Bitterness in Print: The Times tears into Victoria’s Secret’s Herald Square outpost. Apparently one of the perfumes “smells like an alcoholic twinkie.” [NYT]

Tartan Life: Pondering the subtle charms of the plaid topcoat. [A Suitable Wardrobe]

Arms Race: Kenneth Cole prefers tattoos to guns. [Racked]

Sounds Familiar: Our favorite sunglasses get a little more recognition. [Refinery29]

Bespoken: The national press catches on to the LES tailoring boom. Even if they do call it “Mark Andrews Bespoke.” [DNR]

Vegan Pancakes: The divine Ms. Portman begins her conquest of the vegan footwear industry. [Racked]

Magnum Opus: Vivienne Westwood’s Opus makes it to stores, clocking in at 200 pages, 90 photographs, and $2700. [TimesOnline]

Take You Higher: The fashion world’s ankles just got a little colder. [Brandish]

The Flow: A flowchart to answer all your sartorial conundrums. Or more specifically, to keep you away from striped shirts. [Arabian Monkey]

Rounders: Refinery29’s Fashion Week roundup. Highlights include flannel, leather pants and gold. It’s going to be a long spring. [Refinery29]

The Secret is Out: Our favorite singer’s latest album has a tracklist. Sadly, Nic goes unnamed. [NME]

Shoes of Destiny: Shipley and Halmos’s shoe man steps into the spotlight. [Refinery29]

High Branding: Sometimes we like to get deep and watch luxury ads. [Jezebel]

Kind of Blue: PSFK’s fashion week recap applauds colder colors that match better with their web design. [PSFK]

Zac Attack: Posen model takes a tumble. If you were married to Jack White, you’d be unstable too. [NYO]

John Tucker Must Die: When we first saw this picture, we thought it was a Calvin Klein ad. (Scroll down) [Gawker]

Truly Lost: If you want to know how to dress like your favorite Lost character, you probably need more help than a webpage can offer. [StyleDash]

Cash Money: Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy makes $2.7 billion, and celebrates by drinking champagne out of handbags. We give most of the credit to Wes Anderson. [DNR]

I Love the 80s: The new wave revival enters its fifth year at today’s Marc Jacobs show. [NYO]

Don’t Mess with Texas: Randy Quaid gets banned from Actor’s Equity for backhanding a co-star. We’d pay to see that. [Gothamist]

Plan-B: Hungry for lovin’? Film a webisode. Or better yet, keep it to yourself. [NYTimes]

Playing With Dolls: Still hungry for lovin’ and bored at work? This should blow about a half hour right here. [FOXNews]

Rear-View Mirror: If you hadn’t noticed already, nostalgia is the new futurism. [Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette]

Big Poppa: While his ex-wife circles the drain, K-Fed will be enjoying the Marc Jacobs show at the Armory. Seeing as you have neither impregnated Britney Spears or dropped a rap album, you will not. [Catwalk Queen]

Payola: On the subject of Marc and the Armory, prosecutors are screaming, “Shenanigans.” [Gawker]

Benefits Package: A review of sex between co-workers suggests another meaning for “Casual Fridays.” [City News]

Come On Down, Sweet Virginia: Abercrombie just can’t keep it’s bare ass out of trouble [Gawker]

Fall In To It: The new Gap line is… wait… hey, that’s not bad at all. [Men.Style]

I Love The 80’s: Headbands and Michael J. Fox reconsidered. [SFGate]

Game Breaker: Gisele brings her perfection-busting bod to Rag & Bone. [NYObserver]

Big Apple Circus: If there are Siamese suits and stiltwalkers, you know Thom Browne’s in the house. [The Moment]

Sex Doll Silenced: Some people just can’t leave bad enough alone. [Top News India]

Civics Lessons: Vote or Die, Kids. Vote or Die. [Jezebel]

