Here at BlackBook, we pay a lot of attention to where cool customers go out -- bars, clubs, restaurants, shops, hotels, you name it. So why not flip the frame and let you see where we go out? Here's a periodically updated, exhaustive list of hotspots currently favored by everyone at BlackBook, from the mighty bosses down to the humble interns, from the charming local lounges around the corner to the jet-setting temples of luxe living.

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● Editorial Director/Editor-in-Chief - Ray Rogers, Café Mogador (NYC) - Hummus, crack-caliber coffee, and outdoor patio for primo people-judging and "novel writing."
● Creative Director - Jason Daniels, Babettes (East Hampton) - Don’t let the word “organic” turn you off .
● Executive Editor - Chris Mohney, Pegu Club (NYC) - OCD cocktail heaven. Pith helmet and ivory cane optional.
● Senior Editor - Nick Haramis, The Jane Hotel and Ballroom (NYC) - Latest smash from Sean MacPherson and Eric Goode gets all Edwardian on the WVill.

Come August 31, Uniqlo will be setting up shop in Paris, but only for a short time. They're installing temporary digs in one of the City of Light's most heavily trafficked boutiques: Colette. The nearly month-long "shop-in-shop will be a microcosm of the planned Paris megastore, offering the label’s basics including its UT Tees line, Japanese denim jeans, plus a one-off collection of 500 cashmere sweaters embroidered with the phrase 'From Tokyo to Colette'," says Women's Wear Daily.

Last fall, New Yorkers were bowled over by the giant white spaceship that landed in Central Park. It was a Day the Earth Stood Still moment, and no less arresting once the doors opened to reveal a collaborative art exhibit from a variety of the world's most current, avant-garde experimentalists. Funded by Chanel, "Mobile Art" stood for just over a month and gave visitors a taste of whatever the MoMA and New Museum didn't already show, as well as New York's strongest taste thus far of the artistic offerings of Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. That is, until Lacoste stepped in (literally).

Comme des Garçons is turning 40 this year. In honor of the brand's anniversary, the Japanese institution is introducing a temporary brand simply titled "black," which will include 10 standalone stores intended to bring "positive energy" in hard economic times, says the New York Times. In true Comme des Garçons style, the brand will be serving up the collections in question "guerilla-style" in a manner "that epitomizes the style, the inventiveness and the originality of its founder," the iconic Rei Kawakubo (then slowly phasing them out over the next 18 months). While Kawakubo may not be a household name outside of the fashion industry, the reach of her sartorial influence is extremely significant. "Integral to her success is that she is too original to be pigeonholed," says Suzy Menkes. Respected by the art community as well as fashion, Kawakubo "has also built an independent fashion company with a turnover of $180 million in 2008, yet with an international reputation for creativity unsullied by commerce." Not to mention, her Dover Street Market store is best described as a "hive of creativity."

Photographer Todd Selby has become a household name within the fashion industry, thanks to his charming photos of creatives in their typically not-so-humble abodes, all of which he showcases online. Subjects have included everyone from the designers behind Obesity and Speed, as well as those behind the now defunct Obedient Sons, to model Erin Wasson and Michael Stipe. And now comes news that the photog-du-jour will be teaming up with arbiter of cool, Parisian boutique Colette, for his first-ever exhibition.

With nary a wrinkle or a saggy appendage in sight, Barbie is turning 50 this year. Earlier this month Christian Louboutin announced he’d be paying homage to the doll’s half-century anniversary with a collection of Louboutin-approved plastic heels “colored Barbie Pantone 219 Pink, naturally,” says Refinery 29. They'll debut at a Barbie-inspired runway presentation at NY Fashion Week in February. But, now, a significantly younger, more avant-garde designer is likewise showing his support of the iconic plastic woman with a life-size line of Barbie-inspired clothing.

It’s no secret that France’s first lady, Carla Bruni, is no slouch when it comes to fashion. The former model is more often than not photographed wearing garb from local fashion house like Dior and Hermes. And she’s likewise been credited with vastly improving the style of her hubby, French president Nicolas Sarkozy. But with a new handbag sourced in South Africa, Bruni is making a fashion statement that’s both stylish and socially conscious.

Brit artist and professional provocateur Damien Hirst has teamed up with Levi’s for the second time. And the fruits of the collaboration -- “three works of art of spin-painted 501 styles and the development of a limited edition collection,” says WWD -- are nothing to scoff at. The collection in question features 12 denim styles, all ornamented with classic Hirst motifs (think “skulls, colorful spots and tropical butterflies,” adds WWD).

Parisian boutique and arguable arbiter of cool Colette has just launched a slew of new guest blogs. While the retailer launched its own blogsite back in September, now nearly a dozen super-cool creatives are contributing to "colette blogs." So far a range of designers, musicians, and trendsetters have signed up. Some are posting with more fervency and frequency than others, of course.

At the Juan Carlos Abando SS09 collection presentation yesterday in Chelsea, there were plenty of feminine, intricately crafted frocks that would whet any fashion-lover's appetite. There were also, if you looked closely in the smokey space, unique copper cuffs covering the forearms of a few of the models. The jewelry was courtesy of cinema scion and filmmaker Liz Goldwyn, whose one-of-a-kind, eponymous accessories line retails at the likes of Barneys New York and Colette.