>>  It may be part of the whole nautical trend, but wide leg trousers are definitely starting to pop up all over.  Marc Jacobs may have started it, but Anthropologie has already caught on -- wonder how long it will be before we start seeing it on the streets?

>>  I was taking a look the other day at the spring Jovovich-Hawk collection, and some of the dresses definitely live up to the hype the label has been getting.  But more than the dresses themselves was the styling that interested me -- it gave me some good ideas. 

I've been looking for a good pinafore dress for a while now, but maybe I should just get a cute pinafore apron instead -- it gives the same ruffly affect that I'm looking for.  The middle dress is my favorite dress of the collection, I love both the sash and the bustline and the gathered ribbon at the bottom of the tube dress.  The latter would be harder to do, but I definitely will have to try the big sash at the bustline.  And finally, jumper dresses are a new favorite of mine -- I like how the simple cotton dress peeks out below with a jagged hemline.  Makes it a little less schoolgirly. 

>> Does this article give anyone else the urge to purge?  Suzy Menkes, I'm disappointed in you for giving her so much attention.