Motion Pictures:A slideshow of the GQ/CFDA men’s show gives us waistcoat-envy. [DNR]

Nostalgia File: The Times meditates on slim suits as a metaphor for lost youth. No, we’re not kidding. [NYT]

The Kids Today: Gwen Stefani has much to answer for. [NYMag]

Fitted Shirt: A Suitable Wardrobe details the perils of outgrowing suits, while taking a few well-placed snipes. [A Suitable Wardrobe]

Paint it Black: The new Oak store in NoHo could be a little bit more colorful…[UrbanDaddy]

Shine a Light: The Louis Vuitton logo combines with butane, with confusing results. [Coolest Gadgets]

The Cumming Storm: Our favorite Scottish pixie swings from a disco ball and makes it rain champagne. We’d like to think he was celebrating his recent MOTH win. [NYPost, 3rd Item]

Low Profiles: According to our boy David Coleman, “Fashion Insider Ken” is a boring dresser. [NYTimes]

Model T: Redefining luxury by redesigning a time-worn staple. [Coolhunting]

Bra Snap: The Lingerie Bowl has been canceled! Now what are we going to do on Sunday? Oh, right… that. [TMZ]

…Like a Polaroid Picture: Andre 3000 says he doesn’t really follow fashion. Having run into him in camouflage safari gear a couple times, we’d agree that the man blazes his own trails. [NYObserver]

Billions Served: McDonald’s will be getting new unis courtesy of one of Princess Di’s favorite designers. So long as Ronald gets to keep his socks, we’re cool with this. [FemaleFirst UK]

Political Phrenology: Width and length battle it out in the primaries. [Material Interest]

Ghost Rider: This is everything we ever wanted for Christmas. [PSFK ]

Mini Marcs: These kids may eventually have Marc Jacob’s cache, but will they ever match his crazy? [NY Observer]

Dapper Discounts: Loehmann’s to open it’s first men’s store in L.A. [DNRNews]

Thread Bear: Never say that Karl Lagerfeld isn’t cuddly. [WWD, 2nd Item]

Forward Russia!: Vlad Putin enjoys his own martial fashion show. [London TImes]

Cole Trickle Rides Again: Tom Cruise finds a new, expensive reason to make whooshing, overenthusiastic onomatopoetic noises. [NYDN]

Muffled: Berlin Fashion Week will crush your head. [Manolo for Men]

Deal Alert: Big savings at Stuart Wright. [Racked]

The Do Is Done: The best hair on the campaign trail calls it quits. [CNN]

Defensive End: While Gisele Bundchen continues to stoke Tom Brady’s QB rating, Giant’s tackler Osi Umenyiora has Selita Ebanks to help him practice his sacks. [NYDN]

Pass Protection: Meanwhile, true-blue Eli Manning continues to bore us/inspire us with his dedication to his long-time gal. [NYPost]

You’re With Me, Leather: Hip new Alfred Dunhill creative director Kim Jones reveals his plans for the classic line and his crush on Kermit the Frog. [Hint]

Just Like Buddy Holly: Spiffy new specs from Deluxe. [Hypebeast]

The Man From Normal: Behold! This dark, haunted creature from beyond never sleeps and has, like, three jobs. [NYMag]

Oh YES!: Cast your eyes on this sexy new import. [Jalopnik Interest]

Reagan Economics: Hickey Freeman tries to win one for the Gipper. [Material Interest]

Happy Meal: Reportedly detoxed waif, rocker and fashion inspiration Pete Doherty has apparently switched the opiates in his bloodstream with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. [Daily Star UK]

Bulking Up: There’s a pernicious rumor that we’ll see healthier, more human looking humans on Fashion Week’s runways. We’ll believe it when we see it. [Gawker]

Flying Tomato Targeted: Snowboarding, medal-winning, star-squiring ginger Shaun White added to Target’s collection. [DNRNews]

