This is one of the cutest bags from Marc by Marc Jacobs in a long time! Rich suede, a chain link gold strap and gold floral details combine to make this a party-perfect bag. The cross-body styling is perfect for our your drunken stumbles home.

Dot Perfect Purse, $280 at Net-a-Porter

Milan Fashion Week S/S 2011 presented us with a pleasant surprise, for the most part. We’ve often dismissed the lot of Italian fashion as garish, loud and way too bright. Wrong, we know, just like, rationally, we know that all Asians aren’t bad drivers, we just like to think they are every time they cut us off in traffic. This time around, however, the Italians brought it with modern minimalism, calculated color and sleek silhouettes.

GUCCI- Frida Giannini married vibrant jewel tones and high-gloss sheen to maximum glamour and threw in safari-inspired fabulosity for good measure. Gold accents touched almost everything, to the relief of the middle eastern girl in me (can I make any more ethnic stereotypes? geez). Perfect for a nightclub in Morocco in the 70s or in NYC’s Meatpacking district today. All in all, an infinitely wearable and aspirational collection.

Etro, Moschino Cheap & Chic- Bold color and patterns were the name of the game at Etro and Moschino Cheap & Chic. The comfortable flared and wide pants are a welcome reprieve from circulation killing skinny jeans. The non-annoying floral and checkered prints seemed fresh without being overbearing.

Etro

Etro

Moschino Cheap & Chic

Moschino Cheap & Chic

Max Mara, Versace- Black, white and fabulous at Max Mara and Versace! Of course, not everything was black and white–there were tribal prints and brilliant Mediterranean colors at Versace, too. These two collections were minimal and body-conscious, yet still sexy without being blatantly vulgar.

Max Mara

Max Mara

Versace

Versace

Versace

Sheer Metal- Emporio Armani’s collection maintained a cohesiveness without sameness. Sheer fabrics and a neutral metallic sheen touched most pieces with the unexpected, fresh layering of longer skirt sand shorts underneath longer tunics.

Maison Martin Margiela has answered our prayers (and killed our dreams of a healthy savings account) by opening up its very first e-commerce site (or e-boutique, as they call it) in a private online preview. Never fear, the public can access the site starting October 1st.

Check out what awakened sartorial yearnings we haven’t felt, well, since last week:

Lambskin Beige Scarf

Leather and Brass Bracelet

Leather Ankle Boot

Straight Cardigan with Oversized Cowl Neck

Belted Short Jacket with Detachable Satin Collar

Christopher Bailey revealed his new S/S 2011 collection for Burberry Prorsum to the adoring masses via live-streaming video yesterday. I didn’t think anything could top the last collection, and I was right. While there were many wearable pieces and Burberry’s signature structured jackets and coats, a few of the pieces, including studded snake print motorcycle leather jackets and silver leather panel pants, seemed more appropriate for Adam Lambert than the usual Burberry-loving woman. Plus, too much leopard print reminds me of my first NYC roommate who had splashed leopard print all over the bathroom–the shower curtain, the bath mat, the towels–that scarred me for life.

FAVES

MEHS

Three days, three videos in a row! Wow, that’s called laziness.

Sorry, peeps, but we couldn’t pass up posting an interview with Kate Moss (whose voice we’ve never heard, by the way) at a party in London unveiling her collaboration with Longchamp. Bespoke Banter‘s Scott Wimsett talks to her and Longchamp’s CEO, Jean Cassegrain about their new and exciting collaboration. She does look she’s tossed back a few, but beautiful nonetheless.

London Fashion Week is going full force and our favorite home-wrecking hussy, Sienna Miller, showed her line, Twenty8Twelve to a packed house, which included her off and on lover Jude Law. The clothes, as a whole, are unremarkable, and the most fun we had watching was playing the Jude Law version of “Where’s Waldo?”.

We here adore Swedish line Acne for its simple and unfussy sexiness. Their S/S 2011 line just showed in a small venue and sheer pieces, subdued metallics, boxy toppers and high-waisted hot pants dominated–many of them to be worn interchangeably. We’ll pass on the hot pants, but will take virtually every other piece. Enjoy!

