Farfetch.com one of our favorite online shopping destinations for hard to find designer labels from small boutiques in London, Copenhagen, Milan, and Paris is launching a U.S. website. Only a few stateside shops are currently represented—American Rag, Traffic and Fred Segal in Los Angeles and Assembly, Eva and BBlessing in New York—with hopefully many more to come.
We still plan to visit the European section of the site to score rare online finds like Isabel Marant, Meadham Kirchhoff, Haider Ackermann, and Philippe Audibert from Maria Luisa in Paris and Feathers in London. . . while we wait patiently for our U.S. obsessions Edon Manor and Pas de Deux to join the e-commerce crowd.
If you're looking for a Halloween costume that is both economical, trend aware, historically relevant, and sexy to boot--we think we found the ultimate costume idea. The flapper costume could cost you less than one hundred dollars and include fringe and feathers which have both been slated as big Fall and Spring 09 trends. Check out our Spring 09 trend report galleries, here and here for more evidence.
Don't have the spare cash to invest in the Fall 08 hat/head piece craze? Don't worry, we're aware there's a recession coming on (or else you could definitiely drop thousands on a feather mohawk). If you haven't the energy to hit up the markets or vintage store's, Etsy's a gold mine. Remember: if it lends itself at all to 'crafty' you can find it on Etsy. Here's one hat that references the Fall 08 collections by Marc Jacobs (feathers), Monique Lhuillier (flappers) and James Coviello (hats) in one fell swoop. This classy piece of millinery is very inexpensive and we're pretty sure, if you tell people it's couture they won't blink an eye. Oh, fashion, you walk such a thin line!
The Herrera show just finished here at the tents, and damn if it wasn't pointed and dandy-esque. Long feathers emerged from hats, from the backs of frocks, from nowhere in particular. The message seemed directed at the sloppy, bed-headed generation of twenty-somethings. A certain maturity was exaggerated for A/W 08, perhaps simply because Herrera is no Betsey, and never adheres to an adolescent aesthetic. With Oscar to follow, it looks like today's a day for the grown-ups.
Farfetch.com one of our favorite online shopping destinations for hard to find designer labels from small boutiques in London, Copenhagen, Milan, and Paris is launching a U.S. website. Only a few stateside shops are currently represented—American Rag, Traffic and Fred Segal in Los Angeles and Assembly, Eva and BBlessing in New York—with hopefully many more to come. 
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