Alexander Wang’s Betty Flap Bag

Wow! It’s an Alexander Wang’s Betty Flap Bag with studs. I looked at LiLo’s picture twice to check out that LiLo is carrying the same bag that I am admiring since a couple of weeks. Trust me, the bag is absolutely amazing! Priced at $750, the textured leather and stud embellished purse is a delicious delight for those classy and sassy fashionistas. I really loved its classic front flap and studs. For a polished and sophisticated chic look the bag is a must. So, grab the LiLo style and enjoy the celeb look.

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Marc Jacobs ended the season at Louis Vuitton in Paris as he began it with his own show in New York: with the eighties. Different city, different accent, though, and this slice of the late eighties—ruffled, ruched, and poufed as it was—looked as if Jacobs had pulled out his 1987 magazines and worked up a playful homage to Christian Lacroix. He didn’t quite put it that way backstage, however. Jacobs said that, partly in preparation for the Model as Muse exhibition at the Met and his role as honorary chair of the opening gala, he was thinking of “all those great French muses of the late eighties.” Specifically, he cited Marie Seznec (who modeled for Lacroix), Victoire de Castellane (who worked for Chanel), and Inès de la Fressange (who was virtually French fashion mascot in chief at the time).

Looking back on those days of chichi fashion extremes brought out a lot of jeune Parisienne frivolity in the clothes, if not the staging, which was done, pseudo-salon style, without a runway (albeit in a large transparent tent parked, as usual, in a courtyard of the Louvre). The chance of a close inspection revealed lots of puffy peplum jackets, tons of shirring and ruching (in print or leather), bubble skirts, bejeweled satin leggings, and a mini lace Marie Antoinette pannier dress with a saucy sheer balconette. Jacobs’ take on big shoulders ran from grosgrain bow-smothered balloon puffs to the widest short coats (in camel or red) on any runway—almost as broad as they were long.

It was also a rich accessory fest for the leather goods company. Leather necklaces and belts came fashioned like paper chains, and thigh boots were topped with ruffles and balanced on pearl and glitter-covered heels. The all-important bags had also acquired eighties pie-crust frills and gilded monograms. If it wasn’t quite the fashion tour de force of Vuitton’s Spring collection, this penultimate show of an often dour and cautious season read as a welcome interlude of cheerful, flirty confidence in a post-crash depression.

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For a night out clubbing in London, Lindsay Lohan adds a burst of color with her Louis Vuitton Monogram Roses stole.

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A naked portrayal of the Mona Lisa, which was once attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, forms one of the highlights of the biggest exhibition ever held on the Renaissance genius.

A naked portrayal of the Mona Lisa, which was once attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, forms one of the highlights of the biggest exhibition ever held on the Renaissance genius.

The mysterious portrait of a semi-nude woman, looking straight at the viewer with an enigmatic smile and with her hands crossed, bears a remarkable resemblance to Leonardo’s world famous painting.

Hidden for almost a century within the panelled walls of a library, the portrait appears to have been inspired by the Mona Lisa, which hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris and was painted by the Italian master in the early 1500s.

It will form one of the centrepieces of a new exhibition at the Museo Ideale in the Tuscan town of Vinci, near Florence, where Leonardo was born in 1452.

“The frontal look, the position of the hands, the spatial conception of the landscape, with columns at the sides, show a clear link with the Mona Lisa’s iconographic theme,” Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the museum, told Discovery News.

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Former Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova presented a prototype dress to reporters that is designed to light up when the wearer’s mobile telephone rings.

British fashion student Georgie Davies dreamed up the knee-length short-sleeved white dress as part of a school project with mobile phone-maker Sony Ericsson to figure out ways of incorporating new technology into fashion.

Davies said the dress is designed to eventually be connected to the wearer’s phone by Bluetooth wireless technology, so she can be alerted to a call even in noisiest of places.

“When you’re in a pub or a bar, you can never, ever hear your phone,” 20-year-old Davies told Reuters on Wednesday.

One shoulder of the dress down to the hip is embellished with translucent white scales that move and light up.

Sharapova showed off the dress to a gaggle of photographers and a crowd of passers-by from the window of a luxury department store in central London.

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I’m not usually a huge fan of Jimmy Choo handbags. Don’t get me wrong, I like them, but I’m not obsessed with them like I am with certain LV’s, Marc Jacobs, Chanels, etc…. However this bag is very whimsical and fun, but also beautiful. This design with the bangle and detachable strap is great, because it versatile and convenient. With the strap attached it’s a easy access tote and without the strap it’s a slouchy clutch. This handbag is patent leather and available at JimmyChoo.com, $1,196.

Jimmy Choo 2009 Sky Handbag

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The Chanel handbag collection Paris Moscow Fall 2009 debuted classic Chanel as well as theme inspired bags. I really like the overall collection, but I wouldn’t add any of the Moscow themed bags to my personal collection. I’ll list the bags in the order of my favorites, with the first being the best.

Pouch handbag in puffy quilted lambskin with interlaced chain.

Large soft lambskin tote bag with pyramid quilted effect and interlaced chain and CC pendant.

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Chanel’s classic – and widely adored – fragrance, No.5 will be the subject of a fresh new makeover at the end of this month, when the brand launches Eau Première. The seductive, 90-year old scent, developed by Coco herself will undergo a reinvention that retains the best-loved notes of the original – neroli, jasmine, ylang ylang, amber and vetvier – but in a softer, younger and more modern incantation. £67, available from Chanel counters nationwide.

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Marc Jacobs has brought back its beloved Splash Collection of fragrances for spring/summer 2009, including a couple of old favourites and a new addition. While the ever-popular Marc Jacobs Rain and Cucumber are making a welcome return, the sparkling Marc Jacobs Lemon is sure to be summer’s biggest hit. With sun-drenched citrus notes of hand-pressed Italian lemon blended with mandarin, honeysuckle, mint and Verbena, this is the perfectly fresh smell of the sunny season. £45, available from department stores nationwide.

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Chanel will launch the newest in its Les Exclusifs de Chanel scent collection next month, a honey floral inspired by one of Coco Chanel’s faithful shades. The twelfth in the series of fragrances originally composed by Coco Chanel’s personal perfumer Ernest Beaux and reinvented for the modern day by Jacques Polge, Beige is a delicate balance of frangipani, lily, heliotrope, ylang-ylang and jasmine flowers mixed with a sweet honey accord. And despite its moniker, it’s far from ordinary – wear through summer for a subtle sensuality. £160, available from Chanel counters nationwide from July.

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