Fashion Week Essentials

Anyone who has been watching Lindsay Lohan this week (she's in NYC for Fashion Week) will note she has made hundreds of wardrobe changes. For a little bit of daydreaming magic I went to my three favourite online stores and picked out the clothes I would want to take with me to fashion week.

And out of interest what have your favourite New York shows been so far?

all images from store websites

Tonight I'll be...

Enjoying KOKO by Cadbury chocolates (with adorable PPQ designed cat charm necklace) and re-reading sections of Front Row: Anna Wintour, after watching The September Issue this afternoon.

As I'm sure you guessed the movie is amazing. You've got to see it if you can, if not it comes out on DVD at the end of the month, it's worth buying.

Favourite line of the movie goes to Mario Testino dreamily saying "maybe I should have a party in this room...."

The Fashion Week Game

New York Fashion Week officially kicked off yesterday - although the good shows don't start until tomorrow, sooo excited for Preen. If you're currently running between collections and waiting around for the shows to start why not play a little game of What Can I See?
I've compiled a checklist for each city of the key moments to look out for. Give yourself a point each time you spot a pair of Isabel Marant boots in Paris or Christopher Kane Croc tee in London and tally up your scores at the end of the week.




Click the checklists to make them larger

Also, don't forget tonight is Fashion's Night Out... What are you all going to be doing?

Congratulations Nicole

It feels like there have been no new pictures of Nicole Richie for months. Of course, she was busy with her second pregnancy, but I really missed her. Whenever I was putting together a hit and miss post that felt a little empty I always wanted some Nicole pictures to fill in the gaps.
Hopefully she'll be back soon as yesterday she had a son, Sparrow James Midnight Madden.


Above both Joel and Nicole carrying Harlow, who is the cutest celeb baby out there - and has the most fabulous winter wardrobe.

Thought on the name Sparrow?

Wednesday Talking Points

Freida Pinto in Christopher Kane:


At last nights GQ Man of the Year awards Freida wore one of my favourite dresses from the Christopher Kane F/W collection. I'm used to seeing Freida in designs which fall more into the glamorous category, but 'edgy' really works for her.

PPQ & Cadbury Get Together:


PPQ have designed two bespoke charms to be sold with special boxes of KOKO (milk chocolate truffle) by Cadbury. The chocolate is in stores nationwide now and the chocolates and the charm together retail at £20.

Does Anyone Want this Top?


I have watched this Vanessa Bruno Athé top get cheaper and cheaper. It first started off in the Net-A-Porter sale (this was about a year ago), it was on the Outnet the day in launched and it's still there now. I'm actually tempted to buy them all just so I won't have to look at it anymore. If it catches your eye it's now £19.20 and you can buy it (please do) HERE.

Is Charlotte a Granny?


I had been looking forward to the first proper pictures of Kristen Davis on set of the SATC movie because Charlotte was arguably the best thing about the movie. Why is she dressed like my 90 year old Grandmother though? It's terrible. Also Cynthia (I was going to call her Miranda, are we naming them by actress of character at the moment?) looks amazing. Loving that dress.

images from thefashionspot, outnet and style.com

The Wait is Nearly Over

Ever since the AnOther covers were released I have been counting down till the advanced copies go on sale (Thursday at Liberty, if you didn't know). I'm so excited for this issue that pretty much every night I talk about it on facebook chat with my friend Dani - incredibly sad, I know.

This morning the Dazed Group emailed me a link to some of the images from the Decade in Style Portfolio. In celebration of a decade in fashion AnOther Magazine has paired 29 of the most influential designers with 29 of fashion's finest accomplices, including Kirsten Dunst, Ashley Olsen and Chloe Sevigny. Here are a few for you to enjoy.



Charlotte Gainsbourg in Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière spring/summer 2003
Photography: Craig McDean
Styling: Panos Yiapanis



Kylie Minogue in Christopher Kane spring/summer 2007
Photography: Hedi Slimane
Styling: Alister Mackie



Chloë Sevigny in Miu Miu spring/summer 2006
Photography: Craig McDean
Styling: Nicola Formichetti



Michelle Williams in Louis Vuitton spring/summer 2007
Photography: Craig McDean
Styling: Nicola Formichetti

It's lovely to see clothes from 'old' collections modeled again. And my, the things I would do for the Miu Miu dress Chloe is wearing....

View the rest of the preview images HERE.

And on the subject of magazines the September issue of W finally arrived in the UK. I'm so impressed my magazine man had it before Borders.

Manolo

"If people talk to me about Sex and the City I get sick."

Manolo Blahnik tells The Sunday Telegraph about his disslike for the show. Guess that means you shouldn't tell him that Smith may come back for the second SATC movie if you run into him.