All this online time means my eyes keep darting to my Tweet Deck in a nervous twitch and perhaps this will mean I won't be so SLOOOOOW about posting things.  From the tweets of the lovely Louise Gray, I caught wind of this Scott Ramsay Kyle feature in the second issue of Slashstroke magazine.  I've been waiting to hear of updated collections or updated work on his website seeing as two seasons have lapsed.  I suspect Ramsay Kyle has been busy working on collaborations and commissions.  Like this project with Slashstroke to create these special paper dresses, showing that there's versatility to his nimble fingers beyond unique embroidery and tellingly, the accompanying interview itself points out Kyle

Much has been made of the name that the female counterpart publication to Fantastic Man.  Yes, the Gentlewoman is finally here and yes, the name that some love or hate has stuck.  It launched with a very dignified cocktail party in Paris a few days ago where every woman looked like a Gentlewoman and every man was Fantastic... rendering me at a loss as to why I was there.  Still I had to pick up a copy before it hits the shops some time next week (22nd I believe...)  

>> Behind a maison, there's a team and for some bizzare reason, I imagine that in the future after a show, that the whole team will come out for a bow instead of just the sole creative director.  That probably won't happen but I'd like to think people will start crediting teams as a whole.  I'm also all for open collaborations seeing as shoe designers and accessories designers create specific pieces for other designers all the time.  At Nina Ricci this season, Peter Copping collaborated with Rita Saardi, a designer I've loved for her unabashed romance in her bow-decked, flower-based dresses.

Some of you may have read about Cynthia Rowley's interesting reaction to our rabid hunger for instant blogs, streams, TwitPics and Style.com images that have seeped into our habits of looking at shows.  Instant pre-orders on A/W 10-11 have already been tried and tested with a few collections (oh woe is me for being a bag hag - I heart the Proenza Schouler A/W 10 PS1 muchy muchy... not that a ticking countdown on online pre-orders is going to make me any more richer in resources to buy it).