The new direction of fashion points, appropriately enough, toward the moody and introspective and away from the prosaic promptings of the external world. (Gone, or going, are streetwear, logos, and random assertions of fabulousness and power.) Is this a hallucination or is Vogue finally proclaiming the end of the horrific Louis Vuitton logo bags and the ultimately pathetic sweat suits? [Vogue]

Marc Jacobs, Prada, Lanvin, YSL. (Photos by Steven Meisel).

All from Net-a-porter.com

Silk Chloé, Blue silk Chloé, pleated Chloé, and pleated tweed Miu Miu skirt.

Ana Sui, Alessandro Dell’Acqua, Chloé, Moschino volume skirts.
For the fashionists outside of the US Mango has knocked off a silk Chloé skirt, so there’s an option for under a $100.

I’ll get back online as soon as I escape. It turns out life is nearly impossible without an ice soy latte, grilled shrimp, hijiki seaweed and a DSL line. Beluga caviar is dirt cheap though.

Big glasses, Boho, leggings, cowboy boots, Balenciaga motorcycle bags, beaded necklaces and bangles. Love it or hate it, but the things MK Olsen wears (although originally spotted on hipsters from London, Paris, Tokyo and Barcelona), become big trends in the continental US. So here’s your fashion-forecast: the world is to wear clunky wooden heels, mini lace dresses, gold pendants and black diva trenches. Mark my words.

MK&A Olsen

Trends selling out in stores:

Edwardian blouses
Pleated skirts
Empire waist dresses
T-strap shoes
Military style jackets
Flat knee-high boots
Waistcoats
Lambskin jackets
Trench coats
Striped sweaters
Chunky knits
Embroidery

Kirsten Dunst is the girl to watch this fall. She is the star of Sofia Coppola’s upcoming film Marie Antoinette and is groomed like an expensive chihuahua preparing to nail a few advertising campaigns as well. Dunst is appearing in September issue of W wearing a silk Chanel blouse (left), Chanel mesh dress and Lanvin shoes (right)

Kirsten auditioning for Chanel?

Ukrainian babushkas would die if they knew their folk costume is worn by a nineteen year old American billionere.

MK Olsen sporting an embroidered Ukrainian sorochka

Since Fashion Addict is spending time in a god-forgotten Easten European location right now this London Times article happens to be entirely in synch with what we have to put up with every day:

“You won’t have to wait long to spy a Russian. From Sardinia and St Tropez to Ibiza, Portofino, Monaco and Marbella, you can hardly move for high-rolling Russian biznismeni and their labelled-up wives.

What they wear The women: high-gloss, high-impact Eurotrash labels (Versace, D&G, Cavalli); make-up learnt at the Ukrainian hooker school of beauty; diamond earrings, bracelets, necklaces and, well, anything with diamonds, basically (she is not properly dressed for the pool without at least 400 carats).

The men: skimpy Speedos, worn high and tight to show off their impressive crotch equipment, accessorised with a sunburnt paunch and Soviet army tattoos.” [ More after the jump ]

ELITE Model’s founding father, John Casablancas, is furious with Naomi Campbell after the moody mannequin told PAGE SIX he sent her a note apologizing for calling her “unbearable” in an interview in Complex magazine. Casablancas e-mailed the London-born beauty, saying, “I’m happy to see that my note to you allowed you to save face with the press. Too bad that it was also used to make me look like [bleep]. For the record, I don’t grovel (and you of all people should know that!) and I feel quite comfortable with my contradictory feelings about you: A+ as a person; D- for behavior with your bookers.” The motor-mouthed modeling mogul signed off, “I know you know what I mean. Love, John.” Meanwhile, a rep for Casablancas declared that he would not apologize to Brazilian bombshell Gisele Bundchen for calling her “an empty shell, one big void” in the same article. [Page Six]

Naomi and Gisele dissed by modeling mogul Casablancas