Ads featuring M.I.A. — aka Maya Arulpragasam — shot by Juergen Teller's point-and-shoot for the Marc by Marc Jacobs' spring 2008 campaign, might have been unveiled several months ago, but you won't find her sporting Jacobs' duds any time soon. "You can't really be dressed in Marc Jacobs' clothes when you're on tour," she explained. "They're too nice." Her solution? "I have my own label no ...

Clearly recognizing the importance of this ever-growing season, Fendi almost quadrupled the size of its resort offering for 2009. Still, Karl Lagerfeld and co. did so without losing an iota of sophistication. Wide-legged jeans and other items nodded to the seventies, but—aside from a pair or two of Woodstock-worthy embroidered shorts with coordinating platforms—the collection deftly avoided hippie territory. Yachting references (a navy sus ...