You don't have to have a little one in the house to enjoy and appreciate this adorable Bugaboo Red Bag. So practical that it can be used as a carryall for adults as well as a child, the Bugaboo Red...

Fashion news round up from around the blogosphere. Enjoy!

Stiletto Jungle shows how to prep for spring’s short skirts by snagging perfectly shaved legs.

Allie is Wired is intrigued by Kate Gosselin’s newest new hair.

Bag Bliss would totally rock the rocker chic Jimmy Choo Charity Project Pep Clutch!

Spring Trend Alert: Perforated bags at Bag Snob.

Beauty Snob has Bobbi Brown’s new “Color Strips Collection” where you can do it all, effortlessly!

Fashion Pulse Daily’s London Fashion Week favorites range from Vivienne Westwood to Burberry Prorsum

I’m Not Obsessed shows you how to get Sarah Jessica Parker’s look for under $320.

The Jet Set Girls are looking forward to the Liberty of London Collection <./a> at Target March 14th.

Second City Style rates Oscar’s runway in our own version of He Said/She Said.

Get $5 Christian Louboutins at a genius new auction site–SheFinds has the 5 secrets and tricks to bidding and winning..

Shopping and Info loves the pretty spring trend of lilac lavender purple shoes and dresses.

StyleBakery’s top 10 trends for spring countdown continues with statement jewelry, feminine florals and vivid techno prints.

Stylehive is loving clear jewelry and how it reflects in the sun.

The Beauty Stop suggests an inexpensive make shift nighttime hand moisturizer.

The Fashion Bomb discovers the hottest new street style photo blog, All the Pretty Birds.

The Shoe Goddess is not impressed with these bizarre Jimmy Choo Light-Up Platform Sandals!

eye4stylegets her zen on at YogaWorks SoHo.

Kate Moss did not get a very warm reception for her Gloucester bag for Longchamp from our snob readers though she herself claimed that it was the perfect bag for daily use. Unlike other celebs who...

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If you're looking for a luxuriously big and slouchy bag for the weekend, Chloe's Marlow python is your bag!  I love the delicate shade of blush-gray, a huge python bag is decadent in itself but...

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Handbag Report is hosting an exclusive Onna Ehrlich giveaway Senora Cartera features the Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2010 Collection: Back To Basics BagPoor previews the Rebecca Minkoff handbag collection and Fall presentation Handbag du Jour reviews fifties-inspired Fall 2010 bags by Louis Vuitton

Just when we thought we've seen every iteration of the logoed Louis Vuitton bag, they go and make a brand new one. And another one. Marc Jacobs channeled the fifties era in his Fall 2010 Louis Vuitton show and the models wore corseted full skirted dresses accessorized with high ponytails, ...

Being High Maintenance, not Bitchy shows you how to recreate Anna Kendrick's Oscar look with jewelry from ICE.com! Fashion Cents wants you to pick the Oscar winners. Okay, at least the fashion winners. Vote now! Fashion Fille tells all about her favorites from the Academy Awards. Agree? Disagree? Let her know! Handbag ...

*Editor's picks* Jami Rodriguez, Theory, Cynthia Rowley, American Retro, Tretorn, Marc Jacobs, Salvage, Cole Haan Shop online sample sales for Tuesday 3/9/10 at Gilt, Gilt Fuse, ideeli, Row Nine, Rue La La, Billion Dollar Babes, Editor's Closet, Beyond the Rack, HauteLook, Enviius, Gomatta Girls, Lucky Chic, One King's Lane, Reverse by ...

Leave it to Be & D to create such a stunning studded bag that we'll never want to give up the trend. If you thought studs were so last year, you were wrong. The BE & D New Garbo Tote denim blue leather incorporates the new stud trend - cone ...

If Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale aren't one of the hottest, hippest musical couples, we don't know who is! The husband and wife were spotted out in West Hollywood strolling hand in hand, looking quite cozy. And fashionable, of course. Gwen is the designer so it only makes sense she ...

Jada Pinkett-Smith is usually a glam goddess at awards shows but this look left us scratching our heads. She attended the 3rd Annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon at Beverly Hills Hotel wearing a beaded, metallic caftan-style dress, gold-studded tan sandals, hoop earrings, several rows of gold and silver ...

Yikes! Philly-born Rapstress Eve apparently owes $357,000 to the IRS after falling behind on her income taxes in 2008 and 2009. She has four different liens that have been filed against her by the IRS and the state of California. The IRS is one arm of the government that doesn't ...

