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Gotta love Fergie. She just brings it with her style — she dresses for 3008 and we’re all just trying to catch up! The labels she wears are so modern but sometimes they’re priced in another galaxy. Come back down to earth in Kowboy and Co’s $64 pair of leggings that replicates those $198 jeans she loves to wear.

Shoppers beware: this look is not for everyone! I am personally not a huge fan of tie-dyed leggings or jeans for my bumps and curves so I really only advise those who have nice, fit stems and no belly bulge to do this look. Please make sure you buy the right size. I have seen too many young women lately buying and wearing the wrong size leggings, which invites roll-overs and causes body fat ripples in the wrong places with these types of pants. Also, make sure you get a good top that you can pair with it well, like a simple jersey tee.
 
Celebrities (when they look good) are there for fashion ideas and inspiration on the most up-to-date trends and they own what really fits and tailors their body well. When you’re trying stuff on, make sure it fits you properly!  Being this up-to-the-minute can get very expensive if you’re not wearing it right. There are several ideas here and ways to wear Kowboys and Co.’s leggings. Just go with what makes you feel the most glamorous!    

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Today in New York, Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti announce the new, virtual Valentino Museum, a downloadable foray into the designer’s world. After downloading the application at valentino-garavani-archives.org, users connect to an online database that includes more than 300 archival dresses as well as sketches, illustrations, advertising campaigns, editorials, and red carpet moments from the house’s history. Anne Hathaway, Vogue Italia’s Franca Sozzani, and Google’s Amit Sood join Garavani and Giammetti at the Museum of Modern Art at 11 a.m. EST to announce the new project; the press conference live-streams below. The application will be available for downloading immediately afterwards.

I know tailoring is key and the fabrics are couture and there’s nothing like the real thing, but these three looks are just as great and fine to have dinner or a cocktail at The Ivy in or if you happen to bump into Brody Jenner at a party.

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Listen up before you start giggling like a hyena: I can’t tell the difference between their replica of a dress and the real thing! The ripped jeans of Balmain that looks like Alexander Wang, the Cameron Diaz’s Kids’ Choice look and the strapless jersey futuristic fitted jumpsuit that fits Fergie like a glove.

Every once in a while, I like to take a walk on the wild side of fashion. I abandon my Barneys, Bergdorfs and Bloomies for something sinfully delicious: MANDEE!

Photo: Courtesy of Jamie Wolf

—Kristin Studeman

“When I first joined New York City Ballet, Peter Martins told me, ‘I let you into this company, but it’s all up to you now,” dancer-turned-jewelry-designer Jamie Wolf tells Style.com. “I will never forget that, and now I apply that to my line as well. When I first got my collection into Barneys, I knew I couldn’t just sit down and let that be enough.”

After ten years in the NYCB, the former dancer was able to translate the same drive, discipline, and elegance she gained from her ballet training into a new career as a jewelry designer. Wolf’s work and life, however, remains strongly intertwined with the dance world. (One of her biggest assignments to date was designing Natalie Portman’s engagement ring for her friend and former colleague, Benjamin Millepied, both of whom she appeared with in Black Swan). Today she debuts a new Signature Collection under her namesake label (celebrating its tenth anniversary this year), inspired by her tenure with the ballet company. “They are the pieces that were designed during the time I was still dancing for NYCB,” Wolf explains of the collection, which she launched in 2002 before leaving the ballet company in 2005, made up predominantly of earrings (one of her specialties). “Creating something beautiful, either with movement or with design, it’s the same.”

Meanwhile, Wolf is hard at work finishing the jewelry she has designed for NYCB’s Spring Gala show, the George Balanchine classic Symphony in C. Of her first role as a jewelry costumer for the newly modernized ballet, Wolf says, “It feels totally natural, because I did all four movements in Symphony in C over the ten years I danced there.” She adds, “I understand what it’s like to wear a headpiece or earrings, and I know that the weight and scale of the pieces is very important here.”

The Jamie Wolf Signature Collection, which retails for $550 to $29,000, is available today at JamieWolf.com.

According to our lensman-on-the-street, Tommy Ton, just about everybody. Tommy’s gone through his favorite shots from the summer and picked out his favorite trends, from the shortest of short shorts to seventies-style silk shirts (click here for some more of our favorites) and our favorite new neutral, leopard. Click here to browse the best of the summer looks, and keep an eye out for Tommy once New York fashion week kicks off, where he’ll be shooting the off-runway scene. You and your short shorts (weather permitting, of course) could end up right here.

Photo: Tommy Ton

Photos: Gianni Pucci / GoRunway.com (men’s and women’s shoes); Marcio Madeira / FirstView.com (men’s RTW); Monica Feudi / GoRunway.com (women’s RTW)

For Spring, Miuccia Prada showed a collection with more than a few girlish frills: Amid the fluoro-colored uniforms Tim Blanks called “(extra)ordinary,” there were ruffle skirts, dangling stoles, and Josephine Baker-ish finger waves. But we couldn’t help noticing that the stacked-sole flats sported by some of the models (above left) looked very familiar—from Prada’s Spring ‘11 menswear collection, no less. The menswear-style brogues she showed with strata soles of jute and rubber were versions of men’s shoes (above right) she debuted on the Milan men’s runway back in June. (And, come to think of it, the boxy orange uniform dresses, top left had their equivalent at the guys’ show, too.) We’re waiting for some fashion-forward couple to wear a matching set. Brangelina dressers, are you reading this?

