In one of the best fashion/QR code mashups we’ve seen since Calvin Klein’s billboard, Yiying Lu, the artist behind the Twitter fail whale, created 10 hand-drawn illustrations for Meets Obsession magazine – complete with fully functional QR codes (also hand-drawn).

The list of 2011 CFDA Awards nominees were just announced, and there are plenty of familiar names. In brief, Lady Gaga is officially an American fashion icon, Marc Jacobs is nominated for womenswear but will be a winner even if he doesn’t take that category, and Alexander Wang and Proenza Schouler have quite a few chances at going home with a trophy. The full list of nominees are…

Last year we covered Fashion’s Night Out from Paris, where we caught up with Carine Roitfeld, to London and New York. Each city was an overall success in terms of bringing out the shoppers, but the feel of each event was distinctly different. The Paris Fashion Celebration Night focused exclusively on the high end merchants [...]

Pokemon cards, gel pens, and Tamagachi. All three of these things were big fads among kids and preteens during the mid-90s to early-2000s and solidified the young demographic as a marketable audience. But the latest fad among current kids and preteens are Silly Bandz.

Perhaps most remarkable about the bands are their wide appeal across multiple generations.

Despite their hobo fashion style, the Olsen twins have the goal of spicing up home décor by including furniture in their Elizabeth and James or JC Penney exclusive Olsenboye labels.

What exactly would the offerings look like? Well, it’s pure concept at this point, but perhaps their (never lived in) penthouse gives a few indications.