The bloggers of the web snob group coordinated an attack on good taste and came up with a top ten edition. We love it. There is a top ten of 2007 for everything you can possibly imagine. There’s a top ten fashion trends, top ten emerging designers, papierblog’s own top ten disapointing moments in fashion for 2007, top ten beauty for women of color, top 10 fashionable technology. It’s a good way to end the year. Take a look at all the top tens:

With an eye on women of color, 55 Secret Street gives you the Top 10 Beauty Secrets of 2007.

Stiletto Jungle dishes the Top 10 Sites for Designer Bargain Shopping.

Bag Bliss looks back at the top 10 celebrities and their designer handbag moments.

Bag Snob counts down the biggest trends in bags for 2007.

Coquette reveals her favorite Top 10 in Fashionable Technology for 2007.

Fashion Indie’s Daniel Saynt picks The Ten Best Emerging Fashion Designers of 2007.

Fashion Indie’s Daniel Saynt picks The Ten Best Emerging Fashion Designers of 2007.
My Fashion Life runs down the Top 10 Fashion Trends of 2007

Last year is so passé! Here are Second City Style’s 10 Fashion Predictions for 2008!

Stylehive brings you the top ten untraditional places to jet to for New Year’s Eve!

Do you agree with eBeautyDaily’s top ten beauty items she can’t live without?

2007 was a year of change in fashion. Several designers shifted their employment from one house to another, several designers left the scene altogether, and an even larger batch decided to go out on their own. While we abhor top ten lists, we couldn’t resist creating our 10 disappointing fashion moments of 2007. Being the pessimists that we are, it just felt like the right thing to do. Some things are completely made up for dramatic license (see no. 9) and some things are still playing themselves out with the full results not to be discovered until sometime later into the new year (see no. 5 and no. 1). We stayed away from using the words top ten because as mentioned before we abhor top ten lists and it goes without saying that lists of this nature are completely subjective. We’re sure you will let us know if we missed something. Just don’t send hate mail, our mailboxes are overstuffed.

10. Karl Lagerfeld declares that Amy Winehouse is his new muse. While we were hoping what Lagerfeld said was hyperbole, it alas, was not. We don’t doubt that Winehouse is one of the greatest soul/jazz/insertgenrehere singers of our generation (which incidentally is not saying much, looking at our generation), her troubles with everything were multiplied by … everything. Eff what everyone says, we love her crazy arse beehive.

9. Carine Roitfeld didn’t leave Paris for New York. Excuse our naivete’ but we were hoping this was the year that some sort of announcement would be made from the ivory tower that Ms. Roitfeld would be emigrating from France to New York and morphing that celebrity tabloid into something more into the.. you know.. fashion vein.

8. Hedi Slimane leaves Dior Homme. Next to Raf Simons, Slimane is one of our favorite architects of men’s fashion and we’re sad
that he left Dior Homme. We’re still weeping incessantly like Cinderella waiting for Slimane to change his mind.

7. Anna Wintour decides blog is not such a bad word. While we’re sure she wasn’t directly involved in the decision. Who are we kidding, she’s involved directly in every decision…right? Right?? All of a sudden Style.com decided to launch not 1 but 4 blogs. It’s hard to ignore a medium that allows you to spew vitriol, while seeming authoritative in the process. What we’re disappointed about though is that they didn’t do it earlier.

6. Marc Jacobs Spring 2008 collection. Here’s to hoping the fashion gods don’t attempt to shut down our tiny blog for saying this, but we were expecting to see something along the lines of Jacob’s breathtaking Fall 2007 collection. The emperor had no clothes on this one, literally.

5. Michael Vollbracht announces he’s leaving Bill Blass to find himself. He didn’t necessarily say he was leaving to find himself, but he did leave and we’re heartbroken. But just like losing a boyfriend, a new guy asked us out on a date and we’re intrigued by Peter Som’s pre-fall 2008 collection for Bill Blass.

4. Raf Simons where are you? We’re disappointed that this wasn’t the year of Raf Simons. We’re whores for everything he does but he was somewhat subdued this year. Please Mr. Simons, in 2008 come knocking at our door with something crazysuperfantastic.

3. British Fashion Council decides not to let blog/website photography during London Spring Fashion Week 2008. For some reason the British Fashion Council in its infinite wisdom decided not accredit blog and exclusive fashion website photographers. So getting around was a bit harder (in a Rosa Parks moment, they wouldn’t let them on the photography bus to the venues). Photographers had to get access from each designer individually. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot and cutting your other foot with a chainsaw for good measure. The lackluster coverage of London Fashion Week was upstaged by coverage of New York, Milan and Paris in photos and reviews.

2. The Sarah Jessica Parker / Bitten fiasco. So a couple of bloggers gained access to the Steve and Barry’s website (we’re not sure whether legally or not) but they published photos from Sarah Jessica Parker’s Bitten line before Vogue’s exclusivity window. Steve and Barry’s got their panties in a bunch and sent threatening removal letters to bloggers like the Budget Fashionista, Fashiontribes, (we’re assuming Fashionista.com). The fashion blogosphere went nuts once the news broke and faster than you can say I’m not buying Sarah Jessica Parker’s line, Steve and Barry’s PR went into damage control mode. But the damage was done, and SJP’s line was not received as well another Steve and Barry’s Knicks’ $15 pair of sneakers.

1. Valentino announces he is retiring. Valentino cannot leave this thing of ours. How can we aspire to have things we can’t afford if he no longer makes a breathtaking red dress? Things will never be the same. We weep.

