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Encyclopedia Prada

Making its U.S. launch today, a hefty tome simply titled Prada chronicles the adventures of its namesake empire, which has evolved from a few humble nylon backpacks in the 90s into an...

Twin Set

In the print vs digital debate, at least one person believes it’s not up to a bunch of underage bloggers to decide the future of fashion. That person is Becky Smith, the former creative director of...

Firm Offer

Gold as skincare “wow factor” ingredient and bees as narrative plot device make us yawn so hard our faces could become black holes. Yet Orlane's new Crème Royale Eye Contour, which is jam-packed with...

Transformers

There's chunky jewelry and then there's Hanna Hedman's surreal creations. Fitting together bits of silver and powdercoated copper with OCD-like precision, the Swedish jewelry...

Headline Trip

The fruit of a rock legend and model icon is to become the new face of Versace. It's not such a stretch for Georgia Jagger to follow in mum’s footsteps, but we still have gene envy. (Grazia) Speaking...

Mirte Maas

The most talked-about newcomer at the spring shows was Dutch crush Mirte Maas. With an auspicious last name and an impressive set of brows not seen since Hilary Rhoda, Miss Maas registered on the...

Worn in the USA

Despite what the French might think, the legacy of American fashion entails more than jeans and Crocs. All right, we admit there have been a few bumps in the road (thanks, Jessica Simpson), but the...

MP3: Jessica 6

If the group's logo is any indication, Jessica 6 has six legs. Those legs belong to Morgan Wiley, Andrew Raposo and vocal savant Nomi Ruiz (of Hercules & Love Affair fame), and they're using them...

A Store Is Born: Philip Crangi

Don’t expect a silly obstacle like a working cash register to get in the way of Philip Crangi’s store launch (in the days prior, the mustachioed jewelry designer was still waiting for one to arrive...

Headline Trip

Here's a good reason to get married: alimony. Stephanie Seymour has just been awarded a $270,000 month allowance (a trifle, really) from Peter Brant until their marriage is dissolved. (Page...

Leading Lady

Coco Chanel was talking jewelry—not pants—when she issued her “Before you leave the house, take one thing off" proclamation, but it's not like Lady Gaga would have adhered to that sort of silly...

Hint Tip: Supermodel of the World

Seems like everyone's launching a model search these days, but nothing beats the original. For 30 years, Ford Models has put out its pretty tentacles to all corners of the world, inviting 50 hopefuls...

Skate Bait

The skinny skater look isn't the exclusive domain of Gus Van Sant flicks. Raf Simons, Prada, Rogan and Hood by Air get in on the action. photography Kevin Amato styling Shayne Oliver models Casper,...

Hooked: Saltalamacchia for Zero

Aside from her grandmother’s dexterous knitting and tongue-twisting maiden name, nothing says granny about Victoria Simes’ Saltalamacchia line. It started out as a complement to the...

For Party's Sake

We can’t shake the feeling that we’re missing the punchline of Rob Pruitt’s First Annual Art Awards—after all, this is a man whose most notable artistic contribution is Cocaine Buffet. The champagne...

A Fjord to Be Reckoned With

A graduate of Central St Martins in 1999 with an MA in menswear, Siv Støldal has been showing her collections at London and Paris Fashion Weeks ever since, along the way collaborating with Fred...

Deck-Brained

New music for the one-track-minded. Are your headphones on?... "Poison Lips" — Vitalic "Dance Till Dawn" (80kidz Remix) — Heartsrevolution "So Light Is Her Football" — Air "Bad Blood"...

Headline Trip

Taking a break from her stint as a human deep fryer for Calvin Klein, Eva Mendes has teamed up with art-world prankster Francesco Vezzoli for one of his fake adverts, this time for an exhibition that...

One Two Punch

Ever since news broke that Lady Gaga was teaming up with Beyoncé, we've been looking forward to the biggest she-showdown since Courtney Love hurled her compact at Madonna post-VMAs (if you...

