Today's schedule:

09:30 am KARL LAGERFELD La Sorbonne - 47 rue des Ecoles Paris 5e
10:30 am ANDREW GN Le Carrousel du Louvre - Salle Gabriel
11:30 am AKRIS Le Carrousel du Louvre - Salle Delorme
12:30 am VALENTINO Le Carrousel du Louvre - Salle Le Notre
1:30 pm COSTUME NATIONAL Le Carrousel du Louvre - Salle Soufflot
2:30 pm DRIES VAN NOTEN Bassin du Trocadero Place de Varsovie Paris 16e
3:30 pm CHRISTIAN LACROIX Espace Ephemere Tuileries - Jardin des Tuileries - Paris 1er
4:30 pm LOEWE Palais de Chaillot - 1 place du Trocadero - Paris 16e
5:30 pm SOPHIA KOKOSALAKI Musee de l'Homme -17 place du Trocadero - Paris 16e
6.30 pm VERONIQUE BRANQUINHO Elysee Montmartre - 72 boulevard de Rochechouart -Paris 18e
7:30 pm GIVENCHY Palais Omnisport de Paris Bercy - Salle Marcel Cerdan - 8 boulevard de Bercy - Paris 12e
8:30 pm HUSSEIN CHALAYAN Carreau du Temple - 3 rue Dupetit Thouars - Paris 3e

Tuesday, 2/27

09:30 am BALENCIAGA

10:30 am JUNYA WATANABE

11:30 amVIVIENNE WESTWOOD Le Carrousel du Louvre - Salle Delorme

12:30 am MARITHE & FRANCOIS GIRBAUD Le Carrousel du Louvre - Salle Le Nôtre

1:30 pm LUTZ Espace Pierre Cardin - 3 avenue Gabriel - Paris 8e

2:30 pm CHRISTIAN DIOR Espace Ephemere Tuileries - Jardin des Tuileries - Paris 1er

3:30 pm ANN DEMEULEMEESTER Couvent des Cordeliers - 15 rue de l'Ecole de Medecine - Paris 6e

4:30 pm ISSEY MIYAKE Carreau du Temple - 3 rue Dupetit Thouars - Paris 3e

5:30 pm COMME DES GARCONS See invitation

7:00 pm JEAN PAUL GAULTIER 325 rue Saint-Martin - Paris 3e

8:00 pm BLESS Tour Montparnasse - Espace 56 - 33 avenue du Maine - Paris 15e

9:00 pm JEREMY SCOTT H0tel Westin - 3 rue de Castiglione - Paris 1er

View a list of all the winners from Oscars.com

A prankster handcuffed herself to Hugh Grant at the Dutch premiere of his new movie Music & Lyrics last night.
The actor was left stunned when Cielke Sijben, a journalist working for Dutch TV network 101 TV, leaped forward as he walked the red carpet at the Amsterdam Pathe and clamped a metal handcuff on his wrist, attaching herself to him.
The confused star had to stand for 10 minutes while police detained Sijben and fire fighters were summoned to free him from his captor.
After the cuffs were cut off, the calm 46-year-old returned to his red-carpet duties, promoting the film - in which he stars alongside Drew Barrymore - while Sijben was arrested by police.
An onlooker says, "It was incredible. She appeared from nowhere and Grant couldn't believe it was happening. But he was the ultimate professional. He just stood in silence and waited for the fire fighters to free him. He did look relieved when he disappeared into the theatre - she could have been a maniac."...Source: Starpulse

Stars striving to look their best at this year's Academy Awards must surmount a high new hurdle: HDTV. Because of it, every single cellulitic pucker, every stocking seam askew, every freckle, every age spot will loom as large on screen as the borrowed jewelry hanging from their necks.
"[Slight imperfections are] more obvious than ever," says Dr. David Colbert, dermatologist and founder of the New York Dermatology Group. It's daylight when the show tapes, meaning no shadows in which the out-of-shape or wrinkly can hide. "Really," says Colbert, "what you see is what you get."
Little wonder, then, that with so much at stake, Oscar contenders are willing to do whatever it takes to look flawless, dropping thousands of dollars on high-tech facials, celebrity nutritionists and the best hair and makeup professionals. Want to pull out all the stops? Here's what you'll have to spend to be equally as red-carpet ready....more from Forbes

Karl Lagerfeld, who staged two Fendi fall-winter shows on Thursday in Milan, has a third in store: in China, and on The Great Wall, no less. "Not as a backdrop, actually on it," Fendi chief Michael Burke said backstage before the show. "We're turning the wall into a street. You know, we're from Rome." The show, slated for May 24 at a location about 90 minutes outside of Beijing, is the latest globe-hopping move for the fast-growing brand...more from WWD

DESPERATE Housewives star Marcia Cross has given birth to twin girls at the age of 44.
Publicists said Eden and Savannah, born on Tuesday, are doing well in hospital.

