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After presenting at LA Fashion Week with much fanfare and receiving an award from US Weekly for creating the most fashionable celebrity clothing line this year, The Hills' Lauren Conrad has found herself in a veritable quandary: no one wants to buy her pieces anymore.

Agh...the outrage!

It turns out that her little appearance at Bloomingdale's a couple of weeks, you know, the one that made the department store's vice chairman proclaim that LC's collection was "the best-selling celebrity line [they had]," well, didn't do much to help her brand's slagging sales.

Apparently, the racks with Lauren's designs are totally overstuffed because no one wants to buy anything. At all. Not even when stores like Kitson offer a buy-one-get-one free deal are people willing jump on those jersey dresses. But really, this is suppose to be a surprise to whom?



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Robertson Blvd is a notorious hot spot for paparazzi and celebrities. The street is constantly filled with double parked SUVs, along with snappers jumping out and bombarding Paris Hilton on her way to Kitson. Quite frankly, it's dangerous, but I won't go political on you today! I was hired to shoot inside the launch of Muxo Handbags designed by new mom Camila Alves (which, you guessed it, was on Roberston).

Matthew McConaughey arrived with his newborn Levi Alves, breaking through a crowd of paparazzi and running into Kitson Studio.

The leather travel bags, handbags and clutches co-designed by Camila's mother and handmade by the mother-daughter team represent a lifetime of design experience with one-of-a-kind leather finishes and superb construction -- the result of which is this highly anticipated collection where elegance meets tribal exotic in the most beautiful way.

The handbags are a bohemian chic, with leather fringe, mixing blacks and browns that add an elegance to the laid back, distressed materials.

McConaughey sipped margaritas and snacked on catering by Beverly Hills hot spot Crustaceans

Check out the handbag line in my gallery below along with the few guests who showed up.

Gallery: Matthew McConaughey Muxo Handbags

You know Felix Ray from Sex in the City, and you've seen Jennifer Lopez and Paris Hilton carrying bags with the signature bow.

Usually you have to go to Kitson, Henri Bendel, or Saks and pay $200 or more for a Felix Ray bag. But you can pick up this pretty Small Metal Mesh Bow clutch for a mere $36 at the "Rolls Royce of all garage sales."

It gets better! The proceeds go to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. So you're not shopping, you're donating!

This wonderous sale, dubbed Super Saturday 11 will be held in Walter Mill, NY on Saturday, July 26th. If you're not local to the area, you're still in luck, because they're partnering with QVC and QVC.com to make this bag, as well as select items from over 200 designers, available to the rest of us.

The other designers include Donna Karan, Carolina Herrera, Michael Kors, and Calvin Klein. At QVC and QVC.com you'll find hot designers like ADAM Adam Lippes, alice+olivia, and Theory.

Got your heart set on that Felix Ray bag? Here's a shopping tip: the item # on QVC is: #S4061. Happy donating!

Whit Honea is a slacker, a borderline degenerate, and a daydream believer. He's also our resident expert on casual chic. If it's comfortable, and not heinous, he's all over it. He's quite charming, really.

Crooked Monkey Funny t-shirts is living the dream. The clothing company was formed by two buddies in 2005 and quickly shot through the ranks of the t-shirt elite. Within two years they were being featured in GQ magazine and popular stores like "Urban Outfitters, Nordstrom, Lord and Taylor, Kitson, ShopIntuition.com, Fred Segal and over 550 other fine retailers across the world (including Japan, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia)."

King/Queen of Schadenfreude Perez Hilton is gleefully proclaiming the death of the clothing line "created" by Hills "star" Lauren Conrad. Kitson dropped her from their L.A. boutiques because of "lackluster sales." Ouch.

Like seemingly everyone else, we found the stuff she "designs" to be overpriced given their lack of originality, but not that bad. If anything, they were an almost perfect thermometer of vapid popularity. Are maxi-dresses still popular? Yes, LC has one in the latest "collection" which means they will be around for another 15 minutes.

Sure, it's a blow to get dropped by trend-maker Kitson, but like a weed, we're sure LC will pop up somewhere else. In the meantime, mid-western sweet sixteens with fat allowances and a "reality" show addiction can still get their drapey jersey dress fix online.

