"Handbag Designer 101's" Featured Designer of The Day is...Yours Truly!

Today I was pleasantly surprised to open an e-mail from a top handbag site, Handbagdesigner101, informing me that I had been chosen to be their "handbag designer of the day"!

What an honor! Many extremely talented handbag designers have been featured on this site in the past, so I feel privileged to be part of their esteemed list!

To the folks over at Handbagdesigner101.com, thanks for giving me some love!!!

You can check out my feature story by clicking on the link below.

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SEASONED DESIGNERS NOT FEELING THE "CELEB" DESIGNERS AT FALL 2008 L.A. FASHION WEEK

Just as L.A. Fashion Week took a step forward, the celeb-as-designer trend seems to have sent it two steps back.

Though the presence of bigger and more legitimate designers has grown over the past few years, fashion regulars Sue Wong, Kevan Hall and Ed Hardy are not showing Fall 2008 collections at Culver City's Smashbox photo studios this week.

So as Fashion Week got under way Sunday, the spotlight turned to the likes of "The Hills" star Lauren Conrad, Nicky Hilton and the Pussycat Dolls.

Yes, the Pussycat Dolls.

Hey, it's just Hollywood, right?

Wong, for one, calls the emerging trend "absolutely bogus."

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(Courtesy of OMG.yahoo.com)