The Viktor & Rolf ‘Top Belt Jumpsuit’

The Viktor & Rolf ‘Top Belt Jumpsuit’ takes the concept of high-wasted bottoms to a whole new level. The off-white one piece builds on the length of pants, extending them from the lower half of the female body to the very top. The detachable belt covers the upper width of the design, allowing for custom adjustments based on size and desired look.
This full-length piece provides a twist on the classic dress pant style. Many women pair them at business and gala events with chiffon blouses, effectively eliminating pant-only options. The Amsterdam fashion label has turned this norm on its head via the wool-based strapless design, sure to attract fashionistas from all over the world who wish to do away with chic norms. 
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Bottega Veneta personalization service

Bottega Veneta is the latest fashion house to venture into the realm of personalization, with the launch of a bespoke service allowing shoppers to adorn the latest accessories collection with their initials.
Available through the brand’s e-commerce stores, the service has its own dedicated microsite, where fashionistas can create their personalized piece.
Women can select from a range of small leather goods, shoppers, wallets, cases, and a belt. For men, items include a tote, a cross-body bag, two wallets, and a belt.

Once the product has been selected, a choice of four leather colors are available, while there are eight shades of lettering to choose from.

Following in the footsteps of labels such as Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta will also launch the Initials service for luggage as of July.

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Four-Sided Panorama Compact Mirror

‘Four-Sided Panorama Compact Mirror’ is perfectly portable as its condensed size is pretty much exactly the same as any regular compact mirror, this accessory extends into four more mirrors that can be held to look at one’s pretty visage all the way from ear-to-ear or from forehead-to-chin.
It will make putting makeup on in the car a much easier ordeal and won’t have a lady thinking about ripping her rear view mirror out of its place. It is available for purchase at the Japan Trend Shop for $27 and can impressively replace the regular compact mirror without a problem. 
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Hermès limited edition scarf by Sugimoto.

Hermès has announced its latest limited edition scarf collaboration will be with Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.
The partnership is in honor of the third edition of the luxury label’s Hermès Editeur project, which intertwines the world of fine arts and crafts with the realm of textiles.
Sugimoto’s limited edition silk scarves have been inspired by his “Colors of Shadow” project, and will be presented at the Art Basel contemporary art fair this June.
Hermès creative director Pierre-Alexis Dumas and Sugimoto chose 20 of the artist’s Polaroids depicting color gradations to be printed by ink-jet on silk twill. The limited edition line will be small scale, with WWD reporting March 26 that only seven of each design will be produced.
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JumpFromPaper ‘Cartoon’ Handbags

JumpFromPaper ‘Cartoon’ Handbags are slim in appearance, but each bag has a roomy interior to accommodate a tablet, notebook, your everyday accessories and even a laptop. A zipper bottom expands the bag for extra room.
Designed by Taipei-based, Chay Su and Rika Lin, these canvas and polyestor bags are priced from $79-$99 and are available for delivery internationally. 
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Hermes printed beach towel

Looking for the perfect summer beach accessory? Look no further than a Hermès Printed Beach Towel, from Paris. It’s 100% cotton printed terrycloth, measures 36″ x 60″, and weighs approximately 1.3 lbs. The beach towel costs $550. 
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Basso and Brooke for Cambridge Satchel

The talented duo of Basso and Brooke collaborated with the popular Cambridge Satchel Co. on a capsule collection of bags featured on their latest Autumn/Winter 2012 runway.
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Hermes Mini Kelly and Birkin Bags Spring 2012

Discover the Hermes Mini Kelly and Birkin Bags Spring 2012 collection. Hermes mini bags, measuring about 6 x 3.5 inches. Available at Hermes boutiques in miniaturized versions of ”Kelly” and “Birkin,” in a variety of spring colours. 

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Cake Couture Marbella

A Chanel cake and cupcakes by Cake Couture Marbella that creates customized cakes based on any of your favorite designer. The boutique bakery, based in Spain’s Costa del Sol, prides itself on creating intricate cake constructions using only edible ingredients – no plastic whatsoever! No request is too elaborate, and taste is never sacrificed. 
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Valentine's Day Dress

Giving a new meaning to the tradition of giving roses on Valentine’s day, Walmart-owned supermarket chain Asda has partnered with Joe Massie, an award-winning florist and designing a dress entirely made of 1,725 roses, inspired by flower power. The gown, designed for the  Valentine’s Day, involves more than 170 hours of labor and reportedly weighs just under two stone. 
The gown features petals from 1,000 Naomi red roses all over the dress, fifteen Carmen roses and 200 chrysanthemums, decorated with gold-leaf, around the hip and skirt of the dress, and petals from 150 Purple Power roses, 75 gerberas and 300 carnations, all picked from Walmart’s Valentine's bouquet collection, to flush this creation.
"I wanted to embody everything a romantic bouquet of Valentine's Day flowers should be - classic, elegant and with a sexy twist," says Mr. Massie.
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Christian Louboutin's Capsule collection

Christian Louboutin has launched a Capsule collection to celebrate the brands 20th anniversary. The collection includes twenty pairs of shoes and six bags.

