Last month we learned that Britney Spears had re-signed with Candie’s to be their celebrity spokemodel for another year and earlier this month we got our first look at the first promo photo that went on display at Kohl’s discount department store featuring the 2010 campaign (photographed by Annie Leibovitz). Today we get to see a few more photos, newly released, from the Candie’s Spring/Summer 2010 ad campaign … featuring our dear Britney:

As you can see, this photo is the full-size version of the first photo released last month. I think it looks much better in this full-size incarnation, don’t you? We also learn today that Leibovitz is not the only photographer employed to shoot the new Candie’s campaign. After the jump, check out a few more promo photos including one photographed by famed fashion photographers Terry Richardson and Mark Seliger …

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Fashion designer Victoria Beckham unveiled her latest collection of high end dresses at New York Fashion Week this past weekend … here is our first look at some of the designs that make up the former-popstar-turned-fashion-designer’s 4th collection of dresses:

While the rest of us were celebrating Valentine’s Day, the fashion pack were showing their love for Victoria Beckham, who presented her fourth collection in New York yesterday. In a series of intimate presentations, she showcased next season’s offering from her self-named label, which already counts the likes of Elle Macpherson and Jennifer Lopez among its fans. And the latest line looks set to win even more celebrity devotees – red carpet-friendly dresses inspired by femme fatales of the Forties – just in time for the Oscars. Each design was teamed with a pair of shades from Mrs Beckham’s own label, as well as towering platform heels – it didn’t take a genius to notice the similarity with the signature Posh look. Models that shared Beckham’s whip-thin frame did little justice to her inspired use of in-built corsetry – a design feature that has enabled curvier women, such as Carol Vorderman and Katherine Jenkins to wear her form-fitting designs. Draping appeared throughout, on backs and necklines as well as puffed hemlines, lending a more relaxed feel to the severe hourglass shapes of previous collections, though she retained details such as the sexy rose-gold zips that snake down the back of so many of her dresses. The result was a line of beautifully sculptured frocks, inspired by the unlikely combination of Dick Tracy comics and the late dancer and choreographer, Martha Graham, in an electric palette of deep reds, blues and greens, as well as nudes and a dazzling pale gold. Indeed the lady herself, who was, for once, not photographed, wore one of her own dresses with five-inch heels (clearly it was too important an occasion to worry about bunions). Presenting each dress, one-by-one, she said: ‘I feel the clothes express how my own personal style has evolved, more relaxed, a little more slouchy, but still structured.’ Block colours dominated, bar one print, a soft, grey pixillated design that appeared on a strapless minidress dubbed ‘the cloud’ – she explained how it had taken days, and several sleepless nights, to perfect. As the line yet again won high praise from the media, Beckham told her guests how the fashion industry was finally beginning to take her seriously as a designer, and that her dream would be to open her own store in the next five years. ‘But, I’m still learning,’ she admitted. ‘I still feel I need to prove myself – all my life I’ve had to prove myself. Each season, I have to better myself. I really want to grow as a designer.’

Wanna see more? After the jump, check out a few more looks from VB’s new collection of dresses …

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The front row at Calvin Klein’s Fall 2010 Fashion Collection at New York Fashion Week over the weekend was jam packed with a bunch of hot hotties … including new Calvin Klein Underwear models Kellan Lutz and Mechad Brooks. Sitting with Lutz and Brooks were actors Lee Pace, Jared Leto, Chace Crawford and Ryan Phillippe … behold:

Yeah, I’m not entirely sure but I think there were models and new fashions walking down the runway … I just can’t get past the front row. After the jump, check out a few more photos of these handsome gents at the CK show this weekend …

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Things are beginning to heat up around here and it has nothing at all to do with the weather. Abercrombie & Fitch has unveiled photos from their new Spring 2010 campaign featuring a new batch of hotties (mostly) wearing the new A&F Spring ‘10 collection:

As per usual, famed photographer Bruce Weber shot the new campaign and, as per usual, he did a fantastic job:

After the jump, check out some of my fave photos from the new Abercrombie & Fitch Spring ad campaign …

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Accomplished and talented fashion designer Marc Jacobs is suing tacky, hack designer Christian Audigier for trade dress and trademark infringement of one of his purse designs. Jacobs feels that one of Audigier’s tacky purse designs looks almost exactly like his design for the Marc Jacobs Pretty Nylon tote bag. Here are the purses, side-by-side, along with some deets of the lawsuit:

Designer Christian Audigier’s Nervous Tattoo, Inc. is being sued by Marc Jacobs’ company for trade dress and trademark infringement over purse designs. Marc Jacobs designs apparel and accessories, including purses, and has a pending application for its random “Marc Jacobs” scrambled trademark. Marc Jacobs has applied the scrambled trademark to the inside lining of the “Marc Jacobs Pretty Nylon” tote bag. And the tote bag’s “size, shape, color or color combinations, product design, texture, and selection and arrangement of materials and accessories” are claimed to serve as its trade dress. Plaintiffs accuse Defendants of selling tote bags that “bear trade dress that unlawfully copies or imitates Plaintiffs’ unique, distinctive, and non-functional Marc Jacobs Pretty Nylon Tote Trade Dress and/or that unlawfully bear marks confusingly similar to the Marc Jacobs Scrambled Trademark.” In addition, Plaintiffs assert claims for unfair competition under Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 and constructive trust.

I understand the precedent in cases like this holds that if the two designs bear overt product name labeling, then the plaintiff has no claim of consumer brand confusion. It’s evident that the designs look almost identical … I have to say I’m on Team Jacobs here. The Ed Hardy line is so fug IMHO, it’s a shame that a design created by a designer with talent might get confused with a tacky hack like Christian Audigier. What do y’all think … does Marc Jacobs have a case here?

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In late December we learned that adidas is launching a new Originals Collection based on the world of Star Wars and earlier today, Snoop Dogg joined Darth Vader and his minions of the Empire in NYC to officially launch the collection of clothing and footwear. Here are a few photos from the event in Times Square earlier today:

Snoop Dogg marched through Times Square with Darth Vader and a bunch of Stormtroopers earlier today. Because what else are you going to come up with when you have a big bag of chronic and are pondering a marketing plan for a Star Wars-based footwear/clothing collection? Later in the day Racked reported that Snoops Troops made it to the Adidas store in SoHo… and R2D2 even made a cameo!

I am SO in love with this collection of Star Wars kicks from adidas … and I think it is the bomb dizzle that Snoop D-O Double G has signed on to help promote the collection. Imma hafta get my izzle bizzle in gizzle, my nizzles and buy up these shoes before they sell the fizzle out. Okay, I’ll stop now … but still, Snoop + Darth = Too Much Awesome.

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Last month we learned that Brintey Spears has re-signed with Candie’s to appear in their ad campaign for a second year in a row and it was announced that legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz would be among the photographers photographing the campaign. Today we get our first look at the first promo ad poster that has been released from the Candie’s Britney Spears: Through the Lens campaign featuring our dear Britney Spears:

HMMMM. To be honest, this is a nice photo and all but it doesn’t strike me as having the same caliber that we have come to expect from Leibovitz photographs. If we weren’t told that Annie Leibovitz was the photographer, I wouldn’t have guessed or even wanted to believe that it was true. This photo is cute but nowhere near as extraordinary as one might expect from Annie Leibovitz. I’m curious to see what the rest of the campaign looks like. If we can expect more of this to come, then I’d rather Candie’s go back to using the photographer who came up with the pink hay motif from last year’s ad campaign instead. What do y’all think of this photo? Impressed?

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