Gift Horse

In the past when we've brought you a new item (because he doesn't do collections, per se) from our crazy Icelandic friend Sluri Recht, it's been a blanket that doubles as a coat or an umbrella with a...

Dysfashional Launch

A conceptual endeavor that seeks to bridge cities—this time Paris and Berlin—and creative disciplines, Dysfashional enlisted (mostly) fashion designers for the second year in a row to create...

Riccardo Tisci

Givenchy designer Riccard Tisci is so Italian. Tall, dark and an aficionado of everything from music to art, he also talks a kilometer a minute. I was reminded of this when he dropped in on a...

Headline Trip

Apparently fashion shows aren’t the only things prone to delays. Without coming to a decision, a French tribunal adjourned hearings on a bid to rescue Christian Lacroix, deferring until November...

Lacroix, Sweetie, Lacroix

Though his legendary house may be caught in fashion limbo, Christian Lacroix is hardly resting on his embroidered laurels. He sat down recently for an in-depth interview with the blog Un Nouveau...

The Beautiful Purple

Purple fragrances—as in types of flowers used and anything that’s slightly lurid, excessively ornate and exalted in its royalty—are best when based on anachronistic euphemisms such as “courtesan.”...

Hint Tip: Alexander Wang

So you've been trying to get your grubby hands on some Alexander Wang, but wouldn't you know it, the wunderkind is sold out everywhere! We feel your pain. But before you go and do something you'll...

Reading Thoughts

Since starting his line in 1988, Martin Margiela has achieved anti-stardom and a cultish clientele with collections defined by intelligence, humor and superb craftsmanship—and with an almost...

Money Where Your Mouse Is

Leave it to Gucci to inject some jet-set glamour and old-skool sex appeal into the web with its latest line. Designed by creative director Frida Giannini, Eyeweb (a variation on eyewear, get it?)...

Hooked: Gucci

As if channeling the Hintster generation, Gucci has gone online for its latest eyewear collection. Designed by the indefatigable Frida Giannini, Eyeweb features two generously...

Headline Trip

It’s never too early to start on your Yuletide cheer—especially if you’re Viktor & Rolf. Their Flowerbomb Christmas perfume comes decked out like a glittery pink ornament. (exclusively...

House Arrest

Because—let's face it—we're all drawn to pretty people and dazzled by shiny objects, here's the video for Dolce & Gabbana's new Jalou mini-phone, made with Sony Ericsson. It's fully loaded with a...

Tom Ford, the Sequel

Cue up Beyonce’s rendition of “At Last” because the day many had hoped for has finally arrived. Tom Ford confirmed today that he will indeed be making his grand return to womenswear, under his...

Gucci Icon-Temporary Launch

"Have you downloaded my app?" Frida Giannini asked us at the launch party for Gucci's Icon-Temporary sneaker collection with Mark Ronson, in what might become fashion's new catchphrase. The flash...

Shop-Hopping

For some, Russian dressing conjures images of the Czars—endangered furs, Fabergé-like embellishments—and for others it recalls a delicious way to season a salad. But in downtown Moscow, not far...

A Bite Out of the App

Gucci's latest entry in the global lifestyle market isn't an It-bag or a fur vest, but the glossy new Icon-Temporary app for the iPhone. A free download at the official App Store, the cyber foray...

Marike Le Roux

Born in South Africa, raised in South Korea, now living in Los Angeles, leggy Marike Le Roux had already been getting her move on before walking for Alexander McQueen, Rochas, Louis Vuitton,...

Mineral Rights

We’re not naming names but we have, um, a “friend” who’s hung onto a discontinued pewter-taupe eyeliner for something like 17 years. It’s become a kind of trashed-out artifact from an archeological...

Man About Town

Acrimony, San Francisco’s source for bleeding-edge international labels, has reopened after a well-advised move from off-off-beaten-path to a bustling block in Hayes Valley. Mannish pieces from...

