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If new shoes and extra caffeine won’t put you in Fashion Week mode, Taxi TV will.

Jason Wu popped up on screen last week, and even when you mute the mini-screen it’s hard to miss Kim Kardashian’s-hanging-from-a-swing fragrance commercial, and despite fashion overload, it’s the only time of year we don’t mute Taxi TV.

Last season Cynthia Rowley debuted a short film and this season, Alternative Apparel’s airing their new video.

“I Kind of Love You” was shot in Laurel Canyon, but it’s inspired by French pop culture circa 1960 - more specifically the romance between Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.

The film will show off Alternative Apparel’s spring collection of cotton basics, which - unlike the shows you will have just seen - you won’t have to wait six months to buy.

Militaria: Lynn Yaeger explores the current military trend by going back to the source: army and navy stores. We’re still bundled in our olive green cargo coats. {Vogue.com}

Master of Makeup: Peter Philips, the global creative director of makeup for Chanel, has created and sent numerous trends down recent runways. (You’ll spot us in our Chanel tattoos this fashion week!) Here’s a quick slideshow of how he became the world’s most influential beauty source. {Style.com}

Rad!: The Rad by Rad Hourani e-shop is now open! Good news for fashionistas everywhere, bad news for our finances. {Rad by Rad Hourani via Jak&Jil}

Break Out: Do you have what it takes to be a model? Benetton is looking for new faces for their upcoming United Colors of Benetton F/W10 campaign. It’s a global casting competition and anyone can enter! Winners will be announced March 18. {Fashion Gone Rogue}

New York Fashion Week layers its shows one over the other with anywhere from three to five shows in a single time slot, but London’s perfectly organized with one show each hour.

What they fail to allot time for are the exhibitions, pop-ups and creative experiments that take over London during its Fashion Week.

We’ve already made mental notes to check out Liberty’s Carnaby Street celebration and Notting Hill’s Wolf & Badger — and Selfridge’s Nicholas Kirkwood collection’s always a must, but now we’ll have to plan a trip to the St. Martin’s Lane Hotel for Self-Service 1-31.

This season’s invites range from boring cardstock to controversial military medals and as usual, our favorite comes via Band of Outsiders.

They sent out their dreamy Polaroid late last week and it looks like the perfect escape from all the madness.

So far, the other winners include Mulberry’s glittery invite and a little notebook from Ports 1961 with a pack of rosemary seeds.

Rachel Antonoff sent a page ripped from a book with her presentation’s info highlighted among the words and while Abigail Lorick’s invite wasn’t mind blowing, we loved the silhouette sketched on the card.

Other than that, most invites look the same as last season, or even less exciting, so here’s hoping the shows themselves are mind-blowing.

Balenciaga’s just released their first fragrance in twelve years, Balenciaga Paris.

The scent, which is powdery, light, and perfect for someone who doesn’t want to smell like they’re wearing perfume, launches at Bergdorf Goodman on the 15th.

We expect Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Steven Meisel-shot campaign to pop up everywhere this spring, but for now, you can watch Nicolas Ghesquière talk about his process. The bottle, which will remain the same when they roll out new scents, is inspired by the classic Balenciaga silhouette. Ghesquière imagines a woman setting it down amongst her things to create an Irving Penn-like still life and he chose Charlotte for her “oddity…and bizarre beauty.”

All Hail Fast: The more Mark Fast, the better. Emily Blunt looks incredible in the cream feathered mini, and she sounds just as perfect in this interview. {LATimes}

Most Coveted: Great, now we can’t stop thinking about a YSL bag that doesn’t even really exist yet. “Chyc” might be the worst name, but the shape and the color more than make up for it. {StyleFile}

The Juicy Bits: Donatella Versace talks models and ego. She wishes today’s girls had more personality and looked less natural. We wish they had Cindy’s hair. {Independent}

So Fresh & So Clean: Marc Jacobs has made an air freshener. It’s a daisy chain, that smells like Marc’s daisy fragrance, and you can buy it at Sephora. {Nylon}

Fashion Week starts tomorrow, sort of, and we’ve spent the weekend resting, hydrating, exercising, eating and gathering our survival packs.

Some things - water, caffeine, internet access - are obvious necessities.

Everything else - scarves, candy, inspiration - stuffed into our bags is there to keep us sane, smiling and looking at least somewhat pulled together.

Our individual lists of essentials, after the jump.

Reader Clarke emailed us this morning, “Hope you find this interesting!”

Clueless and Miu Miu? Like, duh.

While sifting through Miu Miu’s Pre-Fall 2010 collection, he found Lindsey Wixson channeling Cher Horowitz circa 1995. Yellow plaid jacket? Check. Yellow plaid mini skirt? Check. White thigh highs tucked into loafers? Check.

She’s traded in the cell phone for a furry hood, but we think Cher would approve.