55 Secret Street says hello to Vogue India and wonders - Should Halle Berry play Aretha Franklin when Jennifer Hudson and Queen Latifah are available? Probably not.

Spotted: Cameron Diaz in a Christo-look frock. Stiletto Jungle shows you where you can snag the artistic dress for yourself.

For the men in our lives, Bag Bliss loves the db clay green-friendly guy wallets.

Bag Snob hangs out with Brigette Romanek, Designer of Romanek bags!

Beauty Snob tests out the T3 Bespoke Labs Evolution Dryer, does a $300 hair dryer really make a difference?

Coquette says stay warm this fall while looking stylish with Soia & Kyo’s belted coats.

If you (like 2000 other people) didn’t make it into our magazine launch party, do not fret. We have the video of what you missed. See it here!

Fred Astaire wore their neckties as sashes, while F.D.R. donned their capes to make history in Yalta. Brooks Brothers has been rebranding of late as a luxury house it once was, and Fashiontribes picks the best looks for female dandies from their new high-end Black Fleece label designed by Thom Brown.

Reporting live from Milan fashion week, GlamChic zooms in on the sexiest Versace collection to date.

Diamonds are a typical girls BFF, but atypical Type A’s like Kristopher invest in a cheap and chic Kenneth Jay Lane ring.

As the dust settles after NY Fashion Week, My Fashion Life asks if Marc Jacobs is better off showing in Paris next season.

Even celebs know it’s all about menswear chic this fall. Second City Style takes you shopping for the must-haves

Ready to step out in style for fall? Check out StyleBakery.com’s essential Fall Shoe Guide for the hottest pairs of the season at every price.

Summer must-have fashions for fall? Stylebites decodes this tricky wardrobe transition!

Stylehive HiveSlides: watches so expensive, who cares of they keep time?

When we said that you could win items from the complete fall line of JOE’S JEANS people crushed our dainty little server. So we had to get a new dainty medium sized server. Technology can be a bit of a bitch. But much to our chagrin, the giveaway is still going on and you can still win. There are 4 more days left. If you’re interested in entering the giveaway click here (and don’t be stingy, tell a friend).

Was reading Cathy Horyn’s review of the BOTTEGA VENETA, GIORGIO ARMANI and BURBERRY shows in Milan this week and couldn’t help but wondering if Milan was going the way of New York though in it’s own way. The thinking is the more successful designers seem to be catering to a commercial, but distinct crowd. Whereas in New York, the commercial crowd means those who can afford some mass produced item, Milan seems to go in the direction of uber Luxury for those who aspire and want to be in that echelon for the sake of being there. Naturally it must be stated that we’re not using a broad brush to paint ALL designers that show in the city’s fashion week, we’re simply looking at the ones that generate the most ink (or pixels?). So Horyn posits:

Giorgio Armani and Burberry are major brands, and more and more their collections reflect the appetites of the luxury consumer rather than the pursuit of interesting design.

Christopher Bailey began his career at Burberry with an offbeat English look that used military tailoring and, inevitably, the trench coat. Yet in the last three or four seasons, his clothes have become more complicated, more ornate, with expensive embroidery and dressy effects like pleating that you formerly associate with Gucci, where Mr. Bailey once worked.

Read the full reviews here.

I somehow missed this review on iPapier, but this completely illustrates how sometimes you understand the fluidity of a gown by looking at it in a photo, not video, not words, just a simple snapshot. Take a look (you can click the photo below for a larger image)

The full review and gallery is here.

We’re told that our incessant gushing sickens many, so we figure we’ll do it once a day just to get it out of the way. Received an e-mail during New York fashion week about Noble Youth and we’ve been looking at the pdf repeatedly ever since. There’s this youthful, girlish nature about the Spring collection that comes through in almost every photo. It’s as if **almost** anyone can wear it and make it look better than good. The trick though and the real reason for the aforementioned incessant gushing is the Brooklyn Street names for the various pieces from the collection. Personal favorites include the Fort Greene Shirt and Metropolitan Skirt you see below, then there’s the Boerum River Vest, McKarren Park Dress, Rutledge Dress, Meserole Dress and the Winthrop Shirt.

I’m wondering why they’re not respresentin’ Flatbush, but maybe that’ll be next season. Until then, I’ll say that there are some winners in the collection and definitely worth a good look see. They’re online at www.nobleyouthdesign.com