Priestess NYC

Designer Cody Ross, perennially shaded and very blond, could easily be the lovechild of Max Headroom and Missing Persons' Dale Bozzio. But his Priestess NYC label isn't (only) about the trashtastic...

Headline Trip

Extra! Extra! ACNE Paper has released its latest issue with a bewitching Tilda Swinton on the cover, photographed by Paolo Roversi. Target has announced that the former enfant terrible of...

Hint Tip: C.P. Company

Everyone has a signature. Louis Vuitton has its monogram; Anna Wintour has her bob; Karl Lagerfeld has his frost. For men's label C.P. Company, it's the Goggle Jacket, a rugged, explorer-style piece...

MP3: Light Asylum

In a few short months, Light Asylum—aka Shannon Funchess and Bruno Coviello, the latest buzz out of Brooklyn—has gone from playing local art shows to the basement of Pieter Schoolwerth's infamous...

Hooked: Burberry

Inspired by the chain detailing of the fall collection, Burberry’s new line of limited-edition timepieces could just as easily be an ode to Pamela Anderson’s campy crime-fighting stint in Barb Wire....

Kate, the Prankster

Here's a cute little story about the making of the TV spot for Yves Saint Laurent's Parisienne fragrance—you know, the super-suggestive one with a writhing Kate Moss in the back of a limo that was...

Strap One On

It's been a long time since Howdy Doody (what an awful name that was, wow) jerked about his little black-and-white TV stage on human-operated strings, entertaining spellbound and rather...

FIAC the Recession

Despite the lull in the art market, seen in a somewhat sleepy Frieze Art Fair in London, buzz is building around this year's FIAC Art Fair (October 22-25). Seems the French don’t believe in worldwide...

Headline Trip

Tom Ford’s long-awaited directorial debut, A Single Man, screened at the London Film Festival to hearty approval, even making it onto a few top ten lists. Apparently, the man can do no wrong. (Metro...

Keke Lindgard

All the way from Hawaii comes bad-ass surfer/skater girl Keke Lindgard. At only 15, the half-Aussie rode the proverbial wave at the spring shows, her debut season, walking for Gucci, Prada, Pucci,...

Into the Tube: The XX

Rising South London misfits The XX took their distinctly brooding slow jam, Islands, to the television stage recently on Later Live With Jools Holland. Heavy breathing, drum-machine tapping and...

Life After Heatherette

Remember Limelight? (If not, then you were definitely there.) We just stumbled across an email announcing that the birthplace of club kids, bubble-bath parties, Patricia Field vinyl...

A Store Is Born: orangesnowstore

Tired of the fast-fashion machine churning out collections faster than you say "disposable?" The folks at orangesnowstore are, too, and they’re doing something about it. The London concept store is...

Madrid Fashion Week

Sandwiched, like bocadillo, between New York and Milan, Madrid Fashion Week feels a bit like sitting at the kiddie table at a family reunion, especially when the grown-ups of fashion are sitting...

Six Scents Two

We first learned of Henry Holland's new perfume, Smell, back in August, when he said he hoped it would inspire "lots of sex." As they say, sex smells—or something like that. Our interest...

Backstage at Dries Van Noten

We hung out with Dries Van Noten backstage at his spring 2010 show, another inspired collection of ethnic prints. But it was his dog, Harry, who stole our hearts. (Video production by Crystal Snow...

Backstage Fashion & Frolic

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Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces

A newly glitzy Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center got a taste of Madrid when a mix of cinema-loving, high-heeled New Yorkers came out for a screening of Pedro Almodóvar's latest effort, Broken...

Your First Look: The Row x Linda Farrow

After a few seasons of the now-ubiquitous wayfarers, change is in the air. If the spring shows were any indication, look for eyewear to be spinning right round. With a nod to John and Yoko during...

Headline Trip

Not content with a hefty fortune, an epic personal collection of couture and a namesake fragrance, Daphne Guinness opened the Giles show and lounged about with a male model in a glossy spread for...

