Gareth Pugh? Oh MY, yes.

Practical? No. Figure flattering? Mmmm, only occasionally...... Perfectly wonderful? Uh-huh, yup. I have fallen deeply, madly, 100% in love with Gareth Pugh. He is certainly my pick for fav designer  of 2013, though I hope I don't ever have to say his last name until I hear it out loud first *blushes*.

Let them eat couture!

Painter Will Cotton expresses a very sweet fantasy world inhabited by actress Elle Fanning for New York Magazine's Spring Fashion 2013 Issue.  All the clothes -- and food! -- are real.... I find this a sinfully delicious combination of some of my favorite things: fashion, art, beauty and, of course, petit fours!