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This fall, Paris Le Grand and Cafe de la Paix are proud to announce the return of “Les Patisseries Fashion.” This brand new collection of pastries were designed and presented by three giants of the fashion world: Franck Sorbier, Jean-Claude Jitrois, and Marithé + François Girbaud. And they’re ready for the tasting.

“Love Bites” follows in the footsteps of four years of Cafe de la Paix’s designer pastry tradition. Past participating celebrity designers have included Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Stanislassia Klein (Stella Cadente), Chantal Thomass, Agnès B, Paco Rabanne, Gaspard Yurkievich, Claude Montana, Olivier Lapidus, Elie Saab and Franck Boclet.

These creative and delicious pastries are absolutely not to be missed on your trip to grand Paris.

Fashionistas, get ready. With the Stockholm Fashion Week over, there’s a crop of pretty Scandinavian designs just ready for Spring. Here are some of the freshest faces in design today:

Dagmar
Three sisters team up to bring a number of feminine frocks in light cottons and neutral colors, but the attention to detail is what makes their pieces so lovely.

Cheap Monday
For the downtown girl, cheap isn’t something to wrinkle a nose at. It’s most fun to pair the more girly, “dear” pieces with inexpensive, bad-girl chic, and that’s where Cheap Monday saves the day. Their denim comes in a myriad of colors and cuts, and Spring 2009 is no different— artfully faded pastels or darks.

Minimarket
This newcomer is making its mark by bring back a sense of play to the fashion scene. Giant buttons, bows, rouging, and ladybug spots adorn high-waisted shorts and skirts, loose sweaters, and boxy-yet-femme jackets.