Took yesterday off (Christmas is an obligatory off day) but today and tomorrow and possibly Friday will continue with a look at what fashion experts are predicting for the New Year. Today I look at Cathy Horyn’s predictions for 2008. Reading Horyn’s tea leaves is particularly hard since she rarely makes overt mentions or prognostications of what to look forward to in the seasons to come. What I did was take a snapshot of some of her blog quotes to get a read on what she believes will be runway-worthy next year. By no means are these official prognostications from Horyn, it’s a Tim Russert-like effort to use her statements as to what she would like to see in 2008:

In regards to a trip Horyn took to Berlin where she found that certain fashion stores along a street were devoid of advertising displays. December 24, 2007 Horyn says:

We discovered things in nearly every shop we went into, but I can’t remember a name of a single place. These were not big-name stores, anyway. Half-way along, Ronnie said, almost jubilantly, “You know, it’s like they’ve never heard of ‘display’ here.” In other words, no imposed form or retail ideology got in the way of our own sense of discovery. What a strange lesson for stores to unlearn.

Could high-end fashion stores in 2008 be gaudy (or any) display-free in the new year? Horyn’s tea leaves hopes so.

On December 10, Horyn pulled some of her favorite looks from Narcisso Rodriguez’s pre-fall 2008 show. (a trend which in and of itself is unique, pre-fall that is) Horyn says

The winners in Rodriguez’s brisk collection were coats in washed cashmere with fleecy collars, the skinny black stretch pants, a loose Henley sweater in heather green wool (shown with a full silk faille skirt), and a slinky silk cocktail dress in a shade of army fatigue.

The Horyn tea leaves are possibly saying skinny black stretch pants are a must next fall, slinky cocktail dresses are also a great look (I’ll drop her “shade of army fatigue” statement as I have literary license to do so)

If we are reading her interview with David Downton right, her hopes that fashion illustration makes a comeback in all formats (magazines, shows, promo materials) are not just pie the sky but an actual foretelling of what’s to come in 2008. From her November 30, 2007 interview with David Downton:

Q: You know, I was thinking how Eula used to accompany Eugenia Sheppard to the shows in Paris and sketch—the immediacy and intimacy of his paper and pencil. And, of course, now we have sites like the Sartorialist, which does such a good job documenting the fashion scene and what people wear. But how cool would it be to have an entirely illustrated fashion blog—really using the point of view of the illustrator and obviously in reverse of the way everything is done digitally.

The tea leaves are saying that Horyn thinks that a fashion illustration blog will be on its way in 2008. Ms. Horyn we agree it indeed would be very cool.

Tomorrow we look at bloggers and their predictions for 2008.

All week this week Papierdoll will be looking at predictions from the fashion experts for next year. Not unlike psychics, fashion experts sometimes tend to be or hit or miss. A couple of years back I read in Vogue that finely placed zippers/fasteners were going to come big and bold for the next year at that time. It turned out that zippers were not to be. The predictions and prognostications for next year are no different. Today we look at some of the predictions of Lauren Sherman, fashion writer for Forbes. Sherman’s predictions weigh heavy on the minds of the business intelligentsia as fashion investors might look to her crystal ball statements and double down on fashion companies she deems worthy.

So what does Sherman have to say?

Minimalism will be in, in a big way. She uses the example of:

“gray jeans with a lemon yellow belt or an oversize blazer with a sports watch”

She also believes that designers will be going back to the early 90s (which if I am not mistaken went to the 60s/70s) for some of their inspiration. Fashion is cyclical.

If you’re thinking of buying some outlandish dress, don’t says Sherman. Trapeze dresses and baby doll styles are out. She has her eyes out on Bill Blass as Peter Som fully takes the reigns (so does everyone with a pulse in fashion). She also recommends looking at Valentino. We concur…every. single. year.

She also puts out what we think is a truly ominous statement: Shoulder pads will return next year… ::gasp::

read her full predictions here.

As the year winds down, fashion bloggers take a look back at all that has happened while looking forward to the new year. The look back is not the only thing going on though. New handbags, hair dryers, Time Magazine gets its picks questioned, Sex in the City will never die (nor would we want it to), then there’s the 10 definitive moments in fashion this year all breaking through on the fashion web. Next week we’ll also be looking at some of our favorite posts from bloggers this past year. But for now, take a look at the posts that are rounding out the week:

Stiletto Jungle reviews the best new hair dryer for DIY blow-outs.

Bag Bliss gives you a sneak peek at the Louis Vuitton & Richard Prince ‘Big City After Dark’ Handbag collection.

Carlos Falchi Python clutch is YUMMY! - Bag Snob

Natural and gorgeous with Sue Devitt!- Beauty Snob

Coquette is rockin’ the look of fingerless gloves

Daniel Saynt questions Time Magazine’s 10 Must Have Fashion Items of 2007, then suggests his own.

A chic "Sex and the City Movie" holiday window in NYC - Fashiontribes

KRiSTOPHER gets you 10% off Shop Jake.com.

As 2007 nearly comes to an end, My Fashion Life compiles their 10 definitive moments in fashion!

Papierblog takes a look at Peter Som’s pre-Fall208 collection for Bill Blass

Second City Style’s tips to packing with glam for the frequent flyer.

StyleBakery.com found 12 hot heels for under $100

Celebrity Styleaholic Najwa Moses takes you on a funky hairdo photo journey!

Stylehive StyleSlides: Chic Clutches Help Ring In the New Year

Only 4 days left for x-mas shopping! Check out WELOVEBEAUTY.com to see Celebrity Stylemaker Robin Coe Hutshings Holiday Gift Guide!