Follow the red soled heels to Louboutin’s World! The recent redesign to Christian Louboutin’s site takes you on a journey through his life and times and of course…his drool worthy designs. Mr. L is portrayed as the “Magician” he is. A pair of blood red patent heels, named “Lynch” help you navigate the site…and if you sit too long, those heels do start-a-tapping! The “Lynch” is a pair designed for the Fetish Exhibition shot by David Lynch. This particular pair has a 14cm curve or in shoe maker terminology this would be called a “short coupled last”. This would pitch you so far forward that it would be best that whatever activities you are doing whilst wearing said shoes would be best that you weren’t on your feet

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A lot of street wear tees are usually based around the idea of “playing” with a famous logo or piece of art.  It’s not a new concept, people have been doing it forever.  Everything from Tide (early Freshjive) to Warhol portraits (1/2 the brands out there) have been given a twist to further the message of small brands.  The tees I saw in Vegas were no different - but I did feel like there was a giant increase in the number of tees touting very high end brands.  This too is not new, but I felt that this time around there were so many more.  Maybe it’s the economy crunch?  Can’t afford real YSL but I can feel close to the brand by wearing a tee with it’s logo?  Or, maybe it’s a t-shirt brands way of aligning itself with what it thinks is cool, for example, girls that like Chanel should like my brand.  Whatever it is, there were a million (not quite, but almost) of these “designer” tees - I didn’t take pics of most of them but I’d be confident in saying that almost half of the clothing brands we looked at had some kind of designer reference - Chanel and Karl being the most used.  We even saw a shoe that made a designer reference.

Oh, and by the way, word on the street is that Fucking Awesome is coming back and re-issuing the Karl Lagerfeld “Gangsta Situations” tee (Yay!) - you heard it here first.  Check out more pics after the jump . . . .

Brian Lichtenberg for Blood Is The New Black - YSL

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We’ve posted about Darkhorse for some time now, but I finally got to meet Andrew, the designer, last week at Slate.  Andrew has designed several solid collections but I can easily say that his was one of the best lines I saw last week.  He’s really bringing it for the ladies with really clever graphics, embellishments and leather jackets.  He’s brought back the beaded tees (yes!) and not only does it look (and sound) amazing, but it’s also a reference to Stevie Wonder and his braids - the shirt reads “Part Time Lover” - clever on so many levels!  He’s also got one of the best “designer” t-shirts I’ve seen - a tee with a caricature of John Galliano, Alexander McQueen and Karl Lagerfeld (psssst Andrew, I NEED this shirt).  That’s not all he has for the ladies who know their labels.  There’s more Chanel and Louboutin references.  I’m also a sucker for tromp l’oeil and Darkhorse has a really cute “purse” graphic.  Last but not least, Darkhorse introduces some cut & sew pieces including a Paris hoodie complete with Eiffel Tower zipper pull and buttery soft leather jackets in candy colors and satin linings - I need one of those too.  Check out the craziness after the jump.

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Christian Louboutin will be making stops at Barneys NY in NYC and Los Angeles the first week of May. He’ll be on the fourth floor of the Madison Avenue flagship on the May 1 and in the Beverly Hills store on May 7. For the event, Monsieur Louboutin sent out sketches as invitations. When Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys, saw the invites, he decided to blow them up. Beginning today, you can see the blown up sketches in the windows at the Barneys on Mandison Avenue and in Beverly Hills. You should definitely check it out. Who wouldn’t want to meet the man behind the red sole?

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One of the illest lines of the year had to be Uffie’s “Rocking hi-tops and saying no to stilettos…”

Well, the ever-so-dope Nike responds with none other than—a STILETTO PACK! Genius! The pack consists of three models: Dunk Hi, Vandal Hi and Air Max 95.

The model above KILLS!!! It features a Louboutin inspired colorway: All black, premium leather uppers with the red trimmed outsole. The little stiletto embossed on the side adds that your-Boo-ALMOST-wanted-to-rock-it quality! More goodness after the JUMP!

Images via: Hangtime (Where you can find a lot more images…including the rest of the pack!)
Source: The Clones

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