>> The preview for Behnaz Sarafpour's Go International line is up... as far as I can tell from the tiny tiny pictures, this looks like the best overall collection so far.

>> As much as I like the flexibility that comes with modern clothes, there's something that's always been so fascinating about huge crinolined gowns with yards and yards of trains.  These are the clothes I wear in my dreams.  Annie Leibovitz's editorial for September US Vogue features both modern and rococo versions of these huge gowns -- and I'm in heaven.  These gowns, if nothing else, are the reason why we can't let couture die.