Sex Cells

So you have the super-slick Dior flip phone. Fantastic. But do you have the new My Dior phone? Designed to work in tandem with the original, the miniature version can be hooked to a bag or sit in...

Got MIRF?

No, not MILF, you filthy perv! MIRF is the mash-up of New York graffiti artists Mint and Serf, who've collaborated with Marc Jacobs on the windows for his Marc by Marc Jacobs store. Mint and...

Something Borrowed

During Paris Fashion Week, we reported that Lindsay Lohan, the day before her so-called work at Ungaro was to debut, spent her time shopping at Dior and Yves Saint Laurent, and even...

Tee Service

Prada loves its Epicenter stores so much (wouldn't you if they were designed by Rem Koolhaas or Herzog and de Meuron?) that they've created these souvenir T-shirts showcasing the more fantastic of...

Foot Traffic

He's a man of mystery, but cobbler extraordinaire Pierre Hardy—créateur of his own line of lusty women's and men's shoes, as well as the fanciful footwear of Balenciaga and Hermès—couldn't...

Live: Fever Ray

Not once but twice last week, Fever Ray brought the house down—or, rather, into a trance—at Webster Hall in New York. We stood spellbound, crammed shoulder-to-shoulder from the stage to the...

Hooked: Bless for Longchamp

Finally, a guilt-free donut. Behold the latest from the conceptual think-tank Bless, who, along with Jeremy Scott and Charles Anastase, has overhauled the classic Le Pliage canvas bag from Longchamp....

Obituary: Irving Penn

Irving Penn, one of the twentieth century’s most influential and revered fashion photographers, died this morning at the age of 92. His subjects ranged from Pablo Picasso to Kate Moss, couture gowns...

Hint Tip: Barneys New York

We're barely into October and that means one thing: it's time to start thinking about holiday windows. Specifically, Barneys, whose window contributions to Madison Avenue are always a festive yet...

Putting the Art in Rodarte

For the Colette launch of Rodarte's shop-in-shop and gallery (on view through November 7), Laura and Kate Mulleavy took over the second floor in a recreation of their...

Flyer on the Wall: Henrik Vibskov

Eau Contraire

By now we get Viktor & Rolf’s sense of humor. What seems to be is not, and in fact it is often the opposite. So when you’re presented with Eau Mega, their latest perfume that sprays from its...

Getting Cozy with Sarkozy

Some houses hire controversial tabloid fixtures as designers, others cram their front rows with (yawn) celebrities, but it was Jeremy Scott who scored the biggest photo-op of Paris Fashion Week when...

Nothing Personal

Maybe we're being cynical, but it's hard to picture a world where we'd ever want to personalize our web browsing with themed wallpaper, much less wallpaper by fashion designers. (What does one need...

Guy Bourdin's Films

You know it’s a good party when Albert Elbaz rolls up without even an entourage in tow. He was immediately swarmed by well-wishers still swooning over his unanimously adored Lanvin collection....

Just In: Roisin Murphy for Viktor & Rolf

For her Overpowered tour in 2007, Roisin Murphy wore a Viktor & Rolf dress that came equipped with its own sound and lighting rig. Returning the favor, the now-preggers Irish electronic-pop star...

School of Thought

Alas, the Prada Transformer in Seoul has taken its last spin. And this time, it ends at the beginning—with students. In the ultimate college try, for two weeks the experimental venue was turned...

Hint Tip: Jil Sander

The world is about to get a lot better-looking. That's because, on September 30, Jil Sander will finally launch its online store, powered by Yoox, offering the full range of women’s, men’s, shoe, bag...

Backstage at Giorgio Armani

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Backstage at Missoni

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Backstage at Marni

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Backstage at Fendi

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Headline Trip

Rodarte menswear? Not quite, but photog pal Ari Marcopoulos was spotted wearing a custom Rodarte cardigan—a gift from the girls—at the after-party for his new retrospective at the Berkeley Art...

