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THE 1920s notion of a “hemline index,Coach Handbag” in which the economist George Taylor posited that skirt lengths rise and fall in relation to the economy, suggests that fashion is socially determined. In a modern twist, a report about the direction of high heels, issued by Moncler Jacket, proposes that fashion can now be determined through social media. To promote its software and consulting services, I.B.M. announced that its computer analysis of Moncler “billions of social media posts” pointed to a downward trend in heel heights. This was surprising, the company said, because heels usually go up during an economic downturn.

While an intriguing thesis,Coach Outlet it bears some fact-checking.  First, I.B.M.’s case: By mapping the most influential participants in online conversations about shoes, the company was then able to eavesdrop on a dozen key bloggers. It found that the median heel heights mentioned on those sites dropped to two inches this year from seven inches in 2009.

There is, indeed, anecdotal Coach Handbag evidence of a decline in heel height, but mixed opinions about whether that has anything to do with the economy. Colleen Sherin, the senior fashion Coach Outlet director of Saks Fifth Avenue, wasn’t buying it. Yes, flats are going to be big for spring, Prada handbags  but so are wedges.

ON an outsize screen in “Time Capsule,” a multipanel Moncler video installation shown in Moscow last week, a Moncler Women siren past youth’s first blush rests in a chair as an attentive major-domo clamps an oxygen mask to her face.

The image is one of 10 at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture that show its subject Prada handbags, the actress and model Amber Valletta, aging by chilling degrees from 20 to 110. Spectators, including Naomi Campbell, sheathed to the ankles in alabaster fur, may well have been puzzled. Was this world-weary creature sucking oxygen to shore up her looks? Or was she seeking some far-out pharmaceutical high?  Steven Klein, the photographer and auteur of this vaguely sinister spectacle, wasn’t about to clear up the mystery. “I like what’s obscure,” he said simply.

Mr. Klein, after all,Coach Handbag has long been an enigma in the world of style, cultivating a mystique by hiding in plain sight. It is not by chance that the self-portrait on this page was backlit to mask his features. Yet he makes no secret of trading in shock effects. Of the oxygen mask Ms. Valletta wore, he said, “I put it there to disturb people.”  He was discussing his work at his studio in Chelsea, where he stows his digital files, the kinky collection of fashion photographs and celebrity portraits that have cinched his reputation as an A-list photographer of A-list celebrities, and one of fashion’s most cunning provocateurs.

During the interview, a rare one, granted in the weeks leading up to his Moscow show, Mr. Klein betrayed almost nothing of the steely character who turns models into fembots Coach Outlet in his shoots for Vogue, and who famously persuaded pop-culture deities like Brad Pitt  and Madonna to contort themselves for his camera.