Fashionista contributor Long Nguyen is the co-founder/style director of Flaunt. SEOUL, KOREA-- “The weather is pretty weird today,” said a guy in front of me to his friend while we were waiting to enter the MVIO show on the first day at Seoul Fashion Week. He was right--it was nearly 74 degrees and sunny on a Friday morning late in October. I was told that it has been a strange year for weather in Seoul, as it had been in most of the world. But this conversation wasn't meager chitchat. What the man was really concerned about, according to my interpreter/fashion student Etty Kim, was that he had on the right clothes.
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Yoox.com made dreams come true last November 2009 when it released a collection of 100 pristine, one-off Martin Margiela pieces from 2005-2009. French
Russians in Japan: LOVE's Francesca Burns styled Dree Hemingway for January's Vogue Nippon which means fashion-wise, we've officially landed in 2010.
The Puppet Show: Fashion finger puppets are coming our way thanks to the kids at Rubbish. Put us down for one mini ALT. {NY Times} What's Your Damage?
Fact: It's supposed to be around 56 degrees in NYC on Sunday. Fact: So whether you're getting home from Paris via JFK or poring over the shows on Styl