Victoria Beckham was spotted leaving the Plaza Hotel this weekend with her son Brooklyn; the Beckhams had a whirlwind week in New York. They headed to Broadway to see All My Sons, where they watched their friend Katie Holmes perform. The Beckhams and Cruises also took carriage rides around Central Park and dined together at Serafina…Demi Moore wore Chanel to the premier of Flawless in London…Though she was wearing Balmain, Sarah Jessica Parker warmly greeted Valentino Garavani at the opening night of the New York City Ballet…Sienna Miller wore Louis Vuitton to the British Independent Film Awards…The Jonas Brothers wore Rugby Ralph Lauren to perform during halftime at the Seattle Seahawks vs. Dallas Cowboys game at Texas Stadium.…Nicole Kidman, who is no stranger to the United Nations having played a translator, addressed the U.N. in a dress by L’Wren Scott…Anna Wintour returned to her native London for a prestigious honor at Buckingham Palace; she received an OBE Award from the Queen. Wintour wore Chanel for the occasion…Several celebrities got into the spirit of giving this Thanksgiving by donating their time to those less fortunate. Gisele Bündchen served warm deserts at the Goodwill Center in Boston, while Cindy Crawford and Jennifer Love Hewitt prepared and served meals with the Los Angeles Mission.

HUMöR from Denmark is an interesting menswear line, their philosophy is to create a style which mix materials, designs, details and colors to create an overall look. ” We are working on a total look, which is heavily influenced by the metropolitan underground music. The DJ culture is alive and kicking in New York, Berlin, London and Copenhagen.” A major source of inspiration in this connection is Tokyo´s Shibuya area, where the fashion crowd is giving an entirely new meaning to the word paint box.

Check HUMöR Website for more info

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I’m a die hard casual smoker. I picked up the habit in high school, chain smoked through college, gave it by the time I hit the real world, picked it back up, casually, when I hit 21 and started drinking (yeah, I graduated with a bachelors at 19).  Anywho, it’s one of my favorite vices and for good reason. It looks so fucking cool.

I hate to admit that I’ve been affected by the Joe Camel’s and Marlboro Men of the world and in all honesty I haven’t. I could care less about what a cartoon humper and an aging cowboy have to say (Ralph Lauren is excluded from this thought of course, his word is gospel). But I can’t deny that hot models wagging around cigarettes hasn’t made me miss the habit. 

As an adult I can comprehend what the imagery signifies. It’s sex in the form of puffs of smoke. Death and destruction at it’s most enticing. It makes the model seem dangerous, against the trend, saying who gives a fuck and then blowing white plumes of billowy menthol flavored clouds into your face. It’s erotic, sensual, and makes me want to head out and pick up a pack if only to be ready for when one of these lovely ladies arrive and ask me for a light. 

Yeah, it’s stupid, but I’m affected by the marketing bug.

 

Find more photos like this on Fashion Indie
 

Some argue that smoking needs to removed from spreads, that little girls read Elle and other fashion mags and can be affected by the images they see.  Personally, I feel emaciated models and unrealistic images of photoshopped beauty are more devastating to little girls than lighting up a smoke from time to time, but that’s just me.

I’d love to here your opinions on smoking. Is it worth all the fuss…

Thanks to Planet Chen for all the photos.

ON SALE 40% OFF THIS WEEKEND (11/28/08 TO 11/30/08)

Autumn pre-sales continue with very attractive reductions at KidinChic. Three codes are to use (until the 6th of december) depending on your favorites:
30% Off on Armani, Kenzo, Lili Gaufrette, Monnalisa, Ralph Lauren, Sonia Rykiel and Tartine et Chocolat with the code VPH0801
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And also 30% Off on the "Small Prices" which are already with 40% Off with the code MINIPRIX
There's festive dress-up in the air!

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Yeah, the shy, fey, emaciated weirdo wearing some sort of Edward Scissorhands punk-goth getup that makes Lagerfeld look like a sweet old biddy in lacy doilies. The one kindly but intently ignoring Ms. Von Furstenberg’s lectures, making some sort of very intense origami construction with the plastic from his binder, a sheet of black tire rubber from the high school parking lot, a razor and a match.

That nobody there’s Gareth Pugh, and you’ll know him now by the 2008 ANDAM Award blinding you from his ratty black tee.

Revenge against popular culture is sweet, and a dish best served cold. The Central Saint Martins designer is not malicious and in fact comes across as sweet and shy, but sometimes you get the feeling that ole Gareth is playing a joke on all of us, an extended prank that he’s seeing how long it will take us all to get.

Almost everything Gareth makes could be a circus tent/vent disaster on black-and-white platforms. Witness below a piece I love but almost any other designer would probably mess up royally:

Gareth can also do sexy, in his own strange way:

The saving grace from his pieces of weirdness are that they’re done so incredibly well; the vents are so fantastically, precisely done, the silhouettes are so bizarre and masculine a la Storm Trooper chest shield/body armor, the long Elizabethan ruffs are so architecturally stable, and then he goes and says things like: “It’s kind of that essence of beauty, that duality… A flower looks the most amazing just before it’s about to die.” In Hint Magazine in 2005, he was quoted as saying that his skirts were “about the struggle between lightness and darkness, like Nancy Kerrigan versus Tonya Harding.”

How could you not love a designer who says something like that? But in this case, the bite of reality is stronger than the bark of mythos, and Gareth really follows through on what he says.

Let’s take a closer look at a couple samples from Gareth’s first shoe collection.

Simple, but perfect. And the accentuation on the appropriate legwear (black and white tights that are a fluid part of the shoe, nearly indistinguishable) and makeup (black solid lashes that are white on the sides) definitely reinforces the fact that a shoe can be subtle in color but still shout its presence from the rooftops if you play it right. It makes me think of Chanel’s classic black shoes with white cap toes, worn with black tights, so that the whole leg was black except for a tippy-toe of white peekaboo. Designers are saying, let’s think beyond our shoes to the perfect legwear for each pair.

The most fantastic thing about these shoes is that they are black and chunky in the back, warping into a whole other shoe when you see them from that angle, complemented by tights that are black in the back. It’s all about perception with Gareth’s work, shading and depth and angles and proportion. Storm Troopers plunging into a visual wrinkle in time and space.

But Gareth, I believe we can see weirder, more whimsical, more fantastic, both darker and lighter in shoes from you. And yes, that’s a challenge from an ardent fan.

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Analysts foresee a grim holiday season for retailers. (NY Post)

Fashion firms are cutting costs, like we said months ago. (WWD)

Fred Leighton creditor Merrill Lynch Mortgage Capital says the jeweler could run out of money by the end of the year and wants owner Ralph Esmerian out. (WWD)

Imitation of Christ is folding. (Racked)

New York's vintage and thrift stores are seeing a surge in business. (NY Daily News)

British retailers are stepping up the markdowns. (FT)

Luxury brands, including Graff Diamonds, are cutting back on ad spending. (NY Times)

-Sara Clemence