Our Favorite...

headlines from the new WWWWD, the heeelariously satirical trade paper, because some of them don't seem so far off from the truth...- Lady Gaga and FedEx Kinko's Team Up for Bubble Wrap...

A Store Is Born: Fenton-Fallon

For the location of its first boutique, Fenton-Fallon jewelry settled on the Lower East Side’s Freeman’s Alley, the hipster home of brooding artists, perennial face scruff and painted-on jeans. But...

John Galliano

When an invitation in the shape of an old-fashioned movie clapper arrived by mail, it was clear this was going to be one of John Galliano’s cinematic romps. The man is anything but subtle....

Hermès

Following Chanel's barnyard spectacle, with its real bales of hay and Lily Allen done up like a Nashville starlet, it seems another luxury brand was thinking green, too. At Hermès, every...

Louis Vuitton

For several seasons, after lashings from Anna Wintour and Suzy Menkes for being as much as two hours late, Marc Jacobs has started showing on time with both his namesake label in New York and Louis...

Chanel

One of the favorite sports practiced by Karl Lagerfeld is laying out more and more money on the scenography for his Chanel collections, creating spectacle after spectacle each season at the Grand...

Alexander McQueen

It was close encounters of the third kind at Alexander McQueen tonight—or to the nth degree, considering the tech issues. As you may well know, the buzz had been building around the collaboration...

Chloé

It’s decidedly fall in Paris, but the Jardin des Tuileries was nevertheless blooming with Chloé girls. They pranced about in slouchy pants and oversized blazers as they gradually made their way into...

Celine

At Celine, designer Phoebe Philo was awaited like the Messiah. And she came. For years, after the departures of Michael Kors and Ivana Omazic, the brand was a kind of no-man's land on the LVMH map....

Givenchy

Those familiar with the Voguing lexicon will be well-acquainted with the phrase “We’re not here to be shady, just fierce!” This might as well have been the battle cry outside the Givenchy show on...

Junya Watanabe, Tao, Comme des Garçons

When discussing the magic of fashion with a friend, I realized that only a special few designers evoke that feeling of wonderment. How do they do it? Where do they get the ideas that change and...

"Dress Codes" at the ICP

Jeremy Kost's foray into photography began—as so many things do—by happenstance. And, like many a shutterbug before him, Kost quickly realized the social utility afforded by his beloved Polaroid. "I...

Sonia Rykiel

Filing into the Sonia Rykiel boutique on Saint Germain felt like boarding some super-sexy airplane (like Britney’s Toxic video, but obviously a lot classier). We were ushered to our seats by...

Viktor & Rolf

I battled through a sandstorm and scrums of Japanese photographers (my outfit today was rather chic) just to get to Viktor & Rolf. Once in, the next hazard was falling into people's laps, so dark...

Ungaro

The legacy of Emanuel Ungaro doesn't appear to be a priority for the current owner of the storied label, Lebanese businessman Mounir Moufarrige. Each new designer is replaced every few seasons, the...

Vivienne Westwood

For fashion writers of a certain age (ahem), Vivienne Westwood is the pinnacle of all that is Good and Righteous in the universe de la mode. Hence the sheer animal panic that set in when said fashion...

Ann Demeulemeester

At Ann Demeulemeester, I sat behind Grace Coddington, who I’m pretty sure was telling off-color jokes to Suzy Menkes, perched next to her. I caught the tail end of one punch line, "It depends what it...

Jean Paul Gaultier

Surely all those in Jean Paul Gaultier's very crowded front row—Rihanna, Janet Jackson, Dita Von Teese, Catherine Deneuve—were guessing what (and where) the G. SPOT was. The title of his spring...

Sophia Kokosalaki

All would have gone like fashion clockwork front row at Sophia Kokosalaki were it not for one late and very pale Leigh Lezark, whose billowy white floor-length gown over black pants ensemble—is she...

Haider Ackermann

If there had been any doubts about Haider Ackermann’s arrival as a Parisian powerhouse, Saturday’s show put a swift end to them. Conspicuously absent from the crowd were those ubiquitous...