Boy’s Room: Shipley + Halmos have a great office, get good press, love Calexico’s burritos, fear the Superbowl. [Refinery29]

Say Cheese: A kinky look a Hedi Silmane’s photographic predilections. [Radar]

“Hipster Tilley”: Click for our endorsed candidate in the New Yorker’s Eustace Tilley Contest. [Flickr]

Vaseline Smiles: At last, the Miss America pageant is kinda, sorta sexy. [CNN]

Butt Out: Lighting up may threaten your sex life—in addition to other things. [Jamaica Gleaner]

Playing Doctor: As you already suspected, med students get more play than the average bear—mostly because they get to say, “Hey, I’m a med student.” [News.com.au]

“Who’s Neck Gets Cold Anyway”: Wearing a “polo neck” (trans.—turtle neck) could make you look smug and perhaps even glib. [Guardian UK]

The Big Sleep: Us Americans are such fatty fats that we need king-sized autopsy tables. [IHT]

Fashion Migration: After recent magazine collapses, the web has become become, “the Wild West,” of fashion coverage according to former InStyle senior editor and current Jezabel manager Anna Holmes. Yippie-ki-yay. [NY Observer]

Breakfast of Champions: A fresh mouthful of coca leaves every morning keeps husky, Naomi-Campbell impressing dictator Hugo Chavez STRONG AS BULL. [NYPost]

It’s All in The Wrist: The finer points of jacket sleeve buttons. [A Suitable Wardrobe]

Recommended Dosage: The Capsule men’s trade show digested and reviewed by some guy we totally don’t know. [Refinery29]

It’s Gotta Be The Shoes: So, did you get your Jordan XX3s? [WSBTV.com]

The Quantum of Silence: Is not the title of the new Atom Egoyan film making the rounds at Sundance. Rather…? [Material Interest]

Stuffing The Ballot Box: The Fabbies?the awards for best fashion websites?have posted their nominations. You might want to check out the “Men’s” category… just sayin’. [The Fabbies]

“A Blood Bath Punctuated by Occasional Bouts of Clumsy Dialogue” : This weekend, screw everything else. You’re going to see Rambo. [NYTImes]

“Help Us, George”: If A-list Hollywood can’t end your 40-year civil war, no one can. [AP]

FutureSex: It may never amount to love, but at least a robot won’t ask you to shave your stubble. [Sun Herald]

Bull Market: No fool he, Tommy Hilfiger holds back on his IPO due to the falling Dow. We, meanwhile, watch Apple tumble. [Bloomberg] [Bloomberg]

Red Carpet Disaster: Ok, we totally didn’t know this “Cojo” guy was a dude. [Forbes]

Unmanned: Narciso Rodriguez, who’s had a strong showing for the guys over the last few seasons, pulls his upcoming men’s collection without comment. [FWD] [FWD]

The Square Mile: London’s men keep it sharp. [Vogue UK]

Kiki’s Capsule: Kirsten Dunst trains her little, blue sights on a signature fashion line. [The First Post]

Highway Fascist: Roll like Il Duce for around $2,000,000. [BBC]

Deep In The Heart of Texas: The Daily News writes, “Tony Romo punts Jessica Simpson.” Given his position, we would have called it, “intentional grounding.” [NYDN]

Clean Sheets: Lenny Kravitz, who has bedded about half of everyone you ever wanted to, has become inexplicably chaste. Go ahead and hate. [NY Post]

Big Deal: Emerging designer Alexander Wang signs with Japanese megastore Uniqlo. [Mpdclick]

Don’t Go Away Mad: Vice founder “Don’ts” himself out of a job, trains his jaundiced eye back on the streets. [Gawker]

Peace Out, Suckers!: Valentino disses his fellow designers, takes his basketball, goes home. [NYMag]

The Ride: The Maybach in your garage is soon to be obsolete. [Jalopnik]

Bye Week: Perfect human Tom Brady continues to do opposition research in our fair town. Doesn’t this guy have a home or something? [NY Observer]