*TODAY'S EDITOR'S PICKS* Marc Jacobs sunglasses, Qi Cashmere, Stella McCartney lingerie, Superga, Tommy Hilfiger, Boy Meets Girl, Treesje, 7 For All Mankind Shop online sample sales for Friday 3/5/10 at Gilt, Gilt Fuse, ideeli, Row Nine, Rue La La, Billion Dollar Babes, Editor's Closet, Beyond the Rack, HauteLook, Enviius, Gomatta Girls, Lucky ...

I can't decide whether or not the D&G Dolce and Gabbana Mindy Satchel in Black/Brown/Luggage is the most ingenious bag I've ever seen or one of the most ridiculous. The concept is this: a basic black leather satchel is accessorized with three pockets stacked on the front. Except the pockets don't ...

This episode of Real Housewives of New York opened with Ramona putting ice cubes in her white wine. Ice cubes. In her. White. Wine. Funny, because I thought that only Kim Zolciak was allowed to do that, but I suppose outré drinking habits have spread among the Housewives franchises like a particularly virulent case of herpes.

Unsurpisingly, though, that small gesture set the tone for the rest of the episode. There was yelling and cursing, everyone was acting like they were in high school, and Bethenny claimed that LuAnn has grown a penis. The Countess would have said that it was all very déclassé, if she actually had any idea what that meant, in both the literal and figurative senses.

All of these broads are still out in the Hamptons, lazing about at their summer houses and visiting with the help because they don’t have any real friends left. Even their children are risking life and limb to escape at this point.

Actually, that’s just LuAnn, because the rest of the women have apparently forgotten that they have children. She’s feeling all hangdog and puny over her divorce, and Ramona just doesn’t know when to shut her mouth about anything, ever, and she’s making it worse, although that’s sort of why she’s on this show (that and the horrendous white-person dancing). Remember the last episode, when things got weird between her and LuAnn over some douchey comment her husband made about LuAnn being “count-less” instead of “countess?” Frankly, I thought it was a little more clever than he was reasonably capable of being, but the humor was somewhat lost on LuAnn. She was humorless to begin with, but now that she’s getting divorced, she has somehow become even worse.

That whole kerfuffle just wouldn’t go away, with Ramona complaining to Bethenny and later Alex and Simon, and LuAnn kvetching to Jill. The difference between the two groups was that while Alex and Simon encouraged Mario to call and apologize (Bethenny, alternately, just helped Ramona dance it out), Jill decided to call Ramona on speakerphone with LuAnne in the room and encourage her to talk smack without knowing that anyone else was listening. Because Ramona lacks common sense and the ability to control what comes out of her mouth, she quickly obliged and accused LuAnne of various terrible things.

Suddenly, it was sort of clear why Bethenny thinks that Jill needs to get a hobby. When you’re a grown woman and you’re taking your social tactics straight out of a Lindsay Lohan movie (albeit the greatest Lindsay Lohan movie of all time, Mean Girls), you probably need to step back and reevaluate every life decision thus far that has lead you to that point. Never one for introspection, however, Jill decides she’s going to pull out of Ramona’s Labor Day party and help LuAnne throw a rival party at her house. They also enlisted the help of Kelly, whose absence at the other party didn’t seem to bother anyone in the slightest.

Let’s be honest here: Ramona wins the Battle of the Parties because she has a better house. Also, because her food looked way better. Neither party looked exactly hoppin’, but it doesn’t take a whole lot to beat out listening to Kelly talk about how she’s going to shoot a cover and pictorial for Playboy, and she’s going to get the big interview and everything! That last detail is particularly hilarious – her issue already came out, and she was completely overshadowed by the enormous, totally insane interview that John Mayer gave in it. Sorry, Kelly – your wonky boobs aren’t that interesting. In fact, hers wasn’t even the most interesting nudey-mag in that conversation – did you know that Countess LuAnne was on the cover of Playgirl?

Over at Ramona’s house, the food and surroundings may have been better, but the conversation was just as uninteresting. Everyone wanted to complain that Bethenny hurt Jill’s feelings, but after the stunt that Jill pulled on Ramona, I think that plot line feels a little stale. Excuse the cliché, but with a friend like Jill, who needs enemies? Suddenly, that promo clip that we keep seeing where Alex tells Jill that she’s in high school seems a lot more reasonable.

Obviously Alex doesn’t hate her yet, however, because toward the end of Ramona’s party, Alex tried to bow out gracefully, saying that she had promised Jill and LuAnne that she and Simon would make an appearance at their party. Ramona flew off the handle, obviously, because Ramona has no emotions between totally mellow and totally psychotic. She wants all of the housewives to choose sides, and if Silex goes over there, even for a few minutes, it means that she’s no longer beating Jill.

