There’s nothing I like more than to sit behind a computer and just aimlessly surf the web for bargain buys instead of fighting the crowds in stores. Here’s some to keep an eye on - we’ll be adding to list as we hear of more!

High end:

• Net-A-Porter.com for See by Chloe, 3.1 Phillip Lim, By Malene Birger (a personal favourite), Elizabeth and James and Erickson Beamon.
• Yoox.com for mark downs on Costume National, Dolce & Gabbana, Maison Martin Margiela, and Roberto Cavalli
• Agent Provocateur for up to 50% off luxury provocative lingerie
• Mulberry.com for mark downs on the beautiful Bayswater bag.
• MatchesFashion.com for mark downs on some stunning pieces by Lanvin, Sophia Kokosalaki,  Burberry Prorsum, and Yves Saint Laurent.
• My-Wardrobe.com has up to 50% off their designer wares which include the likes of Georgina Goodman, McQ Alexander McQueen, Twenty8Twelve and Tamara Jarmon.

Mid range:

• ShopBop.com for extra mark downs on Marc by Marc Jacobs, Juicy Couture, Diane von Furstenberg and more.
• GAP.com - get an extra 25% off sale items with coupon code: SALE (valid until December 29)
• ArmaniExchange.com for up to 70% off womens and mens wear
• Victoria’s Secret for bras starting from $12.99 and panties from $3.99 - get free shipping on US orders over $100 with coupon code: SHIP09
• Frockshop.com.au for mark downs on some beautiful Australian designers
• Mimco.com.au for great prices from Australia’s most lust worthy accessories brand.
• Warehouse for some sexy party dresses and accessories marked down by 50%

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Actions may speak louder than words, but if your clothes did the work for you, what would they say? In the hands of Dutch multimedia artist Thomas Voorn, garments become textile graffiti — his chosen catalyst for poetic expression, social commentary, and now, indie fashion slogans. For a limited time, his wearable media will festoon the windows and interior of London indie menswear mecca, B Store.

Voorn’s technique, developed two years ago, entails turning individual clothing items into a bricolage alphabet. These days, he frequently travels Europe, leaving poetic garment trails in his wake. He considers this “temporary landscape pollution”. We just think it is damn cool, and apparently, so do hip Londoners, who are flocking to B Store to see his work in person.

Given the season, Voorn acknowledges the yuletide spirit in his B Store exhibit, albeit in his own oddball manner. He has created a Christmas poem called “Cosmic Christian Ceremony”, a colorful fabric tribute whose references run the gamut of indie fashion luminaries: Bi-La-Li, Bernhard Willhelm, Natalia Brilli, Ian Batten and Ann-Sofie Back.

Though Voorn’s sartorial installations are not exactly alien to European art mavens, his latest project is raising eyebrows because of its so-called commercial duality. But Banksy commissions his art to musicians, so why shouldn’t Voorn display his artfully altered apparel at, well, stores that sell it?

The People for the Ethical Treament of Animals (PETA) are taking aim at “fur hags” like Madonna, Donna Karan, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Sarah Palin and even Colonel Sanders with their latest creation - PETA’s Holiday Snowball Fight game.

PETA’s game allows you to score points for throwing snowballs at “animal abusers by clicking on them with your mouse”.

According to the games instructions, “if you’re a good enough shot, you’ll move on to the next level and make the holidays safer for animals!”

To top it all off each the celebrity is worth a certain number of points, with Madonna worth a paltry 10 points, Donna Karan 25, Sarah Palin 25 and the “Trollsen Twins” worth a whopping 50.

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Always the industry contrarian, British grand dame Vivienne Westwood is pulling out all the stops for her upcoming Spring 2009 campaign, and to ensure she delivers a suitably zany splash, she has enlisted the services of her most unorthodox celebrity ambassador to date — pneumatic Hollywood starlet Pamela Anderson.

Even for the likes of Vivienne and Pam, two women famously married to their mercurial whims, this arrangement is a head-scratcher. Is Westwood trying to be ironic? Is Pam trying to resurrect her spontaneity? What is the hidden agenda, we ask?

But it seems the casting decision stemmed from the most organic of intentions: the designer & celebrity hit it off.

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She’s arguably Canada’s reigning supermodel: a catwalk sensation, an editorial queen, and a perennial Voguette. She’s performed Irish jigs on Gaultier’s runway and is slogan-worthy enough for her own Henry Holland tee. But this week, Coca Rocha reached a bizarre new career zenith when she came face to face with her own Rootstein mannequin at a cocktail party hosted by Richard Chai.

Since the 1950s, London’s Adel Rootstein Mannequin company has been creating eerily accurate “life sized dolls” of fashion and entertainment’s most charismatic players, including Twiggy, Joan Collins, and even glamazon queens Jodie Kidd and Karen Mulder. But the company isn’t stuck in the past; unsurprisingly, Coco Rocha is preceded by Agyness Deyn, whose slim frame, peroxide pixie cut, and tomboy sensibilities are the hallmarks of contemporary androgyny.

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London Fashion week schedule has been released and there has been a celebrity slotted into the timetable with Savannah and Sienna Miller showing their Twenty8Twelve collection there in February. The show is bound to add more buzz factor about London Fashion Week with the actress and her sister joining Luella and Vivienne Westwood on the schedule. Keep Sunday 22 February free if you’re hoping for an invite or else stay tuned to the internet for first photos and video.

After watching Scarlett Johansson in Vicky Cristina Barcelona over the weekend, I not only want to live in Barcelona for a month, I also don’t dislike her as much anymore. She has reportedly signed a deal to be the face of a Dolce & Gabbana beauty campaign photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. No one is sure if it’s a campaign for a fragrance or another project but we do know she will join the likes of the sexy Gisele Bundchen and Matthew McConaughey as a face of their beauty products. [Style File]

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When Cheryl Cole - Girls Aloud’s reigning queen bee and the public darling of the X Factor panel - was beckoned by British Vogue to be their February cover girl, it was a dream come true for the singer. But when Cheryl’s editorial and cover shoot did not go as planned, those dreams - and her mood - soon turned sour.

Allegedly, immediate and palpable tension on-set caused a riff between Cheryl and fabled fashion stylist Bay Garnett. Not only did their wardrobe sensibilities clash, the singer’s and stylist’s work etiquette proved incompatible.

Witnesses claim Garnett had her baby in tow and spent most of her time playing mum, while her assistants primped and prodded Cheryl, who was irked by her lack of control over the situation. She felt snubbed.

“Cheryl felt like she was being dissed. Eventually, at around 3pm, she decided she’d had enough and left the shoot,” a source told the Daily Mail.

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“Anna Wintour, ousted from Vogue!”
“No, wait, she isn’t!”
“Actually, it all depends on Carine…”

The past few weeks have inundated us with sensationalist headlines presaging or denying the rumored retirement of the almighty editrix. Whether or not a kernel of truth lies within the furor hardly interests us: in a bleak season for fashion, anything Nuclear Wintour related is fascinating, healthy, and relevant gossip. With all eyes on 4 Times Square, an entire industry population awaits its own version of the Second Coming, twitching with feverish curiosity.

Anna’s impact transcends fashion’s immediate sphere of influence and even pervades the radar of mainstream pop culture junkies, who at the very least associate the words “devil” and “Prada” with her name. In this sense, her notoriety outweighs her measurable achievements. Much the way Martha Stewart, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton drafted the blueprint for 2000s star power through pissing people off, so does Anna.

Now, someone dreamed up the portable camp iconography need to match the hyperbole: the “Save Anna” pop art campaign has arrived. Are you really surprised?

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