Fashion Week 2010

Fashion Week 2010 just wrapped up today in New York City, where established and up-and-coming designers debuted fall looks for next year. Check out photos from the runway at the official Web site .

Some of my favorites include 3.1 Philip Lim, Anna Sui, Elie Tahari, Lela Rose and Zac Posen. For a breakdown of the hottest trends to look forward to, check out the Fashion Week feature in this week’s tableau section.

written by Sara Wakefield

How to Make it in America

If you've ever wanted to move to New York to try and "make it," or if you just liked "Entourage," you should check this new show out. It has the same producers (including Mr. Wahlberg himself), and it also follows four characters trying to make their way in the world, except without the whole movie star thing going on.

Anyways, HBO "leaked" the first episode of "How to Make it in America" onto YouTube. It's definitely worth the 28 minutes. Look for a more in depth preview in next week's tableau.

Artist Watch: Theophilus London

It is now the fourth week of winter break, and I have completely run out of things to do. BOOM I come across this video, and I remember Theophilus London, one of those artists who has been around the edges of my musical radar screen for a while. Finally motivated by "Humdrum Town," I gave This Charming Mixtape a listen.

London's varied musical interests are on full display as he puts his flexible flow over a wide array of beats. Most have a heavy electro sound, but songs like "Ain't No Sunshine" and "Crazy Cousins" show that London has been inspired by a truly diverse range of music. He's definitely an artist I'll be watching now.

You can download This Charming Mixtape here, and make sure check out his equally charming blog.

Artist Watch: Vampire Weekend

People say that Pheonix was the Vampire Weekend of '09. Well guess what. It's 2010 and we don't have to settle for electro-y, French indie rock anymore; we get the real deal. Vampire Weekend's next album drops just five days from now (January 12).

If the first two legitimately available songs are an indication of what the rest of Contra will sound like, we're in for another catchy, witty treat from the Ivy League rockers. Both "Horchata" and "Cousins" (awesome video, first official single for Contra) stay true to that "Upper West Side Soweto" sound that led to their success back in '08.

The whole album can be streamed from VW's official website.

Artist Introduction: The White Panda

This mash-up duo seems to be in existence to serve the dance party needs eclectic music bloggers everywhere. The White Panda are brilliant. If you've been into any sort of popular or indie music in the past decade, you will find something on here that you love, and then you will say, "How the shit did they think to put ____ over ____?"

The individual mash-ups featured on this mixtape, cleverly entitled Versus, are available as longer stand-alone tracks on their website, but they work just fine as one smoothly blended, hour-long mixtape. For those of you looking to play host to a dance party (I'm looking at you, every single student at UVa with Off-Grounds housing), play this! It's got everything you hear at a typical frat party (no Tay Swift or Miley though, sorry to be misleading), but it's presented in a fresh enough way you won't have to be halfway into a case of Natty to get into it.

Check it out here, and if my impassioned post didn't convince you to listen to the whole thing, check out these standout tracks "What You Know about Little Secrets" (TI vs. Passion Pit), "Party Where Your Head's At" (Basement Jaxx vs. Tonite Only), and "Army of Yeah" (Wiz Khalifa vs. Umek & Beltek vs. Usher).