The Rug Company x Alexander McQueen

Remember the gorgeous Paul Smith "LOVE" wall hanging in Carrie Bradshaw's redecorated apartment at the end of the first Sex and the City movie?

The Rug Company is back with another designer collaboration! This time round it's prints from the legendary Alexander McQueen that's being weaved into our homes. Match your classic McQueen skull scarf with a skull print carpet or your smoke print jacket with a smoke print cushion! The luxurious black and gold print from the Resort 2011 collection is also available. Long live McQueen!

Photo credits: Alexander McQueen, The Rug Company via Highsnobiety and Barneys New York

Photo credits: Alexander McQueen, The Rug Company via Highsnobiety

And... good news if you're already thinking of getting the collection - I already spotted the cushions on display at the Lane Crawford at Pacific Place the other day:

Levi’s Workwear by Pendleton Collection

Denim made a comeback this year and now it's a level up with the tribal element thrown in - Levi's collaboration with Pendleton is exactly that! I'm loving the mix of fabrics and the aborigines feel it carries. It's Pocahontas gone Gap!

Shopping Intel: Lanvin for H&M

Unless you've been living under a rock in a cave somewhere in the Amazon rainforest, you'd have heard about the Lanvin for H&M collaboration. As every shopaholic would know, strategy is of the utmost importance in major shopping events like this one, so here we have some crucial info regarding the first day of sale so as to help everyone strategize and snatch that much coveted collection right off the racks and into our shopping bags!

Date: November 23, 2010

Time: Starts at 8:00 am sharp

Stores: ONLY available at the H&M stores in Central, TST, Elements, and Langham Place

Ground rules: Each customer can only buy ONE piece of ONE size out of every item available.

Logistics for the Ladies: The first 320 customers will be separated into 16 different groups (20 customers per group) and each customer will be given a wristband (one of the 16 different colors representing 16 groups) which has a specified time on it and each customer will be given 10 minutes each to shop in the Lanvin section. If you're the 321st customer, you will need to wait until all 16 groups have finished shopping before you can get into the Lanvin section and pick up whatever that is left.

Logistics for the Gents: NO time limit for us gentlemen. So no wristbands, no groups.

I hope EVERY shopper will get whatever item their hearts desire! Here's a list of all the items with prices in HKD for some even earlier planning at home:

Source: H&M
Price lists credit: Popbee

This Week In Fashion

• Bottega Veneta to release a unisex timepiece, BVX, with Swiss watchmaker Girard Perregaux. NYTimes.com has more.

• Upper East Side x Lower East Side = J.Press x Urban Outfitters's collaboration. [Selectism]

Photo Credit: Selectism

• Apple's iPad gets extra chic with Dior Homme for Spring 2011. [HighSnobiety]

• Rachel Zoe, Joe Zee, Cynthia Rowley all appeared on Gossip Girl this week. And oh, six words: Rachel. Zoe. Chocolate. Fondue. All. Over. Watch clip here.

Zara Lookbook Young November 2010

Photo credits: Zara

Olivia Palermo & Johannes Huebl for Mango FW2010

You may not like her on MTV's The City, but I've always loved Olivia Palermo's sense of style and effortless elegance. Here we have the style icon's photoshoot for Mango's FW2010 catalog, along with her real life boyfriend, model Johannes Huebl. The two look smokin' hot and I wish Mango would introduce its menswear line, Mango Men, in Hong Kong soon!

Photo credits: Mango via Nitro:licious