Generation Gap: Zac Efron is on the cover of Details leaving us to ask, “what’s a Zac Efron?” [Details]

Department of Orthopedics: Tom Brady, spotted in a walking cast yesterday, is now walking tall and visiting Earnest Sewn after spending time with paramour extraordinaire Giselle Bunchen. Seems on top of everything else, the woman has miraculous healing powers.[NYPost]

Fashion is MAGIC!!!: If by “magic” you mean walking the Vegas Convention Center listlessly for hours on end, then, yes, it is magic. [Fibre2Fashion]

Model Abuse: Galliano flagrantly disregards the Geneva Convention. [The Moment]

French Tips: More trends at Paris Fashion Week. [AFP]

Public Support: It’s been said Vietnam was lost when Walter Cronkite declared it a stalemate. Similarly, Brit anchor Jeremy Paxman is rallying a nation against sagging drawers. [Life and Health]

Gang Signs: Wu-Tang brand necklaces, rings and earrings for you, your crew and all them hos. [Freshness Magazine]

Louis’ Lucre: In other Hip-hop bling news, take a gander at Pharrell’s Louis Vuitton jewelry line. [High Snobiety]

Brownie Points: Refinery29 begins their newest countdown video series with Mr. Thom Browne. [Refinery29]

Tall Story: Kimora Lee Simmons is as much a “corrections officer” as she is a “designer”. [The Newspaper]

Oui, Oui: Reports from Paris fashion week. [DNRNews]

Window Dressing: In Amsterdam, storefront prostitutes are being replaced by mannequins and some are noticing the difference. [London Times]

Dita Von Teese Wonderbra: Is all you need to know. [Vogue UK]

Fleet Afoot: One shoe in seven minutes. [A Suitable Wardrobe]

Almost There: Coming Soon is coming, soon. [Material Interest]

Vengeance is Hers: Guy Trebay reports that Miuccia Prada called her new collection, “revenge on men for the social and sartorial contortions they impose on women.” Run you fools. [NY Times]

Blue Crush: Kate Bosworth’s beau asked if she was Kate Hudson when they first met. Great “neg” dude. [NY Observer]

Wooly Bullies: There is no escaping the fur. [AFP]

Shoe Shine: The bestest sneaker polish kit ever. [Cool Hunting]

Hot Wrap: “Gossip Girl” character drives sales of polka-dot J.Press scarf. [Racked]

Hip Waders: The new Levis Red line—jeans for anime characters.[Denimology]

Bye Bye, Miu Miu: Prada discontinues the men’s side of their bridge line. [WWD, 1st item]

Designer Knocks Off: Margareta ven den Bosch, the longtime head of design at H+M is retiring and being replaced by pupil Ann-Sofie Johansson. Now, maybe, that Ma and Pa shop can finally sell some clothes. [DNR]

Shine a Light: Keith Richards rolled out of bed, smoked cigarette, snorted his dad, tussled his hair and shot an ad for Louis Vuitton. [WWD]

Spicy Meatball: Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell visits the Milan shows, wishes the male models had a “bit more meat” on their lovely bones, thus making her ever more dear in our hearts. [The Daily Goss]

Bantamweight Championship: Another day, another dandy fight. [Dandyism]

Trading Up: The beloved Atelier heads around the corner to bigger digs. [Racked]

Suspending Judgment: A dissenting opinion on the current popularity of braces forwarded through exemplars like Urkel. [Casanova Peasant]

A Waist of Money: Speaking of keeping your pants aloft, this belt will set you back a cool $18,000. [NYMag]

Classic Cut: 501 jeans, the collector’s edition. [Retro To Go]

Imitation of Life: If you thought Zac Posen was already a little Stepford creepy… [Fashion Visa]

Cut Corners: Small-time hood Wesley Snipes breaks some lesser laws. [Manolo for the Men]

