Well, kind of. The recent collaboration between the mixing maestro and Gucci creative director Frida Giannini that yielded the funkiest crop of sneakers we've ever seen was an occasion to change the topography of Manhattan, literally busting out with a temporary store at 43 Crosby Street, open today until early November. And while the shiny, sterile interior of the ICONTemporary outpost will no doubt provide a retail refuge for fashion's savviest, like everything Gucci, the real fun begins with what you end up taking home.

We have to fess up to our fear that Frida Giannini (creative director of Gucci) will cross over to the dark side and giving up fashion to pursue film. The femme fatale has, as of late, focused much of her attention on indie film and supporting the careers of those who proliferate it. Fortunately, this time a fashionable (a.k.a. wearable) product has come out of it, leaving us reassured, at least for now.

Hippie chic will never die. It was strange when Debra Tate -- sister of Sharon Tate, the actress and wife of director Roman Polanski who was savagely murdered by the Manson Family in 1969 -- started telling press that she liked to take out her dead sister's frocks and smell them. Stranger still when she rolled out a line of 1960s-style dresses inspired by her dead sister. Now it seems the hippie era has locked in on our collective fashion conscience, with Gucci leading the way with "cruise wear" -- a line that resembles billowy frocks favored by any number of hippie chicks wandering the parking lot at a Grateful Dead show.