Photo: Courtesy of 3.1 Phillip Lim

2010 may go down in fashion history as the year we reclaimed our gym clothes. Designers embraced the mélange sweatshirt, which almost immediately became the piece to have. In Europe, Dries Van Noten kicked off the trend with his elegantly urbane Fall ‘10 show. So did Isabel Marant, a longtime sweatshirt enthusiast, who gussied hers up with disco sparkle. In New York, the Marc Jacobs opened with a sleeveless sweatshirt on his then-new discovery Tati Cotliar, and Alexander Wang sent out plenty of big-shouldered versions at his football-themed Fall show.

Since then, the fever has raged on. While girls on a budget have discovered that The Gap makes a pretty serviceable version, big spenders went wild for Bally’s three-figure version, one of the new ideas from the label’s new designers, Graeme Fidler and Michael Herz, who showed them for Spring. And just yesterday, in his pre-fall collection, Phillip Lim debuted his own new take (left)—one that was inspired by the slouchy sweats his assistants were wearing to the office. His model comes embellished with crystals for a piece that’ll play anywhere. “Smart move,” wrote Nicole Phelps. With its new glamour, it’s as ready for the office as the after-party—and officially emancipated from the gym.

Pussycat Fight Club was the title Yaz Bukey gave to her Fall 2012 collection of tromp l’oeil accessories, which she revealed last night at her first-ever Paris fashion week presentation. At the dimly lit Maison Darré, the interiors shop of her friend, the set designer and creative director Vincent Darré, Bukey presented surreal, pop-inspired Plexiglas baubles, including flame rings, studded cuffs, and a sweet red heart chapeau, inspired by John Waters’ 1991 greaser parody Cry Baby. “The idea is that this space is a club, and in the hallway there are eight girls in love with Johnny Depp, who for this collection became ‘Johnny Beware.’ They’re all waiting for him desperately but he’ll never come, so it’s a pussycat fight club,” Bukey explained.

The theatrical designer didn’t shy away from inserting herself into the scenes. She transformed herself into nine different characters in the photographs that lined the walls, each decked out with her own Yazbukey accessories. There was, among others, Betty Oops (left), a naive bombshell crowned with a hat of flailing legs; tough and elegant Tina Wontcare (below left), who, in her studded pillbox and Plexiglas collar, can’t be bothered to fret over a man; Lacry Mama (below right), utterly heartbroken in her necklace of crying blue eyeballs and matching earrings; and Lola Romance, the picture of seduction with her red lip necklace, heart-shaped ear cuffs, and pouty pose. Of course, Bukey assumed the macho role of Johnny Beware, too. “He’s been with all the girls, so he’s wearing an accessory from each one of them!” she laughed.

Bukey—who, last night, looked like quite a character herself in a white nurse frock from Vuitton’s Spring 2008 Richard Prince collection, her new leg-motif necklace, and her geometric red cuffs—also revealed that she’s teamed up with scent marvels 12.29 on a candle, available in September. “The base of the scent is gasoline, red lipstick, hair spray, and leather. It’s going to be called Va-va-vroom!” she said. If that doesn’t lure Johnny Beware back to Bukey’s pussycat club, what will?
—Katharine Zarrella

Photos: Courtesy of Yazbukey

In the leadup to New York fashion week, designers go through hundreds of behind-the-scenes preparations to arrive at the completed show. This NYFW, we’ve sweet-talked a few of them into giving us a peek behind the curtain as they cast, score, style, and ready their presentations. Here, Olivier Theyskens gives Style.com the backstory on the Theyskens’ Theory collection he unveiled in New York this afternoon.

“We are the day before the show…collection boards with pin symbols: The moon means ’style only for the show,’ the green hearts mean ‘good style for sales,’ and the orange sun means ‘good for both!’”

“This dress is beautiful but I didn’t keep it for the show because I thought this black velvet was too dramatic. I love that there is access to deep pockets behind zippers.”

“My finale dress doesn’t need a hanger to stand on its own. It’s made out of an outrageously thick polyester satin that is so modern.”

“I had a crush for the first time of my life on fox fur. I promise I will not do it again for a while…”

“Olivia came from Sweden to help me prepare the looks of the show. She’s the sweetest girl in the world.”

“This abstract picture is actually a close-up of a beautiful crystal embroidered mini clutch.”

“Elegance and aquatic fluidity on the floor of my meatpacking studio.”

Photos: Courtesy of Theyskens’ Theory

For the first time ever, Roger Vivier is debuting a collection of bags and shoes without the brand’s signature buckle: Prismick. Instead, the label’s creative director, Bruno Frisoni, used leather-on-suede appliqués in a variety of colors for a 3-D effect, a look that was inspired by his passion for art and contemporary architecture. To show off the Prismick collection, Roger Vivier asked stylish women around the globe, including Amanda Hearst (top), Fernanda Niven (middle), and Bettina Prentice (below) to pose with one of the new pieces in the setting of their choosing. (Hearst opted for the Brooklyn Bridge; Niven for an organic garden in Brooklyn; and Prentice at Haunch of Venison Gallery). The three will be on hand tonight in New York to launch the portrait series at Vivier’s Madison Avenue store. Their compatriots from farther afield will be on display, too: Photographers also shot Marta Ferri, Fatima Bhutto, Harumi Klossowski, India Mahdavi, and more in the U.K., Italy, France, and the Far East. —Kristin Studeman

Photos: Michael Bauplet