Spanish designer Javier Larrainzar showcases his romantic designs at Madrid Fashion Week. Designer Planet has all the details.

Señora Cartera shows us which celebrity was the first to tote Prada’s Bow Clutch Bag.

Fashion Fling shares a great way to support teachers by purchasing chic, limited edition Jones New York t-shirts. Get all the details to see how you can help our hard-working educators.

Elite Choice examines the latest measures used to safeguard Harrod’s expensive shoe collection - live Egyptian cobra snakes!

Catch the fun and unique designs from Agatha Ruiz de la Prada straight from Madrid Fashion Week at Style Talk.

GLAM & TONIC recommends a web-shop to help you stock up on Scandinavian designer clothing.

So Frugalicious has great style tips on how to achieve an affordable New York look.

Bring a bit of rock-n-roll fashion into your wardrobe with funky and fashionable ‘Rock Bands’ via Spork Fashion.

View Gareth Pugh’s experimental designs from London Fashion Week at Designer Tips.

Lifestyle Buzz brings us the fabulous flowing designs from Amanda Wakeley’s Spring 2008 collection.

What’s Haute features Angelina Jolie and Zahara Jolie-Pitt and shows us why they are the ultimate mother/daughter bagistas.

John Rocha’s youthful Spring 2008 collection from London Fashion Week is on display courtesy of Designer Sense.

Learn about all your favorite TV star’s Emmy Award show beauty secrets at The Beauty Counter.

Travel-size perfumes are hard to come by, but Diva In A Carry On found a steal of a deal on the sweetest scents around.

Pink Rock Candy wants to know if you feel a 12-yr-old is too young to model women’s clothing.

Now this is pretty crazy! If you love Hello Kitty so much that you’d like to turn your big day into an advertisement for this kawaii character then go ahead and buy these platinum wedding bands (versions for bride and groom are available) with Hello Kitty’s adorable face and the word Sanrio engraved on them. The rings can be customized to have the couple’s initials and the date of the wedding engraved on them too.

Just remember, you’ll be carrying this tiny “ad” on your wedding finger for life, or if you’re less lucky, for quite a long while. I think this is rather creepy.

Source Hello Kitty World

Fashionably Cute continues to cover London Fashion Week

Gareth Pugh is one of the most surreal designers out there. The stuff he does is so unbelievably wacky and often cute that he’s a firm favorite of Fashionably Cute’s blog, although you’d never ever see me wearing any of his creations.

Photos courtesy of Style.com

The Fug girls have reviewed this fabulous outfit. I’m speechless! All this cuteness hurts my eyes. Just enjoy the pictures of Lil’ Mama. Read more about it here.

Via Go Fug Yourself

After covering (almost) the entire New York Fashion Week Fashionably Cute has moved on to the coverage of London Fashion Week, Spring-Summer 2008. Here are the cute highlights from Topshop’s show.

The famous chain of clothing stores has out together a collection for modern hippies. The cutest highlight from the show: little flower power dresses.

Photos courtesy of Style.com

I’ve found an excellent website for all fashionistas aspiring to become the next Zac Posen: Dobizo is an amazing blog with plenty of information about starting your own fashion line.

The author is a young man named Fredrickus Williford who knows the industry very well, he studied fashion marketing and at 22 he already has his own successful t-shirt line Scout Union Apparel.

The information is presented in well structured articles, along with industry news and FAQ guides on all aspects of indie fashion business, from finding manufacturers to getting celebrities to wear the clothes you designed. My favorite post is Top 100 mistakes clothing lines make. All in all, it’s like Problogger for young designers. Definitely worth reading.

The image above is a caricature of Karl Lagerfeld by the talented illustrator Sarah Goodreau

Sample the fun, chic and affordable fashions at Lulu’s Fashion Lounge courtesy of Pink Rock Candy.

Designer Planet spotlights the debut of Jennifer Lopez’s ‘Just Sweet’ collection at New York Fashion Week.

Sign up to win the new IGNES Veronica Max Clutch at Señora Cartera.

A $12 million wedding dress? Get all the details of this unbelievably priced creation at Elite Choice.

Preview contemporary designer Olga Kapustina’s Spring 2008 collection at Eye4style.

Style Talk has the Top 10 runway looks for men and women from around the globe.

Obsessing about coloring your hair? See what GLAM & TONIC has to say about the subject.

So Frugalicious has the scoop on Vera Wang’s ‘SimplyVera’ collection for Kohl’s.

Spork Fashion has found a laptop case fit for any fashionista.

Check out the chic, over the top world of “Eyelash Bars” at Designer Tips.

Experience the stunning designs from Carlos Miele’s Spring 2008 collection via Lifestyle Buzz.

What’s Haute shows us that Gwen Stefani’s L.A.M.B. collection is all grown up.

Designer Sense is fascinated by Nilufer Tarzi’s exotic Kurin rings.

Discover the cure for frizzy hair inside a sweet smelling, perfectly packaged product thanks to Diva In A Carry On.

One of Fashionably Cute’s best blog friends and top commenters is Wendy Brandes. She is an awesome jewelry designer with a unique style. Currently she designs fine jewelry under the name Gigi Caron, but is soon to relaunch under her own name.

Some of her pieces are just very cute, like the strawberry above and the apple below.

Some are inspired by famous historical jewelry, like this Borgia Ring.

The original ring was owned by Lucretia Borgia, who was the daughter of a pope and a member of the powerful and influential Borgia family. The ring had a hidden compartment where she kept poison for her enemies. Wendy’s ring has this compartment too. Poison sold separately.

By the way, Wendy’s Borgia Ring was among the items that Britney Spears sort of borrowed from the set of an OK! photoshoot and later wore while frolicking in the pool with her assistant.

The designs are available online from Gigi Caron

Fashionably Cute continues to cover this week’s New York Fashion Week.

Marc Jacobs has made an amazingly cute collection, turning his attention to retro flight attendant uniform for his second line Marc by Marc Jacobs.

I read somewhere a few months ago that Marc had visited Japan and brought lots of Japanese dolly magazines back to the USA for inspiration.

There’s an awesome Japanese doll magazine called Dollybird, and one of last year’s issues of this mag was entirely dedicated to air hostess wear for dolls. It had pictures of uniforms of various airlines, from different years, and for all kinds of dolls. It even included patterns for Blythe and some other Japanese dollies. So my guess is that Dollybird was probably one of the main sources of inspiration for Marc.

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The Victorian Pig Doll that I wrote about yesterday was designed by pig artist Charles Stephan for the Korean company Elfdoll.

Charles has also designed an incredible little pig sculpture for a program called Adopt an Art Piglet, that can brighten up anyone’s day and generally makes people faint from cuteness.

Not only does the tiny piglet make an awesome gift, it also gives you an opportunity to help real pigs. Part of the profits from the sales of these sculptures goes to an international animal friendly pig organization of choice.

Via Stichting ‘t Gorke and absolutearts.com