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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

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.

When I finally decided to turn my ’20s bob into a ’60s mop, my first thought was make my hair look like Lou’s.

(Apparently I’m not the only person inspired by her.)

But then I got it cut, and it reminded me of someone else: Dee Dee Ramone.

This tee from Blood Is The New Black exemplifies why.

Despite that whole rap thing, Dee Dee was smarter than he came off — all the way up to his head of killer hair.

Sure, he contributed his songwriting talents to such classics as “Chinese Rocks”, but his ultimate accomplishment just might be making the short shag look effortlessly cool.

Okay, just kidding, “Rockaway Beach” is his ultimate accomplishment. But the hair’s a close second… xxRebecca

I’ve been having flashbacks to my jr. high days (could be that fashion styles from those days of yore are popping up in my wardrobe again).

One memory sticks out in my mind: Sitting on a patent leather high chair at tweeny mall-fave, Claires, hugging a teddy bear while getting my ears pierced.

And were the gunshot wounds to my earlobes completely in vain? I hope not, but lately, the lobes have been looking a little sparse. I’ve been going bare recently, maybe a protest to all the dangly stuff I’ve previously worn.

My friend Alice sensed my earring dilemma, and is now getting me these (left) for my birthday:

I was like, “girl say whhhhaaaaaa???”

These oxidized sterling silver, prickly porcupine-inspired hoops are amazing, from her friend Kristen Elspeth’s Gilded Age collection.

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One of the great things about Sale-Only websites is the idea of getting back stock.

That’s an industry term for clothes that are a few seasons old, but for whatever reason haven’t yet made it to the sales floor.

Back stock is exactly what’s happening right now at The Outnet, where pieces from Marc Jacobs’ 2006 collection are slowly trickling onto their virtual sales floor.

For instance:

This velvet leopard dress, taken from a Stephen Sprouse print later used (by Marc Jacobs) for Louis Vuitton,  originally walked down the runway almost four years ago, worn by Jessica Stam.

Now?

It’s $520 - expensive, but 80% off the original price, if you can believe it - at The Outnet.

Thanks for the nostalgia! 

As if there weren’t enough reasons to be jealous of Pamela Love, here’s another:

Now that she’s mastered designing highly covetable jewelry and jamming in a band, she’s trying her hand at modeling.

The Brooklyn resident strikes a pose in the latest collection of tees by Rotter and Friends.

The shirts, expertly illustrated by Jess Rotter, are as cool as ever, but Love’s now-famous skull pendant lends it just a bit more edge.

Or maybe that’s just our massive girl crush talking…

We popped into Victoria’s Secret yesterday to  check out their new Miraculous Push-Up bra, but something else caught our eye:

As a special treat for bloggers, they were giving out these sweet little pairs of panties, wrapped up to look like little cupcakes.

Do we still prefer real cupcakes?

Sure - the NYLON office is home of the snack attack, and we’ll always choose sugar over style.

And yet, something about this pair of panties made us smile -

Could it be that it’s one-size-fits-all, and therefore way easier to buy / wear / wash?

We’re thinking that’s probably it.  And also:  Just writing this post made us hungry.  Damn.

Remember those cashmere sweatpants from Bird by Juicy Couture that Becka Diamond sported in her NYLON TV episode?

They’re finally for sale!

You can get them in select Juicy Couture stores or on Net-a-Porter.

The pants only come in black -

But that’s probably a good thing.

After all, hot pink sweatpants might work (if you’re, um, a sorority sister), but hot pink cashmere harem pants?

No.

Not even on Making the Band.

These are really cute though.

TopShop has a brand new unicorn ring.

It’s metal.

It’s $25.

It could probably hurt a guy if you punched him while wearing it, which is always a great side effect of jewelry.

But also…

Doesn’t it kinda look like a rhino?  Instead of a unicorn?  Right?