With the stress and chaos of fashion week right around the corner allow us to provide you with an answer to relieve some of the inevitable stress…with stress balls of course!

Stress Balls are the only stress-relief device that allow you to be a real ball buster and tackle the day.

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Get to the Unruly Heir “Open Jacket” sale where all items are under $100.

For two days only, today and tomorrow, you have your last chance to get some of the best threads from this season of Unruly Heir.

Friday 12-8
Saturday 12-6

64 Macdougal St.
New York, NY 10012
212.643.0406
www.unrulyheir.com

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Want a tattoo without the commitment? Too bad, it ain’t gonna happen.

But do you want the style of a tattoo on an incredibly soft tee? Then you’re in luck. ‘Tees and Tats’ is a collection of limited edition t-shirts with graphics designed by Marco Serio. Coming to the Lower East Side by way of Lisbon, Portugal Marco Serio has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading Japanese-style tattoo artists.

His designs have now found a new canvas in the form of 100% combed ringspun cotton instead of epidermis. The collection includes seven limited edition t-shirts all numbered 1-700.

As an added benefit a percentage of all sales go to Artworks: The Naomi Cohain Foundation, which provides children and young adults suffering from chronic and life-threatening diseases, access to creative and performing arts programs. Artworks encourages using the creative process to promote healing, personal development and self-expression.

And who doesn’t want to be committed to that.

Tees and Tats [website]

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In what is a great example of art imitating life designer Christian Louboutin delivers on this Layered Leather Hobo bag. Made of calfskin with signature black and read ring accents this bag of armour is Italian made.

Aside from the inherent beauty of the bag one has to wonder exactly what in nature was his inspiration. A pill bug (better known as a rollie-pollie) or an armadillo? Or is it just another creation from the genius mind of Louboutin?

Either way this bag is haute and miles away from other hobo bags. Available for $1,995 at Saks.

via Purseblog

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The girls from the new class of Beverly Hills 90210 are gracing the pages of Nylon magazine.

This class of West Beverly High includes Jessica, AnnaLynne and Shenae.

“We’re very racy, very provocative, and very modern,” says AnnaLynne McCord, who plays Naomi Bennett. “But the emotions and the issues are very real,” adds Shenae Grimes. “Like, on most television shows, the girl gets an eating disorder, she cries, her mom solves it… all in one episode. It’s not like that in real life, and on our show, these characters have real layers that will all peel away very, very slowly.”

90210 starts on September 2, one day after the Gossip Girl premiere. We’ll be watching to see if they can take over the teen drama throne.

Nylon via Just Jared

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It’s not everyday that we have a shoegasm with men’s shoes. So when we do, you know the shoe has to be HAUTE.

That’s what happened when we came across this John Lobb Everdon model. You almost just want to reach into the picture and grab it. John Lobb shoes are known for their handcrafted luxury and exclusivity being sold in their namesake stores as well as Hermes stores worldwide.

This Everdon model is from their casual shoe line. (Heh, heh). Coming in navy blue calfskin allow for the white laces and brown sole to pop. And details such as the perforation just complete the look.

via Selectism

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Although nautical motifs in menswear are as common as barnacles, aeronautical references (with the exception of flight jackets and aviator glasses) are as rare as a test pilot who has lived to old age.   Paul Stuart bucks that trend with this elegant propeller tie-bar made of sterling silver.  It certainly has an impressive visual thrust-to-weight ratio.

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A little while back, the folks at Kempt analyzed the ultra-preppy style of Southampton, New York.  No doubt schooled at a radical madras-a, these men are in effect saying, “I’m so rich I can buy a hideous jacket I wear once a year as a joke.”  But even worse is the implied incivility: by wearing such obnoxious jackets, paired with clashing bow ties no less, the men are showing little concern for the eyeballs of anyone else.

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Regardless of one’s politics, it’s hard to deny that in choosing Joseph Biden as his running mate, Barack Obama picked the best-dressed man in the Senate.  Admittedly, there’s not much competition for that title, but Biden stands out due to his willingness to wear form-fitting suits in a shade other than blue or gray, fun suspenders, pocket squares, casual shirts with the top two buttons undone, and, in the winter, a chesterfield coat with a velvet collar.   And in what is perhaps a bold statement about his foreign policy, he often wears shirts with French freedom cuffs.

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It’s not exactly a scarlet letter, but a Spanish debt collection company has been using a very odd tactic to shame deadbeat debtors into paying up:

If more confirmation were needed of the funereal state of Spain’s economy, it can be found in the shape of The Debt Collector in Top Hat and Tails.

That’s a translation into English of “El Cobrador del Frac,” the name of a company that specializes in sending out men dressed like extras from a 1930s Fred Astaire movie to humiliate debtors into paying up. Its business is booming.

“At the start of the year we noticed demand was increasing,” said Juan Carlos Granda, head of El Cobrador del Frac’s international department.

[…]
Mr. Granda refers to the top hats and tails, whose appearance has unnerved so many Spanish debtors, as the company “uniform.”

“We send collectors in uniform and collectors without uniform. It depends on how the debtor reacts. If we need to do it to collect a debt, we send a collector wearing top hat and tails, so his debt attracts more attention,” he said.

The ethics of public shaming aside, Izzy is dismayed to see a look that was once was the epitome of elegance being debased by such negative association.  It ought to make every hatter mad, and Señor Cacahuete nuts.

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