They are the first children for Marcia and her stockbroker husband Tom Mahoney, 49, who wed in June last year. Marcia, pictured right, who plays perfectionist Bree in the hit series, was put on bed rest by doctors in January.

It forced production of ABC's show to move to her Los Angeles living room.
Marcia's expanding waistline had become harder to conceal in her last two episodes...Source: TheMirror

The UK pop star is behind "Lily Loves", which will be unveiled in May and stocked in over 300 New Look shops in the UK and territories such as France, Dubai and Belgium.

The clothing line will carry six dresses, two pairs of shoes and assorted accessories, the chain announced Wednesday.Her line is meant to go up against "M By Madonna", a clothing line co-created by the singer to reflect her own wardrobe and set to be the headliner shortly at H&M.

"Lily is young, very talented, gorgeous, opinionated and feisty, and we think a lot of our customers will identify with that", said Sarah Walter from New Look....Source: dotmusic

Giorgio Armani, the Italian fashion designer, said in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday that he was prepared to sell his fashion empire.
"I'm prepared to sell to the highest bidder," Armani told the business daily Handelsblatt at the opening of an Armani exhibition in Milan.
French group L'Oreal, which already cooperates with Armani in perfumes and cosmetics, has frequently been mooted as a possible buyer.
"L'Oreal could be a partner. But if somebody else offers more, they could also be a partner," said the 72-year-old designer, who has no children.
Experts estimate that Armani is worth about $6.6 billion...Source: DNA India

Yes, we are a fashion site. Yes, we are New Yorkers.
Yes, we last spoke during THE busiest week of fashion in New York. We get it...and are apologizing...
We last left you during Fashion Week and a cold freeze. With temps dipping below zero (this includes the ever dramatic 'wind chill factor' reaching negative 20) and our studio running into some near heating disasters we opted to put on a hat & scarf and run for cover to the nearest hotel rather than write in our blog. We wanted to write. We even tried to write...really hard. The hotel internet service, however fancy with their plasma screens throughout the lobby, limited guests to ten minutes per session. This was not sufficient for our needs.
Instead, I ordered room service thinking about everything I was missing by being blocked from the world wide web. Okay, that's a discussion for another day because it only lead to me ordering a bottle of wine (following my chicken Caesar salad and Oreo cheesecake lunch) and wondering the (very expected) question of "what did we all do before being plugged in"?
It's odd being a local in a tourist hotel. I made a lot of new friends, which tends to happen when I travel, but rarely happens when I venture out of my neighborhood by only a mile.
Okay, so that's done and I MUST pack for Vegas. I'm leaving for the Pool Trade Show at MAGIC in two days. Tomorrow night is the Lily Allen show, which I am very much looking forward to and very much hoping that I am not the "old girl in the club" when walking in. Lily is brilliant - LOVE her! She is sure to hate this, but she's like a punk Annette Funicello. Annette style + punk + talent = Lily.
Show was brilliant! If you see Lily coming soon to a theatre near you, we highly recommend grabbing some tickets.
Next morning, way too early, off to Vegas on the 9am flight. Car shows up on time, which kind of sucks at the moment, but good thing in the end.
Show, show, show.......we have eight lines this show, our fourth, and are expecting to be overwhelmed. The show has moved this season and is now located outside the LVCC at MAGIC. Previous years have been at the Mandalay Bay - which really spoiled us with their services. A full food court at lunch offering unlimited dining choices (made booth staff very happy).
Pool offered the most amazing port-a-potties anyone reading this has ever seen. I guarantee it. They were sponsored by Kohler. We have zero connection to them and are by no means attempting to endorse a toilet manufacturer on our blog, I'm just saying...if you ever find yourself at a show an you notice a "Kohler" sign above the blue plastic toilet teetering on it's edge, go check it out. If you've ever lived in an NYC apartment you will find Kohler portable toilets nicer than any toilet offered in a $3k/month apartment you've ever rented.
The show was a success. We are now following up with confirmed orders, leads and contacts made at the show. However,.....those who know me - know that my stories always end with a "however"....my left wrist is either sprained or broken, the doctor isn't sure yet. Apparently I won't have an answer until Tuesday.
It was a bit rough lugging all my crap down to the cab from my hotel room. I know you're asking, "What about the bell caps"? Well, my friends, this hotel was so overloaded with the fashion groups leaving and the NBA All-Star groups arriving that the bell caps were nowhere in sight when I grabbed my bags.Short story long....sore wrist when putting bags in cab to McCarran...motionless, swollen wrist when landing in NYC with no movement of fingers.
Moral of the story...I apologize.
I have written this whole story to you with a contraption on my wrist that is so encumbering I can't brush my own teeth, yet I am writing to YOU!
And now that you see how long my stories are, you see why I link the important stories. Just enough to keep you informed, yet enough info to hopefully lure you back for more true fashion stories, not just gossip.