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Lanvin Spring Redux (And An Outlet Shopping Recommendation)

The amazing fall Lanvin collection got us thinking about the spring show—equally unbelievable. By the way: Anyone within driving distance of Jersey Gardens should get there as soon as possible in our opinion: We got $15 (actually: $14.97!) Marc by Marc Jacobs jeans. And they were just the tiniest tip of the most gargantuan iceberg, with $30 J Brands, more Donna Karan Collection than we could carry, every big denim line, and loads of BS favorite See By Chloe—though, sadly, not for under $100. And the Last Call Neiman's had essentially an entire Tory Burch store inside. Ridiculous! 

Our Favorite Collection Of The Season

Says Sarah Mower in Style.com:

Nothing at Lanvin ever comes at less than top price. In a tanking economy, that would seem to contradict Elbaz's stated aim to embrace "realism" and the generality of women's daily concerns. It all depends, though, how pennies are counted, how long clothes can be worn, and whether they're destined to be made obsolete by fashion within six months. With this collection, Elbaz deliberately built a defense against that lack of confidence, going back to re-do pieces (like the raw-edged charmeuse dresses) he first came up with five years ago. His message: What was good then is just as good now, and what's bought now can have just as much value years hence. In a year when all other financial investments look like a joke, a Lanvin one is as rock-solidly trustworthy as fashion can be.

Hurrah! It sounds like rationalizing, but we totally believe it. Even if we can't afford it. We can still believe. 

—see some of our past fashion week coverage here

The Fall Prada Show!

Everyone is going wild for it ("The collection was outstanding," says the WSJ). There are a lot of thigh-high boots. But our favorite look was totally this one: Miuccia coming out for her bow. We're sure she's totally fearsome but how adorable is she? And she's almost 60. We do not mind, so much, living in a world where the most fashionable woman in it is going to be 60 in May.

Our New Fall Hair (From Yohji Yamamoto)

Empty, cracked-out eyes—pass. Lovely psycho braids, hurrah! There were so many crazy braids at this show, it is our everlasting sorrow that we can't find more images of them.

What We Think About When We Think About Spring

This is our spring-planning inspiration of the day. Trovata! Shorts! Button-down tops! Not an ounce of rocket science!

Fashion Week Continues: Moschino Cheap and Chic

The buttons on that jacket on the left just look mis-buttoned to us. No? But: take-away lesson from Moschino Cheap + Chic: terrifying bright tights are here to torment us at least through next season.

Dilemma

We are often confounded—in general, but also in particular: What sort of coat is the right sort to wear with a tunic and skinny pants or leggings? Our head says cropped, to keep all the proportions [sort of] right, but we only like that look when the front's kept unbuttoned or zipped (to keep it clear that you're wearing a tunic over pants and not a skirt, which has for some reason always bothered us) or the whole thing is super narrow to avoid bulk. And then sometimes we think the jacket \ coat should be longer than the tunic. Or that it should only be a combo worn in warm weather, to avoid the jacket conundrum entirely.

Anyway. We could try to work this out for days, and we are not sure we would be any closer to the answer. But here are a few ideas, which we poached from Topshop's glorious LFW coverage. (Do be sure to watch the Unique fashion show. Love the belts!)

Fashion Week Continues: Michael Kors

This has got to have been the smile-iest show we've ever seen. We're sure they were all instructed to smile big, and then only half of them could do it, and the rest just sort of grimace. But we loooved this show. It makes us want to remake The Avengers, and dress Emma Peel in all of it. As above: so Avenger-y!

Below: grimace.

This may be our favorite look. The electric blue, which we have been so bleck about, just looks totally resolved, as they say in our art school. All the time.

The Armani Couture Show Online

Maybe we are being totally daft, but we don't remember being able to see online webcasts of the couture shows before. Are we losing our minds? It is 5:41 a.m. in San Francisco, and we did that thing where the alarm went off at 4:37 and were like, "Why are on earth would we do that?" before shutting it off and going back to sleep. And then realizing the SuperShuttle was due in eight minutes.

We remember we spent one very apparently motionless September doing nothing but watching that fashion channel on Time Warner cable, which played the Marc Jacobs show over and over and over, and that was sort of annoying but we enjoyed the fact that we knew the collection inside and out. (However far that knowledge got us. Er, not so far.) But then we moved, to cities with less extensive cable selections. We have not spent such a September since.

Anyway: Giorgio Armani's "Prive" couture show is online. We think that is fairly exciting. Not as exciting as finding a twenty-dollar bill on the street, but more exciting than finding a pot pie in the freezer. Most exciting for us: the headwear. We require a turban, stat! And yay, internet democracy!

Chanel Couture

What we love about couture is that it's like, fine, okay, that's couture, but from a distance it looks like an underfed high schooler from Jerry Springer who's sleeping with her brother and her mom's boyfriend. And just was like, "Leopard! Love it!"