Kate Moss is continuing her relationship with Topshop and debuted her Holiday collection at a runway show recently. Here’s my preview:

trend - yikes?

so kate

Overall, it’s a professional, in-step collection. And for the prices I hear of (Topshop is British, alas), $70 to $500, it’s not to miss! The clothes hit stores October 25th. Just a few days away!

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There’s no crime in copying Marc Jacobs when his Marc by Marc Jacobs line uses LEGO brand brick toys!

Find LEGO-made accessories on Etsy.com, like from new seller, Kasi Made This.

Or you can make your own! Get creative.

There’s still time to enter to win a $3000 shopping spree for SHOES with Neiman Marcus! Enter your e-mail address to receive e-mail updates (I think, and past entrance doesn’t count, I also think) on www.neimanmarcus.com. You have until late night on 9/9/2007 to put in your name.

Only with HP digital cameras, now photo shooting yourself won’t make you want to do the real thing. Instead of adding 10 pounds (which I swear happens), certain digicams by HP can actually reverse the effect. You don’t have to be a professional photographer, and no—not even a skilled graphic artist, to produce this *wow* effect. (And I can’t even do it that well or easily as a graphic designer, myself!)

It’s not done through a magic setting (like the macro flower or something), but with a quick click of a button as a photo editing feature, which is right on the cam, not on your computer. You really can get the results yourself and no one will have to know.

And the effect is natural too—the minimal setting is subtle, but you can up the drama if you’re really feeling bloated and/or *cranky*.

I really feel like I need this camera! Especially when I take photos with my hands in them for shooting bags or items I made to sell (isolating the body part seems to add 10 lbs only to my fingers and wrist!). But I have a great camera (which is pink!) that already has tons of amazing other features, and I want to keep it. What about you, too?

Well is one of the cameras by HP with this feature selling for a budget price? The cheapest is $179.99, which isn’t bad. Great for a nice camera, but it costs almost as much as my everyday one.

Perhaps the fatties (I say nicely!) of your family and friends can chip in to share one. And you can use it when photographing yourself, and not say your kids, dog, scenery, crafts and purse collection. Hey, that’s an idea.

Or maybe we’ll throw it in our “Sale Stalk” wish list and save up. The holidays are coming soon, it could even be an early gift, before any family photos are taken. Wait - don’t shudder, if you have this cam, you’ll think more along the lines of *shutter*.

Of course, if you’re already in dire need of a new cam, then the HP ones are a great obvious choice, ranging in price and power-punching from the one linked above to the fully-loaded R967 version, still around only $270!

Never be camera shy again!

Maria Palma is a dear Internet friend of mine, and you know her well from blogging at The Runway Scoop. And if that’s true you probably are familiar with her own designed jewelry, or at least remember a mention here and there. Salon de Maria is the blogger’s other job, with fine hand-made jewelry and even home-designed greeting cards. Pictured above is one of her creations.

You can browse and luckily buy from her shop on Etsy, and while you’re there, you may find yourself lost in the other independent jewelers and gosh - just anything that can be made with two hands! Fun. Thanks to indie jewelry designers, or any apparel and accessory makers working from their own homes, the public (you!) can look more attractive and stay unique!

And of course, keep reading Maria’s thoughts on the workings of haute couture at www.therunwayscoop.com!

One last note, this designer jewelry offers EXTREME bargains! I ordered one piece, so trust me on this! Order order order before that silly girl realizes she should raise her prices considerably! Your gain is well … her sale at least!

The following is a sponsored, honest, review.

Graphic tees are schmaphic tees (I know, I’m lame) unless they look like they’re done in the style of hip, young web/graphic designers. And looking at the graphic tees on VJUCool.com brings back memories of my old graphic design website/’zine circle. Actually, the images really remind me of the queen of our “gang” and her style, I can so picture Leah working for this company. (And wherever she is, I know she’s rocking and making good cash!) Seriously, the artwork on VJU Cool’s tees are the tip top of the best.

Even better is they do have pretty stylish designs for girly fashionistas! And they’re so detailed, to boot! Check out the “Enigmatic” Japanese-style tee. Gosh I could feature each single tee of art in the “Gorgeous” category on their own! They show off fabulista women, but the shirts are fit to both men and women, separately, and really, the art does appeal to both sexes.

Whether you’re the modern artistic type, the sexy kitten, the vintage made mod fan or you just like eclectic clothing; different things in your wardrobe, really check out these products. You may find one or three things you want to buy.

The VJU Cool website’s product links lead to Café Press, so printing, quality and sizing matches their high standards. Prices are in the $20 to $30 range.

Rock on.

Nanette Lepore shoes, which debuted just last year, are sugar, spice and everything just right; a mix of trendy now and Lepore girlishness. This season they stand on bases of chunky heels and wedges, with uppers detailed, scribbled, or at least colourful. A nod back to vintage times, most of these shoes would perfectly suit the antiqued images of pin-up girls - a la Betty Paige.

With pricepoints in the 400s, the heels are sky-high, but Lepore does a second range for Keds, sandals and ballet skimmers, some mimicking the "higher" designs. I urge fans (like I) not to let these lower-height and more affordable shoes go, and true devotees to scoop up at least one pair of these early-on haute designs for history!

Immediately we see Nanette knows her craft, and can make a shoe with the rest of the masters.

Purchase Nanette shoes at Neiman Marcus and her line for Keds at Nordstrom.

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