Project Embroidery

Think you've got the stuff to be a fashion designer?

After talent, the next thing you need is a sewing machine. Brother International, a licensee of Project Runway, has two new sewing machines that are compact, lightweight and can also embroider.

This C-Combo 900D is $399, and comes with bells and whistles for the computer-literate generation. Available at Brother dealers, including Florida Discount Vac & Sewing, 12760 S W 88th St., Miami.

Headed this way

Kohl's is headed this way with six stores opening in October, from Kendall to Miramar.

This entire outfit costs $252, and most expensive item here is the hobo handbag, for $80; the least is the beret, for $26.

Not bad for a day's shopping.

Luxe Louis

At Louis Vuitton, the well of talent runs deep.

London-based fashion illustrator Tanya Ling is LV's latest draft. Ling has created the prints for a collaboration with Marc Jacobs for the Louis Vuitton 2009 Cruise Collection. The result is a sporty, painterly, remotely nautical look.

Before you see them rendered in fabric, here they are in Ling's airy sketches.

Scents

LUSH just made the shower even better.

The British company has come up with the oddly named Emotibombs. Place one on the floor of the shower and inhale the concentrated essential oils that rise -- ylang ylang, lavender, marigold and peppermint, depending on the bar.

They dissolve after five minutes, but the scent is said to linger, $3.95 each, at LUSH in Aventura Mall and Macy's at Dadeland Mall.

A certain perspective

The Latvian-born Philippe Halsman had a successful career in Paris as a fashion photographer until he fled Hitler's army with little more than his camera.

Shortly after his arrival in New York in the early 1940s, he was shooting covers for Life Magazine and pointing his camera at Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Alfred Hitchcock and John F. Kennedy.

Halsman also had an unconventional bent. His experimental photos are laid out in a new book, Unknown Halsman (D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, $75).

In this image, part of the Halsman Archive and taken from the book, Marilyn Monroe becomes one with Mao Tse-Tung.

The book hits stores in October.

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