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Bunny Quote du Jour: Diane Kruger

"It's a bit embarrassing to wear walking around in a train station!"

- Diane Kruger said of the ultra-mini Balenciaga dress she wore to Grand Central Terminal on Tuesday's luncheon honoring party planner Antony Todd, hosted by A Diamond Is Forever

Good golly miss molly... that must've been quite the flossy flossy swag bag!

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Bunny Quote du Jour: Charles Anastase

Charles Anastase, London-based Frenchman and creator of whimsical fairy tale clothes -- donned by the likes of Kylie Minogue to Kelly Osbourne to Beth Ditto -- tells British Elle:

"It's the best-ever story about a girl's dream. When I started, it was just for fun. Then the whole collection sold... Apparently, Marc Jacobs thinks I'm cool, and [Comme des Garçons founder] Rei Kawakubo is wearing my clothes - it's like a dream you couldn't imagine! There's no reason to be minimal, it's so boring. Wear necklaces, rings, socks, everything! Carry a dog, a monkey, or a rat in a bag! I am crazy in my life. I'm just in my living room with fabric, watching my cat, Charlie, fight with squirrels in the garden. It's very romantic."

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Bunny Quote du Jour: Richard Nicoll

"I think fashion's current hyper-obsession with celebrities is crass. I think it will all implode. In fact, I think it has already started to do so with Victoria Beckham modeling in the new Marc Jacobs advertising campaign. Don't you think it's ironic that this season, when Marc Jacobs referenced Comme des Garçons - the antithesis of what a footballer's wife should wear - he has chosen to advertise it on a footballer's wife?"
- Richard Nicoll [above, with Diane Kruger donning his alluringly feminine, architectural collection] whose no doubt A-List celeb clientele just coincidentally includes Chloë Sevigny, Sophia Coppola and Mischa Barton...

And isn't that ironic... don't you think? It's a black fly in your Chardonnay!

(and thus concludes our 1997 flashback commemoration du jour)

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Bunny Quote du Jour: Jesse Finkelstein

"All of the looks are named after the world’s tallest towers, so there’s a cheeky reference to jumping off of buildings. There’s also an allusion to being on the brink of something and actively jumping into it rather than abjectly falling into it."
- Jesse Finkelstein, designer of JF & Son

To read the entire interview with writer & historian Shiela Breckman and Jesse Finkelstein about JF & Son's about Autumn/Winter '08 collection: click clickity click click!

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Bunny Quote du Jour: Alexander McQueen

"I've got a 600-year-old elm tree in my garden, and I made up this story of a girl who lives in it and comes out of the darkness to meet a prince and become a queen."
- Alexander McQueen, describing his regal Fall/Winter 2009 collection

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Bunny Quote du Jour: Riccardo Tisci

"People call me a Gothic designer, I don't think I am... I like black, I like white. I never like what's in the middle."
- Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci
to The New York Times's Cathy Horyn

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Bunny Quote du Jour [Countdown to Earth Day Edition]: Shalom Harlow

"I'm also really interested in living a simple, natural life. Maybe being a sheep farmer and producing [my] own textiles off in the woods somewhere. So, we'll see... I might end up there in a few years."
- Shalom Harlow to Tonne Goodman:

Model citizen Shalom sits down (on the floor) with Domino and generously offers indispensable earth-friendly advice. So get your bamboo notebooks handy and take note!

You moved to Manhattan from Ontario. Has it been hard being eco in the Big Apple? You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green. I discovered there are lots of things about a big city that are really green: population density, fewer cars and more mass transit (meaning less carbon emissions). But initially, I longed for more outdoor spaces.

Any of your country ways translate to city living?
I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure. There's a Japanese system called the Bokashi (scdworld.com). You cut up your table scraps and add a special mixture that speeds the breakdown process. Compost makes houseplants very happy.

What's in your closet?
Anna Cohen's edgy organic fiber separates. Crisp pieces from Noir. Linda Loudermilk jeans and baby-doll dresses. Yummy cashmere from Stuart + Brown, all made by Mongolians living in their traditional way.

Paper or plastic—or neither?
Paper, if I've forgotten to bring my own bag. I have a grocery tote that's made from recycled rice bags (geckotraders.com).

