Paris Fashion Week: Rochas

We've had a very busy couple of days in the real world, dear hearts. As such, our posts have suffered a bit. However, to tide you over until we can really get back into the world of blogging, we did take notice of the Rochas show at Paris fashion week. To us, it was a bit Fiddler on the Roof meets the Forties. And we like. Very much. 

The Root of the Matter: Katherine Jenkins

Today, we learned a couple of things about Katherine Jenkins. First, we learned that Ms. Jenkins is a Welsh mezzo-soprano and a classical-popular crossover singer. Second, we now know that Ms. Jenkins
has either (1) not been to the beauty salon in a couple of months to get her roots touched up or (2)  is taking the ombre hairstyle to new heights of ugh.

Roberto Cavalli Party: Heidi Klum

Can you believe it? Heidi's wearing something past her knees again! Unfortunately, it's a bit amorphous and we wish there was just a bit more structure around the middle.Overall though, we think the color is really beautiful on her.

amfAR Milano 2010 Red Carpet: Heidi Klum

Stop the Press. Heidi Klum wore a dress with a hemline more than an inch below her crotch at the amfAR Milano 2010 Red Carpet during Milan Fashion Week. We are quite proud of our Heidi as she must have watched the tape of last week's Project Runway, decided to take her own advice, and realized that showing both boobs and legs can be a tad vulgar. However, we hate to say it, but this look on Heidi is not as flattering as we would like for it to be. Dare we say that she looks a little big around the hips? And we're not sure that ruffle is doing her any favors either. On the other hand, the dress is pretty enough and she's looking very old Hollywood. In other words, we are really loving how classy and glamorous Ms. Klum is looking here. So, overall we're definitely leaning towards an "IN" for Heidi with this look.

However, what do you think dear readers? Is Heidi in or is she out?

Clooney & Canalis in Love

Ciao amore mio, let's prove our love for one another by wearing identical outfits.

Elisabetta, Elisabetta, we know this was your idea. In the future, however, we ask that you keep your perfect happiness to yourselves, George and Betty, unless, of course, you've finally decided to take that road trip with us to Sicily.

Arrivederci.

The Great Pumpkin at Milan Fashion Week

Just in time for the Halloween season, we present the Great Pumpkin. In all fairness to Raf Simons who designed the 2011 Spring Jil Sander Collection, we actually loved several of his looks recently shown at Milan Fashion Week.  In the collection, Mr. Simons played with both volume and layering of garments in unexpected ways with fantastically bright colors. This look, however, was not one of the looks that we loved. The proportions of this dress are, in a word, enormous.We can't imagine how a normal person would ever wear this, except of course as a halloween costume.

Continually Disturbed by Willow Smith

Jada Pinkett Smith and her nine-year-old daughter, Willow Smith, have been making the rounds at Milan Fashion Week. And we don't mean to be sticks-in-the-mud or anything, but we can't help but be incredibly disturbed by Willow's Rihanna-styles at such a young age. On the other hand, at least her outfits (costumes?) are not revealing or anything. But, there's just something so utterly excessive about it. Of course, we know that Little Miss Thing fancies herself a pop star or something and so these ensembles are somewhat appropriate in that context, but still, but still, we kinda wish she was just wearing a sweet little dress from Gap Kids. Age aside, the kid is a pretty hip dresser. I mean we could maybe get on board with the skunk hair, newsprint, boxer look ... for someone ten years older than herself? Or perhaps there's a futuristic Rocky musical, starring a female child as the lead, in her future?

Please god, no.

Our main concern, dear readers, really, is that the Smith kids are going to grow up to be the most insufferable little socialites that ever hit the celebrity circuit (there's not much hope for brother Jaden, either, we fear). We certainly hope their nanny is paid some serious cash.

Only time will tell, we suppose. But the writing is most definitely on the wall (or in this case, on the clothes).

Part 2: If We Were Rachel Zoe in London...

And, finally, one of the hottest trends at London Fashion Week was lace. And, not surprisingly, London really managed to do lace in a prim and proper, but often unexpected, way.

1. Afternoon Tea. At LFW this year, Christopher Kane showed lacy ladylike looks in neon shades of yellow, pink, orange and green fit for tea with a queen. Below is one of his fashion forward frocks in neon green. We could totally see Gwyneth Paltrow having tea with Madonna (if the two of them ever reconcile, that is) in this getup. Plus, the suit is a little edgy like Ms. Paltrow likes.