Feeling stressed? Grab your bath salts and some candles, drag you subwoofer into the bathroom and enjoy a soothing bubble bath while watching this latest (actually old) fashion look book from Koch shot at a very lovely skatepark. No more frontside grinds, release your aggression. Let it go… UPDATE: Added some retina-relaxing images.

Irene Neuwirth has a skateboard covered in $60,000 worth of rocks up for auction to benefit the Laxart gallery. While I was shocked to learn that she is “admittedly no Tony Hawk,” I was even more shocked to see what amounts to a very expensive and amateurish crafts project passed off as art by a well known jewelry designer. Actually, I know nothing about her, but I’d have to assume she is successful to be able to pony up that much cash for… trash. Natas Kaupas is going to have a piece in there too. Seems like I’ve heard of him sompeplace before. Fashion strikes again! [Source: Style.com] via Betsy Gordon.

I’m not going to make any judgements or cast him in a disparaging light, but MC is the king of finding fashion skateboarding shoots lately. Here are not one, but three fashion spreads featuring skateboards and/or skateboard parks. Fashion, not function.

Glamour, France thinks Jessica Alba is a fashion icon and a cool girl. I think she looks uncomfortable posing with that skateboard. Somehow they managed to make sex symbol look awkward in most of the photos. I wonder if it’s because she did pushups, a la Salba before the photo shoot. Update: Photo recycled in US Weekly a year later. [Source: Visual Optimism] – MC found it, but he’ll blame one of his daughters.

Fashion spread with Chanel skateboard for a magazine called Grazia, Spain, with help from La General Surfera. Source: Visual Optimism

Maple XO is hosting a fashion show this Friday night in response to Jeremy Scott’s recent ripoff, as well as design ripoffs in general. Is there a difference between plagiarism and appropriation? I hope so. Maple XO is no stranger to having some of their own work copied wholesale. This kind of event screams for some GVK coverage. See you there?

These are garment hang tags for Maple XO, made out of skateboard veneers that have been etched and cut with a laser. Pretty damned cool. Hang tags are a little bit too high brow for the stuff I hawk, but damn, I wish I thought of it myself. [Source: Oregon Screen Impressions]

Jeremy Scott copied Jim Phillips. We called it, and the rest of the interwebs caught up, including the folks at N.H.S., who sent this out yesterday: We are having a problem with this person ripping off Phillips and Santa Cruz artwork. Please help us spread the word. You can use the information below. This is the image that kicked it all off, we did not produce this link or the attached image of it, we are not sure who did produce it Read the rest, after the jump.

Refinery 29 has an article on female skateboarders titled Meet 4 Rad Babes Lighting Up The S.F. Skate Scene: Let’s be real; for some ladies it’s the hipster mating call, but for others it’s the soundtrack to the deep skateboarding history that our sweet city is steeped in. While it may seem that the dudes are running the streets, there are quite a few badass babes who are making waves in the skate community — and are sitting pretty while doing it! Between the Thrasher empire’s fearless female with a particular flair (read: obsession) for Marc Jacobs, a pint-sized skate powerhouse, a gritty photographer, and a mighty fine ‘zine maker, these ladies definitely have the 411 on why S.F. is king when it comes to skateboarding. The four ladies profiled are Sally Vitello Hubert (Daughter of Fausto Vitello), Josie Ramondetta (Photographer), Ashley Trujillo (Yes) and Reija Collinson (Co-owner of Lowcard) Mag Check out Meet 4 Rad Babes.

I haven’t actually held a copy of teh Neiman Marcus publication known as The Book, but near as I can tell it’s like a fashion magazine masquerading as a very fancy catalog that you can’t actually order anything from. Walter Chin is the photographer, but he’s not Walter Chin, the wedding photographer. Register those domain names early kids. As much as I tend be annoyed by gratuitous skateboards in fashion photography, I actually really like this as a photograph. It transcends the norm for this kind of thing. Chin’s photos are in the March, 2013 edition of The Book. I have no idea how you actually get a copy, but you can view it online here, page 58. – Thanks to our recent fashion correspondent Seth Levy for the tip.