Pink Rock Candy has discovered a great resource for any fashionista. If you’re wondering what next season’s color trends are then head straight over to Pantone website where the world famous authority on color provides regular detailed PDF reports on the latest “it” colors, picking ten hues that are to be in vogue for the upcoming season.

The colors are shown in swatches together with sketches of complete outfits as examples of how they can be worn.

Next spring’s most fashionable colors are very cheerful, combining delicate shades of neutrals with bright hues like blue, rococo red and cantaloupe.

Sources Pink Rock Candy and Pantone

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

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

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

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 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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