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Off all the online retail partnerships, this might be the kookiest:

Yoox.com - a discount designer site - just launched a microsite with FIT, the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Celebrating the best of American fashion, the internet store has a stash of designer vintage fashion, including something truly astonishing -

The Campbell’s Soup dress designed by Andy Warhol, as worn by Edie Sedgwick.

Yoox is selling the sheath in a size medium - for $4,500.

Considering there’s a copy of the dress in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it’s probably a fair price -

But don’t you want to buy a plain sheath dress, get a silk screen printing party together, and make it yourself?

Admire it - or try and copy its pattern - here. 

xo faran

Ashley Luther writes in from California about a recent and mysterious rash of Teddy Bear graffiti spotted all over New York City:

“Hey Faran,

The artist’s name is Phil Lumbang…

And here’s a video of him doing his thing in LA.

Keep up the good blogging,

–Ash”

Here’s a photo, above, of Phil Lumbang, left, with Shepard Fairey. Phil’s day job is at Obey’s studios in California.

Welcome to New York, Phil! Thanks for tagging our neighborhood! xoxox The NYLON kids!

NotCot points to a new initiative by Britain’s Royal Post:

They’ll release a set of stamps next year based on famous album covers.

Knighted Brits like The Rolling Stones and David Bowie will see their band art turned into postage, as will Led Zeppelin, Coldplay, Pink Floyd, The Clash, and Blur.

The stamps will be created by Studio Dempsey, who already have a sneak preview of them here.

But if America’s post offices planned the same kind of tribute, which U.S. bands would deserve to be featured?!  Let us know…

xo faran (who would root for a Bob Dylan / Blonde on Blonde stamp)

Dear Kate Hudson,

It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

You’ve been off smooching a baseball player, partying with those other fashion magazines, and wearing lots of makeup.

But now, you’ve come back to us, like a long lost friend who bakes cookies before she shows up at our apartment.

First, you’re wearing Blank jeans instead of some tight, sparkly dress that may or may not be from a Beyonce video.

Next, you’re wearing no makeup, just perfect skin.

And then there’s your movie Nine, a musical that debuts after Glee and Zac Efron prove it really is plausible to be funny, cool, famous, and familiar with the Rogers and Hammerstein song book.

We’re so happy to see you, Kate.

Come visit the office anytime!  (And bring those jeans)

Jeans by Sass & Bide:

$53 at The Outnet.

Only available in a size 6 / size 28 -

Which just so happens to be the average jean size in the NYLON office.

Better put your dibs on them -

Before one of us snags all of them first!

Here’s the link.

xo.

“Faran-

Found this awesome graffiti near the Brooklyn Bridge down the street from Grimaldi’s.

-Kate”

For those outside of Brooklyn, Grimaldi’s is a killer-amazing pizza place between DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights in NYC.

Other notable pizza places include Arturo’s and Lombardi’s (Soho), Artichoke and Gruppo (East Village), and Otto (Greenwich Village - Fifth Avenue).

And now we’re hungry.

If you have graffiti, send it along:

faran@nylonmag.com

ABC got alien visitors, and this morning, we got a puppy.

Meet Marley, the tiny mongrel who’s visiting the NYLON office this morning.

Marley belongs to our promotions manager, Mariana Lee, and in this photo, she is wearing a sweater by Stella McCartney, with hair by Orlando Pita.

She’s standing in for Moses and Abraham, the sharpay pups who are currently in Los Angeles with Zac Efron.

Welcome, Marley!

You can download the much-hyped series V - which stands for Visitors, as in Aliens, as in, “Ooh, scary sci-fi TV show” - on iTunes for free.

So we did it, yesterday, and here’s our report:

The first half is pretty cool, with exciting special effects (especially for television), a plausible scenario of giant space ships visiting Earth, and Juliet from LOST coming back as a main character.

But then it turns into a good cop - bad cop movie where everyone chases aliens around New York City with giant stun guns.

Overall, the first episode gets a B Minus -

But we’ll definitely tune in for number two.

(Also, the graphic above has nothing to do with the series - it’s just the first Google Image that came up with the phrase “visitors - aliens” and it’s very cute).