Happy New Year of the Mouse to you, my dear readers.

Mice are actually really cute animals. A few weeks ago I saw a tiny mouse at the Piaget boutique in Moscow’s GUM shopping center (on the Red Square). No, the boutique wasn’t infested, it was a designer solution. They installed a little terrarium with a real creature living inside on a bed of wood shavings to celebrate the Year of the Mouse in a creative way .

The mouse was white with itsy-bitsy red beady eyes, tiny precious pink toes and a little pink nose.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any photos, so instead please enjoy pictures of his distant relatives, hamsters (from the amazing Cute Overload).

Unlike another distant relative, Remy from Ratatouille, the little Piaget fellow can’t cook. His main occupation is eating. He grabs grains with both hands and stuffs the food into his microscopic mouth. Not in the same way as the little guys below, but with equal enthusiasm.

He (or she?) is a very busy mouse, concerned with decorating the interior of his tiny house, made of a ball woven of twigs, and with decluttering his surroundings.

While we examined the jewelry, the creature nonchalantly grabbed little chunks of dried poo from his bed with his teeth and pushed these “meadow muffins” through the twigs into a distant corner of the terraruim. Unfortunately, after a clumsy movement one of the dried “goodies” ended up in his drinking “bowl”, a small plastic cap of a soft drink bottle, where this weird “teabag” swelled and partly dissolved. But contents of the “tea” didn’t embarrass our hero and he took a few happy slurps of the mixture, sticking out his adorable pink tongue.

His actions cracked the room up. The mouse improved the already excellent service at the Piaget boutique. He held our attention long enough for us to stay and make a purchase. Without knowing it, the little creature became a superb spokesmodel for Piaget, much better than any human.

It’s funny how animals always go about their everyday business (which we think is pretty pointless) with a serious attitude and a lot of determination. They don’t even realize that we make fun of them. I’ve always wondered what they think about that. Do they care?

Have a terrific 2008!

Photos courtsey of Cute Overload

Thanks to John Singh of Lucasfilm, Fashionably Cute has got a hold of the fabulous teaser poster for the upcoming “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. This will surely be the hottest film of 2008! Enjoy!

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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 new collection by Marc Jacobs had all that it takes to get an entry ticket into our Wacky Fashion section: asymmetrical cuts, party hats, hats shaped like large bows or bitten apples, necklaces shaped like giant bees, clutches with enormous fringe, clutches decorated with frogs, colorblock patterns looking like underwear, shoe heels parallel to the floor. Not to mention that the crazy collection was shown backward, in the beginning Marc walked out of the set to bow, then the models appeared showing off the looks from the last one to the first one.

The best, wackiest and the cutest item of the entire fashion week has to be his see through tote bag with a smaller clutch bag attached to its side like an applique. Just look at it and admire. It’s perfect!

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Anna Sui makes another cute and dressy collection: sequins, bold prints and neon colors (especially a lot of bright pink) are just yummy. Her sheer and shimmery pink socks and clear shoes with butterflies are my personal kawaii favorites.

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Fashionably Cute continues to cover this week’s New York Fashion Week. Here are several fashion shows from day 6.

There were so many cute collections that I’ll have to cover them in several batches. More runway reports to arrive later today. Here is the first portion:

Cute translucent organza ruffles by Jill Stuart.

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

Michael Kors has a wicked sense of humour offering hats with enormous brims for girls, which are actually great… and tie dye pants for guys, which frankly fit better into our wacky fashion section. I wouldn’t recommend wearing them in real life

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

The best show of the week so far has to be Ralf Lauren. The designer celebrated his 40th anniversary in business with an incredible showcase of 72 styles. Some of them even remind me of Japanese Gothic Lolitas!

Here are the highlights:

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

Proenza Schouler has put some adorable pompoms on their hats and shoes.

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Fashionably Cute continues to cover this week’s New York Fashion Week. Here are the cutest trends from the second day shows.

I’m pretty happy to see that coral (one of my favorite colors, which looks so well on me) is going to be very trendy for the summer.

Stephen Burrows

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