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Wednesday was a busy day in Paris, with Hermès and Miu Miu’s stellar collections closing out a month of Spring 2014 fashion shows, and Marc Jacobs bowing out as creative director of Louis Vuitton. In a tour de fashion force, many stylish individuals came out for the closing shows.

Again, we saw the black and white trend in full swing and many of our stylish ladies were channeling it with their own interpretative spin. Overlays of blooming floral prints blended with exquisite tailoring and funky textures were just the fun decals needed to make heads turn. Miroslava Duma made her mark with a brilliant white, structured jacket with cinched waistline that oozed femininity. The classic mid-century design was ushered into the 21st century with a funky, bold rooster print.

In a combination of trends, others expressed their penchant for soft pink pastels in a sexy slinky, boudoir style dress. Coupled with a sharp, plaid overcoat and complete with metallics dancing at the bottom of the jacket, it was the perfect balance of femininity and fierceness made appropriate for the city and not just the bedroom.

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Earlier today in Paris, sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning sat front row at Louis Vuitton’s Spring 2014 show to see Marc Jacobs’ final collection for the fashion house. The Fanning girls, who both appeared in past campaigns for Marc Jacobs’ own namesake brand, go tête-à-tête in today’s best dressed feature.

Dakota Fanning wore a floor grazing black dress of sheer lace layers from the Louis Vuitton Resort 2014 collection. Her accessories included a black monogrammed LV clutch and black open toe sandals. Mimicking her sister, Elle Fanning picked her look from the same collection, appearing leggy in an all white artfully embroidered mini skirt and a matching loose long sleeved top. Her pick was a great contrast to her sister’s all black and her teal wedge sandals added just the right pop of colour to her all frosty look. Dakota loosely tied her hair while Elle let hers hang on her shoulders. Both girls went for simple makeup with a rosy lipstick, Dakota’s was slightly matte and Elle’s glossy.

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When you’re Emma Watson, a simple trip to the hair salon turns into headlines and blog posts the world over. “There was a time when people only ever wanted to ask about my haircut,” she says. “That was a big deal for a while. But increasingly now I’m getting asked about the work I’m doing, which is really nice because people are genuinely interested.” This is probably because Watson is genuinely interesting. The 22-year-old Oxford University English student who leapt to the world’s attention as Hogwarts’ brightest half-muggle, Hermione, has managed to graduate from the blockbuster Harry Potter series into a string of intriguing independent films, including The Perks of Being a Wallflower and this summer’s Sofia Coppola-directed The Bling Ring.

Although she says she’s not the “sort of person who likes posing,” Watson has also lent her intelligent gaze and elfin features to ad campaigns, first for Burberry and now for Lancôme. “I’ve wanted to work with her for many years, but I didn’t want somebody too young to be [the face of] the brand,” says Youcef Nabi, president of Lancôme International. “I don’t want people to feel that they need to put on makeup very early.” Once Watson matured beyond Potter, the matter was broached, and a connection became apparent between the English actress and the French beauty company.

With summer wedding season well underway, the not-so-little sartorial dilemma of what to wear on one of life’s most momentous occasions probably has a bride or two stressing. While our Style Panel has already found solutions for unique wedding-guest styling, brides, grooms and bridesmaids need not worry – we have some modern styling tips from […]

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Fashion Television (RIP) was ahead of its time in several ways, and here is one of them: In 1985, when executive producer Jay Levine launched the program, he imagined it might become a channel for short narrative videos about clothing. Fashion films, now so inescapable a phenomenon, were then just a thought without a name: if music videos could revolutionize the way we consume pop, couldn’t a little cinematography do the same for clothing? The ’70s had seen then-living legends Guy Bourdin and Richard Avedon experiment with the moving image, and as film-recording cameras became less expensive, it seemed likely they’d land in the hands of younger, emerging lensmen. As MTV was to music videos, so might Fashion Television be to this new mode of image-making.

From the complete look book to our fashion director’s tips on just how to wear the clashing prints, we present your complete primer to the Marni at H&M collection in advance of its launch on March 8.

THE COMPLETE COLLECTION

THE JEWELLERY & ACCESSORIES

THE SOFIA COPPOLA-DIRECTED CAMPAIGN VIDEOS

THE COMPLETE LOOK BOOK

THE 3-STEP HOW TO WEAR IT GUIDE

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We gawked excitedly at the leaked release of a Marni for H&M ad, and couldn’t wait to see the Sofia Coppola–directed campaign video. Well folks, the moment has arrived: you can ooh and ahh at the commercial and also enjoy a bonus behind-the-scenes video.

The collaboration frenzy continues! We’ve been dreaming of the much-anticipated Marni for H&M collection (scheduled to grace stores on March 8) and wondering what graphic prints and bright tones we’ll be able to get our paws on. Well, the vision is becoming a bit clearer with a leaked release of the campaign’s first advertisement.

Word: Tomorrowland

Meaning: A future based on yesterday’s fantasies, at least according to the Dictionary of Walt Disney; a metonym for retro-futurism.

Usage: “And, of course, there’s Tomorrowland. The time of date is 1986 there. The place is the city of the future, where a trip to the moon is an everyday thing.” — Art Linkletter on Disneyland, 1955

News of Sofia Coppola being brought on board to direct the Marni for H&M films and commercials has had us in “how can this possibly get any better?” daze today. (But really, how?) Coppola talked to WWD about how she feels about the fast-fashion brand she’s working with: “I think it’s great how they make […]

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Earlier today, on a train from Paris to London, Marc Jacobs‘ entire set of Spring 2012 samples was reportedly nabbed! Dun dun dun. An email sent out to UK press read “The Marc Jacobs PR team is sorry to inform you that our press day tomorrow in the Marc Jacobs store is cancelled, due to […]

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What’s your approach to modelling?
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