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A rare break on the Paris fashion week calendar means an editor does one or two things:

1. Visit Colette. (Check!) Among the countless chic finds, the Jeremy Scott x Swatch collab watches make telling time—at least when your iPhone dies—a very colourful experience.

2. Visit a museum. I zipped over to Les Arts Décoratifs to zoom through Hussein Chalayan’s Fashion Narratives. Known for his highly inventive designs that fuse fashion, architecture, and technology together, this exhibit highlights Chalayan’s kook-tastic universe using a multi-sensory experience, including voice, body, music, light, and décor that mirrors his ready-to-wear shows.

Word: Ambimorphous

Meaning: Well, Hussein Chalayan made it up, but he took inspiration from Alice in Wonderland, in which Alice grows and changes rapidly in one of two opposing directions.

Usage: “The clothes represent forms that are, so to speak, ‘ambimorphous,’ where all forms can morph in two different directions…” ― Hussein Chalayan

Former Dior Homme designer, Hedi Slimane, confirms that he will be returning to fashion design. [Fashionologie]

Be still, our hearts! The incredible  Iris Apfel is launching her own jewelry line, in collaboration with HSN. [StyleBistro]

While some seem doubtful, we feel that Kate has the chops to one day become a style icon rivaling her late great mother-in-law. Kate, if you’re reading this (Hi!!!), we think all it would really take is branching out from your jersey dresses and pea coats and embracing the incredible talent that London fashion has to offer. For the couple’s impending honeymoon (rumoured to be taking place in either Australia or Africa), we picked a slightly more daring designer honeymoon wardrobe that we think would be sure to help Katie that secure her a spot in royal fashion history.

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Certainly the most adventurous costume party of award show season, last night’s 53^rd annual Grammy Awards certainly didn’t disappoint in the visual department. Raising her own bar even further, Lady Gaga literally hatched on-stage from a Hussein Chalayan-designed egg straight into her performance, outfitted in a see-through Mugler dress complete with prosthetic shoulders.

By Corinne Perez-Abergel, Gillian Pryor and Renee Reardin Graffiti on handbags?  That’s so Vuitton 2001. Or the runway backdrop at Issey Miyake’s fall menswear show. Marc, what’s your next move? [Nymag] Like we weren’t already jealous. Now Patrick Demarchelier has shot six of the hottest models around, along with their beautiful men for the February […]

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Anna Wintour and co. threw a huge fashion show last night at Lincoln Centre as a lead-up to Friday’s Fashion’s Night Out. Gisele opened, Naomi closed and Coco Rocha, Karlie Kloss and Adriana Lima helped round out the cast of 150 models showing 170 looks. [Huffington Post]

Will Prabal Gurung be the next designer to collaborate with Target? [Fashionista]

Phoebe Philo’s second ready-to-wear outing for Celine was full of sleek navy, plum and moss-coloured pieces. Dresses and jackets had low-slung leather patch pockets. Standout pieces were leather and sheepskin cocoon coats, cutaway jackets and shirts, blouses with trailing scarves, and a pair of clustered-sequin pieces. Click the images below to read up on Viktor […]

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