1. OLIVIER THEYSKENS is back to business after leaving NINA RICCI in March 2009. He returns designing with THEORY and preparing the Spring 2011 collection for the brand.

2. ALEXANDER McQUEEN's crown was given to SARAH BURTON, well heavy weight on tiny blond shoulders. Though big expectations.

3. Tyra Banks collaborating with my one and only VOGUE ITALIA editor-in-chief Franca Sozzana. Sozzana promised Tyra a cover and two editorials with America's Next Top Model winner of this cycle. Well a VOGUE ITALIA cover means STEVEN MEISEL !

4. As we all foreseen LiLo was a huge mistake yet wounded EMANUEL UNGARO' will try to be healed by talented hands now, GILES DEACON is the new creative director and his first attempt wat to take KATIE GRAND by his side! Exciting huh?

5. Adorable JEAN PAUL GAULTIER has left HERMES after 7 years. HERMES annouunced its thanks and gratitudes to JPG.

And who will place him?

6. Well new creative director of HERMES is CHRISTOPHE LEMAIRE from LACOSTE

7. Queen sings "Brother Louie Louie Louie" UK Trade Committee banned 2 ads of LOUIS VUITTON stating that these ads give a wrong perception to the consumers that all VUITTON items are handcrafted.

[Source:WSJ,Fashonologie,WWD]

Another exciting book that I look forward to have a copy! DEREK BLASBERG , one of the most amazing names in fashion world and whom most of us know from style.com will npw be on our shelves with his new book "CLASSY" available at Amazon!

Models, socialites, celebritiesa and editors all took place at the book party held at New York Barney's. Below Derek Blasberg, Jessica Stam and Chloe Sevigny(edress from PROENZA SCHOULER).

POP magazine editorDasha Zukova(in cobalt blue PRABAL GURUNG) did not leave her close friend alone. Next to her is Lauren Santa Domingo in a printed VIONNET iress. Leigh Lezark wore something from the irresistable BURBERRY spring collection.

OUTNET celebrates its 1st birthday with an amazing designer sale campaign that if you're lucky enough you can own a designer piece dfor only 1 USD! Really! 1USD,1EURO or 1 STERLING! But for a chance you have to make an RSVP from a secret link that is sent through their members only newsletter. So hurry up, just open a new tab and register first! Sale will start on April 16th!

ERDEM who I admire a lot has awarded the very prestigious and important (and generous with an amount of £200,000) British Fashion Council(BFC) Fashion Fund! This award-besides its financial support- covers taking consultancy from mentors of fashion-industry and a special program custom developed by BFC for ERDEM's growth! Other nominees were Angel Jackson, Christopher Kane, Clements Ribiero, F Tautz, Marios Schwab, Nicolas Kirkwood, and Richard Nicoll. Go ERDEM!


THE NEW YORKER's style issue cover is a tribute to our beloved ALEXANDER McQUEEN, it features his famous butterflies hat which is sad to be inspired from his best friend and muse Isabella Blow.


Well well Kaiser's shadow on a Coca Cola Light Bottle, who needs sun? Karl Lagerfeld who is very fond of diet coke and lost 41 kgs in 2001 with only steamed veggies and diet coke designed a limited edition botlle in white-black and pink with his "cola-thinned" silhouette and signature. The bottle will be available in a very special box with a chic bottle opener by April 24th via Colette.

COCO ROCHA will star in this very special coke, her Karl costume is really nice:))


Bad news from ROCK&REPUBLIC! The brand whose financial conditions suffer for months and filed for bankruptcy protection!


INTERVIEW is the first fashion magazine debuted in iPad with its April 2010 issue! Conde Nast announced before in Februry that iPad versions for their 5 mags(except W and VOGUE) were being prepared. INTERVIEW's "iPad" issue has released days before it hit newsstands.


Master couturier Jean-Louis Scherrer's model daughter Leonor Scherrer says "Death has become banal” and tells that none of the clothes were chic and sophisticted enought at YSL's funeral so that she decided to start a line named "Leonor Funeral Couture", the collection which will be consisted of clothing for ceremony and mourning period also comes with its own special fragrance called Maximilia.

[Kaynak: wwd,fashionologie,nymag]

Marc Jacobs tells about well known and yet unknown things about his brand at French Institute Alliance Française. Well, what are they?

2. When he was in a bad mood one day in his atelier waiting for muses to come :) he wanted her assistant to buy him a cheerful pant from Barneys which can make him happy! And it ended as a Comme des Garçons kilt.

3. When he is at PERRY ELLIS , he hired Tracy Reese who is his best friend from Parsons and another Parsons graduate Tom Ford.

Before I got this month's VOGUE, I got lovely news that I was in VOGUE! A quote from the post where I wrote my impressions about the debut issue. Well I am flattered and deeply glad that the quotation was about how VOGUE embraces bloggers. Thanks to VOGUE:)

Über talented RODARTE sisters has designed 4 unique dresses to be sold in an auction benefiting UNICEF. Dresses are inspired from the four movies in which Maggie Cheung starred: "Hero" "In the Mood for Love" "Clean" and "Heroic Trio".

Mulleavy sisters are also up to design for stage costumes of "Swan Lake" scenes for the upcoming "Black Swan" movie in which Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis' are two competing ballerinas.

Another "good heart" is TOMMY HILFIGER. He is collaborating for the fourth time with International Breast Health designing a new bag. This time his muse for the red tote is MILLA JOVOVICH(I adore her!) who is photographed by an ex supermodel, Helena Christensen. Bags will be selling by April in NY Tommy stores .

[Source:wwd]