This Topshop dress is by no means a carbon copy of Alexander McQueen’s, but it is very clear that the people at Topshop were moved—just as much as the rest of the fashion world was—by the late designer’s “Plato’s Atlantis” collection.

So they made a dress “inspired” by the one McQueen sent down his SS10 runway on Amanda Laine’s back.

You can “channel your Space Age supermodel in the baroque print dress,” but the zany print is not nearly as offensive as the fact that Topshop went ahead with production after Alexander McQueen’s passing. Pretty tasteless, no?

In the wake of the womanly casting agendas at Prada, Giles, and Louis Vuitton for Fall 2010, The Imagist writes: ”There’s an unwritten memo now circulating  . . . amongst a tight circle of model-makers and the message is this: the directive of the ’00s to have armies of blank, disposable, lookalike girls marching at the service of the campaigns, magazines and the runways is over. New decade, new ideal . . . the early booking reports on the FW 10 campaigns and editorials is registering is a taste for ultra-individual girl.

Embroidery takes on a new form with the work of Maurizio Anzeri, an Italian artist known for working with hair in sculpture. Taking old discarded family photographs, Anzeri uses synthetic hair to create a suggestive, beautiful representation of human emotion, bodily boundaries and new expression. What makes him interesting is that he is revitalizing the stories of the photographs themselves and producing a heightened sense of emotion from the original print. Anzeri was one of 30 artists in 2008 to be considered for the Sovereign European Artist Award, and his artwork is available in the Saatchi Online gallery. He has also collaborated on a piece commissioned by Alexander McQueen. Here’s a look at some of his work.

Womenswear Designer of the Year
Marc Jacobs
Donna Karan
Alexander Wang

Menswear Designer of the Year
Michael Bastian
Tom Ford
David Neville & Marcus Wainwright for Rag & Bone

Accessory Designer of the Year
Alexis Bittar
Lazaro Hernandez & Jack McCollough for Proenza Schouler
Marc Jacobs

Swarovski Award for Womenswear
Joseph Altuzarra
Prabal Gurung
Jason Wu

Swarovski Award for Menswear
Richard Chai
Patrik Ervell
Simon Spurr

Swarovski Award for Accessory Design
Eddie Borgo
Dana Lorenz
Alexander Wang

Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award
Michael Kors

Eugenia Sheppard Award
Kim Hastreiter, Paper Magazine

International Award
Christopher Bailey for Burberry

Board of Directors’ Special Tribute
Alexander McQueen

Fashion Icon Award
Iman

Eleanor Lambert Award
Tonne Goodman, Vogue

Victor Demarchelier’s first solo New York show, “Creating Images,” opens today at Clic Gallery, featuring 20 pieces taken over the past few years. Demarchelier, son of Patrick Demarchelier, describes the mostly black-and-white collection as “very personal”

I’m sorry, but can anyone else see the irony in this cover. Nevermind the fact that she’s dressed like Jesus, and that the concept surpasses many levels of BERZERK absurdity, but the fact that she even has a cover, random!

The cover was shot by Terry Richardson, so of course you’ll expect high-end, fashion raunchiness. Photos of Li-Lo bending over, squeezing her breasts, and smoking ciggys while donning looks by Chanel, Miu Miu, and Givenchy. Found it all to be quit tasteful, however, I would of enjoyed it way more, had they not chosen Lindsay. She’s hands down fashion eye candy, but then you have to stop and think, is that all that she’s good for? At the end of the day, Lindsay is a media whore, always in the spot lights, so Purple chose the right girl, in a marketing skills aspect. The shots were very mad max, sexy, and minimal. Here is a little clip of behind the scene of her shoot with Terry Richardson for this month’s issue.

But, to end this on a good note, she looked great.

Vanessa’s adventure to the Margiela exhibit in Munich, Germany provided us with further inspiration and a push to think outside the box for the SS10 Mens and Womens collections….

*above is an oversized “BIG MOMMA” dress form used to create and drape Margiela’s signature oversized tops and calculatedly misshapen garments…

*above are all of the office keys to the Maison Martin Margiela atelier….stronghold of cataclysmic creativity  since the 1980s…

above is an unexpected square seamed button-down shirt…

*official in love with Catherine Pierce, who is my friend and a great DJ / songstress / fashion icon. she also used to date one of our other favorite musicians, Albert Hammond, Jr. of the Strokes!

*the beautiful Cat Pierce and I in the DJ booth at Anonymous Gallery’s opening in Fall ‘08