Lacoste spring 2011, Imaxtree

Long summer days fill our agendas with early bird shopping and late night dinners with the gals. We come prepared with a camera in one hand and a fro-yo in the other. But it’s hard to keep our makeup intact throughout the day under the scorching sun. Of all summertime pet peeves, many women face is the ever-gleaming T-zone (across your forehead and down your nose bridge). Gross. Don’t fret, dears, here’s your one-stop ultimate summer guide to control that oil!

Photo: Alessandra Facchinetti

The last time we saw Alessandra Facchinetti she was gracefully trying to take the reins at Valentino after Garavani retired in 2007. She lasted just one year before she was dismissed immediately following the spring 2009 show. Before that, the designer spent a minute at Gucci, but it’s been three years since we’ve heard from her. Today Pinko announced that she’d be designing a collection in collaboration with the Italian company called Uniqueness. The ready-to-wear collection will debut at Paris Fashion Week in September and go on sale immediately after, both online and in stores. Facchinetti said in a release, “I’m excited to have the chance to work on such an innovative and unconventional project, where the freedom to interpret the times effectively becomes the brand’s DNA.”

Photo: DSquared2

Dean and Dan Caten of DSquared2 have run the aesthetic gamut from ripped short shorts to lumberjack jackets, from black tie tuxes to elegant dresses suited for ladies who lunch and last night, in London, the two launched their first capsule collection of seven suits. Their new emphasis, obviously, is on sharp tailoring. Said Dan, “We chose seven cities that we have really loved over the years. Obviously Toronto because that’s where we are from, then also New York, Milan, Paris, Beverly Hills, Hollywood and London. We designed each one based on our take of the city, so some have a tighter silhouette, others boxier—and we had loads of fun doing it.”

Photo: Juergen Teller for Marc Jacobs

Helena Bonham Carter’s been very busy lately.  She’s starring in a new film, Toast, that kicked off the British film festival taking place across the States this summer, making another movie with her partner, Tim Burton, and frequent co-star, Johnny Depp, and, rather unexpectedly, turning up as the face of Marc Jacobs’ fall campaign. (It was photographed, and leaked by, Juergen Teller.) Bonham Carter took a minute off working with Burton and Depp in London to answer our questions.

Photo: Imaxtree

Hussein Chalayan‘s preparing for his first major retrospective, launching in Paris next week. On July 5th, Les Arts Decoratifs, with help from Swarovski, will pay tribute to the designer with a look back at his almost twenty year career. The crystal company’s sponsored quite a few of Chalayan’s shows over the past five years and six of his Swarovski-studded dresses will be at the center of the exhibit. We caught up with the designer to find out how he’s feeling on the eve of such a big moment.

Photos: Suno, Stella McCartney, Givenchy & Pedro Lourenco

A few designers took the word resort quite literally and threw some real life Hawaiian prints into their collections. There’s mixed media, indie surf enthusiasts, and minimal palm textiles that will make taking two weeks of leftover vacation time seem reasonable come holiday time. When indulging in a print so innately happy, how can you imagine yourself doing anything other than sipping daiquiris and soaking up Vitamin D? Only Stella McCartney could take the cringe-worthiness of the Hawaiian shirt and make it unexpectedly cool—as in, we’d actually wear it. Paired with contrasting board shorts, capelets, and lounge pants, her spring collection delivered some serious panache. At Suno, bonafide print experts Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty presented a dizzyingly bright palm-frond print. Although gauche by any other standard the duo’s designs were sophisticated thanks to their tailored silhouettes. French newcomer Pedro Lourenço took the opposite route with a minimal palm trees printed onto sleek shift dresses—well suited to the Palm Beach set’s penchant for tennis-like duds. Also rather sporty are Ricardo Tisci’s digitalized textiles at Givenchy—a mishmash of birds of paradise and hibiscus florals translated once more onto a shift. Even the Europeans have gone surfing USA!

Kate Moss doing a personal appearance for Calvin Klein in 1995. Photo: Getty Images

Kate Moss is finally tying the knot tomorrow! She’ll marry Jamie Hince of The Kills in a three day festival lovingly dubbed Mosstock by her Cotswald neighbors. The ceremony is Friday, and though some guests like Naomi Cambpell and Phillip Green will jet straight to Monaco for Prince Albert’s wedding to Charlene Wittstock on Saturday, everyone else will stick around through the weekend. So what do we know so far? Even the food will be rockstar inspired. “She is going to be serving Keith Richards’ shepherd’s pie, Steve Tyler’s thai curry and Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie’s sausage and mash,” says a “friend.” But there will be vegan food, too, and the cocktail recipes hail from her favorite hotel in Jamaica. {DailyTelegraph} If daquiries aren’t your thing, she’s brought in “truck fulls” of vodka, champagne and red bull, all of which will be served by the Ritz hotel staff she’s flying in to wait on her guests. {Styleite} Guests like Jade Jagger, Jude Law, Stella McCartney and even Banksy will be given “Oscar style gift bags” stuffed full of Mulberry, makeup and—we’re guessing here—booze. Also, should they need it, there’ll be an area set up to offer manicures, pedicures and massages. {DailyMail} If you’re still not sure what to get the royal couple, aside from the ashtrays, vintage champagne and cocktails sets, they’re in the market for a rabbit shaped jelly mold.  {HuffPo}

Photo: WWD

When Victoria Beckham launched her first eponymous collection for spring 2009 there were no expectations. The former Spice Girl had dabbled in fashion—first with bedazzled jeans and then sunglasses—but aside from a self-mocking Marc Jacobs ad the year before she hadn’t yet been embraced by high fashion. After just one collection of sleek, Roland Mouret-like dresses, she was in. Since then, her dresses have popped up on celebrities like Eva Mendes and Blake Lively, she’s launched $14,000 handbags and established a real life luxury brand. Now, she’s aiming to please the girls who can’t splurge on dresses worth thousands with her new collection of dresses, Victoria by Victoria Beckham. The dresses, which are slated for spring 2012, will range from $550 to $900.  Despite their girlishness, Beckham was inspired by Emily the Strange, the cat-loving cartoon character, and expects a few prints to end up in the collection. She told WWD she’s created, “The perfect little summer dress, something that was fun, something that was girly, something that was easy to wear, something that would take you from day through the night.” What’s next for Beckham? After giving birth to her fourth child, and first girl, next month, she’ll set her sights on the next big project—a brick and mortar store in New York City.

All Time Low (from left to right): Rian, Alex, Jack, Zack; courtesy of Interscope

Entering the Billboard Top 200 chart at #6 with their first major label, Interscope, are the all-time cuties of pop punk band All Time Low with their fourth album Dirty Work. Well, can’t say we’re surprised. Alex Gaskarth (guitar and lead vocals), Jack Barakat (guitar and vocals), Zack Merrick (bass and vocals), and Rian Dawson (drums) have more than enough reason to celebrate but instead are giving us even more reason to scream and dance as they kick of their “Gimme Summer Ya Love” tour on July 28th. Since their basement days in high school we’ve been rooting for the boys, who’ve proven that the best way to succeed is by just being yourself. Hear what the ever-so-sincere Alex Gaskarth had to say about their successful album, the boys’ sound, and tips for catching his eye.