Image Maker: Valentino’s new men’s line will take direct inspiration from the house’s founder. Shocker. [DNRNews]

Cutting Edge: At Hong Kong Fashion week the models are fully trained in the ancient arts of self defense. [Monsters and Critics]

Buyers Beware: It doesn’t matter if you’re a buyer for Bergdorf Goodman with millions of dollars of purchasing power, the ability to save or destroy fashion labels and a lifetime in the industry—if Beyonce needs to sit, they’re making you stand. [The Observer]

A Match Made in Heaven: Rumors are swirling that the bombastic, unpredictable fashion diva Naomi Campbell and bombastic, unpredictable semi-fascist dictator Hugo Chavez are now are getting all Nic and Carla. Lovers of democracy beware. [Fashion Mag Daily]

President Bartlett: Claiborne’s men’s line has a new designer. [CNN Money]

Plastic Fantastic:For the cost of a decent steak, Britons can pick up a full polyester suit. We’ll have the steak, thanks. [Metro UK]

Bogey:With a skull on his belt, Rory Sabbatini joins the rare club headed by Greg Norman. [Magnificent Bastard]

Color Theory: A rainbow of Vans for Spring. [Kitsune Noir]

Cold Feet: Boots to keep your toes from freezing. [The Moment]

Class War: Wealthy guys who date celebrities. [Ledger Pop Journal]

Structural Support: In the near future, girdles will actually tone your body—so go ahead and have that third brioche. [Style Dash]

Alphabet Soup: GQ + CFDA. [FWD]

H to the Izzo: Your man Sean Carter picks up another fashion label. [Female First UK]

Viva Kimmel: A less luxurious outlook from Florence. [Men.Style]

Back to The Well: More deals at Opening Ceremony. [Racked]

Legal Suit: Judge rules that prosecutor’s ascot, “borders on contemptuous,” a precedent soon to be employed in the case of Neckkerchief vs. State of Ohio. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

Product Placement: Adrian Grenier pimps We Are the Superlative Conspiracy with the cryptic, “Remember… remember.” [TMZ]

Retrospective: 2007, the year tacky broke. [Electric Warrior]

Small Cap Investment: The Journal puts a “buy” order on the fedora. [WSJ]

Boy Toy: “How To Dress Like The Perfect Couple” by Christopher “Ashton” Kutcher. [Harper’s Bazaar]

“I Remember The First Time I Had Real Sex—I Still Have The Receipt”: Oh, Sebastian, you scalawag you. [GQ Style Guy]

“More Paul Glaser Than David Soul”: Critics drop “Starsky and Hutch” references as Italians channel the 70s yet again. [Telegraph UK]

Croc Hunters: According to the Japanese government, Crocs are unsafe—thus are last year’s Uggs stripped of their singular redeeming value. [Mindblogging Stuff]

Hissy Fits: Dudes, chill—Men’s Vogue is more of a corporate hobby than a real mag anyways. [Daily News]

We Like Girls Who Wear Abercrombie & Fitch: Apropos of nothing, fun-loving, sepia-toned nudity. [Style Dash]

Suicide Blonde: Amy Winehouse and peroxide—it was only a matter of time. [Hating It Magazine]

Ciao!: Pitti Uomo coverage worth running through Bablefish. [PittiBlog]

In The Trenches: Izzy brings this cropped, high-collar number to our attention. [Manolo for The Men]

Pop In: Racked checks Trovata’s back room at Ernest Sewn. [Racked]

The Quiet One: Seems George Harrison liked to dress up in his old Beatles costumes—well, come on, wouldn’t you? [Thaindian News]

In Vest: Gawker learns what we’ve known all along—David Coleman is making it safe for men to wear clothes. This week, he introduces us to this new “vest” thing. [Gawker]

Deal Alert: Tim Hamilton sample sale begins Saturday. [Marc & Dolce]