What are some small changes we could make?
Two easy things: Switch to CFLs, which use about 25 percent of the energy of an incandescent lightbulb; and if you're going to take home a doggy bag, ask for the food to be wrapped in tinfoil, which you can reuse. And, of course, buy local whenever possible. Remember, when you order online, it's not free shipping for the planet!

Ideal green date?
An afternoon at Storm King, a sculpture museum in the Hudson Valley, and a meal at nearby Blue Hill at Stone Barns, which has a working farm). Of course, we'd drive there in a hybrid....

Would you date a guy who owns a Hummer?
I don't want to discriminate, but I can't imagine being attracted to someone with those values.

How do you avoid seeming preachy?
Nobody responds to being made to feel judged—I know I'd get defensive. It's about bringing awareness to topics someone hasn't considered. When my boyfriend and I started dating, he would buy two things at the deli and bring them home in a plastic bag. One day, I said, "Maybe you don't want to take the bag?" Just a little adapting can mean less plastic in a landfill.

Fave cleaning product?
Citra-Solv is a natural, nontoxic Mr. Clean. It's that good! And it smells delicious.

What websites do you have bookmarked?
idealbite.com They have a newsletter that focuses on one thing each day—today it was recycled card companies. It's always smart, savvy and upbeat.
treehugger.com Of course. vivavi.com Great source for green furniture. The Signature 1.0 bamboo console is beautiful.

click: to read the full Domino article

**Bonus Bunny Love:

In the May issue of Elle U.S., ecological phenom Shalom Harlow dazzles atop the rocky seas sporting gorgeous graphic prints, voluminous layers and sustainable fabrics:

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Bunny Quote du Jour: Paul Smith

"Why don't you treat yourself to a new read? I'm a fan of Persephone Books, with their wonderfully spring-like floral jackets."
-Paul Smith in the Diana Vreeland-esque Why Don't You...? final page of the au courant U.K. Harper's Bazaar

In their own words:

"Persephone prints mainly neglected fiction and non-fiction by women, for women and about women. The titles are chosen to appeal to busy women who rarely have time to spend in ever-larger bookshops and who would like to have access to a list of books designed to be neither too literary nor too commercial. The books are guaranteed to be readable, thought-provoking and impossible to forget. We sell mainly through mail order, through selected shops and we have our own shop.

Our titles include novels, short stories, diaries and cookery books. They are all carefully designed with a clear typeface, a dove-grey jacket, a 'fabric' endpaper and bookmark, and a preface by writers such as Jilly Cooper, Adam Gopnik, and Jacqueline Wilson."

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Bunny Quote du Jour: Sandra Backlund

"My work is very personal to me. I improvise and allow myself to loose control and see what happens if I do not think so much about practical things. The human body is always the starting point. I am really fascinating by all the ways you can highlight, distort and transform the natural silhouette of the body with clothes and accessories. I build my garments by hand from a couple of basic bricks which I multiply and attach to each other in different ways to discover the shape that I want. In that sense I approach fashion more like a tailor.

The handicraft process and the handmade feeling is also very significant. I am interested in almost every traditional handicraft method. I do experiment a lot with different materials and techniques, but it is through my heavy wool collage knitting that I have found the ultimate way to express myself. It is a freedom to be able to make your own fabric while working. For me it is the absolute challenge. All the levels of skills you have to pass before you can even think about starting to improvise. It is the real thing and everything the modern fashion industry is not."
-Sandra Backlund

Julia Lapin's bunny amie Filippa Berg
backstage at Sandra Backlund F/W 2009 Stockholm Fashion Week:

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Bunny Quote du Jour: Katie Grand

"I was really nerdy. And then, kind of overnight, I can clearly remember thinking, 'I just want to be cool.' Around that time, my dad's girlfriend moved up from London and I thought she was terribly chic. She always used to wear Warehouse, which had just opened and was really good, because Jeff Banks was still in charge. So there are photos of me aged twelve wearing waist-high tight red jeans with a puffed-sleeved blue sweater and awful hair, and then aged thirteen in an ankle-length black gathered skirt, white shirt tucked in, braces (suspenders), a black tie, black lace tights, navy blue stilettos and a black beret with a veil. So it was quite quick! And I really got into going to London and going to the Great Gear Market and all that kind of thing."
- Katie Grand to Murray Healy: full Hinterview

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