photo courtesy WWDMoschino’s finally adding accessories to their bridge line.

The Italian house, parent to Moschino Cheap and Chic (which is chic, but not cheap), had Moschino Jeans up until last year, but now they’ve renamed it Moschino Love and put their money in the thing that makes money - accessories.

It sounds like they’ll have a Marc by Marc Jacobs-like price point starting at $165 and going up to $445, including wallets, bags, totes and clutches in leather, suede and canvas which “allows a younger aspirational customer to own a Moschino handbag at a more affordable price point.”

Which is, after all, the genius way in which every luxury brands reels in the almost-rich. We’ll take a heart clutch in every color please.

These past few weeks we’ve seen a resurgence of all things juvenile. From pigtails at Prada to side braids at Wang, girlish hairstyles are a go for spring, but it doesn’t stop at the head.

Tao, Moschino, YSL and Ungaro embraced the youthful phenomenon in their Spring collections. Each designer topped their ready-to-wear with prints that would make any little girl giddy. Tao and YSL chose strawberries while Moschino opted for cherries (as did Anna Dello Russo on her feet all week). The playful prints are charming and romantic, stopping just short of saccharine, but the reviews weren’t, to put it mildly, nearly as positive at Ungaro.

All I Wanna Do: Someone finally gets to Nicholas Kirkwood and asks fun questions - his favorite gifts to give? Shoes and booze, of course. Sounds like our kind of man. {TheMoment}

Swim Little Fishy: Marc’s gone and made swim caps. Just in case you hadn’t fully embraced all things retro. {Style}

La-dee-Dali: Moschino’s windows pay tribute to Dali in honor of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair - his “Soft Construction With Boiled Beans” to be exact. {Racked}

Not Zoe: Jen Rade talks to the LA Times about dressing Angelina and shopping at Target. {LATimes}

Gloves for Fall, that’s no news, but this Fall’s gloves are too good to not plan for. Short, long, demure, loud, whatever, and we love them all.

Particularly interesting are those with feathers (Gareth Pugh) and skintight leather (Iceberg), which we’re already picturing with short sleeve coats and swingy dresses.

We love it when practical accessories get the most impractical treatment (go Sonia!)

—AUDREY SMITH

Dubai’s seen a lot of fashion action lately, first with Calvin Klein dropping by the paradise city, then Zac Posen and Roberto Cavalli flying into town.

But this week, they may have outdone themselves with the arrival of Children’s Fashion Week.

The Dubai event showcases Kenzo, Moschino, and a handful of French children’s brands, and brings us back to a question we asked a few weeks ago:

Should children be encouraged to explore designer fashion? Or should we leave them alone to develop a semblance of style that lives outside of brands (or outside of anything “cute” or “cool,” if that’s the way they want to play it?).

Maybe it’s a worrisome sign that we’re not surprised at all that there’s a Dubai Children’s Fashion Week.

Or maybe we’re just wondering if the Moschino Kids extra larges will actually fit us, because they’ll definitely be cheaper…

We couldn’t think of a better way to kick off fashion week than to watch our favorite girls strut down an eco-friendly, recycled wood runway at Earth Pledge’s FutureFashion show last night.

The show featured surprisingly ladylike looks from twenty-eight designers ranging from Marni to Versace. Each used sustainable, organically grown materials like bamboo, soybean fiber and even the leaves of wild pineapple plants.

Stam wore a very wearable Rodarte party dress; Coco rocked a 40’s coat dress from DVF; Irina wore Behnaz and the most perfect shoes we’ve ever seen. But it was Liya Kebede in vintage Moschino and Shalom Harlow in a gothic Margiela wedding dress who made our heads whip around for just one more look.

The studded peace silk suit by Givenchy made us gasp; the hemp and silk dress from Rogan made us wish the earthy designer made more dresses and less jeans, and we can’t wait for Donna Karan’s tea-stained sasawashi evening gown to make its red carpet debut. Cate Blanchett - can you abandon Balenciaga just once?!

If this is what environmental fashion looks like - count us in!

We’re usually disciples of the Buy Less Crap school, but Yoox has a new charity page that we think is seriously cool:

They’ve dug up the Moschino archives from the ’90s - their couture pieces, their crazy print pants and swimsuits, and the obsessable Cheap + Chic line - and put it all for sale.

The proceeds go to AMREF, The African Medical and Research Foundation, an initiative to help children in Kenya, and the stuff isn’t just good, it’s priced to buy.

We’d expect a ’90s Moschino gown to go for $1500 - in fact, we’ve seen it go for that in Manhattan and Los Angeles thrift stores - but their stash is priced between $300 and $500. T-shirts and swimsuits are around $100, and the couture gowns hover around $1000 - expensive, sure, but not outrageous.

If you want to surf through ‘90’s memories or maybe buy into the collection, click here.

Now if they’d just revive their amazing ad campaign with Linda Evangelista…

Maybe it’s the feeling of secrets and lies sprinkled on our political landscape, but we’ve noticed some Spy Chic in the recent fall collections.

Besides the slick black trenches from YSL - more pointed, more pointy, and armed with enough pockets to conceal several handguns - there are oil slick leggings (Balenciaga! Cheap Monday!), gloves edged in sharp metal (Burberry gauntlets), and the sunglasses so dark and wrapped, they could protect you from eclipses (thanks, Dolce).

But there’s a fun side to Spy Chic too - the heels with knifed edges we saw at Prada. The leather mask bracelets from Kiki de Montparnasse. And the Barbarella feel of Alice + Olivia and Moschino. The perilous fun at Gareth Pugh is great, too.

Maybe that’s why we’re so into this story from Fab Sugar, on Charlie’s Angels fashion.

Okay, the images are a little more Victoria’s Secret than Versace, but it’s still awfully fun to wonder what you can wear when living dangerously.

How do you pronounce Gareth Pugh, anyway?

You asked and Faran answered (Pugh is said like pew), and then we thought - designers are difficult, and maybe we need a cheat sheet - or else face the fate that Faran once witnessed, when a fashion director heard a potential assistant say “Ralph Lauren” and never asked them back.

For designers with French names, remember that in Francais you say “er” as “ay” so: Gaulti-ay is a couturi-ay.

In French you don’t pronounce the “s” at the end of a word, so Comme des Garcons is com day gar-sohn, Yves is Eve, Hermes is air-maze (you don’t say the first h at the beginning of a French word), and Rochas was Ro-sha.

And:

Abaete is ah-bye-ah-tay.
It’s Caro-leena Herrera, not Caro-lie-na Herrara.
Nicolas Ghesquiere is Ni-co-la Guess-key-air
Givenchy is jhee-von-shee
Ralph Lauren, like the girl’s name!
Monique Lhuillier is Monique L’oo-li-ay
Christian Louboutin is Christian (with a light n) Loo-boo-tahn
Marchesa is Mar-kay-sa,
Moschino is Mo-ski-no, not moschino like the cherry
Dries van Noten is pronounced Dree-s
Raf Simons is Raff See-mon
Hedi Slimane is Eddy Sli-mahn
Olivier Theyskens is Olivi-ay Tay-skins

Now: can anyone who speaks Japanese tell me how to say Rei Kawakubo? Thanks.

—ANNA FIELDING GRIGGS