Passing Showers: Maybe Vincent Gallo and Terry Richardson can “make it rain”—but nothing, nothing could ever wash them clean. [Hypebeast]

Any inflatable underpants reference brings out the Wonder Sauna…

The True Story of a Japanese Man Who Is So Obsessed With Tidal Waves That He Makes Himself a Pair of Inflatable Underpants: Yep, that’s our Malkovich. [Guardian UK]

The Fabric of Our Lives: For your consideration, the cotton pocket square. [A Suitable Wardrobe]

Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: Get ready to chuck your old Jetstream, the supersonic business jet is on the way. [PSFK]

Florence Bound: The Sartorialist lands at Pitti Uomo. [The Sartorialist]

Industrial Revolution: Is “steampunk” the new, kinky “trad”. [Periodic Elements of Style]

Rogue State: With B&T graphic shirts like these (via Toronto), can we really afford to make enemies of the Iranians? [Persian Mirror]

“It’s Fashion Week at The Pennsylvania Farm Show”: Come again? [Penn Live]

You Look Like $4,257: A complete price breakdown of MOTH Patrick Dempsey’s Versace ad wardrobe. [FWD]

Public Affairs: Hilfiger to lead parade of fashion IPOs this year. [WWD]

Man of The Moment: On what is quickly becoming our (second) favorite blog, Adam Kimmel takes over T’s Pitti Uomo coverage. [The Moment]

Billionaire Bling Club: Pharrell teams up with Louis Vuitton for jewelry line. Be afraid/excited. [Now Public]

Name Dropping: “Yeah, aren’t you the guy who’s not getting through my security checkpoint?” [StyleDash]

Slimboy Fat: Clooney rocks the wide look, perhaps hastening the eclipse of the skinny tie. She Knows Best [Magnificent Bastard]

Aussie Love: Heath Ledger squires model Gemma Ward. Not bad for a balding single dad. [Nimoy]

House of Missoni: Angela Missoni heads to the family photoalbum for inspiration. [DNRNews]

Style Revolution: Hugo Chavez tells Naomi Campbell that his personal sartorial inspiration is Fidel Castro. Was there ever any doubt? [Contact Music]

Courtly Graces: Blended-malt feminist offers hung-over invective against men holding doors for women. We’ll remember to lock it behind us next time. [Arena]

High-Def Drams: Speaking of malts, check out the first web video channel dedicated to whiskey. [Singlemalt.tv]

Not Just Fridays: A quick tutorial on business casual. [London Times]

Stop, Hammer Time: Baggy vs. binding as Times editors discuss the relative merits of denim fits. [The Moment]

Dior Homme

Name Game: Glam-obsessed Roberto Cavalli hires French rock and roll band… um… Rock&Roll to star in his ad campaigns. “Rock&Roll”? Really inventive there, garçons. [FWD]

Join the Hunt: Field and Stream magazine expands its licensing hoping to tap into that juicy casual game hunter/rampaging Vice President market. [DNRNews]

The Oracle of Omaha: Is master capitalist Warren Buffett giving Ralph Lauren his Midas touch? [Seeking Alpha, #11]

New Republic: Simon Kneen, one of the many creative directors and designers responsible for Brooks Brothers recent renaissance, takes over the helm at Gap’s Banana Republic. [AP via Fox Business]

Inside Hollywood: Jude Law, who has starred in several Miramax films, will star in the Weinstein-produced biopic of Halston—a line now owned by… yes, Harvey Weinstein. [Men.Style]

Homme Coming: New ad campaign, shot by Monsieur Lagerfeld, gives us a closer look at Kris Van Assche’s Spring Dior Homme line. [Eye4style]

Box Set: Addicted to Polos? This $5,000 commemorative collector’s trunk should cure that—forever. [Rock Box]

Hickey

Perfect Harmony: In a meeting of oft-misunderstood, semi-reliable, ex-druggie geniuses, director Harmony Korine is the new face of Marc Jacobs. [Kitsune Noir]

A Leg Up: See which young designers just got an infusion of Ecco Domani Foundation funds. [Cynana Trendland]

Boy Zone: Our favorite playwright/underminer/conceptual go-go dancer Mike Albo takes a critical trip to Hickey. [NYTimes]

Branching Out:OAK to open store at Bond and Bowery. [Racked]

Point of Etiquette: It is never, ever acceptable to think of a woman, no matter her particular comportment, as a “prostitute”, “slut” or “whore” — unless she wears this stuff.

