This is mind-numbingly absurd. I have the utmost respect for Candy Pratts Price, so when I see her as some sort of cute, badly animated cartoon, talking about fashion, I wonder whose idea it was. Try concentrating on the very relevant must haves she’s pointing out for the season when what’s staring you in the face is this Beavis and Butthead imitation. Ugh. Take a look at it for yourself.

What’s going on in the world of fashion blogs this week? In a word, everything. From cellulite creams to must have fall handbags, the bloggers are speaking to anyone who will hear them. Take a look:

55 Secret Street believes in cellulite creams. A little bit…

Stiletto Jungle features 5 must-have fall handbags that combine high style with an affordable price tag.

Bag Bliss has fallen head over heels for this season’s latest trend, Zagliani Python Designer Handbags

It’s never too early to shop for gifts, check out what Bag Snob is craving from Vivre!

Beauty Snob is obsessed with gorgeous undone “morning after” made up eyes from Fashion Week!

Coquette says Nude Pumps are the sexiest shoes you can wear this season!

Fashiontribes finds the Top 20 most chic, tasty, racy, fashionable & just plain fun ways to show your support for Breast Cancer research & awareness. Instead of cheap pink plastic or enamel-covered trinkets, think silk scarves, tasty cupcakes, elegant wine, cozy cashmere, and even a sleek Mercedes!

You could buy cookie-cutter stars, or dig Diamond in the Rough earrings like Kristopher.

Not every celebrity "it" girl started out with fab taste. Second City Style picks our favorites and shows you how to make your own celebrity style transformation to glam, baby.

Stylehive gives you five summer/fall transition looks that you can use for ideas on how to make your own favorite summer looks last a couple more months.

The Jewelry Weblog reports on a new trend in jewelry home slash trunk shows from Luxe Jewels, a company who is changing its business model from showing how to make jewelry into sell more finished jewelry.

We Love Beauty asks, Love It or Leave It: Sienna’s Mop Top

We don’t swoon for many gowns, but we’re swooning for this one. It is effing breathtaking. From Xterity’s London Fashion Week Spring 2008 collection. (see the full gallery at here)

photography Anne-Marie Michel

I’m not sure if readers remember a kids TV show from the early nineties entitled Clarissa Explains it All on the Nickelodeon network, I’m going to assume that you don’t. It was a somewhat obscure show starring then unknown child actress Melissa Joan Hart. In it, she would break the fourth wall and explain to the audience watching what goes on in a typical teenager’s life. Somehow I felt it necessary to mention that because that’s what Nicolas Ghesquiere did with his Spring 2008 collection. He broke the fourth wall of fashion design in a way, unlike what most designers have done for the Spring 2008 season. Let’s start with the colors and work our way down. There was nothing like it during any of the four fashion weeks. A vibrant mashup of floral prints permeated throughout the collection, while stiff structurally fit shoulders gave each dress a distinct look. The collection made the models appear as if they were colorful toy soldiers right down to the hips that naturally took the shape of a bell.

Ghesquiere took fashion’s fourth wall and ran a bulldozer right through it. He simply acknowledged the decadence of Spring for what it was: flowers, colors, prints and let us all in on the secret. The hips, colors and pocketbooks don’t (and won’t) lie, it was a winner.

What others are saying about the collection:

Cathy Horyn of the New York Times writes:

No, Mr. Ghesquiere’s flower power feels emotionally stronger, more charged. If the fields of pansies, hydrangeas and peonies on the sleek surface of the couture silks lift your heart, it’s not because they are beautiful, though they are. It’s because we sense in them the extreme willfulness of the designer. How many designers would have the temerity to use something as bourgeois as a flower print, and then build an entire collection around it?

Well, the answer is both Mr. Ghesquiere and Cristobal Balenciaga.

Sarah Mower of Style.com writes:

But would this be wearable? What a silly question. If Ghesquière’s extreme embroidered “robot” leggings can sell out for squillions of dollars apiece, and last season’s jodhpurs, blazers, scarves, and ikat prints can fuel a global industry of knockoffs, what has he left to prove? By the time you read this, the flower-printing mills of the world will have been activated overnight.

I love these sunglasses from Arkadius. Claudia Goetzelmann of ZOOZOOM captures the accessory maker’s panache for making eye pieces that are fun to look at and more importantly, fun to wear. Take a look.