My Empty Closet drooled over color from the Marni Spring 09 collection. Talk about eye candy!

Senora Cartera writes about Zara Terez handbags and we discover the designer's Sunset Park Satchel seems a very nice alternative to a PS1 handbag. 

There's a new website dedicated to inauguration merch-- so if you missed your chance to snag a Gobama t-shirt, you can still pick one up for memory's sake. The Ghetto Fashionista has the report. 

Chic & Untroubled reports on a Dr. Martins collaboration in the pipeline--unfortunately, the shoes are not for sale but, thanks to Vivienne Westwood and Rick Owens, you'll want to check them out anyway.  

You know the romance of Tuesday's election is still heavy on the minds of the fashion industry when two canonical sources publish whimsical stories of what life might be like under President Barack Obama...

WWD wrote today on the modern, laid-back cool that we can expect under new leadership. A photo gallery includes photos of Obama and his family wearing nice clothing and gliding to their various destinations like teenagers.

Across the pond, The International Herald Tribune has a debate with itself about weather the Narciso Rodriguez Spring 2009 dress that Michelle Obama wore on election night was a "do" or a "don't". In the end the paper decides that more fashion fun is on the way. 

In other, less fantastical news, a new art/fashion magazine, called Tar, has hit the scene and it's started its life out with Ryan McGinley spreads and loads of those elusive advertisements everyone's been talking about lately. 

In the wake of his departure from Bill Blass, Peter Som has started in the capsule/collaboration business with a small line of children's clothing for the brand Best & Co. We're guessing at this point the man just wants to move fast and make some money.

In business they say "always be closing" but in fashion it is "always be delivering" and Maison Martin Margiela is taking that to heart with a collection they are calling Avant Premiere that will be unveiled to the trade late next month and delivered to stores in May. A Margiela spokeswoman told WWD the collection would consist of about 60 styles for women and 60 for men, plus a small selection of shoes and accessories: less expansive than many pre-collections.

With a little help from stylist Ilaria Urbinati handbag designer Rebecca Minkoff is relaunching her contemporary clothing collection. Minkoff said they were inspired by Elizabeth Taylor in the Fifties and the darkness of the 1982 film “Blade Runner.” We have never before associated the two and are having a hard time making the leap looking at the garments.

Garmentos can feel evern better about their support for Barack Obama. While campaigning in North Carolina he made the most definitive statement yet about his positions on trade as it relates to textiles. He pledged to support five key textile industry policy positions, including a monitoring program for Chinese apparel and textile imports.

Speaking at London College of Fashion, Stefano Pilati reiterated his position that he prefers seduction over sex.

The Anand Jon sexual assault trial heard its closing arguements yesterday.

Swahili Fashion Week is set to start from November 5 in Dar es Salaam.

The International Quilt Festival is apparently quite fashionable. We would just settle for cute.

Purple is the new black. Except that black is in fact still the new black.

There is a new 12-piece Damien Hirst X Levi’s Collection