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2010 May 4

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(NEW YORK) Alternative fashion week: 'Latex is going mainstream!' [Guardian UK]
You followed Erdem, Burberry, and Matthew--but what of London Fashion Week's wacky little sister, Alternative fashion week?

Britney Spears Launching Fashion Line With Candie's [Stylelist]
Possibly the last pop star not to have a line jumps in with a collection for Candie's (naturally, the news was broken over Twitter)

Stella McCartney's mum chic [Times UK]
Stella's Spring collection has "got us all dreaming about being a woman like Linda [McCartney]— a wholesome, free-spirited, nut roast-cooking, home-schooling type with a conscience and a make-up-free kind of sexiness. Your mum (so long as it’s the right mum) is the surprise icon of summer"

Online Exclusive: Sophie Dahl’s Cookbook [WSJ.]
Recipes from fomer model Sophie Dahl's new autobiogrpahy-slash-cookbook, from "Eton Mess" to haloumi to baked onion to pear and ginger muffins

American Women on the March [IHT]
Suzy Menkes reports on the Met's new exhibition, “American Women: Fashioning a National Identity”: "What is missing from the exhibition are fashion crosscurrents to link past and present. Mr. Bolton might have found designers today to express the spirit of his chosen categories: an Oscar de la Renta gown to fit with the new money heiresses in their Worth gowns; a current Asian-American designer beside Anna May Wong’s dress; a Ralph Lauren chemise to challenge the flappers; and the troubling beauty of Rodarte among the Bohemians"