Lanvin

There are some shows you sit through and wish you could’ve had a go at editing the thing. Seriously, some collections run on, and on, and on. But at Lanvin, the show was long but no one knew it until...

Maison Martin Margiela

For a while now, rumors have been flying that Martin is no longer the designer at his namesake label. Now, I’m not one to speculate, but after the spring collection, that could well be the case. Is...

Yohji Yamamoto

There's a quiet solemnity to Japanese fashion that verges on the religious. It's the kind of faith that lets someone look at half a jacket and some frizzy, powdered hair and see divine revelation. At...

Nina Ricci

Nina Ricci is, and has always been, about L'Air du Temps, the most romantic perfume of all time. So much so that when its owners at Puig hired Olivier Theyskens as the creative director of the brand...

Bernhard Willhelm

The thing about Bernhard Willhelm’s shows is that the audience tends to be just as outlandish as whatever strolls down the runway. Maybe it’s the crowd, which is usually sprinkled with a good amount...

Bless

German label Bless presented its spring collection in the dungeon underbelly of the Paris art enclave Le 104, where the concrete walls and floors felt more off-the-books boxing gym than fashion...

Balenciaga

Just when I was about to assess Nicolas Ghesquière's collection for Balenciaga—its urban guerilla look a return to his recent futuristic phase—along came the indomitable Cathy Horyn to drum up drama....

Dior Celebrates Tyen

Dior knows how to celebrate its own. At the Palais de Tokyo in Paris on Monday, the house organized a blitz exhibition (lasting only a few days) for Tyen, the single-named art director of Dior...

Rick Owens

A funny thing happened on the way to Rick Owens. As I was almost there, my taxi hit a Paris Fashion Week bus and about eighty hysterical editors scrambled out and made a mad dash for it on foot. In...

Balmain

Last season at Balmain, the label's biggest fans competed for who could wear the widest shoulders. In fact Balmain—or more pointedly, designer Christophe Decarnin—is to blame for every overly...

Gareth Pugh

It was a madhouse at Palais de Tokyo in Paris when Rihanna arrived to Gareth Pugh in sunglasses bigger than her Pugh mini-dress and escorted by more service men than Michelle Obama. No one raised an...

Rochas

As I exited Rochas' stifling show venue, I bumped into two (of my bitchier) friends, who rattled off a flurry of names—Prada, Kenzo, Dries Van Noten—that they thought the collection too closely...

Limi Feu

Yohji Yamamoto's daughter, Limi Yamamoto, never strays far from her father's aesthetic. Both designers harbor an obsession with black and white, a fascination with volume, a fondness for...

Jacky Ido

Along with unrelenting violence, pop cultural verve and witty, campy dialogue, Quentin Tarantino's films are eagerly awaited for their eclectic casts, which either reignite defunct careers or nurture...

Milan: Day 4

Canadians Dean and Dan Caten, the twin brothers of Dsquared, started their Italian career in drag, impersonating the 60's singing sensation The Kessler Sisters in underground cabarets. Which gives...

After Glow

Remember eye gloss, the early-2000s promise of dewy optical skin that more often than not turned your face into an oil slick? It was as if the heavens got angry with stealing its look and...

Are You Jellin'?

Adding to its jam-packed roster of high-profile collaborators (Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Givenchy, etc.), the Brazilian queen of jelly shoes, Melissa, is once again teaming up...

Q&A: Salem

Midwest-by-way-of-Chicago doom juke trio Salem has hypnotized a legion of die-hard fans with the release of only three 7-inch EPs and their MySpace page—a brilliant feat for a band with no...

Milan: Day 3

Dolce & Gabbana are always and forever about Sicily. No lack of consistency there, and spring was no exception. The collection was very impressive, with plenty of black lace and lingerie à la...

Milan: Day 2

Would-be fashion genealogists could talk forever about a brand’s "DNA." But really, enough is enough. Brands have always had identities; there's no need to inject them with more genes—or more...