But one thing that this episode made clear is that Bethenny is the real winner. While everyone was bickering and infighting and trying to recapture their youth by recreating the worst behaviors of their teenage years, Bethenny was being asked to move in by her boyfriend and mostly not opening her mouth about anyone. She even behaved herself when the random woman at Ramona’s party told her how much she hurt Jill’s feelings.

Well, she didn’t entirely behave herself. She may or may not have called that woman a cater waiter behind her back. But for Bethenny, that’s sort of the same thing as behaving herself. You know, relatively speaking.

It’s that time again. Make like Andy Cohen and fix yourselves a Maker’s Mark & ginger ale because it’s FRIDAY! Until next week, ladies.

A couple of weeks before the Super Bowl, I went on an intense internet hunt for this exact clutch. All I wanted to do was photograph it in front of the Super Bowl sign on Fort Lauderdale Beach. But no, I could not find it. It was no where to be found. And my perfect shutterbag image I was going to have Vlad take did not happen.

But here it is, of course not exactly when I wanted to see it but I welcome it. Everything about the Alexander Wang Spring 2010 collection spoke to me. Casual, sporty, chic can sum up his spring collection. The models, with their loose side braids, were the talk of the fashion world. Football touches were added to the wardrobe, either in the clothing design or the bags. I am in love with the Alexander Wang Brady Football Clutch which shows a quilted panel at the front and back and football laces-likes whipstitching at the front.

I actually love it so much that I kind of want to buy it. My supposed self-proposed shopping ban is truly not working, not in the least bit. As many of the long time readers know, the entire PurseBlog team loves football, especially college. We all went to football-centered colleges (GO BUCKEYES! Amanda is outnumbered three Ohio State Buckeyes to one Georgia Bulldog). It might be a bit silly to some of you, but I desperately want to carry this to all of the football games in the fall. Actually looking at this clutch is making me extremely happy just thinking of the upcoming football season.

Other details over the clutch include distressed luggage colored leather and the quilted panel I spoke of above. The whipstitching is at the front by the zipper and there is piping at the front and edges. The hardware is distressed silver. The dimensions are actually larger than you would imagine 11.5″H x 9″L, but there is a wrist strap at the main compartment closure. So, I want this. Who would have thought that Alexander Wang was influenced by the a favorite American pastime, football. And is this coined the ‘Brady’ clutch after Tom Brady? I would love to know. Buy through ShopBop for $395.

If you just can’t stop looking at the haunting pictures of Alexander McQueen’s final collection, I’ve got a little Friday treat for you. Originally posted by the crew at Fashionista, the video shows details of not only the clothing, but also the shoes, bags and accessories that are on display at McQueen’s buyer display in Paris. As expected, the tailoring and finishing are impeccable.

Video via Fashionista.com.

I am really happy to see Bloomingdale’s expand their online handbag inventory. It’s something they’ve been working on and now that their inventory keeps growing we are seeing more and more great bags. And not just any handbags, but designer and highly coveted designer brands – like Marc Jacobs. So, on this dreary South Florida Friday it’s nice to look at a bag with just a hint of color and pizazz.

You know as well as I do that certain Marc Jacobs bags are completely over the top but still really nice. Then there are others that seem a bit bland and boring. Then there are others, like this Marc Jacobs The Firebird Rio Studded Leather Satchel that combine the previously mentioned elements perfectly.

The taupe leather satchel has a hint of shine and shimmer to it which really complements the studs wonderfully. While so many people are over studs, when the design and layout of the studs are different, like that on this bag, it’s hard not to give the bag a chance. The double handles (6″ drop) are adorned with gold-tone hardware which also looks really nice with the studding. Personally, I’d let the shoulder strap hang off of the bag and carry the bag primarily with the double handles. All in all this is a nice bag from Marc Jacobs with just enough sparkle to catch my eye. Buy through Bloomingdale’s for $1395.

I think it's rather brave of Nine West to actually call and orange bag an orange bag here, and not try to label it as 'coral' or anything similarly sheepish. Orange, after all, is a bit colour this season, and next, according to Marc Jacobs. It sits slightly oddly with all the neutrals and dark colours that are dominating both seasons' collections, but somehow the contrast seems to work.

The whirlwind of fashion week has finally ended but we are still running our giveaway with Derek Lam-- it's not too late to sign up to win the fabulous Derek Lam Blanche tote in powder calf! We are...

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