See Which Disney Character Debuted a Stylish New Instagram Account

You know and love your favorite Disney characters but haven't been able to keep up with them on Instagram—until now. As Glamour pointed out, Minnie Mouse is the first-ever Disney character to get an official account: @minniestyle. 

While you won't see the actual character in the feed yet, you'll be able to catch Minnie-inspired looks, collaborations, and celebs. And right now you'll spot a slew of events at fashion week, where she's the guest of honor.

Follow Minnie here and scroll below to see a few of our favorite snaps so far!

On the Runway: Apple Plus Hermès: Smartwatch Dream Team or Weird Mash-Up?

Photo The Apple Watch Hermès, with one of the three strap choices. Credit Courtesy of Apple

On Wednesday, Apple once again managed to overshadow the start of fashion month by announcing at an event in San Francisco that it was teaming up with Hermès on a new version of the Apple Watch.

The creators of two of the most iconic accessories of our time, the Birkin bag and the iPhone, working together? Zowie!

"I see it as the establishment of an alliance in excellence; like horse and carriage, a perfect team," Pierre-Alexis Dumas, arti stic director of Hermès, said in a statement.

But, though I understand the collaboration is a strategic move for both companies — easing an even bigger push into the luxury and fashion market by Apple; Hermès, which has a tendency to the staid, gets a frisson of cutting-edge cool — I'm not entirely convinced by the result.

At least not as it looked on screen, behind Tim Cook's head. There will be a joint event in Paris on Oct. 4 to unveil the watch to the fashion flock, so perhaps I'll change my mind. Never say never, and all that. Especially because it should, in theory, be my dream come true. And I mean that in an entirely personal way.

After all, I wear a double-strap Hermès Cape Cod watch and have for a long time (it was a gift from my younger brother). This past spring, I abandoned it briefly in favor of an Apple Watch, but we never really bonded, for a variety of reasons I later detailed in a column that provoked a surprising amount of reaction. So mu ch so that I was asked to appear on CNBC to talk about it. By that time, I had reverted to my Hermès watch.

"So you're telling me," one of the TV hosts said during our conversation, "that if Apple could make a watch that looked like that" — she pointed at my Hermès watch — "you'd wear it?"

"Probably," I said.

Dump that in the cliché bucket called "be careful what you wish for." Because now Apple has.

Kind of. And that's the problem.

The Apple Watch Hermès is effectively a hybrid. It has the same Apple Watch body that was unveiled in September — in the same sizes (38 millimeters and 42 millimeters); and with the same weight, albeit with improved functionalities. But it adds digital versions of some signature Hermès watch faces — the Clipper, Cape Cod and Espace — though they go to sleep, like all Apple Watch faces, when your arm isn't moving, to save battery. There is also a trio of signature leather Hermès straps in different colors: the Single Tour (a thin strap), the Double Tour (a strap that wraps twice around your wrist) and the Cuff (a wide leather bracelet) style.

That sounds — and looks, on screen — good, but it doesn't actually solve any of the problems I originally had with the Apple Watch, most of which had to do with its weight and dimensions vis-à-vis both my wrist and my ability to use the screen, as well as the fact I didn't find it technically additive to my life (but that's just me).

This could change, I know. My colleague Farhad Manjoo posited as much to me in June. Theoretically, I suppose, you could get the Apple Watch Hermès strap now, and just keep swapping out the watch bodies as they improve or shrink.

And the Apple Watch Hermès is less expensive than the traditional Hermès Cape Cod, for example. The latter retails for $2,900; the new Double Tour with 38-millimeter case is priced at $1,250. It fills the accessible luxury niche between the $549 Apple Watch and the gold Apple Watch Edition at $12,000. "Accessible" being a relative word here.

But the most interesting thing about all this is less the product itself than the fact this is the first time Apple has admitted that fashion does fashion better than Apple can.

Which is ac tually a pretty big shift, given that its traditional attitude has been that Apple does everything better than anyone else.

I still think there's a ways to go: It seems to me, to really make something new, you have to actually make it new. That means Apple and Hermès would have had to start from scratch (or scratch-ish) to make a collaborative watch, as opposed to simply cutting-and-pasting each of their products into one. And that's a truly provocative, and disruptive, idea.

Yet this collaboration sends some interesting signals about the future of wearables, and the way fashion and tech are going to have to work together. So while, at this stage, I don't want to wear an Apple Watch Hermès, I definitely want to see what's going to happen next.

Bar Refaeli’s Extreme Sexy Gym Makeover | Midnight Hot

Photographed by Hunter & Gatti, the 29-year-old blonde beauty is pictured in figure hugging swimwear, crop tops and underwear for the sexy photo shoot.

Glamor aside, the sports-inspired shoot, is not far from her own personal training routine. "Addicted Dedicated," she writes on Instagram accompanying a workout post, Refaeli is an avid fan of TRX workouts, and Krav Maga; the model keeps her shape and tone with a strict workout schedule that develops core strength, balance and flexibility.

Refaeli recently announced her engagement to Israeli business tycoon Adi Ezra.

I always look like this while I'm working out. Btw @barrefaeli

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Could This Be The Smallest Bikini In The World? | Midnight Hot

The Micro-Bikini

For fear of the tan line, swimwear line Divissima has helped women around the globe solve the ultimate conundrum, by inventing the micro-bikini! So lads, this means that those long hot days at the beach are about to get even hotter.

