“But it was less a revival than a remix — in the way that postmodern artists like Rei Kawakubo and Martin Margiela have done so well and that Marc Jacobs makes so palatable: mixing those historical references like samples of songs that you know well to create something new and surprising out of the predictable.” —Stefano Tonchi’s brilliant, and articulate, summation of London Fashion Week on The Moment.

The Anna Sui show is always a party.

But this season, for some reason, lacked a certain spunk (and we don’t just mean the confusing empty boxes inside the gift bags). It had all the good models (though it missed Agyness), the brightly colored embroidery, the youthful influence, and a party soundtrack, but it was, as the person next to me said, “all over the place.”

Her backdrop featured circus tents and if my Twitter icon hadn’t suddenly disappeared off the face of my iPhone, I’d have tweeted three’s a trend. The circus was nowhere to be found in Sui’s clothes though, instead there were a handful of hippie references and school girl looks we’d guess we’re inspired by her Gossip Girl inspired Target collection - if that isn’t too confusing.

And yes, we know ideas get recycled from season to season and that Marc’s own collection screamed “Rei,” but I swear those metallic dresses were in Bleecker’s Marc by Marc window last spring.

“What is important to me is information (in the journalistic sense of relating news.) Through my collections, other product projects and through my graphic work, or by collaborating with artists and photographers, I like to tell a story. Without news, nothing is alive. The final result of everything must say something. Information deepens the work. So, if anything, I am maybe more of a journalist than an artist!” Rei Kawakubo to the International Herald Tribune in an article celebrating Commes des Garcons’ 40th Anniversary

This summer’s Olympics are shaping up to be the most fashionable yet.

While the swimmers rock Rei Kawakubo designed Speedo swimsuits, WWD reports that the commentators will wear custom made Ports 1961 outfits.

Tia Cibani, the brand’s creative director, has met with four different female TV hosts from NBC, CNBC, MSNBC and USA “to marry the Ports aesthetic with each girl’s personality.”

Each woman will wear three separate outfits a day for every day of the Olympics which run for three scorching hot weeks in Beijing starting August 8th.

We wish more designers were involved with the Olympics. Giambattista Valli would design frilly leotards for the gymnasts, Lagerfeld could make hip black track suits for runners and Vivienne Westwood might paint colorful suits for the synchronized swimmers.

This needs to happen. Do you know anyone on the Olympic committee?

Just after the weekend took off, Louis Vuitton and Comme des Garçons announced that they will open a joint store in Tokyo on September 4th, the day before New York Fashion Week kicks off, that will exist for just three months, similar to Comme’s past guerilla store openings, except… as a collaboration with a huge luxury company that seems like the antithesis to Rei’s designs.

The store, which will be in the Aoyama shopping district, will be “half luxury, half raw”, with a section designated for Rei’s Comme for H&M designs (which will be pie-shaped and red, H&M’s unofficial color) come November.

In celebration of the collaboration, Rei’s designed six one-off bags which she describes as “party bags”, incorporating the LV monogram pattern with serious handles, meant to evoke the style of LV’s bags three decades ago when they opened their first store in Tokyo.

So, just to keep this straight: First, Rei’s designing a bunch of LV-ish bags that’ll be sold in a store that LV will sponsor, from which LVMH will take half the profits. Then, Rei will sell her H&M designs in the space, from which LVMH will take half the profits.

Congratulations… LVMH?

When we heard last Fall that Stephen Jones was collaborating with Rei Kawakubo to make his own fragrance, our reaction was kind of like, “Oh boy.”

But WWD has the results of the project this morning, and we have to say, it looks rather special.

The bottle has a certain heft in its look that the Lovely’s and Glow’s of the world are missing. And the little hat box it comes in? Perfect for gifting.

But of course, we’ve yet to actually smell the perfume, which Stephen, who’s usually a maker of hats, describes as “a violet that’s been hit by a meteorite,” which sounds like the kind of one-noter that usually does pretty well. Stephen recently teamed up with Bumble & Bumble for a hairspray event, so we’re also wondering if these are the beginnings of a Stephen Jones beauty division.

The fragrance should hit stores next month, and we’re still hoping he’s planning on making the matching hat he talked about last September.

The whole thing seems so very Stephen, actually, that we’re kind of wondering - where was Rei in this one?

Were you wondering who would follow up Karl, Stella and Viktor & Rolf as H&M’s next guest designer this fall?

Wonder no more - H&M announced this morning that Rei Kawakubo will design the next capsule collection, after the mega chain opens its first store in Tokyo this November.

We think this is great, because we can’t imagine another scenario in which we could afford anything designed by Rei, but we’re also a little worried - the collection is supposed to include clothes for both men and women (obviously), accessories (fine), children’s clothing (uh), and a perfume (oof).

We’re already sincerely hoping that Rei doesn’t just put out a bunch of belts with studs and baby shoes that look like Christian’s Comme kicks (at left), and actually provides college kids across the world with the fashion-forward choices they wish they could afford.

Guess we’ll see which way this one goes.