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How much are you willing to pay for a tee?

The ultimate - Balmain

Balenciaga

Alexander McQueen

Lanvin

Des Artistes

Designer tees are blowing out of the stores and their prices keep climbing. So far Balmain has the leading price tag on a "jewel sketched" tee for $1175. Close followers are Lanvin ($800-900) with their whimsically illustrated tees and Balenciaga ($400-500) who collaborated with artist and designer Brian Lichtenberg on a shoe t-shirt that will blow your socks off. Alexander McQueen's sculls are a shabby $295 and if that's still too pricey for you, check out Des Artistes whose Eco friendly designs seem to scream "buy me" with a $117 price tag.

No matter what you pay, you shouldn't ignore the printed graphics trend because it's here to stay for at least another couple of seasons. This is how your tee could become an investment...

xoxo,

Mimi

Digital Printing is the future

Alexander McQueen ss10

Alexander McQueen ss10

Prada ss10

Manish Aurora ss10

Basso and Brooke ss10

Why do I even waste my time learning how to screen print? Sooner or later digital printing is going to take over the tedious cutting and counting of screens and we will all be able to afford gorgeously colored prints with a million colors. Or more monotone ones with a million shades of grey. For now this technique stays exclusive for the "Exclusives" like Alexander McQueen, Prada, Basso & Brooke (see above), Jason Wu and Narciso Rodriques - just to name a few of the big ones out there.

More and more high end designers are reaching out to digital printing as a vehicle for their clothes. It sets them apart and gives endless possibilities to let their print fantasies run wild. In addition it prevails mass marketers like H&M and Forever 21 to knock them off because guess what- they can't afford to digitally print. At least not yet....

Anna Wintour loves prints

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It's official - You heard it here first: Anna Wintour loves prints!!!

My interest was peaked a couple of weeks ago watching the fabulous Anna Wintour on David Letterman in a black & white printed dress. The more I started researching her look, the more I realized that this woman is a serious printoholic. With all this buzz around "The September Issue"- which you have to go see ASAP - I had no trouble finding pictures of Anna wearing one gorgeous printed number after the other. So it turns out that she's got her daughter hooked as well....
Long live Anna for promoting beautiful prints!

xoxo,
Mimi

Men's bottoms....

Neil Barrett S/S 10, Dries Van Noten S/S 10

Dior Homme F/W 09, Patrik Ervel F/W 09

Hugo by Hugo Boss S/S 10, Givenchy S/S 10

.... and yes - men shall wear printed bottoms as well! Not until Spring 2010 however. As usual men's shows and trends are often inspired by the previous season's women's wear collections - and this time is no different. While women will have plenty of print going on on their legs this fall/winter season, men will have to wait until next year. That's not necessary a bad thing because I think a printed pant on a man looks much fresher in the Spring/Summer season than in winter. The most wearable and tasteful versions were by Neil Barrett and Dries Van Noten. For you riskier boys out there - you might want to check out Givenchy's printed harem pants...

Whatever you chose - risky, safe or edgy - if you want to make a statement, don't miss out on acquiring a printed pant gentlemen!

Girls - Get your bottoms ready for Fall

Marc Jacobs, Narciso Rodriguez, Hussein Chalayan, Vena Cava

Cavalera, Tori Burch, Miss Sixty, DVF

Everybody's doing it - from Rio to Paris - PRINTED BOTTOMS! Get ready for a fun Fall/Winter season and switch it up with printed jeans and leggings instead of a traditional printed blouse.
If you want to join the club, your printed bottoms need to be slim and sexy though. The printed Harem pant is so last season!

So go crazy at Marc Jacobs with swirl printed leggings or stay on "a budget" with Miss Sixties Rococo printed slim fits. What's super fresh are all the monotone patterns and no-print prints, for those of you who don't want to go all the way out there like DVF's animal jean.

Spread the print love and go shopping my friends! And stay tuned for some men's bottoms updates...

xoxo

Printed wetsuits with homage to inner strength

I discovered something genius!

Printed wetsuits, conceptualized and designed by "...BY DIDDO" http://bydiddo.com/ - a design studio based in Amsterdam whose creator Diddo has collaborated with Frank O. Ghery, Bono and UNESCO.
These wetsuits are everything else but your usual surfing attire. I cannot better describe them that their creator who posted the following on his website:

"The first edition contains four original designs: a rusted iron diving suit evoking the days of Jules Verne, the anatomic musculature suit as a homage to our inner strength, a wet suit which gives the illusion that the wearer has been attacked by a group of hungry sharks and finally a whale shark patterned suit that celebrates the brilliance and originality of our natural water world."

If I only surfed or dived - this would be my number 1 choice. I looooove them!!!