Give props to your hood with these gangsta-lite area code necklaces from Zoe Chicco. 310, 212 or any three numbers of your choosing can hang with pride around your neck, even if you’re rocking 218, Duluth, Minnesota’s finest! Word.

Area Code Number Necklace, $290 at Zoe Chicco

OK, sooooo, we didn’t exactly make it to all 200 plus shows at New York Fashion Week S/S 2011. But neither did you, right? Instead of wading through all the shows yourself or obsessively following the Twitter feeds of big name “editors” we decided show you a sampling of the goods and let you smile with delight or say, “hhhmmmmm” when confronted with a sartorial puzzle.

AND we know Fashion Week ended Thursday and that London Fashion Week is under way, and why haven’t we posted and Twittered frenetically during and the minute the shows were over? Well, first, we have pesky “real jobs” and second, we subscribe to the Tom Ford School of Disdain for Fashion Immediacy. He told WWD:

This fashion immediacy thing — yes, if you can order the clothes immediately, if you can see them and press a button and they can be shipped to your house, I get fashion immediacy.…I don’t get the need for this immediacy. In fact, I think it’s bad.

The way the system works now, you see the clothes, within an hour or so they’re online, the world sees them. They don’t get to a store for six months. The next week, young celebrity girls are wearing them on red carpets. They’re in every magazine. The customer is bored with those clothes by the time they get to the store. They’re overexposed, you’re tired of them, they’ve lost their freshness, you see somebody wearing it and you say, “Oh, that’s that jacket that was in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.” Or [a] customer doesn’t want to wear that jacket that was in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. In addition, all of the fast-fashion companies that do a great job, by the way, knock everything off. So it’s everywhere all over the streets in three months and by the time you get it to the store, what’s the point?

Preach, Tommy, preach! He’s right–the fashion vultures at Forever 21 and the like copy designs like crazy (which is why they get sued up the ying-yang) and put out copies way sooner than the six months the actual clothes you see on the runway show up in the stores. But we digress.

From what we’ve seen, this is what we have to look forward to this spring (or sooner if you shop fast fashion):

Sheer paneling: 3.1 Philip Lim, Richard Chai Love, BCBG

3.1 Phillip Lim

Richard Chai Love

BCBG Max Azria

Old school glamour: Carolina Herrera, Venexia,  Badgley Mischka

Carolina Herrera

Venexia

Badgley Mischka

Electric color pops: Z Spoke by Zac Posen, Cynthia Rowley

Z Spoke by Zac Posen

Cynthia Rowley

Retro styling: Marc Jacobs, Vena Cava

Marc Jacobs

Vena Cava

Fluid draping: Ports 1961, Costello Tagliapietra

Ports 1961

Costello Tagliapietra

Hip urban warrior: Diesel Black Gold, G-Star RAW, Nicholas K

Diesel Black Gold

G-Star RAW

Nicholas K

Fairy tale glamour: Monique Lhuillier, Marchesa, Oscar de la Renta

Monique Lhuillier

Marchesa

Oscar de la Renta

Effortless American chic: Donna Karan, Diane von Furstenberg

DKNY

Diane von Furstenberg

Sexy, sleek minimalism: Calvin Klein, Michael Kors

Calvin Klein

Michael Kors

Hhhmmmmm: Betsey Johnson, Jeremy Scott, Catherine Malandrino

Betsey Johnson

Jeremy Scott

Catherine Malandrino

What we would die to wear: Prabal Gurung, Derek Lam, Complex Geometries, Proenza Schouler

Prabal Gurung

Derek Lam

Complex Geometries

Proenza Schouler

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

This was the first year that Fashion Week hoopla made its way to the Upper West Side at Lincoln Center, and judging from its expansiveness and ease of navigation, Lincoln Center fits fashion perfectly.

Check out our shots of the fashionable, the famous (Vogue’s Stephanie LaCava, blogger Susie Bubble and actress Milla Jovovich) and the hangers-on (because fashionableness–real word, I swear– is next to Tom Fordness. Or something).

We also saw lots of amazing shoes and a guy who looks like Hamish Bowles’ hillbilly cousin.

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

Photo: Ryan VanWilliams

All photos courtesy of Ryan Christopher VanWilliams. You can see more of his work at RCVWphoto.com.