Fave Look: Mandy Coon

Least overwhelming fashion week coverage ever: One look we love from the fall 2012 shows we care about. See more hits here, and click thisaway for the full collection.

Somebunny’s Missing Out…

Listen, we’ve been telling you that you need a Mandy Coon bunny bag for some time now. And it’s exhausting, frankly, so we’re going to let these two little ladies (one just slightly teenier than the other) do the hard sell today. Get your Ernie while you can! Just a few left! So, like, HOP TO IT. —erica

Dog Fancy: Four Pups That Have Way Better Style Than We Do

One of the Of a Kind perks we didn’t necessarily anticipate: We encounter a lot of cool-ass dogs when we visit designers’ studios. So we’re going to introduce you to four right now, and we trust that you won’t get upset with us if we do a round two someday soon. Because, PUPPIES!!! —jiayi

1) Mandy Coon’s Petunia, whose street name is Stinky—here decked out in pajamas and a Mandy Coon houndstooth jacket and cashmere sweater. Stinky has credits in a music video—in which she wore, oh, a silver lamé cape—and in Mandy’s S/S ‘11 lookbook shoot. MAJOR.

2) Erica Weiner’s dog Bunny, a five-pound Yorkie who’s a pro at steering attention his way (see: nudging iPhones out of hands, closing books). His first gift would have been any girl/tranny’s dream: a red sequin ballerina dress.

3) Lest you think we were only going to feature TOMTOM designer Elena Coleman Howell’s cat, meet her dog, Duck, clad in her two favorite pieces: A Snoop-channeling navy hoodie and a post-groomers handkerchief. To both we say: bad-ass.

4) It’s been nine months since we last wrote about Ellen Van Dusen’s pup Snips—named after a pair of thread-cutting scissors—and, as the designer puts it, Snips has become a “full grown dog-woman.” Here, she models a bow tie Ellen made for her from fabric that will make its appearance on a Dusen Dusen backpack any day now.

Call for Entries: Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Awards

PSA: The application for the 11th annual Ecco Domani awards is up. So all of you very talented designers should get on it: The deadline is October 14th..at 5p. Because this is some serious stuff. Our very first designer, Mandy Coon—an amazing maxi dress from her fall collection pictured above—was one of the seven winners last round, and we’re still patting ourselves on the back about it even though we had nothing to do with it. —erica

Greg Cerulo (Erica’s Dad) Picks His Fave Five Of a Kind Editions

In honor of Father’s Day—June 19th, you guys—Claire and I have asked our dads to share the Of a Kind editions that they like the best of all. This would be more of a challenge if they didn’t both have strong opinions in this realm, sending emails with notes like, “Good colors,” or, “This one’s a sure sell-out.” Up first, my father, who claims that if he were to start his career over today, he would be a food/culture blogger. He’s peppered his product descriptions with more sports references than this site has seen up to now. —erica

Field of Diamonds Tunic by Toujours Toi Family Affairs: “Subtle baseball inferences can be found using poetic license: Field of Dreams, the diamond…Anyway, I’m smitten with the silk fabric and its beauty and intricacy—just like America’s pastime.”

Trails Rucksack by Dusen Dusen: “With the advent of smaller laptops and now the iPad, I traded in my business briefcase for a backpack. Try it! You’ll like it!”

Celia Bag by Rachel Nasvik: “The art of crafting leather made life in America possible for some of my ancestors. No synthetic will ever approach its attributes. In the inevitable remake of The Graduate, the man at the party might be uttering “leather” to Benjamin Braddock.” [Ed: His grandfather (and then uncle) owned a shoe-repair business in St. Louis.]

Sulis Necklace by Erin Considine: “Rock beats scissors, scissors beat paper, paper beats Rock. But! Hands beat machine, end of story, and that’s the draw of this singular piece, a conversation starter to the appreciative.”

Ernie Bunny Bag by Mandy Coon: “Like everyone’s new friend Nicky Gilbert says, ‘What’s not to like?’” [Ed: I bet the designer never saw that allusion to the NBA Draft coming.]

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Oh, hi, most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in some time. Please note that this Slow and Steady Wins the Race faux fox stole should not be worn with Mandy Coon’s Ernie bunny bag. You gotta keep your predators and prey separate. —erica

How chic is Mandy Coon’s use of faux fur for fall? Answer: so. She has a way with both fake skins and fake animals. —erica

via style.com

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Oh wow, he looks so good SUN-BATHED. Ernie is a New York boy at heart, but a little Los Angeles living never hurt anybunny. And, you’re welcome, Justine. As Richard Wright would say, “an icon for an icon.” —claire

tanya77:

OMG, OMG, I just got my Bunny Bag from OfAKind!! Claire + Erica, THANK YOU!!!!!!

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UPDATE: Grandma Shirley snapped a pic of herself rocking the bunny bag. —claire