Another japanese brand: Mother. Their mongolia inspired AW08 collection is simply fantastic…

Through a crazy combination of circumstances, I was in London last week for the World Series of Poker Europe… And actually it was pretty amazingl!! I hoped to picture some unseen “street style”, but poker players are among the most unstylish people on earth (saw a lot of Ed Hardy, Christian Audiger, cowboy hats and leather jackets…)

yeah, ok, there was an exception… David Williams had funky earphones…

Before last week, I didn’t know a single thing about poker… One of the funniest thing i discovered was definitely the “masseuses phenomenon”.

… because sometimes, playing poker for 144 000 pounds is just not challenging enough….

thank god, not everything is insect jewelry and ken-cakes in NYC! there are nice shops:

Some odd rubies in Ludlow, amazing dresses, but $350 for a polyester dress?! come on…

I heart in Mott street, the freshest selection i’ve ever seen, with 3.1 Phillip Lim, Tsumori Chisato and Wood Wood under 1 roof

Assembly New York in Ludlow… cool men’s stuff.

Jumelle in Bedford avenue: a lot of France and USA, a bit of Scandinavia and New Zealand. One of the reasons I want to become very rich

Pixie Market in Lower East Side. You may not like everything but some things are definitely to die for! (cf accessories and scarves)

The Lyell store in Elisabeth street. Beside nice Lyell collection, great vintage boots….

16sur20 in Elisabeth street, of course… even though i would have called it 20sur20…

pics of I heart found on jargol.com

i’ve been to NYC last week and while everyone brought wonderful pictures from Fashion week, I prefered to concentrate on more “challenging” aesthetics. (where have my invitations to Preen and Lorick been, by the way??)

“real” dead insects to be worn as jewelry