Prada Fall 2010 Menswear

The Smallest Stylemakers

Two street fashion blogs, Milk Magazine's blog and Planet Awesome Kid focus on what the coolest of tykes are wearing now. These little people may be small in stature, but they are most certainly big on style, and although they might owe their chic looks more to their parents' good taste than their own, you have to give them credit for making children's clothing look hip and modern.

Photo: Karen Jones

GET THE LOOK

Sweet William Ltd 

Collection of children's clothing from independent designers made by environmentally and ethically responsible manufacturers.

Barneys

Better know for its carefully edited selection of fashion-forward clothing for adults, Barneys' website also has has a nice offering of kids' clothing and toys.

Anna Ka Bazaar
Great collection of kids' knitwear and a section for moms too.

3.1 Phillip Lim
The perfect balance between sweet and modern, these little girl separates are chic and comfortable.

Bloggers Day of Action for Haiti

Today is the Bloggers Day of Action for Haiti which is a wonderful project organized by AphroChic to have fashion, art and design bloggers post about Haiti and raise money for the cause. Participating bloggers are each trying to help the people of Haiti by posting information on how to donate to relief organizations. Please look at the photographs I posted earlier today by The Young Hatian Documentary Photographers Group if you're interested in learning more about Haiti.

If you would like to help :
    
     Red Cross    
Yele
Doctors Without Borders

Participating bloggers:

A Life More Fabulous
 
Bay Area Style File

Design for Mankind

Hammocks & High Tea

 

It's Oh So Grand

 

Jodine's Corner

Lindsey Lou

Makeunder My Life

Nuvany Nice

Simply Grove

Single Bubble Pop

Styleture

Tam + Sam

The Cubicle Chick

Urban Casita

The Young Hatian Documentary Photographers Group

I was researching artists in Haiti when I came across these stunning images shot by students participating in The Young Haitian Documentary Photographers Group in 2006. All of these students have no formal training and had never used a camera prior to this porject. Despite their inexperience, they have managed to capture a portrait of the people and place that they live. I thought that better than any words that I could write, these photographs show the beauty of Haiti and put faces to this terrible tragedy.

Please donate:         Red Cross     Yele      Doctors Without Borders     

 

 

Stylish Ways to Support Haiti

 

14k Yellow Gold Vintage Jade & Ruby Nugget Ring from 18kjewelers

10% of the final sale price will be donated to the Red Cross

Through eBay Giving Works, bid on products from 

sellers that will contribute a percentage of the final 

sale price to Haitian relief efforts, sell your own items
 and choose to donate up to 100% of the profit to a  charity

 of your choice or make a charitable donation through Paypal.

In addition to giving a pair of shoes to a child in need for every 

pair sold, Toms Shoes will also donate $5 for each item purchased 

from now until January 16 to support disaster relief in Haiti.

Fashionable Earth is selling limited edition t-shirts 

made from recycled clothing. All proceeds from

  Revolution t-shirts will be donated to UNICEF.

Earrings by Voleur de Bijoux 

(donating 25% of all sales in January to UNICEF) 

A group of sellers on Etsy are contributing 

a portion of their sales for the month of 
January to the Hatian relief effort.

   Here is a full list of participating Etsy sellers.

Begin with Inspiration

inspiration from jianchi chen on Vimeo.

Looking Forward, Looking Back

The beginning of a every new year is marked by celebration because it's a chance to look forward to the all the possibilities of the next year and examine what happened in the one past. This idea of looking to the future while not forgetting the past is central in fashion, with seasonal collections often inspired by trends and designers of days gone by. Thoughts of the relationship between past, present, future and fashion were inspired by this Vogue photograph circa 1951 which made me realize that there is no future fashion that will not have its roots in the past. I found this beautiful image thanks to Ms. Spinach, who recently shared a link to myvintagevogue's photostream on flickr which features hundreds of lovely images from past issues of Vogue magazine. Maybe one of these images will provide you with some inspiration for the new year.