Yeah! Anna Sui For Target

We heard the best news this morning, thanks to WWD. Target has just announced Anna Sui is the latest designer to sign up as part of their Designer Collaboration series. We’ll have to wait until September 13th to get our hands on the collection when it launches online and in 250 stores but it seems Ms. Sui is a Gossip Girl fan at heart. She’s using Blair and the gang as inspiration for her Target line and we can’t wait to see how she takes their NYC style and tweaks it for the masses. Would Queen B approve?

Diesel Makes Splash In Toronto

Diesel fans take note: their new store houses more than just appparel. Diesel sunglasses, jewelry, shoes and purses are all available at the two-storey location and we highly recommend popping in for a peek at Diesel’s Black Gold collection (a slightly higher-end line that includes the hottest cream blazer we have yet to see this summer), their slew of gorgeous leather handbags and clutches in the softest leather imaginable and their stunning array of shoes, including a pair of killer black cut-out booties that we saw on many a girl’s foot that night.

Dolce and Gabanna Deny Taxy Evasion

They may be the toast of Cannes, but Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are certainly not getting any extra special treatment when it comes to paying their taxes. The design duo could be facing $1.12 billion for tax evasion. The controversy surrounds the sale of their brands Dolce & Gabbana and D&G to their Luxembourg-based holding company Gado Srl in 2004. The pair claim they only received $447.8 million from the transaction, and paid what was owed to authorities. The authorities on the other hand claim the market value of the brands was worth a whote lot more than a pesky $450 million and therefore are investigating the boys for tax evasion. The designers have responded with a statement proclaiming their innocence, stating “It’s a paradox! Since when does one have to pay taxes on money one never actually collected? It’s an absurd demand based on a completely abstract calculation.

Carlos Franchi At Target

Following in the footsteps of Anya Hindmarch, Hayden Harnett and Botkier, Carlos Falchi is the next designer to do a line of affordable, limited edition handbags for mass retailer Target. WWD reports that Mr. Falchi’s line will hit stores and target.com on October 11 and will be available until December 27th. The line is said to include “faux snakeskin handbags in jewel tones such as plum and teal with contrasting shades of brown, black and gray. Some handbags will utilize collage or patchwork techniques”. No word on the price point but since it’s Target, we’re sure they’ll be super affordable!

New Trend Alert: Japan's Prominent Goth Look

Goth has still been relatively underexploited, That’s why there’s room for us to do something like this and not have people think, ‘This is so weird,’ and roll their eyes, like, ‘Oh, Goth. This person is so depressed.’ Now they think it’s cool and relevant.”The Gothic Lolita, who’s getting the spotlight treatment. It’s a culture that’s about escapism and fantasy, and those are kind of the hallmarks of fashion,” she says, noting Gothic Lolita’s rise in the Nineties. “With the downturn of the Japanese economy, post-bubble, there was a certain sense of hopelessness felt by the youth for the first time