CK Jeans FW 08 PH: Meisel Image via models.com

The product is CK Jeans, but note the return of that late 80's Calvin Klein font treatment. TI loves that they twerked it!

CK1 was launched with a memorable campaign by Steven Meisel in the 90's that featured a catchall of some of the coolest kids of that age, from Stella and Kate to Richard Elms, Lois Samuels and Donovan Leitch. It'll be intruiging to see how Meisel and Brokaw follow up up the legacy of the fragrance...In other news...add the upcoming Givenchy men's show as the latest in fashion multi-cultural casting block.

This weekend I read Ingrid Sischy's Vanity Fair profile on Calvin Klein's post Calvin Klein Inc. existence. It constitutes buying and decorating multiple houses and it is indeed an enviable life. There is a section in the article that gets into a bit of heavy lifting in arguing Calvin Klein's validity as a landmark American designer. It got me thinking...what is it exactly about Calvin Klein that stays on our minds? After all these years, the power of his imaging still haunts American fashion like the echo of a music that once kept the party going.

Toni Garrn as the height of Teutonic Android Chic :Image via thefashionspot

Kamila F/IMG: A girl most wanted in her too gorgeous polaroid

The most expensive girls in the most reasonable clothes. Very Gap!

Kate Moss: Naomi Campbell: IMG: Vogue Paris Feb 08: via thefashionspot.com

Camille : New York Models: is ready for her close-up. PH: James Mahon

The madness is upon us again. Show week cometh and the first omen of the next three weeks of drama, screaming, panic and exhaustion (all in the name of a 10 minute runway experience) is the show packages. Supreme which has been shooting their package since November 07 has fired the first salvo. TI has previewed the packages for Elite (very classic, all B+W ), NY Models ( super-fresh, super-clean and stocked with some of the best newcomers on the market), Women (very delicate, very...painterly) and is headed over to Ford and 1 Mgmt to see what they might have in store. Show packages afford an opportunity for each agency to make a statement about its identity as well as to say to the market "This is how hard my scouting division has been working". That is an exciting proposition because it means every agency has to make an aesthetic stand for those three weeks. Though the back beat of money is still constant, at least there is some creative energy released into the ether.

Gianfranco Ferre's little store front

Prada, Calvin, Balenciaga ... Gianfranco Ferre? TI's been hearing the buzz, first in the form of the upcoming men's show in January that the Ferre label was about to be refashioned as the epitome of au courant hipness. The hippest male models on the face of the earth, as thin, young and androgynous as possible were being canvassed by a very blue chip casting director. Then today at lunch I picked up the buzz that Karl Templar and Fabien Baron have been harnessed to remake and remodel the branding of Ferre. That certainly explains Major's Egle as shot by David Sims for the SS08 campaign. Which means you should brace yourself for a rush of glossy mag raves about the cool new Ferre taste point. Wonder if it'll be a hit on the sales floor...Also Caroline Poznanski formerly of Next has just ascended to the throne of director of the editorial Women's board at Ford NY. Seems someone went shopping with their cash infusion...And model watchers posted outside the Meisel studios in NY and LA can stop spying now. Mr Meisel is done shooting for the year as of this weekend we hear. No more campaigns, no more editorials, no more Italian Vogue. Its a wrap as they say. Back on the agency front...are you done with your FW 08 show package yet? Women's Chris Gay has his locked. Paul Rowland was in Milk Studios for much of October and November lensing Supreme's . NY Model's has their vision worked out and TI's glimpsed them all. Can't wait to see them hit the desk in Jan! But there's a much needed vacation to savor first.

IMG=Inevitable Money Girl: A sleek and sexy Hilary Rhoda: Polaroid date 12-5-07