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Esprit

 I used to love Esprit and L.L. Bean when I was in high school, but as I grew older and times changed, these two brands seemed to be slow with keeping up with the ever changing styles and trends. I think the two have definitely done a good job with their make overs. L.L. Bean being the best of the bunch presented here.

Cole Haan

Ann Taylor

Talbots

I do have to say Talbots definitely wins for the best over all change. I'm not saying this makes me want to run out and start shopping there, years of associating the brand with uncool, frump just doesn't erase overnight, but I think it's off to a good start.

What do you think about these brand make overs? Good, Bad, nothings going to help them. Please Post your comments below.

Film and fashion have always gone hand in hand and now more than ever, the two have joined forces to hit consumers across the internet with in-season digital campaigns. Below are some of my favorite films of the season from brands like Prada, Rodarte and YSL.

The LOVE Thing from LOVE on Vimeo.

During Men's Fashion Week, the Yves Saint Laurent show opened with “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” a 7-minute film by legendary photographer Bruce Weber. (Warning there is nudity in the video above, but if you know and understand Bruce Weber's work you shouldn't be offended)

You can find many of these fashion films online on sites like The New York Times, editorial channels like NOWNESS, Dazed Digital, video sharing sites, and brand web sites.

More and more we will probably see less money going into traditional fashion branding (ie.print advertising campaigns) and evolve into if not completely digital media. I for one still love flipping through a magazine like French Vogue and Elle, looking at editorial creativity in that medium. I hope the two mediums can co-exsist, satisfying the early adapters and creatures of habit like me.

Do you think the digital media will wipe out picturial advertising completely or do you think there is room for both? Please post your comments below.

(Please click on the picture for the Independent's article.)To this day whenever I smell the scent of Chanel No 5, I think of my mom. I would enjoy watching her get ready, in our small little blue tiled bathroom, with the small, mirrored medicine chest and blue crochet curtains on Maple Street. Don't judge the curtains, it was the late 70's. She would take the rollers she set out of her long blue black hair, put on her a Avon eye shadow, black liquid eye liner, some powder blush, reddish lipstick, slip on her hose, her outfit of choice and end the whole regimen with a spritz of what was then and  still to this day a perfume classic, Coco Chanel's No 5.

Chanel's master perfumer Jacques Polge, gives The Independent a view from inside the labels olfactory division, explaining why Chanel No 5 is one of the most successful scents of all time and the Eau Première of the first new concentration of the scent to be released in over 20 years. 

I wonder how this new concentration of the classic in going to smell. Will it remain just like I remember it? I hope so.

Is there a perfume or scent that you think is a classic like Chanel No 5, one that brings you back somewhere in time? Please post your comments below.

I decide I'll troll the web like a quiet little mouse trying to steal some cheese and I come upon this fantastic image of Bianca Jagger. This is it, this is what I need and what I want, minus the bowler hat of course, because I have an extraordinarily small head but that's TMI at this point.

I'm starting to get a little sleepy now, but I know what I have to have. I'm drifting off to the land of Dolce & Gabbana and Stella McCartney the two places I'm hoping to find Bianca's Jacket. Good night insomnia, good night Bianca, see you both in a few hours!

Oh I almost forgot Good Morning! Please post your comments below.

Tribal Dance Photography by Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader (click on photo to see the rest of the editorial)

Did this magazine editorial possess you the way it did me? Post your comments below please.