Headline Trip

Seemingly intent on creating a master race, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld has been seen canoodling with Swedish model Robert Konjic across various time zones. (Paper) Calvin Klein joins forces with the...

Hooked: Abakus

Spring 2010 is starting to look like reform school for wild girls gone good. After his saccharine collection, even Marc Jacobs quipped that he’s tired of seeing girls in black leather and studs (hmm,...

Story Telling

I just had the pleasure of hanging out with the fantastic milliner Stephen Jones at his shop on Great Queens Street in London. Before we strolled over to the Showstudio party at Somerset House, along...

Headline Trip

Has Jak & Jil’s Tommy Ton dethroned the Sartorialist? (Jak & Jil) Lilo in the making, Taylor Momsen didn’t get into the Phi show and was not happy. At least she reached another milestone: a...

Headline Trip

For the last couple of seasons, Maria Cornejo has been flirting with menswear, but not committing. We hear that's changing now, so keep your eyes peeled and your wallets handy. Et vous aussi, Jean...

The Convenient Truth

Art can be so inconvenient sometimes. Thank goodness for the Art Convenience Store, launching September 21 at Colette. Based on the idea of a souvenir from Tokyo, the project celebrates the (mobile)...

Hint Tip: Burberry

All kinds of goodies fell out of the Burberry bonnet today. Let's review...- The show will take place at Chelsea College of Art and Design in Westminster, where the last ad campaign was shot.- For...

Ron Arad at MoMA

MoMA’s foray into the fashion fete fray was no small undertaking, particularly because a busy night pitted it against other heavyweight bashes. But then, the art world is hardly a stranger to a good...

Milan: Day 1

We forgot who said this, but someone somewhere seriously (seriously!) proclaimed Milan the world’s fashion capital. Well, we all know the truth, that Milan is gray and dull. And that the word...

Basso & Brooke

When Bruno Basso and Christopher Brooke came out to greet the audience after their show, they were an exact replica of their collection—minus the dresses. One was entirely clad in black, the other...

Fashion Fringe

One of the great things about the Fashion Fringe competition is that nearly everyone gets to sit front row and take home a decent goodie bag. But the main reason to love it is the chance it gives to...

White Not?

White Objects, the obets d'art Maison Martin Margiela exhibited at Milan's Salone Del Mobile in April have now been produced, available in MMM stores worldwide in October. If you think there isn't...

Anne Fontaine

The French director speaks to Hint about the making of Coco Before Chanel (opening Sept. 25), starring Audrey Tautou as the larger-than-life, sometimes contradictory, but always self-made...

Now Playing: Julian Casablancas

I have to admit that when I first watched the Warren Fu-directed trailer for Julian Casablancas' forthcoming solo LP, The Phrazes for the Young (Cult/RCA), I grew slightly emo. What...

Matthew Williamson

Nothing like free-flowing cocktails at noon to kick off London Fashion Week. In a classy move we wholeheartedly endorse, Matthew Williamson provided a boozy lounge for editors, buyers and the...

Louise Gray

Anything but gray—or even greige—Louise Gray presented her spring collection in London, bright orange hair tied up in a knot and bopped to the beats of Black Eyed Peas and Gossip, the perfect...

Graeme Black

After being bumped to a presentation slot on the official London Fashion Week schedule, Graeme Black decided to leave Somerset House altogether and set up his own runway show on Savile Row, where...

Backstage Fashion & Frolic

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Threeasfour

Everything was in place at Threeasfour. Boosted by its collaboration with Yoko Ono, yielding dot prints and a soundtrack, the show had A-list buzz. Fashion’s artiest turned out in droves, including...

Anna Sui

Drawing upon her love of the 1960s, Anna Sui delivered a playful collection perhaps best described as mod circus. Organ music, à la Ringling Brothers, played in place of rock and pop songs of season...

Alexandre Herchcovitch

Whereas most of Alexandre Herchcovitch's fellow Brazilians follow futebol, not football, for spring the designer clearly drew inspiration from the latter, decidedly American sport. Exaggerated...

