Fashion Models and the Hottest Designer Trends

Only being about a week after the announcement of her collaboration with the brand Longchamp, supermodel Kate Moss appeared in Vogue Paris debuting their collaborated collection. The collection stay true to Longchamp’s design aesthetic of simple, classic, everyday wear handbags. The three bags featured are a brown leather bag with pea-sized grommets lined with a zebra print, for some Kate Moss style, a green, pebbly leather pouchette, and a larger metallic gray clutch.

Kate told Vogue Paris, “The emerald green pouchette, whose color I love, I wanted to be very simple, based on the shape of an envelope. I would wear it with all black or all navy. Because I love to wear dove grey, I wanted a bag in that color to go with my grey jeans.”

The Kate Moss for Longchamp line will be available in stores starting February 11th.

Tom Ford definitely plays favorites giving his previous campaign model Jon Kortajarena of Wilhemina, who has recently worked with Jean Paul Gaultier and Chanel, a role in his movie A Single Man. Now for Tom Ford’s spring 2010 eyewear campaign, he has hired 20-year-old actor Nicholas Hoult, who was also casted for a role in A Single Man, to front this campaign along with 34-year-old model Carolyn Murphy of IMG, who has recently appeared in Vogue and V magazine. The campaign is luxurious yet provocative showcasing Carolyn completely nude and Nicholas sporting a bowtie.

Going along with the hype of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland film due out early March, Paul & Joe will be releasing a limited edition Alice In Wonderland cosmetic collection. The line will include limited-edition tins containing blotting papers and a mirror for shine control, blotting paper refills in a paper package, a lip treatment in a sweet milky pink for the pink tube called Fantasy and a sheer orange for the blue tube called Daydream adding a hint of color to your lips while giving shine and conditions dry lips. This Alice In Wonderland collection will be available at ASOS.com on February 25th and at Harrods in London starting March 6th running for £25 each.

For the first time in Victoria’s Secret history, they utilized 16-year-old Gossip Girl star Taylor Momsen to represent them instead of having an Angel represent them at an in-store launch. Taylor hosted and celebrated the debut of the fragrance Sexy Little Things Love Rocks at the SoHo Victoria’s Secret store in New York City earlier this week and stuck around to sign some autographs for her awaiting fans. The fragrance is a powerful and intoxicating combination scent of plum, violet, vanilla, peony, jasmine, and peach nectar in a rock n’ roll-style red lacquer bottle adorned with tattoo-inspired graphics with a removable black leatherette rosette.

Taylor says, “I love it. It’s kind of a more masculine scent from the other Love collections, which is really cool. And I love the packaging. It looks really pretty on the dresser.”

The fragrance comes in eau de parfum, scented lotion, scented bath and shower cream, scented mist, and lip gloss ring available now at all Victoria’s Secret stores as well as at VictoriasSecret.com.

This spring, Liberty of London, an iconic British luxury store who has been in production for almost 200 years, is going on collaboration overdrive with a set of shoes for Bensimon, a line of clothing and homewares for Target, and an entire collection of cosmetics for MAC. The collection features technicolor flowers and birds that looks to be printed directly on MAC’s classic black packaging on eye shadows, lipsticks, lip glosses, blushes, beauty powders, and nail polishes as well as two limited-edition items including a makeup bag a scarf.

The makeup bag will be coming in a small and a medium size for $22 for the small size and $25 for the medium size, the scarf for $95, beauty powders coming in Shell Pearl and Summer Rose for $25 each, eyeshadows in Give Me Liberty of London, Free to Be, Dame’s Desire, Birds & Berries, and Bough Grey for $14.50 each, lipsticks in Ever Hip, Peachstock, Petals & Peacocks, and Blooming Lovely for $14 each, lipglosses in Frankly Fresh, Perennial High Style, English Accents, and A Different Groove for $14 each, blushes in Dirty Plum and Prim & Proper for $18.50 each, and nail lacquers in Vestral White and Blue India for $12 each. This MAC Give Me Liberty of London collection launches in the U.S. on March 11th and internationally in April.

For their spring campaign, Mac Viva Glam is featuring pop sensation Lady Gaga and 80’s icon Cyndi Lauper in “From Our Lips” including two new lipsticks, MAC Viva Glam Gaga and MAC Viva Glam Cyndi, shot by photographer Ellen von Unwerth. Lady Gaga looks fresh and gorgeous without all her usual crazy headwear in a nude leotard, a creamy head scarf, and her Gaga colored pale pink lipstick while Cyndi Lauper is in stunning black lingerie sporting her Cyndi colored bright red lips. Each lipstick will be going for $14 with all the proceeds going to MAC AIDs Fund who’s already raised over $150 million since 1994 to fight against HIV/AIDs. The official release date of “From Our Lips” is on February 10th with a March 18th release date in North America.

This season features the shoulder pads, football purses, and a triathlon collection full of new clothing, but with very little action gear. With the Winter Olympics season quickly approaching, Chanel heads towards the action gear releasing a sports collection featuring items such as guitars, roller blades, weights, surfboards, bicycles, scooters, helmets, different sports balls, soccer balls, tennis rackets, golf clubs, skis, snowboards, and even goggles. The pricing of this collection is only given upon request meaning this exclusive sports collection will most likely cost one an arm and a leg hopefully providing some motivation to get outdoors and exercise.