia Prada and the rest of the Milan gang.

“The more sexy you make yourself appear; the less sex you’ll have.” -Miuccia Prada in Another Magazine.

We love Prada. We love black. We love gold. And we love the 70’s.

Unfortunately, a combination of all of the above doesn’t necessarily make for a fabulous pair of shoes. See Prada’s Fall ‘08 stompers. They had us asking “Why Miuccia, why?”

That’s when we decided to explore another aspect of ‘Adventures in Copyright’. As in, what happens when the fake is actually better than the original?

A perfect example of this can be found at Topshop, where you can buy a similar shoe to the one that marched down Prada’s spring runway. The directly inspired, less expensive shoe improves upon its more dramatic muse and not just because it’s more wearable.

We still won’t buy it. And we don’t think it’s ok. But we’re man enough to admit, it’s just a bit cuter.

Let’s call it ‘Improvements in Copyright’.

—AUDREY SMITH

On the one hand, Vanessa Paradis for Miu Miu makes as much sense as Johnny Depp for Captain Jack Sparrow - quirky, elegant and sexy in an offbeat way.

But on the other hand, while Vanessa might not have an official contract to wear Chanel every time she steps out of her house, we can’t really imagine her in anything else.

The French actress and singer wears decidedly pretty dresses with red lips, making this Miu Miu collection in particular a strange choice - we’re having a hard time picturing her in the monogrammed athletic outfits or retro print shifts.

No doubt Miuccia, Mert, and Marcus will let her keep the lipstick, but how will they make the collection suitable for someone who’s known for her very romantic style?

Not to mention someone who said just last month, “I hardly think about fashion at all.”