Just when you thought Ugg boots couldn't get any worse, these Ugg-style boots by Love from Australia show up on shelves. Not only has Love "painted" these already ugly boots pink, but they have added matching feathers. This is boot insanity at it's finest.

I feel that it is my civic duty as a fashionista to warn everyone against these hideous boots. Don't wear them because you will be viciously mocked by anyone that passes you on the streets. Actually, scratch that. You won't be mocked; your child will be mocked. These $125 boots are for babies, poor innocent babies. Don't mess up your child's reputation by placing these boots on their feet they may never forgive you.

Shop for these Ugg-ly boots at Kitson.com.

Well that didn't take long. Just a day after photos of Lindsay Lohan hiking were surfaced on the internet her "Faith" hat is being sold at Kitson for $98. I love all things Lohan, but even I couldn't get on board with this hat. Perhaps it's just the outfit but if you ask me, the hat looks pretty standard. But when a high profile Hollywood train wreck has on something new, everyone has got to have it.

This pretty much proves that Lindsay's career isn't over. In fact, it isn't even close. Girlfriend can sell some products. This hat, which is sold at the trendy Robertson boutique Kitson, is by the unheard of label Faith Connexion. The vintage looking hat has "Faith" studded with crystals across the front with the fleur de lys on the side. Underneath the brim is the following credo:

"Create your own destiny, fighting against your dark side. Raise your spirituality. Each day is a new day. A new life. Keep the faith."

Well, that's pretty inspiring, but still not worth $98 to me. Hopefully this hat creed will keep Miss Lohan on the straight and narrow.

If Paris Hilton sneezes, it's reported in every major newspaper on the planet, so it's not surprising that, when the cele-brat actually does something, it's a big deal.

Yesterday, when the heiress unveiled her new clothing line at Kitson, a trendy LA boutique. The crowd was so enormous that police and city workers were called to the scene, and a lane of traffic was closed to keep people from being hit by passing cars as they spilled into the street.

Of course, when Paris revealed she wasn't going to take her top off and say something stupid, the friendly masses turned angry, and started to riot, but it was going really well there for a minute.

Just kidding. By the sounds of it, everyone was very nice, and the clothes sound half-decent. According to Paris, they're even "affordable" -- though, who knows what affordable means when you're an heiress.

Wilmer must be bored -- like really bored because he has fallen into the celebrity clothing line flytrap.

Calavena is Wilmer Valderrama's clothing line especially for men who want to show off their upper bodies. Seriously, that is the silliest thing I have ever heard. Wait, this is the silliest thing I have ever heard: "I wanted a t-shirt that flatters the upper body and camouflages what we've got bottom, 'cause sometimes we let ourselves go a little bit. I've had my days, believe me." Thanks for the wise words Wilmer, now all men can aspire to show off their upper bodies and get babes like Lindsay Lohan and Mandy Moore.

Wilmer Valderrama's fame truly stuns me. I mean he isn't all that attractive, he was on one show playing a foreign exchange student, and then he goes and talks smack about all of the girls he used to sleep with ... Why again is he famous and why does he think people want to wear his clothes? Perhaps people do want to wear his clothes but to me the line is pretty plain looking. It consists of a plunging V neck tops (yes for men), a white hoodie, a standard black cap, and a black V neck that zips.

This one is for the boys: Would you wear it?

Did you ever think you could be so lucky? I can hardly contain myself [insert sarcasm here].

Paris Hilton will be at Kitson boutique on August 16th from 1-3pm promoting her new clothing line. Whether people are interested in what Paris has to sell or not you know the line to get in will be long. In order to skip ahead of the crowd you will need to purchase a gift voucher for $100 or more. Kitson claims that Paris Hilton will be on hand to personally style each of her fans. Right.

Paris' line already has two pieces available for pre-order on Kitson.com which includes the shirt she has been spotted around town in; you know the one with her own pop art inspired face on it. There is also a pair of cheesy $88 jeans, which I am pretty sure Paris wouldn't be caught dead in. The jeans are of the skinny variety, have a twisted seam which looks to be bedazzled with studs, and no back pockets. For those of you who don't know jeans with no back pockets is a huge fashion no-no, you may as well have "tramp" stamped on your rear.

So there you have it folks -- finally a Paris Hilton line of clothing because having Nikki hog up all of talent just wasn't enough; which proves that there is plenty of room in Hollywood for crappy celebrity clothing lines. Whew!