Whore Couture—“Embrace the Vixen Within”

Slim Down: Italian lines adopt the skinny tie. [DNRnews]

Branded: Gun-tracing tattooers shoot selves. [Dvorak Unleashed]

Heading South: Loden Dager takes over the Times fashion blog and runs it down to Georgia. [The Moment]

The Perils of Plumber Crack: Watch you temper and your waistline. Slacking on both could wind you up in the pokey. [Styledash]

Fashioning Fatties: Is fashion making you manorexic or turning you into a big fat fattie? [Scotland on Sunday]

Hitting Reset: The British press gets you ready for 2008. [London Times]

Pity Tommy: Hilfiger still dodging racism accusations and crazies. [NY Observer]

The Most Controversial Ads in Fashion History: We still can’t believe they got Josie Maran to do that—isn’t she lactose intolerant or something? (NSFW-ish) [Debonair Magazine]

Curiosity Shop: The emotional stories behind all that junk on eBay. [Sentimental Value]

Goggle Hoodies Banned in California: We warned you. [LA Times]

Team Players: Trovata to wash ashore at Earnest Sewn. [Material Interest]

The Day After: If you survive Christmas, discounts on Uniqlo basics await on the 26th. [Village Voice]

Mustache Rides: “Porn star” handlebars cropping up on the faces of the damned. [Styledash]

High Grain: Ever wonder what your leather valise looks like under electron microscopy? No? Aw, you’re no fun. [Carrying Contraption]

Newsstand Edition: An interesting Canadian charity that distributes jackets warmed by newspaper. [15Below Project]

Spring in Your Step: Opening Ceremony’s desert boots coming next season. [The Daily Upgrade]

Big Blue: Our beloved Cathy Horyn writes 1,245 words on Pantone’s color of the year. We wrote 90. Guess that’s what separates the men from the boys—so to speak. [NYT]

Here Comes the Boss: And in the continuing mallification of SoHo… [Racked]

Pretty Shocking: An appropriately colored gift for the endangered woman in your life. [Bangkok Mafia]

Track Suits: Next year’s Olympians will be battling each other (and the Beijing smog) in Gucci. [WWD, subscription required for full article]

House Bound: Yes, we would prefer a $2,000 Jay Kos robe with silk lining and piping to a pair of socks. Thank you. [NYT]

The New Formal?: Uh, guys, this stuff is nice and all, but when the invite says “tux,” you’d better wear a tux. [The Upgrader]

Miuccia Lucre: Prada to go public in 2008. [WWD]

Caucus Casual: Robin Given assesses the candidates’ sartorial platforms. [Washington Post]

House Proud: Karl Lagerfeld’s personal home decor available for ogling on Madison. Oversharing is creepy. [Black Book]

-G.B.

