If a fashionable Mount Olympus exists, and they have the cable hook-ups necessary to have seen earthly collections for the past few seasons, the goddess style patrol were driven towards a most heavenly decision. Blame it on collective consciousness, but somebody with some real smarts deemed this season as the time to once again let there be Fiorucci. Launching stateside through the new creative direction of the dynamic Darren and Ela duo behind the Yum Thing line and Girls Rule's Fashion Compilation Shows. For me it's a dream come true, as Milano would have truly been the big bore in the early '80s without my white zip-up Bowie boots to tote me around in the stylin' fashion that I'm accustomed to. Fiorucci represented fearlessness in marketing, and self-expression through clothing like nobody else, which is exactly what we mortals need in our elixer. See the launch in action November 3rd during Girls Rule at the Chelsea Piers. The drawback, however, is the temporary loss of Yum Thing's presence, for just one season. You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.

Accessories haven't had the best fun lately. Remember that widely published Zoran comment about how husbands and children should be the accessories of choice for a woman, and minimalistic pared down nakedness should prevail? It's over. After kicking and screaming for the last several seasons, the accessories market is making a fierce come back. Toting hats and bags no longer symbolizes women as overly decorated Christmas trees and men as the true free spirits of the modern thinking world. It now means that women are more stylish. Period.

Trunk show debutante Jacqualine Lamont shows her stuff at Bloomingdales.

Former fashion photographer Cynthia Wolff hit Hollywood in search of peace four years ago. She did not find the total peace she yearned for, but instead built a revolutionary jewelry design company based on her finely honed eye for style. Her forte has always been inventing brilliant new ways of using traditional mediums. Her lastest creations, a wire mesh pearl handbag often mistaken for art, and a woven pearl choker for day, have been responsible for media wars and catfights between stylists from coast to coast. The chain of events usually goes from Hollywood celebrity, spotted by Hollywood stylist on the film set in Cynthia's jewels, later spotted by a bewildered New York buyer who can't figure out how they missed it in the local press, that they read from cover to cover. Tip to buyers and everybody in general: Don't be afraid to leave the island. There's a beautiful world in the great beyond.

Onward to Spring '98. Stay tuned.