It’s the day for designer collaborations to be announced. Fresh off the news of Lanvin for H&M, Italian fashion house Hogan have announced that they have worked on a special project with Karl Lagerfeld – aptly named, Hogan by Karl Lagerfeld. The pair created on an exclusive spring/summer 2010 women’s capsule collection which will include ready-to-wear and accessories that will be unveiled during Paris Fashion Week on October 2, 2010. Also unveiled on the day will be a Hogan by Karl Lagerfeld short movie created and filmed by the Kasier himself. According to the short statement, Hogan by Karl Lagerfeld is an ‘exceptional partnership embracing the unquestionable wonder of Karl Lagerfeld and Hogan’s original philosophy, an example of unique and timeless lifestyle.”

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We didn’t quite believe it when Karl Lagerfeld designed a collection for H&M. Then Stella McCartney, Roberto Cavalli, Viktor & Rolf and Jimmy Choo joined in. Well I don’t think I’ve been as excited about a designer collaboration until this one – Lanvin for H&M. Rumours broke yesterday through WWD and it has since been confirmed by H&M themselves in a release.

H&M is proud to announce that its next designer collaboration will be with Lanvin, one of the most influential brands of the 21st century. Designed by Lanvin’s artistic director Alber Elbaz, and menswear designer Lucas Ossendrijver, the collection will go on sale on November 23 in around 200 H&M stores worldwide. The collection of both womenswear and menswear will be revealed to the world on November 2, 2010, just three weeks before the clothes hit the store, making the launch of Lanvin for H&M among the most anticipated fashion events of the year.

The collection will be unveiled through a special film on November 2, meanwhile we have one where Alber Elbaz talks about how he is translating the Lanvin dream to suit H&M. And that H&M is going high street, instead of the other way around.

Watch Alber Elbaz talk about the upcoming H&m collaboration below >>

British fashion photographer Corinne Day passed away last week at the age of 45 from complications due to her brain tumor. The fashion model turned photographer is long credited with discovering British supermodel Kate Moss and photographing her for the July 1990 Face magazine cover as well as her first British Vogue cover in 1993. The pair even shared an apartment together as Moss established herself in the modeling industry. Read a obituary of her life over at the Guardian.

There is something about Agent Provocateur and their flame haired models – Australia’s own Tiah Eckhart fronted a ad campaign for the lingerie label with Catherine Bailey and Daisy Lowe. Joining their ranks is long-time Scottish model Kirsty Hume, who put on a bright orange wig for her role as Agent Provocateur’s Autumn/Winter 2010 protagonist, Betty Sue.

“Agent Provocateur is the most erotic lingerie in the world and I use it for my pleasures,” says Hume about her new employer.

According to Agent Provocateur’s Creative Director, Sarah Shotton, Kirsty Hume was cast as Betty Sue because “Kirsty became a top model in the 1990s. She represents our perfect woman, a woman with a family that oozes unbelievable intelligence, sensuality, personality and confidence. She has a film noir, feline quality to her that I felt had a brilliant synergy with Agent Provocateur.”

The Agent Provocatuer 2010 A/W collection comes with a two-minute film staring Betty Sue as well as a print campaign and 2010 A/W lookbook ‘Private Tapes’ which is inspired by strong female protagonists from late 20th Century Hollywood cinema. Directed by Johan Renck, with creative direction by Sarah Shotton, the film shows a sultry and dominatrix side of Hume that we don’t often see. Mind you the Betty Sue film also see’s a male model in not so tighty-whiteys.

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There’s something about those Spanish brands. Some are super chic and on trend like Mango and Zara, and then you have the ones that ooze sex appeal (in a good or a bad way) like A.Y. Not Dead. A relatively unheard of brand in the western world, they have aimed to change that by enlisting the modeling talents of Dree Hemingway for their Spring 2011 ad campaign.

While the images are hot, we can’t help but think the butt-baring images are inspired by Gisele Bundchen’s butt images for V magazine back in 2009. The Dree images photographed by Sebastian Faena are kind of sexy, but kind of trashy as well. I guess denim can go both ways… I guess I have to give it the thumbs up just because there is no double denim on show.

Check out more images from the A.Y. Not Dead campaign below >>

This a new semi-regular feature has been a long time coming. I get invited to many fun events that don’t seem to make its way on to the blog, and it’s about time I rectified that and showed you a little more of my world beyond live tweets from various events. Don’t go expecting highly stylized photos where I pose on inadament objects though, this is a blogger diaries about the trial and tribulations of juggling events, blogging and… oh yeah, my day job! Which is at a beauty company if you must know ;)

So. What’s been happening in my world? Let’s start from the very beginning – or at least a back in July 2010…

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Countless designers have redesigned the iconic Band-Aid in the last few years, so it came as no surprise that the fashion designer who’s going collaboration crazy right now, Cynthia Rowley, has just announced her limited edition dress-up Band-Aids. It’s all for charity of course with $1 from each tin of 20 going to help Design Ignites Change, an organization that works with high school and college students in design and architecture projects to address social issues in their communities. With 20 assorted girlie-fabulous designs in each $10 shiny metal tin, we want a piece of that!

Check out the Cynthia Rowley website to pick up your Band-Aid by Cynthia Rowley now.

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Lauren Weisberger (aka the author of the book that spawned the movie, The Devil Wears Prada) has a new book out – Last Night At Chateau Marmont. So of course journalists are asking about her time back in 1999 at US Vogue working as an assistant to Anna Wintour. On making powerful enemies because of TDWP she said “There were powerful people at the time who were unhappy with it. I was 25 years old and had no idea what I was getting into. The New York city media likes writing about New York city media so a lot of people gave their opinions.”

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Blow by Blow, by Detmar Blow & Tom Sykes; Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion by Lauren Goldstein Crowe

Buzz started earlier this week over the Isabella Blow book, Blow by Blow written by Detmar Blow and Tom Sykes. Well we did some digging and found that that wasn’t the only book set to launch in the next few months about the influential fashion figure. There is a picture book entitled Isabella Blow edited by Martina Rink with the foreword written by her good friend Philip Treacy and Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion written by Lauren Goldstein Crowe (who also wrote The Towering World of Jimmy Choo).

No doubt the book by Detmar about his late wife is the most anticipated, not only because he would be able to tell stories that we wouldn’t know already but because Tom Sykes is also the brother of Plum and Lucy. In an except released over the weekend, Detmar wrote:

“My immediate feeling was one of sickening déjà vu: my own father had died in 1977 after drinking weedkiller, and it had killed him in half an hour as the liquid burned out his insides.”

Interestingly enough, Goldstein Crowe and Detmar Blow chose to use the same image of Isabella for the cover. Perhaps it was a favourite of Isabelle’s?
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She is the 69-year-old flame hair fashion editor who stole the show from Anna in the cult fashion documentary The September Issue. Grace Coddington has a whole new fan base thanks to the popularity of the documentary and WWD has revealed that she is working on her memoirs with Jay Fielden. “We’re just starting, and I think it’s going to be a really fun project,” Coddington told WWD, adding: “I’m hoping it’s going to be very rich in fashion history. It’s more than just about me.” We sure hope so! Coddington was a model back in the 1960s and could tell us more about the inner workings of the fashion industry than most pundits could. The proposal is due with the publishers this Northern Hemisphere Fall with Feilden reportedly spending a lot of time with Coddington and interviewing her network of people around her.