Fashion news

"If she comes past the shop, hopefully she'll just keep walking. I don't really covet that sort of thing." - Alexander McQueen on the chance that Paris Hilton should visit his newly opened L.A store.

The seventh 'Designers for Target' collection hit Australian stores today. It's creator: relative newbie Zac Posen.  Since his ready-to-wear debut in 2002, Posen has been seen on celebrities from Rihanna to Helen Mirren, but today, us 'normal' kids can joyously embrace the chance to own a piece of his beautifully tailored, alluringly coloured and cleverly embellished collection. 

It may be celebrity heavy but don't expect no Perez Hilton style outings or moral lambastings from Who What Wear Daily ; as the tag-line proclaims "We don't care who you date or if you eat. We only care about what you wear". WWWD deals in up-to-the-minute shots of MK and Ashley, Chloe, Lou Dillion et al in all their typical sartorial splendor; including with these shots information on exactly what/who they are wearing and where you can get it. Who What Wear also shows you how to put together outfits similar to those worn by the aforementioned style queens (for those of us who are on an average income/ not friends with Mr Lagerfeld) and runs frequent trend reports as well as profiles on up and coming clothing and accessory designers.

I have absolutely no idea on what happened inside the Grand Palais in Paris for the Spring/Sumer Chanel fashion show. And trying to chat the security guy up was completely useless. I would not get in! I may not have had the privileged glimpse at this season iconic French couture house new designs, but I saw a kind of unexpected spin-off of the original show just outside the venue. As limos were dropping their good share of preppy “happy few” gripping their invitation out, scoffing at me, I noticed that everyone is actually, uniformly clad in Chanel. I have never seen so many 2:55 padded bags, black and white trademark bicolour pumps or camellias brooches per square metre. While my eyes were itching in front of that many double-C logos, I started to wonder: is it like a social fashion code that when you attend a fashion show you have to wear the design er’s line? Would Karl feel upset if the audience is not as full of tweed and white pearls as the catwalk is? Obvious strategy for next fashion week: pulling on a total black and white tweed Chanel-like look. Maybe, I will manage to sneak in, lost in the middle of this homogenously all-alike crowd of trendsetters.

YEN was asked to donate a bunch of YEN magazines as a fashion media source for first year students at Whitehouse Institute of Design. The school offers students a three-year bachelor degree of design and they can major in design, interior design, styling or fashion design. Some of the more well known students that have graduated and gone on to be highly successful in the Australian and International fashion markets are Camilla & Mark and Daniel Avakian. We wish the new students all the best with their studies!!

Is Sydney becoming the first port of call for Japanese fashion? Lets hope so. The Japanese designer T-Shirt institution Graniph have just opened their first store outside of Asia right here in Sydney at the Galleries Victoria. In Japan alone there are 30+ stores, galleries and a network of artists and designers from all over the world, which at just $40 for a limited edition cotton tee from the likes of Jan von Hollenben, Terri Weifenbach, Mikko Rantanen and local faves Beci Orphin and Lyn & Tony sounds pretty good to me. Now if they would just give us even a little slice of Harajuku then we’d pretty much have it all.

A friend of mine recently put me onto this blog. It's called The Cherry Blossom Girl and I think it's a fashion blog that's authored by a girl named Alix. I say "I Think" because TCBG is all in French - but do you know what? It doesn't really matter that I can't read it because it means I can just enjoy the lovlieness of Alix's drawings, photos and videos instead. And maybe do a quick translation on the language dictionary every now and again.