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Prada Group has announced Miu Miu menswear is no more. The collection for spring/summer 2008 will be the last one to produced and distributed by Prada reports WWD.

According to reports, Prada hopes the cut will strengthen the womenswear which is enjoying a sales surge.

Justin Timberlake's William Rast clothing label, has signed a deal with J. Lindeberg founders Johan and Marcella Lindeberg to branch out into womenswear via a new sportswear line, Vogue UK reports.

"I have always admired the modern designs and sophisticated aesthetics of Johan and Marcella Lindeberg," the singer told WWD.

Esteban Cortazar has been named chief designer of Emanuel Ungaro.

The 23-year-old, Bogota, Colombia-born native presented his first namesake collection at the age of 18 in New York in 2003. Cortazar, who recently relocated from Miami, Fla. to New York, will now be based in Paris but will continue to commute back and forth between the two cities reports Fashion Week Daily.

As part of his new post at Ungaro, Cortazar has made the decision to discontinue pursuing expansion of his signature collection and to devote 100 percent of his efforts to revitalizing the respected couture house. Cortazar, who stopped showing his own collection a year ago, said he was planning to restructure his company.

Wallpaper Magazine, which specializes on international events, interior designs, fashion and travel, has recently published on its website a set of marvelous pictures featuring the different levels of Dover Street Market.

The London-based multi-level store offers one of the best shopping experiences in the world; therefore I believe that anyone who hasn't been there should at least see a few pictures of how it looks.

The photograph about shows an Alber Elbaz design located on the third floor.

For more information and the complete set of pictures, go to www.wallpaper.com

Music and fashion have always been related. They are as well the two basic “things” that characterize an epoch - imagine the 80s without white jackets and Mtv, impossible right? So when one label or designer feels inspired by music and decides to design something connected to that scene, fashionistas contently celebrate. And most of the times that’s the right thing to do. But now Gina Alexander, a Hollywood based designer whose clientele include several A-list celebrities, has presented her own music related accessories, and I hardly think that we should be celebrating.

In spite of being a well-known designer from Hollywood land, I don’t exactly think that his latest work is up to her standards. Gina’s most recent line evokes the spirit of great music legend Jimi Hendrix and honor him deeply. From jackets to handbags, the accessories designer portrays an iconic Jimi Hendrix item or himself in every of her pieces. Some of them are merely good, they are colorful and popish, but that’s about it.

With this tribute collection Gina tries to remind the people of how great the guitar player was. It’s all part of a massive campaign lead in collaboration with Janie Hendrix - sister of the rock legend himself. Gina told Billboard magazine that they were trying to give the Jimi Hendrix name something stylish and couture and not just other t-shirt - yes, that’s right: couture. I wonder what on earth she meant by couture, because that’s far away of being vogue and well-crafted.