We admit that we didn’t mind Nicole Richie’s House of Harlow 1960’s jewelry line. It was a bit expensive for our liking (due to the fact we’re use to celebrity designed high street collections) but it was earthy but cool. Her footwear collection is a whole other story. FabSugar are reporting that they’re inspired by Navajo, the largest tribe of North American Indians which explains the crafty feel, but if we’re suppose to pay US$188 for her Cream Brigit Flats (pictured left), she’s got to be dreaming. But like every other celebrity line, we’re sure some people will be lining up at Kitson for them. Question is, will you?

Last month it was revealed that Canadian-born, London-based knitwear designer Mark Fast was releasing a diffusion line called Faster by Mark Fast (not that they’re calling it one, instead it’s “it’s a whole new dimension of Mark’s design concept”). And we have the ad campaign photographed by Fiona Garden and features Anouck Lepere and the star of his runway shows, plus-sized model Hayley Morley.

The collection is produced in an Italian atelier using the most advanced seamless knit technology and features his interpretation of effortless chic day dressing through the state-of-the-art knitwear production.

I love that the collection features Mark’s popular cobweb detail, now if only I can find a price list and a stockist I can buy from…

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Both Lily Allen and Courtney Love are no strangers of Chanel with both featuring regularly at the French fashion house’s runway shows. But one has featured in an advertising campaign for Chanel while the other has not, and it seems that Allen (who has)  c**k Chanel blocked them from being loaned out to her. Love revealed these revelations at the BRIT Awards last week saying: “I wanted a Chanel couture dress but Lily Allen blocked them out. And that’s lame, because I remember J-Lo had a lock out on Valentino one year but she shared with me.” How amusing, if that’s what you have to resort to then Love is right, it’s a little lame. [SMH]

Jessica Hart is one busy girl. She’s the face of swimwear label Seafolly and is set to launch her first clothing line Neon Hart in collaboration with Australian store General Pants, but she still found time to model for Australian fashion chain store Portmans (think H&M) Modern Classics range.

“Jess is naturally beautiful, yet glamorous and very much the ‘girl of the moment’. She has achieved celebrity status, but still manages to maintain her open and friendly personality. This makes her the perfect fit for the Portmans brand,” Portmans said in a release.

Portmans’ Modern Classics collection aims to reflect a combination of current fashion trends and Portmans brand values, and we must say we’re pleasantly surprised at the fashion forward vibe. Though an edgy faux-leather jacket and a shirt with over sized Balmain inspired shoulders may have been seen in stores everywhere in overseas, they haven’t been readily available on the high street in Australia. Could it be that Portmans have shed their oh-hum looks and taken things up a notch?

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I’m assuming everyone has seen The September Issue? So we all agree that Vogue’s Creative Director, Grace Coddington was the breakout star, yes? Which would make Vogue’s Editor at Large, Andre Leon Talley the comic relief or joker. The DVD is out in the US on Tuesday February 23rd (it’s in stores now in Australia, for a rather pricey AUD$29.98 and in the UK from Amazon UK for £4.98) and with it comes a whole slew of deleted scenes.

Here’s one where Talley is rather hilariously outraged by having to have his lunch in his car due to tight schedules. Apparently “Anna doesn’t even make us eat lunch in the car”… though she has apparently suggested people skip lunch all together. But of course she has.

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With Burberry streaming their upcoming Burberry Prorsum F/W 2010 show in 3D, other fashion brands have been thrown down the gauntlet to see who can up the ante. Well Dolce & Gabbana are trying their best with a new addition to their live streaming arsenal – they will be streaming their shows live on the iPhone and Android mobile devices, which are reportedly the two most popular smart phones worldwide according to total browsing market share statistics. The D&G show will stream on Thursday, 25th of February from 3pm (GMT +1); and the Dolce & Gabbana show on Sunday, 28th of February from 1pm (GMT +1). If you don’t have a iPhone or Android phone, you can still watch it live via your smart phone through their mobile site: live.dolcegabbana.mobi . As usual, the shows are also being streamed via Facebook and their website.

