Cass Bird

• Philip Treacy has designed a capsule collection of children's hats to celebrate the opening of the Sensatori Resort in Turkey. [Vogue UK]
• Did Phoebe Philo copy a coat by Geoffrey Beene for her Céline Fall 2013 collection? [Garmento]
• The installations for the upcoming exhibit Punk: From Chaos to Couture are rumored to include a 40-foot-long styrofoam statue of Vivienne Westwood, which will be decorated with cellphone-generated graffiti. [The New Yorker]
• Nanette Lepore will draw upon the prints and details of her ready-to-wear collection to inspire her first line of home goods, set to debut this Fall. [WWD]
• Naomi Campbell is bringing The Face to the UK. [FabSugar UK]
• Meanwhile, Kate Moss has unveiled a sequin-embellished presentation box she designed for restaurant chain Sushi Stop. [WWD]
• Cass Bird summers at sea in J.Crew's vintage-inspired video for its Spring 2013 collection. [Fashion Copious]

Source: Courtesy of Philip Treacy

• Moncler's head of international relations, Phivos Lampros Istavrioglou, was arrested in New York after allegedly stealing a Salvador Dali painting (pictured above) in 2012. [Telegraph]
  

• Meanwhile, two men have robbed the De Beers boutique in Printemps, making away with up to $4 million in stolen goods. [WWD]
  

• Fendi will take to its Facebook page and website to live stream its Fall 2013 show tomorrow, Feb. 20 at 6:30 a.m. The brand will also stream preshow content, including a backstage diary, on Fendi.com. [POPSUGAR Fashion News Inbox]
  

• J.Crew has teamed up with Charitybuzz to auction off a lunch meeting with creative director Jenna Lyons to benefit IS 289 Hudson River Middle School. Her time doesn't come cheap, though — the estimated value of the package is $10,000. [Styleite]
  
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• Erin Fetherston's website redesign, which debuted on Tuesday, enables fans of the brand to buy Fetherston's clothes online. Users can also bid on vintage pieces from her personal collection, which she's auctioning off to raise money for charity:water. [Erin Fetherston]
  

• Shalom Harlow was shooting the cover of the latest issue of Oyster magazine at New York's Bowery Hotel when an unknown man walked into the shoot. Harlow flashed him, and the resulting picture — shot by photographer Cass Bird — is now part of the coordinating editorial. [Fashionista]
  

• Model Josie Maran, who expects to deliver a baby boy or girl within the next four weeks, is spending her Summer in a farmhouse in Pennsylvania. Maran had been the face of Maybelline until she started her own cosmetics line for QVC, located a convenient "10-minute drive" from her temporary home. [People]

We're happy to see the color orange and inclusion of zip dresses from Sophomore though as trend aware as the Fall 08 collection may seem, it's still a very simple formula--we're loving the new look book shot by Cass Bird, who also shot the Spring 08 collection. Little New York brands like this make fashion so easy to break down. There are more important things, they remind us, than fashion. Sophomore is excellent at communicating the importance of simple, sexy style over thousand dollar handbags and it-frocks. In fact, these are the depictions of women that your boyfriend probably prefers nine times out of ten to the glossy magazine spreads. And, no matter how accessible cotton-basics might be, we think that's saying something.