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“I started the season being inspired by a couple of Beardsley illustrations,” Doo-Ri Chung says of her Spring 2012 collection. “Using that as a starting point, I did some sketches that became the foundation for the prints, and throughout the development of Spring, the idea of illustration really played a part in not only the prints but how I chose the fabrics.”

Her collection will make its official debut tomorrow afternoon at Eyebeam, but Style.com got a sneak preview of the designer’s sketching process. In the video (above), she is sketching the first look she ever created for her Spring collection. “I was thinking of a single piece of fabric that was anchored by the belt,” she tells Style.com. “I wanted to create a soft yet tailored look by adding the pleats to the draping.”
—Kristin Studeman

Everyone and their mother is launching a groovy sneaker line. There’s Gucci, Louis Vuitton with Kanye West … and Nike updates their inventory constantly and makes you mad-insane trying to keep up and collect. But sometimes you just want easy. Quiet. Classic.

And CHEAP! $35. Voila!

Low and behold the Keds Champion Classic is reborn. Celebrities like Charlize Theron and Kristin Cavallari have been sporting these rubber-soled wonders on walks to Starbucks in leggings and mini-skirts. They have been around since 1916 and they stil look fresh!

(Fun fact: Sneakers were named such by Henry Nelson McKinney, an agent for an advertising firm N. W. Ayer & Son. The name refers to the sneakers’ soft, noiseless rubber soles, Which allow the wearer to “sneak up” on unsuspecting friends and family!)

They come in 6 bright colors as well as white, all black, navy, red and beige. Another added 21st century plus? You can customize your kicks!

Buy it here.

Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has added fragrance-spokesperson apt his resume.

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The maestro stars in a fashionable ad campaign for the odor Decibel from French perfume corporation Azzaro.