The French creator has shown his sense of humor by including a “Pilule” bag shaped as an actual capsule. Giving a new meaning to the term doctor’s bag, the shiny blue and white pill capsule even has “500 mg” stamped in red on the side.
It is just one of many standout pieces from the celebratory range comprising 20 shoes and six bags inspired by his best work over the past two decades.
The collection will first hit European cities including Paris and London February 27, with a pop-up shop at department store Selfridges selling the line in the UK capital.
Fashionistas can sign up to receive email invites to shop the line on Louboutin’s soon-to-launch website by registering on Facebook.

Other events to honor Louboutin’s landmark year include a retrospective exhibition at London’s Design Museum which opens this March.
The designer has also collaborated with prestigious Parisian cabaret venue Le Crazy Horse, directing four original tableaux which will preview March 4.
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Designer-Inspired Cake Pops

The UK bakery Molly Bakes Cupcakes crafted these personable cake pops for the recent British Fashion Council Christmas Party. The tasty skewered confections were made up to look like prominent designers. The likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Anna Wintour and Vivienne Westwood were honoured with sugary replicas.
Showing off some mad fondant skills, Molly Bakes Cupcakes certainly hit a home run with these designer-inspired cake pops. Complete with their signature shades and dos, these cake pops are uncannily like their muses. These sweet, bite-sized busts are wonderfully adorable and terribly tempting.

Now well-known in fashionable circles, the UK bakery now counts Beyonce’s fashion label House of Dereon as a client.
Sure to make devote fashionistas swoon with delight, these Molly Bakes Cupcakes designer cake pops are as delicious as they are stylish.
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Yayoi Kusama and Louis Vuitton collaboration in 2012

A collaboration between the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and Louis Vuitton is set to debut with the New York show, coinciding with artist’s retrospective at Tate Modern Museum in London in February which will then move to the New York’s Whitney Museum in July. While no official images of the collaboration have been made available, the above image of  Marc Jacobs (pre-studliness) holding an LVMH bag customized and signed by Kusama, dating from 2006, perhaps can be seen  as a precursor of what we can expect. Lots of artsy polka dots.

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Jean-Paul Gaultier Spring 2012 Haute Couture

Inspired by the much-admired Amy Winehouse, Jean-Paul Gaultier couture show for Spring 2012, artfully married her pinup edge with his design mastery. Year after year the Gaultier look remains as a stunnning example of a timeless design signature. 

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Chanel Bleu Illusion Nail Polish

The nail polish, called “Bleu Illusion,” featured in Chanel’s Spring 2012 runway presentation was created by Peter Philips, Creative Director of CHANEL Makeup .The Exclusive Collection BLEU ILLUSION will be available at specific points of sales in July 2012.
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Golden Spider Silk at the V&A Museum, London

An astonishing golden outfit made from the silk of spiders has gone on display at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
It took more than four years to make the four-metre-long hand-woven textile from the silk of 1.2million female golden orb spiders, native to Madagascar.
It was made by Englishman Simon Peers and American Nicholas Godley, both of whom have lived and worked in Madagascar for many years.

Spiders were collected every morning before silk is extracted from them by trained handlers. They were returned to the wild at the end of each day.
The process is extremely laborious – on average, 23,000 spiders are needed to create about 28 grams of silk, according to the museum.
The last known spider silk textile was made for an exhibition in Paris in 1900 but no examples remain.
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Limited Edition Chanel bags for Bellagio Hotel

In celebration of the re-opening of its store in the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Chanel is offering an exclusive set of bags exclusive to the location. Note the dice! 
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Givenchy Haute Couture Spring 2012

Givenchy gives a hot collection for their Haute Couture Spring 2012 showcase in Paris. Impressive creativity and diversity of every piece including the large head pieces which all fell under the Japanese inspired collection. Ricardo Tisci is definitely leading Givenchy in the right direction.
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Diet Coke Get Glam editions

Pop cans have never been more fashionable than the Diet Coke Get Glam editions. This stylish campaign centres around three can designs: each one has a silhouette of a woman’s face filled with either a floral, zebra or houndstooth print. Although specifically targeting consumers in the UK and across Europe, the Diet Coke Get Glam ad campaign will surely capture the attention of women around the world.
Created in collaboration with Benefit Cosmetics, the Diet Coke Get Glam campaign entices women with a five pound coupon for Benefit purchases over 20 pounds. 
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Kaia Gerber as the new face of Young Versace

Young Versace has unveiled its new advertising campaign with supermodel Cindy Crawford’s 10-year-old daughter Kaia Gerber as the face. Modeling designs adorned with the label’s iconic Greek key motif, Gerber was shot by acclaimed fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
According to the fashion house’s creative director Donatella Versace, Gerber proved she has inherited her famous mother’s talent when modeling the collection.
“Like her mother, Kaia has a very special gift,” she explained in a release. “The camera really, really loves her.”
Crawford was thrilled for her young daughter and mentioned that she was happy as “Kaia was chosen to be part of the first Young Versace Campaign. I have so many fond memories of the times I spent with Gianni and Donatella. There is something so very special about the House of Versace.”
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