As standard logic goes, being called a “bag lady” is a bad thing.

For its tribute to the Chelsea Garden Show, Harvey Nichols asked some of London’s brightest designers to create floral installations, unveiling the results last night at its Secret Garden cocktail party on the retailer’s fifth floor.

Long weekends usually mean long drives, thanks to the inevitable crowds heading to their weekend getaway destinations. Not if Andr

It’s a good day for Louis Vuitton.

You might have already caught jewelry designer Dalila Barkache (and her exquisite taste in clothes) in Style.com’s Summer Shopping Guide this week, along with the likes of Inez van Lamsweerde, Phoebe and Annette Stephens of Anndra Neen, and music producer Caroline de Maigret. Since launching her line during Paris fashion week in October 2011, when she didn’t even have a showroom yet, the Paris and Tunis-based designer has been making a name for herself with her eponymous line and its best sellers, like her gold and diamond engagement ring sets. “I always wanted to do something distinctive—my first thought was being a perfumer but the school was too expensive,” she tells Style.com

The fashion set has seen its fair share of tropical prints following last summer, when Stella McCartney showed her Hawaiian-infused Resort collection with its colorful palm trees and deck chair stripes. Since then, it seems that almost every designer has caught McCartney’s case of jungle fever—see Joseph Altuzarra’s Spring 2012 show (where the models sauntered through an actual jungle) and Riccardo Tisci’s killer pre-fall looks at Givenchy

Kanye’s at Cannes (Kim Kardashian in tow, naturally), and he’s not going to let the film set steal the limelight. Therapper-slash-designer is debuting his own movie (which he wrote, produced, and directed), entitled Cruel Summer , tonight at Le Palm Beach Casino.

Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Albert II of Monaco own Faberg

Just to make sure you’ve got plenty of eye candy this summer, Karen Walker is serving it up in multiple flavors around the globe.

No matter the season, stripes are always on trend. Breton T-shirts and sailor stripe dresses have become warm-weather staples, but now designers like Markus Lupfer and Stella McCartney are offering fresh takes on the classic pattern.