Leather Fetish: Half of Hollywood’s A-list (the good half) are in Belstaff. Good for them. [WWD]

Emerging Market: Watch out, the luxury industry is going to pin you down and sell you diamonds. [WSJ]

Big Daddy: Adam Sandler pairs a questionable mohawk with even more questionable Knicks game shorts. [She Knows Best]

Defender of the Universe: Rebok’s Voltron collection combines to form… a pile of shoes. [Uncrate]

Do Women Who Find Ferrari Drivers Sexy Contribute to Global Warming?: You know, we hadn’t really thought about this one. [Wired]

Rogan

Karen’s Course Correction: DKNY restructures its menswear strategy. [DNRNews]

In The Crosshairs: Target snatches up CFDA-winner Rogan Gregory. [WWD, 2nd item]

Adieu, Bonjour: At Paris Fashion Week, YSL is out (for now) and Dries Van Noten is back. [FWD]

Winging It: Smith & Mills for dinner, the Beatrice for drinks, Black on his fingernails, Sigur Ros in the locker room and Cuthbert in the bag—Sean Avery’s pretty New York… for a Canuk with a stick. [NYTimes]

Arch Support: The Sartorialist needs your help with his hoofs. [The Sartorialist]

Fatherly Advice: Director Franco Zeffirelli has some style pointers for the Pope (who just happens to wear Prada). [Catholic News Agency]

What Goes Around…: A Gauliter jacket was the big prize ($11,600) at a rare Paris vintage-menswear auction. [AP]

Green Jeans: Biodegraded denim recycled into auto fuel. Cargo pants still bound for landfills. [Treehugger]

Bidders Beware: Watch yourself when shopping for bargains on big-ticket jewelry gifts on eBay. [Family and Twist]

Big In Japan: A fascinating deconstruction of the market forces behind trends in the trend-happy East. [Clast]

Tom Tomorrow: Is Hifiger SoHo bank or bust—decide for yourself on Thursday. [She Knows Best]

White Wizard: Men.Style gives a whole lotta love to Jimmy Page’s silver fox look. We prefer Jimmy as pictured… [Material Interest ]

In a Huff: Huffpo blogger Verena von Pfetten thinks Marc Jacobs isn’t a real “designer” because his design process, “involves trolling vintage shops, copying the pattern, adding hearts, and changing the color to purple,” and ” Obviously, Verena did not graduate from Parsons. [Huffington Post]

Nabbed: The fashion bandits are in custody—you may now sleep securely. [Javno]

Fashion Links: CNN wonders out loud if there is any style in American golf. We still miss Payne Stewart. [CNN]

Net Result: The English press have declared the string vest officially dead. We invite them to visit the corner of Amsterdam and 108th, where it lives on in all its glory. [The Daily Upgrade]

Picket Signs: L.A. stores are hurting due to the writer’s strike, which has frozen the market for oversized fleece sweaters and cotton house pants. [DNRNews]

Scotchy, scotch, scotch: So that $30,000 bottle of Scotch we told you about? It sold for $54K. [Reuters]

She Told Ya, She Was Trouble: Amy Winehouse is Karl Lagerfeld’s new, barfy muse. [Anorak ]

Walking Tall: Style Dash jumps into J. Crew’s new boots [Style Dash]

Like Your Own Personal Elves: Refinery29 is making a list, checking it twice. [Refinery29]

‘allo Luv: The strange patios of Neil Strauss’ The Game corrupts the noble British tongue. [Times UK]

No Diggity: Break out the Cross Colours, 1992 is in effect. [Sunday Styles]

Bed Spread: Upgrade your thread count for 70% off till Wednesday. [Racked]

Open Lippes: New-York based Adam Lippes opens up his first store—a biggish boutique next to the Meatpacking District’s Apple Store. [DNRNews]

Lang-Term Occupant: Helmut-Langless Helmut Lang store pops up on Washington Street [The Fashion Informer via Racked]

Digital Retail: Fashion Fits—all the fun of folding shirts for minimum wage captured on your desktop. [Slackerjack]

Polo Club: MOTH vet Ralph Lauren snatches up a wing at Bergdorf’s [WWD, subscription required]

New Yorkshire: More on Paul Smith’s love of Leeds. Yes, Leeds. [Yorkshire Evening Post]

Yes, Please: Pick us up something from the NotCot gift guide. [NotCot]

Catching Flack: Try on Distilled’s fatigues. [Refinery29]