Australian label Ksubi has been saved by Quicksilver Europe founder Harry Hodge and Ksubi distributer Bleach it was announced yesterday. The cult denim label went into voluntary administration last month and their fate was decided in a meeting on Wednesday as creditors agreed that the groups liabilities would be liquidated and that they were all in favour of the joint venture between Bleach and Hodge. There reportedly was a better offer on the table but had several conditions to the sale, meanwhile there was another 30 unsolicited expressions of interests for the Ksubi brand owned by Dan Single and George Gorrow. [Ragtrader]

New York Fashion Week-lite edition 3 – the videos! As the week draws to a close tomorrow, it is apparent that colour is back in force for fall.

Marc by Marc Jacobs	Alexandre Herchcovitch	Brian Reyes	Anna Sui
3.1 Phillip Lim	Michael Kors	Marchesa	Proenza Schouler

While the fashion world mourns the death of one of the most iconic designers of our time, it comes as no surprise that the question of succession at Alexander McQueen has come into question. Word is his final show at Paris Fashion Week in March will still go ahead with his talented design team pulling it all together. But who will design the next collections? Will the Gucci Group (which own 51% of the brand) shutter the brand? Lee Alexander McQueen himself had once expressed desire for his label to become a lasting luxury brand, telling W he hoped it would be “here 150 years from now, after I’m pushing up daisies”.

Fashion journalist and former Vogue editor Marion Hume has compared McQueen the house of Christian Dior. When the great couturier passed away suddenly in 1957 their financial backer wanted to shutter the house, but was persuaded to change his mind and in came a 21-year-old Yves Saint Laurent. Forty years later the house of Dior was resurrected again in 1997 by John Galliano.

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Alcohol and fashion sometimes goes hand in hand, so it came as no surprise that a 3 million dollar Chambord Black Raspberry Liqueur Bottle was unveiled during New York Fashion Week by Betsey Johnson. Not that Johnson designed the bottle mind you, it was designed by jeweler Donald Edge and adorned with over 60 carats of diamonds and pearls with gold trimmings. New York is the heavily guarded bottle’s third stop (after London and Berlin) in a tour that will take one of the world’s most expensive spirit container to Orlando, Florida and Australia. And apparently this bottle is for sale if you have nothing else to spend your riches on.

New York Fashion Week-lite edition 2 – the videos!

Here’s our pick of the action on day 5 – 6 of the fall/winter 2010 season. Have you noticed the abundance of colour on the runway this season? It’s a refreshing outlook for the cooler months of the year.

Narciso Rodriguez	Thuy	DKNY	Rad Hourani
Vera Wang	Badgley Mischka	Zac Posen	Rodarte

There’s only 2 more days to go before the action moves to London where tributes to Alexander McQueen will be flowing and the hole left from the closure of Luella will be evident.

The world is about to be exposed to another rock star spawn fathered by aging rocker Rod Stewart. His daughter with former Sports Illustrated model Rachel Hunter, Renee Stewart has been signed up as spokeswomen for Pantene in Australia and New Zealand. Hunter had previously fronted ad campaigns for Pantene in the early 1990s (pictured left) and has rejoined the fold with her daughter by her side. At 17, Renee has aspirations of becoming a dancer but of course has “always been a fan of Pantene, so I’m thrilled to be doing my first campaign for them,” she said in a release.

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Doesn’t this picture just shout out CAPTION ME?!?

I was trying to watch a video of Victoria Beckham speech about her Fall/Winter 2010 collection of dresses at her New York Fashion Week presentation on YouTube but of course she’s sitting next to Vogue’s Grace Coddington and Hamish Bowles as well as The Telegraph’s Hilary Alexander so how can one be expected to pay attention to Posh Spice? Ok so her latest collection of dresses is beautiful, but Grace’s expressions are priceless because she goes from bored to amused to intrigued to blank in seconds. Watch it for yourself below.

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