Proenza Schouler’s sporty designs are currently in Target stores. The next collaboration for the company’s popular GO International series is Paco Rabanne designer Patrick Robinson — and now Target’s just announced the next in the lineup - punky fashion label Libertine.

Full story: Shopping Buzz

Somewhere in the years between Hollister and Chico’s, female shoppers get lost. Women frequently ask me for suggestions on places to shop that don’t cater to teens. They’re put off by what they perceive as overly trendy mall stores, but spots intended for the “mature” woman (might as well just call her matronly) scare them off as well.

Full story: TwinCities.com

Some new shopping search engines are taking aim at the existing big shopping search engines by bucking the trend of featuring paid advertisers. Instead they display the entire panoply of product choices on the web. One of these new companies, TheFind.com, seeks to out-Google us with offerings. We tried searching for one of our Christmas list items, a crossbow, and sure enough the beta version of The Find, found 6591 items in 534 stores (by its own calculations). On page 10 of the search results, the items were still entirely relevant, and you know page 10 of any web search is often floating away like flotsam on a river of tangents. Don’t know much about their technology, but we like the image thumbnails that are so easy to scan. And the pop-up info available for each find. Impressive. (Btw, that crossbow, $600+ at MC Sports, is the real deal, for hunters, not for kids.)

And now, the men’s equivalent of the little black dress: Male fashion stands test of time in chic movie list

Here’s something really helpful: GQ100: The Best Stores for Men in America

From the real lives of the Shopperati: Fashion Blog Steams Up Saks Windows

Roll over NFL and tell NASCAR the news: More and more, men like shopping

Shop Better Here is offering an early peek at the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book. Featured gift: a Virgin Galactic charter flight to space that goes for $1,764,000. Talk about out of this world!

Cool Tools: The Art of the Stonemason
Anything that looks like real work sends me looking for professionals who can spare me the pain of a DIY gone horribly awry. But if you’re into the deep down skinny on constructing walls and such, Cool Tools has this interesting book for you.

teenfashionista.com: Runway Roundup
An entertaining list of her faves from Fashion Week.

I want - I got
Geekgirl contemplates “the bubble look.”

The Budget Fashionista: Fall 2006 What to Buy
This entry finds The Budget Fashionista warming up to the new JCPenney line. Shocking, but true!

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