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Dior Haute Joaillerie designer Victoire de Castellane namely known as her candy-colored, vibrantly trippy institutions. (As she revealed in our video shopping trip with her, she gravitates toward mushrooms—presumably for accessories merely.) Her fashionable project, done beneath her own appoint and detach from her Dior endeavors, mines entire of the hallucinogenic allusions from her earlier go to establish complete pharmacopeia. Fleurs d’excès—that’s “Flowers of Excess”—is influenced along the mind-altering and intoxicating drugs. The nice gems (costs aboard request—in other words, stratospherically tall) will debut by Gagosian Gallery’s Paris Project space during the Fall collections. The pieces, in gold and silver inlaid with rubies, diamonds, jade, rhyolite, and more, go aboard view to the public March 2 through March 22.

Photos: Victoire de Castellane, Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

Photo: Courtesy of Adam Kimmel

—Matthew Schneier

The gentlemen of hip hop have a famous taste for finery—and not equitable Kanye, both. (Take it from Cam’ron: “We Gucci, Louis, and Pucci men.”) For Spring ‘11, designer Adam Kimmel returned the love, offering a sartorial collection inspired by “one of the most elemental talents of the last 30 years”—that is, Snoop (né Doggy) Dogg. Since the Dogg wouldn’t be caught die without his kicks, Kimmel is debuting his first-ever sneaker with the Spring line.

“I’m production sneakers immediately because I eventually base a excellent plant to produce them,” Kimmel told Style.com. “But more to the point, the sneakers are coming out in tandem with my spring Snoop accumulation, which was inspired at Snoop Dogg and his West Coast neatness. Certainly the sneaker was a huge part of that aesthetic. For my purposes, I aimed as something extra streamlined and easy than the usual tricked-out basketball shoe. I went as someone a mini extra user-friendly and luxurious when still reserving the urban feel.” Four styles are accessible in perforated leather with a matching alternatively contrasting ankle wrap, all made in Kimmel’s European factories. (He’s serious almost those factories—this namely a guy who accustomed apt make battle boots in workshops that were also turning out Hermès.) And because scuffing up your shoes is a serious O.G. no-no, the collection nods, too, by nice rides, with a car-wheel rim idea embroidered above polos and printed aboard knots and cravats.

These are a inhalation of fresh wind.

Free People’s Nouveau Riche flats are pretty, brand-new and stripped of always the fall sequined and studded pagentry. These $68 ballerinas likewise ring in a fashionable hot color for 2010.

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Sized 6 apt 10, this hot shoe is already selling out — so if you fortune out online, situate a cache instead.

I adore the roseate, merely there are other colors favor yellow, black and super-chic taupe. These are so reminiscent of the flats namely celebrities love from Lanvin, which are amounted at about $515. The Free People shoes are not merely amounted well, merely they’re padded in the footbed and elasticized approximately the foot for a cozy appropriate. Wear them with just about everything — trousers, leggings, dresses or however feels the newest and freshest!