Alexandra Phanor-Faury

Margherita Missoni is selling off seventy covetable pieces from her personal vintage collection starting today at Yoox.com. This anticipated sale is benefitting Orphan Aid Africa. This non-profit supports orphans and vulnerable children in Ghana through programs in Care Reform, family support, education, and development. Missoni is president of the Italian chapter. At the sale expect an impressive and historic selection of printed dresses, coats and accessories from her colorful family brand, and several obscure pieces she’s unearth during her many travels.

For Fall/Winter ’12-13 Stella Jean picks up where she left off with her chic Spring/Summer ’12 collection. Wax cotton African and Caribbean inspired prints cut in retro 1960’s silhouettes are this Haitian-Italian designer’s forte and she continues to wow us with her unorthodox pairings in this current stand-out collection. Jean loves to mix prints and this season she artfully blends her colorful patterns with a dash of preppy and Scottish wool plaids for a vintage and offbeat feminine vibe.

Mary Katrantzou has collaborated with Current/Elliott to design a capsule collection. Inspired by Katrantzou’s ‘World Traveler’ Spring’13 theme, the collection features postal stamps, banknotes and foreign currency patterns digitally printed on dresses, minis, tops and jacket, all cut from denim. Working with denim is a  first for Katrantzou and we got to say the result of this union between the high-end London designer and denim giant Current/Elliott is a hit.