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While we're still waiting for the Italian calfskin version of these puppies, we here at WCIP always appreciate the ever-developing merger of fashion and technology.

Here from our friends at Tekserve, we bring you the TAVO gloves, optimized for use with your iPhone on the chilliest of east coast mornings. A patented technology from the from the future allows for touch sensitivity to be maintained while digits stay toasty.

Lera Loeb's Story: Put It On My Green Card, Dahlink

It all started with online ad. 

A young Ukrainian girl with big dreams and a sly smile dared to believe that life held more for her than a small kitchen in the countryside, and so she did what many do in her homeland - she became a mail order bride. Time passed. The world turned. This girl became the new face of fashion blogging prescience, and entered the public eye. Her name was Lera Loeb.

In the summer of 2009, Lera replied to another online ad. This time it was We Came In Peace looking to make a match. The budding ingénue found a place among our ranks as a public relations maven and networking secret agent. Recall our FAMILY TREE?

Soon, her work at WCIP thrust her back into the spotlight - a GAWKER article surfaced, GLAMOUR came calling, and soon she was on the radar of the Queen of Talk: OPRAH herself.

Last week, Lera traveled to Ukraine for the first time since departing to America. She was followed by Oprah's crews as she pranced about the streets of Dnepropetrovsk, explaining viewers all over the USA just how lucky we are as Americans by pointing out the shortcomings of living in a post-communist society. While a clever spin by Oprah's pro-american producers - wow, look at this unconventional coming to America story, folks! - this narrative ultimately had an explosive outcome. 

After the taping of the show, our dear comrade Lera found herself under fire by Ukrainian nationalists popping up all over the Oprah studio audience. Her true Ukrainian heritage was called into question. She was accused of negatively portraying the country as a whole, her attackers questioning her intellect and upbringing. Although Oprah came to her defense, Lera didn't need help from the richest black lady on earth - she stood up in her custom TWENTYTEN gown and eloquently and effectively put the rumblings to rest. "My mother iz a cardiologist and makes 100 dollars a month - that's the real Ukraine."

The applause could be heard from Chicago to the Lower East Side. 

Nice Hat There, Rookie

Hat designer Christopher from the cool new millinery brand I Love Factory just dropped by the WCIP studio to show off the latest feather in his cap: 13 year old wonder-blogger Tavi has been photographed wearing one of the I Love Factory's amazing handmade creations in the relaunch issue of Pop Magazine. Fashionistas be shoppin!

Pop | Fall 2009 Issue 

Fashion Spy: Digital Prints In London

Pixel-perfect, computer generated images on beautiful dresses is where it's at in London right now. 
Mary Katrantzou, the second generation of British digital print design movement has coined a name for herself last season with a perfume bottle inspired collection (check it out here). Besides, Vogue Nippon's fashion director-at-large  and a glamazon-about-town Anna Dello Russo has been spotted wearing one of MK's perfume bottle frocks with a spinal cord design on the back at the shows in NY -- not for the faint of heart but amazing!