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The latest to roll off Belgium's never-ending designer conveyor belt is Bruno Pieters, but his is no cookie-cutter line. A Royal Academy of Antwerp grad, with stints at Martin Margiela, Josephus Thimister Haute Couture and Christian Lacroix Haute Couture, Pieters launched a memorable couture line of his own in 2001 before settling on ready-to-wear. For his spring/summer collection, Under Construction, the 27-year-old aims to undo (or is it redo?) the tide of deconstruction with intricate silk chiffon tops, the re-introduction of bright colors, handcrafted pleated miniskirts and leather finishing, proving once again that the Belgian designer machine can't be stopped. Available in Paris at Maria Luisa, 2, rue Cambon, 75001, +33 (0) 1 47 03 96 15 and Onward, 6, rue Vivienne, 75002, +33 (0) 1 55 04 87 87; in London at Concrete, 35 A Marshall Street, W1F 7EX, +44 (0) 20 7434 4546. (photo by Alex Salinas, CLICK HERE for more)

The founder of Buddhism, but more importantly the title subject of Hermann Hesse's 1922 classic novel about spiritual self-discovery, Siddhartha is finding new life on the back of this Raf Simons summer jacket. At the top of the must-read-multiple-times list of sensitive teenage boys (read hotties) from New York to New Delhi, Siddhartha is one more example of the Belgian designer's clever mining of youth culture, and a very good reason to drop a chunk of change for frayed and printed canvas. Only one jacket is available in New York, at Seven, 180 Orchard Street, 646-654-0156.

M.C. Escher, the artist responsible for those annoying but mesmerizing images of endlessly looping staircases, finally gets his props—along with The Beatles' Yellow Submarine album and other eye-crossing references—in the one-year-old line from the human printing machine that is Jonathan Saunders. A Scotland native, Saunders has already been electrifying the collections of Alexander McQueen, Chloe and Pucci for years with his fine prints. But the graduate of Glasgow School of Art and Central Saint Martins, who uses as many as twenty silk screens per design, is now applying his kaleidoscopic vision to yards of wool, chiffon and silk of his own. Available in London at Selfridges, and in New York at Henri Bendel, 712 Fifth Ave., 212-247-1100.

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We have your number: Number (N)ine. Ever since the highly cultish, street-inspired Japanese men's line opened shop on a quiet back street in Harajuku, a youth-catering district of Tokyo equivalent to the Lower East Side, designer Takahiro Miyashita has set his sights on one thing and one thing only—going west. So much so that only months after its western debut in Paris six months ago, the label has opened up a Tribeca store based on century-old carriage houses, the kind used to house horse-drawn coaches on their way to distant outposts. Complete with a wood interior and conspicuous displays of velvet, all we can say is Miyashita clearly went the whole nine yards. Number (N)ine, 431 Washington Street, 212-431-4397.

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