Jane Birkin

The Birkin bag? How about Birkin bangs? She's inspired a classic bag from Hermès, and now singer and actress Jane Birkin is the inspiration behind this upcoming season's quickest, easiest hairstyle update. While Fall may be the perfect time to enrich your hair color or get a whole new cut, if you don't want to make a huge change, adding fringe is a fabulous way to go.

"Refreshing your hair [for Fall] could be something as simple as giving yourself bangs," says Alberto VO5 hair expert Chris Lospalluto. "They don't have to be the straight-across Naomi Campbell moment; they can be a '60s-Jane Birkin where they're long and fringy." That way, you have options. They're long enough that you can easily pull them over to the side, but also short enough to look wispy and cool when worn down.

And to keep that wispy style from skewing stringy by day's end, Lospalluto recommends dry shampoo. "You just want something to soak up a bit of the oil; refresh it so you can leave work and go to dinner and not feel like you have a greasy forehead." In a pinch? Try baby powder instead.

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Jane Birkin could take the simplest piece of clothing and make it the chicest thing in the world, which just goes to show you, it's all about how you wear it. After all, a good basic never goes out of style. Perhaps that's why there are still waiting lists for Hermés Birkin bags, almost thirty years after Jane first inspired the design. For our spring shopping list, we're channeling Jane's iconic, easy breezy sex appeal, and going for the perfect basic: flared jeans, white tee, and the perfect minidress. Click our editors' picks for clean and sexy basics.

Ecco Domani announced their 2009 Fashion Foundation award winners today. The recipients are Lyn Devon, Matthew Ames, Cushnie et Ochs by Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs, and Ohne Titel by Alex Adams for womenswear, Corpus by Jerrod Cornish & Keith Richardson for menswear, and Monique Pean for jewelry, Eviana Hartman and Samantha Pleet for sustainable design. 

WWD talks with Jane Birkin about her cashmere pieces for Lutz & Patmos and her oldest pair of UGG boots. We never thought we'd say this but UGGs are getting a lot of good press these days.

 Billion Dollar Babes is jumping on the bandwagon and starting their own sample sale e-commerce site. 

It was recently announced that the magazine would go down to two issues per year and now there's a rumor that Men's Vogue will no longer be publishing magazines at all. 

>> IN PRODUCTION — Forget the Birkin bag, there's about to be a Birkin sweater.  Luxe knit label Lutz & Patmos taps a guest designer each season — in the past it's been Carine Roitfeld, L'Wren Scott, and most recently Kirsten Dunst — and for Spring 2009, the honors go to Jane Birkin.  If she makes a New York Fashion Week appearance, hopefully she'll bring daughters Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon with . . . [Nylon]

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