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There’s a rumor that Cameron Crowe is doing a shoot in the studio next to ours today.

We’re all freaking out hoping we’re going to see him.

And then of course he’ll discover us, put us on a tour bus with John Cusack / Billy Crudup / Orlando Bloom, and keep the cameras rolling and find some fantastic ’70s sheepskin jackets for us to wear, and make us endlessly quotable teen icons.

There’s already a fight in the fashion closet for who gets to wear the best pair of bell bottoms.

Seriously, some girls will do anything for their chance at an Academy Award.

Okay, I have to go find a Wonderbra now.

xoxo faran

OMG!!!

My must-have list nearly doubled while I was at Sao Paulo Fashion Week.

There was this zipper skirt at Osklen, those studded white shoes at Amapo, and that sweater jumpsuit at Maria Bonita.

But none quite compared to Cori’s zig-zag sunglasses. They come in black, but the obvious choice here is the mint green pair.

Not included is the round-trip ticket to Brazil, since for the time being that’s the only place you can snag a pair.

But can you really put a price tag on shades that will actually make you stand out?

xxRebecca

The girls over at Fashionista dug up the newest Vivienne Westwood advertisement, and it stars… Pam Anderson.

Viv’s Union Jack shorts are fantastic, and we’re sure the top is, too, except… um… we can’t tell what it looks like.

We can tell that Pamela has more saline in her body than the Bausch & Lomb factory, but that’s an entirely different story.

What we can’t tell is why when she had Kate Moss, both Geldof girls, and Alexa Chung in her front row last Fashion Week, Vivienne would skip all of them and call Pam Anderson instead.

Maybe she realized something best illustrated by plaid and not silicone:

The ’90s, indeed, are back.

Props for the hair though.

That color blonde looks good on everybody.

NYLON had a we are the world moment last night, when American actress Leighton Meister wore a Preen dress from London to celebrate the launch of the new NYLON Mexico.

Leighton is on the cover, even though (shhh!) she doesn’t speak Spanish.

But she speaks Louboutin, and Henri Bendel, and Marc Jacobs, which somehow to seem to be the universal languages these days.

But just in case you’re ever stuck South of the Border and need a quick icebreaker:

“Soy Chuck Bass” is the fast translation of your favorite pickup line.

And “Me llama Peaches Geldof” will probably get you into any party -

Or at least confuse Justin Timberlake to the point of pure comedy.  Check in tomorrow for more pics from Mexico!

Remember when “eco fashion” meant Birkenstocks?

Remember when Banana Republic’s “green” cotton line was almost all the color green?

It wasn’t that long ago (uh, last year)  but things are really changing:

Now it’s possible to be environmental outfits without looking like a space cadet or a farmer.

Witness Hayden Panetierre, at left, who attended the Green Inaugural Ball in Washington DC wearing a gown by Japanese designer Akiko Ogawa.

It’s a strapless evening dress swathed at the bottom in rhinestones, which continue across the back of the bodice.

You can’t tell the dress is made from sustainable fabric and created in an energy efficient factory -

But that’s exactly the point.

xo faran

The Cube Dude continues!

This time he seems to have gotten together with Poster Boy, another thoughtful vandal, in one of Manhattan’s bigger subway stations.

It seems that Poster Boy is taking a bite out of Cube Dude…

But maybe Cube Dude is actually attacking Poster Boy with some sort of poisonous duct tape.

We found this graffiti happening on our own, but if you’ve got one, send it over:

faran@nylonmag.com

Extra points especially if it’s your own graffiti.

Extra extra points if you’re Cube Dude.

Yeah, dream on.

The big news yesterday morning was that Agyness Deyn was walking her first show at Sao Paulo Fashion Week.

The big news yesterday evening was that Agyness Deyn was refusing to do any interviews before or after her first show at Sao Paulo Fashion Week.

She did come out for about a minute, allowing photographers to snap a pic before she returned into her separate backstage area, but didn´t say a word.

So instead of writing down what she said, I wrote down what the photographers and journalists around me said. My favorites include:

“Agyness, say something!”

“Do you know how to talk?!?”

“Que hija de puta!”

Maybe that´s what she was laughing at…xxRebecca

My favorite Valentine hearts are the wintergreen ones from NECCO (those are the white ones, which I pick out individually from every box before throwing the rest away).

But Kelly’s favorite hearts are the twelve kids from Fred Flare, pictured at left.

Each has their own personality, mostly illustrated by their massive and somewhat oddball eyes.

I’m especially enamored of Hank, the one with the big black eyes and bump nose, because I think he looks like those scary aliens on Unsolved Mysteries that you just knew were going to come kidnap you if you stayed up too late reading Goosebumps.

Fred Flare is sending the hearts to everyone who places an order on their website.

They really don’t have a purpose, but now that Betty & Veronica have sadly phased out of youth culture, maybe they could get their own comic book?

You can just tell that “Dapper” would be the one to get everybody in trouble.

xo faran

Well, here’s one way to get attention:

Resurrect your favorite NYLON cover with some markers and mail it to our office.

That’s what Helene Ryenbakken did when she wanted us to consider her work for a graphic design commission.

We’ll say right now that this blog doesn’t get to decide what will and won’t appear in our magazine, but nevertheless:

We salute this kooky effort of self-promotion and NYLON fan mail enough to throw it on our site, along with a link to the rest of Helene’s work, a web portfolio called Pelsfrukt.

Incidentally, Pelsfrukt sounds like it translates to “potato” or “apple pie” in some Slovakian language, but nobody in the office can quite figure it out.

Anyway.

You can click through below to see more of Helene’s faux NYLON.

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