Music: Daft Punk - "Giorgio By Moroder"

Delightfully Demure

FashionTV takes a trip to the South African beaches to unveil what it is the World Swimsuit bikini beauties like to wear on the beach. Though their beachwear may be more delicate and demure than Divissima, these buxom beauties know how to rock the beach babe look in more ways than one.

Music:  Ard Matthews - "One Day My Lover"

Brazilian Bikini Contest

We've all heard of the G-String, but have you heard of the C-String? Well, thanks to one Brazilian Bikini contest, you're about to find out exactly what that is. The C-string consists of the front part of a thong-style pair of knickers, held up with a little bit of wire at the back, and these girls are competing in them!

Music: Shlomi Aber Pres BAO - "Crop Duster"

What's the best beach look

The Best Engagement Ring Designers You've Never Heard Of

When it comes to engagement rings, it sometimes feels like it's all been done; after all, how much creativity can be expected in a piece of jewelry so formulaic and entrenched in tradition? As it turns out, plenty.

We scoured the wide world of fresh engagement ring design to come up with a list of our favorite rising designers in the field. From incoporprating the use of unique non-diamond stones to coming up with never-before-seen ways to frame the more traditional gemstone, these creators are thinking way outside the solitaire ring.

Keep scrolling for our list of the best engagement ring designers you've never heard of!

Artist André Saraiva Adds Breakfast to His Portfolio

Photo André Saraiva, the club owner, at Café Henrie on Forsyth Street. Credit Danny Ghitis for The New York Times

André Saraiva, the rakish graffiti artist and international club owner, has historically focused his ambitions at entertaining between dusk and dawn. For his next trick, he's taking aim at a new frontier: breakfast.

Next week, Mr. Saraiva, 44, whose night life domain includes Le Baron clubs in Paris and Shanghai (the New York branch is currently closed), is opening Café Henrie on Forsyth Street, a daylight haunt a stone's throw from his apartment and studio in Manhattan's Chinatown.

Le Monde will be delivered there, and there will be coffee (by Counte r Culture) and tea (by his friend Waris Ahluwalia, the actor, jeweler and tea purveyor). The ceramic cups are custom-made by the American Memphis artist Peter Shire, and furniture is by Prouvé from Mr. Saraiva's own personal décor. ("I'm missing them at my apartment," he said.)

Still, old habits die hard. The cafe does not have a liquor license — requisite, or nearly so, to become an after-hours destination — but Mr. Saraiva does not see it as a mere coffeehouse.

"It's a cafe, but it's almost an art project," he said. And while Mr. Saraiva's art ranges from streetside graffiti to the 32-by-820-foot mo saic he is creating for MUDE, the Museu do Design e da Moda in Lisbon, his major medium may be bringing people together.

His list of friends is long. The artist Tom Sachs designed a bench for the cafe, modeled on the Prouvé benches but constructed out of a police barricade. Another artist, Petra Collins, created the neon Henrie sign that glows mauve above the door. (The name Henrie is a tribute to Henrietta, Mr. Saraiva's 5½-year-old daughter with the electronic musician Uffie.)

Olivier Zahm, the editor of Purple Fashion magazine, is curating a mini-exhibition for the opening of the space, celebrating the history of Purple Fashion's supplement, the Purple Book. (Mr. Saraiva once appeared on the cover of Purple Fashion with his leather pants hiked down to a precarious low.)

"That's part of his talent: He really knows how to bring people together," Mr. Zahm said. "It's not the place for a show. I said to André, it's a place for people to meet."

Mr. Saraiva is not overly concerned about planning events for the space. He described his publicity strategy as follows: "A little Instagram, and boom." But he did mention that it was likely attendees would drift over after Mr. Zahm's Purple dinner during New York Fashion Week on Sunday.

Photo Marquis Hayes, a chef at André Saraiva's Café Henrie on Forsyth Street. Credit Danny Ghitis for The New York Times

As the fashion crowd makes inroads into Chinatown (see, for example, its current favorite bar, Mr. Fong's), Café Henrie, with its pegboard walls and '50s-style counter stools, looks well positioned to be its refueling station. Its menu inclines toward brunch fare (served until 7 p.m.) and leans on fashion-world staples like avocado toast, smoothies and juices, reinterpreted by its chef, Marquis Hayes, a Bronx-born self-described former drug dealer who turned to cooking.

"I went from crack to croquettes," said Mr. Hayes, recounting what he told Mr. Saraiva when they met. "He said, 'O.K., you're perfect.' "

< p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="383" data-total-count="3474" itemprop="articleBody">Those who are nostalgic for the after-hours André need not fear: Mr. Saraiva, perhaps unable to help himself, is once again hosting his Chez André party during New York Fashion Week. Mr. Saraiva and his Chez André co-host, André Balazs, are setting up in subMercer, the subterranean, only-occasionally-open space under Mr. Balazs's Mercer Hotel for four invitation-only nights.

Mr. Balazs has not yet seen Café Henrie but said "it sounds perfectly André."

"I think he has a very well-rounded view of life and its various pleasures," Mr . Balazs added.

Including those enjoyed in broad daylight?

"You can attribute all kinds of things to him," Mr. Balazs said, "but having spent quite a bit of time with him, he's not just the night owl you might assume he is, by any stretch."