While looking for images for the Marc Jacobs Stam piece, I kept coming across pictures of the stylish women carrying the Yves Saint Laurent Muse.

An up and coming “it bag” for those who don’t want a bag that screams “I’ve got a Paddington / Le Dix too!” While the Muse is not all that striking, but it does have quite a following.

The clean lines of the classic carry-all bag appeals to many, including the trend setter herself, Kate Moss, Naomi Watts, Jessica Alba, Nicole Kidman, Demi Moore, Lindsay Lohan, and Jennifer Lopez – just to name a few.

A fantastic day bag that comes in 3 different sizes, it gives their owners a slim line, low maintenance look. And to add to that, you can also get your initials embossed on it - after all you wouldn’t want to have someone else pick it up and claim it as theirs if you’ve just spend around US$1,300 on it!

Besides the requisite black, white and brown, the Muse also comes in crocodile, ostrich, linen and probably a few more animal skins. If you want one of the more special ones, it will set you back close to US$20,000!!

Best save that kind of spending on a 5 star holiday to somewhere fabulous and sunny with beautiful men and great shopping. Paris anyone?

When I first saw the Chanel Rouge Allure Luminous Satin lip colour I fell in love. And I have never fallen in love with a lipstick before.

The smooth simplicity of the lipstick tube is inspired by New York’s One Liberty Plaza skyscraper. And when you press the top, the gold inner casing pops up and the lipstick slides out. To add to that, Chanel is lasered into the lipstick itself.

Packaging aside, there is a fantastic range of colours with fantastic names that describe the fabulousness that is women with words like: Silhouette, Lover, Chic, Provocative, Boudoir, Desirable, Sexy, and Genius, just to name a few! Oh and I forgot to add… the lipstick itself slides on the lips like satin with stunning colour that is like a second skin.

I love it - I have Sexy, with another 3 - 4 more on my wish list!

It’s seduction in just one click

Soon you could be buying a Costume National motorbike.

Ennio Capasa, one half of Costume National, has designed the most powerful custom Monster motor bike ever, based on the Ducati S4RS.

I have no idea what all that means. I’m assuming it’s super powerful with a name like ‘Monster’.

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Do these two think it’s a good thing dressing the same?

Or did their stylist Rachel Zoe get a cut of the profits generated from the sales of the clothes that Lohan and Richie wear?

Actually a PA that buys exactly what I ask them without getting distracted by sales.

I had spent a little more than I had originally planned while shopping today. It’s not like I expected Myer to still have a sale on. But they were, and tights were 30% off. So I had to pick up a pair of opaque black ones (not the footless legging ones - ick). Then after browsing / staring / trying on Chloe, Wayne Cooper and Marc Jacob shoes I had to get out of there.

I left Myer to buy the one thing I had planned to buy - Shiseido moisturizer from David Jones. But in David Jones I decided because of recent stresses at work, another bottle of Origin’s Spot Treatment would come in handy for any stress related breakouts.

Then it was up to the shoe section - just in case they had any pretty ballet flats or round toe black pumps… I found the pair of Miu Miu ballet flats I’ve had my eye on for a few weeks now (so long in fact that they’ve sold out of my size online) and decided the toe was too round and since they only had the shoe in white and red I simply could not buy it. Now if I hadn’t spotted the Burberry canvas pumps - last pair and on sale - in my size, it would have been a very productive shopping trip indeed. I tried them on for so long (just the one shoe on display, it’s too dangerous to ask for the other shoe) that I swear the sales lady was about to go out back and get the other shoe for me! So off came the shoe and down the escalator I went (after I tried on a gorgeous pair of gold Jimmy Choos).

Unfortunately…. I swung past the lingerie department. And they were having a sale - 25% off all lingerie until tomorrow. So I just had to stock up on my Calvin Klein basics.

After that last purchase I dragged my sorry self back home to indulge in my new purchases and ignore my bank balance until pay day. This week was a little too similar to last weekend where I went shopping for a nice cardi, but found nothing that I liked. So I came home with 2 air freighted international mags, Debutante Divorcee by Plum Sykes and a bunch of chick flicks.)

I don’t think I should go near the shops again for another month.

• Surging around Net-a-Porter.com I found the CUTEST collection of children’s ballet flats and booties by Bottega Veneta. Ohhh I wish I knew someone who’s child needed expensive designer shoes. Come to think of it, a girl I went to high school with did email me pictures of her baby girl recently… But I think I need designer shoes more than she does.

• From children’s booties to boots, check out the new 8 Hot article about… boots!

• Did you know that Manolo Blahnik designed the shoes for the Sophia Coppola directed movie, Marie Antoinette, staring Kirsten Dunst as the young queen?“When the producers called, I dropped everything,” he says. “When I was a boy, my mother read a Marie-Antoinette biography, and I have read Antonia Fraser’s version. I can’t wait to see it. They said ‘make them sexy’, but I wanted to do something very academic.” So he began by studying original 18th-century shoes in Paris and at the V&A Museum.

It seems that the designer fashion’s on Devil Wears Prada might look better on the big screen than they really were for the actors that had to wear them on set.

According to the movie’s star, Anne Hathaway, the film’s budget mustn’t have included money for dry cleaning of the clothes.

Anne Hathaway gladly left behind her designer wardrobe from fashion-themed movie The Devil Wears Prada because the costumes were disgusting by the time they finished shooting. Costume designer Patricia Fields dressed the young star in pricey designer fashions for the film, including Chanel and Dolce & Gabbana.

But after months of filming and no dry-cleaning or washing, the clothes began to take on a life of their own. Hathaway explains, “They had an odor all their own. They could stand up by themselves. I never want to see those damn things again!“

From: StarPulse.com

For a preview of the eagerly awaited book-cum-movie visit AOL.com

And in other irrelevant news…

• Nicole and DJ Am break up again
• Jude and Sienna back together again

Australian magazines would not have cover images.

There is an increasing trend to just pull images from international editions and reuse them for the Australian editions. Does no one shoot their own covers anymore? Vogue Australia shoots a small handful of covers themselves, as do teen girls mags everynow and then. But the women’s lifestyle / fashion mags… ick!

The worst example was something I noticed a few months ago, Aussie Women’s mag Madison had recycled an old old old image of Scarlett Johansson from a European issue of Glamour - dated nearly two years ago!!

Look at all the current covers of the mags below - they all were not original covers / images shot for the sole purpose of using it as a cover image. Oh and one of them looks like spew. Who’s bright idea was the colours on that cover? Where have the days of creating your own magazine cover from the conception of the idea, to styling and shooting and then retouching and adding coverlines gone?

Oh yeah. It’s cheaper to just buy the images in the Australian publishing environment.