Blog, August 2012 
Basso & Brooke lend their jaw-dropping dizzying digital prints to Cambridge Satchel Company this fall. The result is a decorative capsule collection of bags that feature a mélange of intricate and explosive prints that will surely get you noticed. I can stare at these printed bags all day! Want to get your hands on these kaleidoscopic beauties?
Blog, August 2012 
“I love customizing things; it’s something I’ve always done,” says SFK accessory designer Sarah Frances Kuhn. “I just never thought I’d be making a living from it.” While the former Teen Vogue accessories editor may be familiar with putting her personal stamp on her vintage and thrift shop clothes and accessories, she never stopped to think about the style potential of her functional camera strap.
Blog, August 2012 
Born and raised in Paris, accessory designer Céline-Andrée Adotevi is no stranger to the elegant statement a silk scarf can make. “In France, women wear scarves for any occasion, so of course my mother had a great collection,” reveals New York-based Adotevi, who is redefining the neckwear staple with a striking line of 100% hand-made printed Asian silk scarves, Lauran Vitonahu.
Blog, August 2012 
We’ve come to expect only the best when it comes to Russian designer Vika Gazinskaya pulling off retro, twisted 1950s futuristic ladylike dressing to sublime perfection. Think a more subversive 2012 Betty Draper. Midi skirts, architecturally cut frocks, playful prints, exaggerated shapes, Nike baseball caps and vibrant head-scarves all share equal real-estate in this street-style star’s closet.
Blog, August 2012 
Vancouver-based photographer Hana Pesut’s dual portrait series, Switcheroo, takes a gender-bending look at street-style fashion by having couples exchange complete looks – all the way down to the shoes and even hairstyles. Her captivating before and after photos challenge the concept of dressing according to gender and they also flirt with the notion of how clothes shape our identity.
Blog, August 2012 
This weekend I paid a visit to Yoox.com, the fabulous luxury online discount outlet, and was pleasantly surprised to find an army – more than a hundred pages to be exact – of fancy designer shoes on sale. Yoox.com’s endless collection boast marked-down styles from Givenchy, Dries Van Noten, Maison Martin Margiela, Alexander Wang and Missoni.
Blog, August 2012 
Whether it’s a period piece with highly elaborate costumes that are hard to ignore or a contemporary tale in which the wardrobe is so familiar it can go unobserved, clothes in films help us flesh out and decode a character even before we know the what, when and where and hows to the narrative. For those of us who are both cinephiles and style junkies, on-screen style has the capacity to inspire fashion trends or reignite old ones.
Blog, August 2012 
It never fails; every summer by the time August comes around I’m pretty much over my hot weather wardrobe. Tank tops, shorts and summer dresses, not to mention the sweltering heat, have lost their appeal, and my mind is completely fixated on jackets, sweaters and pants. As I wait impatiently for the weather to cool down, I’ve collected a few images that are currently getting me excited about the transition from summer to fall.
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