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  One of the most popular posts on Trend I-Spy has been How The Stones Rolled in Exile featuring photos of the band with their wives and girlfriends living in the South of France in the early 1970s. Looks as if Anita Pallenburgh's style also made a big impression on Tommy Hilfiger for Fall 2011 .  He told Style.com back in February, " ... we always want to make preppy fresh." To do so, Hilfiger invoked the raucously stylish spirit of the rock star's girlfriend of yore, women like Britt Ekland and Anita Pallenberg.

This month marks not only Vivienne Westwood's 70th birthday but also the 30th anniversary of her famous first collection, Pirates, which included the iconic squiggle print. Below is from The Financial Times The longevity of the Squiggle, and its ongoing journey from subversive, counter-culture beginnings to the upper echelons of luxurious interiors is nothing short of astounding, mirroring the ascendancy of Westwood (who turns 70 on 8 th April) from Chelsea anarchist to British national treasure. Similarly, there are few – if any – prints in fashion that are so inextricably linked to one single fashion label. While Murray Blewett of the Westwood design studio points out that the print ‘developed from trying to symbolize rope’ (which it obviously does), its journey to World’s End started in Paris in the hands of another designer. Paul Gorman, author of the rock and pop fashion book and blog The Look, interviewed Malcolm McLaren many times between the mid-1970s and his ...

New York Fashion Week is well underway, one of my favorite shows so far has been Edun. I think this gypsy trend is going to be huge. Here is the style.com review. Edun, By Nicole Phelps Sharon Wauchob is now in her second season at the reins at Edun , and the picture of what the brand will become under the Irish designer's leadership is coming into focus. Her Fall runway, not unlike last season's, was full of real, wearable clothes. As hard as this might be to believe, you can't necessarily say that about all the contemporary labels out there. But Wauchob has apparently surrounded herself with a fresh, young team and she says that helps keep her in touch with what cool girls want to wear. Let's start with the coats. The quilted khaki storm trench that opened the show has the X factor that will make it a popular personal order item with editors. In this era of influential street style blogs that really means something, and there was more soli...

Prada, F2010 And Miuccia created woman... Prada F2010 was shown on uncharacteristically curvaceous models. The celebrated designer used simple, womanly shapes offset with prints that harked back to the geometric patterns she made popular in the mid-nineties at the height of late-twentieth century Minimalism. US Vogue, September 1996

Hermes S2010 with Karlie Kloss by Paolo Roversi It's London Fashion Week and designers such as Basso and Brooke and Mary Katrantzou are showing conversational prints for Fall 2010 of the sort Hermes and Gianni Versace made popular in decades past. The Hermes Spring campaign is similarly eye-catching. Mary Katrantzou, Fall 2010 Basso & Brooke, Fall 2010 US Vogue, July 1989