Fashion designers endorsing various lifestyle products and collaborating with other merchants is now commonplace--just check our Collab Mad tag for proof. That said, we're surprised to discover that the fanciest in the industry are teaming up with fashion's favorite diet food; water. Christian Lacroix designed an exclusive water bottle for Evian and, come 2009, the Gaultier version will be released. You won't catch a fashion woman with a Nalgene bottle so it only seems right to imagine that fashion is the best place to find "heavy users" who also care about the aesthetics.

Want to see some clothes? Check out the Gaultier Spring 09 collection, right here.

This collection is our favorite from today's shows by a landslide for the fact that it's appropriate for the office or a weekend with friends and that, really, is an important transition. The pumpkin colored blouse with shoulder detail and the slightly lighter, salmon colored trousers (left) had us at hello. A slighter more dressed up look had that same ability for transition, this time it was a mix of textures that kept things interchangeable. Monochromatic, easy to wear separates are endlessly salable if you ask us. One way to balance all of the luxe we're likely to indulge in (between our Halloween costumes, our holiday parties, and our latex leggings) is to keep part of your Fall and Spring shopping reserved for cool, calm clothes like these. Remember, everybody needs something to wear the day after. 

Seoul Fashion Week is giving us more of that one-sided hair style we love so much, making us huge, huge fans of theirs. The designer responsible was Vack Yuun Zung who showed clothing with a futuristic/early nineties flavor. Black latex pants might be easy enough for fashionistas to pull off but we're not so sure about white ones, as cool as they looked on the Vack Yuun Zung runway. Overall we're feeling good about all of the unknown (to us, at least) designers showing in various fashion weeks around the world. The truth is, Los Angeles really had us hurting...emotionally speaking. Be sure to check out the gallery below as well as our coverage of Toronto, Mexico, Lakme, and Los Angeles Fashion Weeks. 

We're in a whirlwind of peripheral fashion weeks having just finished Los Angeles and Mexico, and started up on Lakme, Toronto, and Seoul--we think (it's too many to keep track of). This morning, upon closer inspection, the Joeffer Caoc Spring 09 show that was part of L'Oreal Toronto Fashion Week really stood out to us. A basic color palette let the designer play with different textures, in fact, it may have been influenced by Proenza Schouler (texture) or Calvin Klein (basic color) for this reason. These days, women are wearing their dress trousers extra large and their cocktail dresses short and luxe and Joeffer Caoc gave us those things. There were also some great monochromatic dresses with chiffon layers or silk components that we think ladies will be looking for come holiday party time.