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Remember how Hollywood loves Prada? Michael Pitt was the Italian fashion house's spring/summer 2012 face and actors Adrien Brody, Willem Defoe, Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Emile Hirsch and Jamie Bell strutted for Prada's fall 2012 menswear show in Milan. The latest celebs to get the Miuccia treatment are Savages' Benicio Del Toro, Moonrise Kingdom's Harvey Keitel, Anna Karenina's Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chronicle's Dane DeHaan, who all pout for Prada's Uomo spring 2013 ad campaign. 

It’s Fashion’s Night Out, which for some people, might be the best day of the year (just call it Treat Yo Self 2012). Special deals, limited edition gear, and complimentary drinks and snacks abound. If you’re in NYC, here are some options for music to see around town.

Clarice Lam swapped Prada sportswear for kitchen whites when the former model-turned-baker launched The Baking Bean, an online pastry business. Everything from rosemary butter croissants and raspberry to mango peach pie is made to order and delivered to your door. Here, our September 2012 Industry Insider and sweets-expert shares what inspired her to dive into the pastry business, the challenges she’s overcome, and how sweet it is to do what you love.  

Milan Fashion Week is in full swing and along with dark colors and patterns, asymmetrical hemlines, billowing skirts and excessive amounts of fur, there seems to be a strange make-up trend happening: lightened eyebrows.  Fashion It Boy Derek Blasberg even Tweeted “I'm getting into this eyebrow-less trend at Prada, Bottega Veneta and Versace,” adding to the makeup artist “(You're just the right amount of twisted, @PatMcGrathREAL...)”  So let’s take a look.

“It’s about power. But it started with the idea of characters,” Miuccia Prada told The New York Times backstage during her fashion show today in Milan.  Who better then to help her show off her Fall-Winter 2012/2013 menswear collection than a bunch of Hollywood celebrities?

Just back from the menswear shows in Europe and feeling very inspired. I started in Florence for Pitti Uomo, made my way to Milan, and then on to Paris. I even managed a week of R&R in Greece, which left me feeling centered and ready for work again. It's a good thing, too, because the videos I am about to present to you took blood, sweat, and tears to download! Needless to say, I'm not the most tech savvy blogger, but I am working on it. (Move over BryanBoy!) Before I left, I invested in a new Flip camera so I could bring a little bit of the collections back home to share. So, without further adieu—and with apologies for my unsteady hand—here are some of my favorite snippets from the shows.

So I've been anxiously awaiting my appointment with Prada to get up close and personal with the collection. Here's the deal: The clothes this season are inspired by the working man's uniform. From the clinic to the construction site, this was Miuccia's ode to the proletariat. There were even looks inspired by McDonald's uniforms, and, let me tell you, I'd be slinging burgers in the back of a fast food chain if my outfit was of this variety. Pics of this man at work after the jump!

Just left the Prada show which, for me, is always the main event here in Milan—and this season was no different. Miuccia's men were neat and modern. The show started with simple suiting and Oakley style shades slung around the model's necks, and transitioned into a sportswear collection that leaned heavily on reinterpreted Prada classics: boat neck sweaters, three button blazers, pleated shorts, and doctor smock shirts reinvented without blazers. These are the clothes we go to Prada to buy; they're easy to wear but always have something a little edgy and special to them. But the real stars of the show?