Last night was the customary Oscar night on The Rachel Zoe Project, but you wouldn’t have necessarily known it based on what happened. Normally, the Oscar installment comes at the very end of the season and it’s a grand event where Rachel has to work out lots of different clients and fittings and dress near-disasters, but it was just eight pretty dresses for Anne Hathaway last night.

Instead, Rodger played the diva for most of the episode, although we got a few glimpses of the husband that he probably is when plot lines don’t depend on him acting like a jerk. Rachel, for her part, is still just about as pregnant as pregnant can get, and resources were called in from the East Coast to keep her sane. To me, though, she still seems more sane than she generally is when she’s not pregnant.

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No matter the season, you can always count on Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel show for at least one thing: a very strong theme. For Chanel Spring 2012, you had to look no further than Kaiser Karl’s seashell clutches to find the oceanic common thread that ran through the entire collection. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that Lagerfeld was inspired by the shore; after all, the runway was lined with sand.

I’m not sure how many times a woman will have an opportunity to wear a conch shell-shaped clutch in her sartorial life, but if you’ve got a beach wedding on the horizon any time in, oh, the next ten years, I’d hazard a guess that these are the best bags you’ll find to carry to such an event. As always, Chanel will do lots of non-runway bags if you’re looking for something a little less literal, but a few of these bags make me long for a beach vacation something fierce.

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Psst. You guys. It’s safe to come look at these pictures from Chloe Spring 2012 because finally, at long last, Chloe has turned the handbag corner! The company had to give Hannah MacGibbon the heave-ho after last season’s disaster and bring in Clare Waight Keller from Pringle of Scotland to fix things up, but based on Chloe’s Paris Fashion Week show, it was an incredibly shrewd decision on the part of the brand’s parent company, Richemont.

Waight Keller did well to focus on doing a single shape (a shoulder bag with modern finishes) in a variety of colors and sizes; MacGibbon’s downfall was her seeming inability to edit her vision down into a cohesive finished product that made as all want to be the Chloe girl. Alternately, I know I want to be the girl who carries these handbags (not to mention, be the girl who wears the pretty-but-modern pleated dresses that populated the collection), and making that feeling happen is the obvious first step in what looks like it’s going to be a Chloe comeback.

I spent the entirety of last night’s episode of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills utterly humiliated. Not on account of anything that I had done. Of course not! The fact that I rolled out of bed this morning, put a belt around my pajamas and called it an outfit should be all the indication that you need that I’m not embarrassed easily on my own account. Instead, all of my humiliation was second-hand.

Our Housewives were extra embarrassing last night, right? I didn’t just somehow spontaneously became capable of being embarrassed by these women? They were almost worse than the Jersey broads, mostly because you’d expect that a bunch of rich ladies in Beverly Hills would at least have had some home training. Apparently not, though. Apparently not.

Our friends over at StyledOn are having a giveaway so perfect for our readers that we’d be remiss not to mention it. Up for grabs is a brand new Chanel Classic Flap Bag in black leather with gold hardware, which lately can be tricky to track down even if you have the cash to pay full price. Don’t even get me started on how often “full price” seems to change these days…

If you don’t have the funds or you’d like to save yourself the irritation entirely, take a look at StyledOn’s Facebook page for details on how to enter. (It’s fairly standard, if you’ve been through the online contest rigamarole before.) But hurry, because the contest is over on October 9!

Enjoy a closer look at the bags, shoes and accessories by Donna Karan for Spring 2012. Check out our full runway review of the DK NYFW show.

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Maddeningly, Celine tends not to show many of its bags on the runway. We get a little glimpse here and there of where Phoebe Philo’s brilliance is headed for the season, but mostly her fans are left waiting for spy pictures to surface to get a better idea of where our money will be headed in the coming months. For Celine Spring 2012, though, my money might be headed straight to the runway bag that you see above.

It’s all in the painted edges, you guys. Otherwise, this might be just a boring (but impeccable) shoulder bag that I would surely notice but might not necessarily consider buying. The neon edges give the bag a subtle but very important step toward modernism, and that’s when Philo’s at her wearable best. The rest of the bags are equally elegant, and I’ll have you note that several of them are hobos – they’re coming back, I swear.