Rad Hourani

Like minimalists Rick Owens and Helmut Lang before him, Rad Hourani doesn't ever deviate far from his aesthetic. His goal is to improve upon the angular, androgynous looks he began showing three...

Gareth Pugh

Gareth Pugh chose the dark, industrial location of Milk Studios' enclosed loading dock to show his video installation on a gigantic and totally ominous cube. Four films were projected on its four...

Into the Tube: Lady Gaga at the VMAs

For somebody as determined to be a pop star as the irrepressible Lady Gaga, a stage like Radio City Music Hall for the MTV Video Music Awards must have been mecca. Sharing the stage with Madonna,...

Backstage Beauty at Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs likes his work to be seen. A lot. So for spring, he turned the inside of the New York State Armory into a blinding white box with a quadruple runway, Bryant-Park-style. Along with...

Bland

If Martha Graham had choreographed a dream sequence in Weird Science with the cast of Fraggle Rock, it would still be only half as good as the Bland presentation. In Cherry Lane Theater on...

Zero + Maria Cornejo

Whoever said fashion forgets? Once upon a time Chilean designer Maria Cornejo flew under the radar. But in what must have seemed like trekking to Chile itself, a hardy fashion set ventured far west...

Alexander Wang After-Party

The night of Alexander Wang's show, everyone reconvened at the gas station on 14th Street (nope, it wasn’t a false rumor) for his now-epic after-party with LOVE magazine. And by everyone, I mean...

The Standard Rooftop Launch

Gone are the days, apparently, when showing up in a gaggle of leggy types to a premier Fashion Week party guarantees one access. For its rooftop launch party, the Standard had just as many (if not...

Patrik Ervell

The scene backstage at Patrik Ervell hummed with a calm efficiency. There was the usual gathering of the angular and wide-eyed, although this time around the vibe was less Rimbaud asthmatic and more...

Y-3

While the Y-3 show had some interesting asymmetrical hems, super-low drop-crotch pants and its usual array of three-stripe hits in bright colors and black and white, Yohji Yamamoto proved he's been...

Alexander Wang

Is Alexander Wang the new Marc Jacobs? (And does that makes Marc Jacob the new Oscar de la Renta? The possibilities are dizzying.) The madness before his show suggested as much. A natural...

Ohne Titel

Alexa Adams and Flora Gill's latest collection for Ohne Titel featured a textural reinterpretation of what will heretofore be referred to as "diet bondage" (or "bondage lite" for Europeans)....

Erin Fetherston

Predictably, Erin Fetherston's spring collection, Ladyland, overflowed with blue-bowed camisoles, white linen eyelet skirts, racetrack hats, fringed tan tunics, ecru booties and other pieces straight...

Karen Walker

The Prisoner, the 1967 British cult TV show that centered around a former secret agent who’s being kept for reasons unknown to him in an idyllic seaside village, was beautiful to look at but the...

Hooked: Walter Van Beirendonck

Walter Van Beirendonck’s accessories for fall add new meaning to the phrase “giving you face.” From the Glow collection, these beaded, vaguely tribal necklaces are a little bit future rave and a...

Headline Trip

Putting her leggings empire on hold, Lindsay Lohan has been hired as "artistic advisor" at Ungaro, according to a press release we got today. We're so with you, Esteban. Only a Frenchman could...

Hint Tip: Gaga for Givenchy

Giving Liberace a run for his money, Lady Gaga will take center stage at The Box on September 15, belting out an acoustic set on a grand piano for the launch of Givenchy’s new men’s fragrance, Play....

Banger for the Buck

For about ten years now, Eastpak has taken a cue from Pacman, chomping on bite-size coolness from vanguard artists and designers to update its classic backpacks. Walter Van Beirendock, Rick Owens and...

Headline Trip

Add a tan, chest hair and a come-hither squint and Burberry's Christopher Bailey could be England's Tom Ford—and yet not. [Times UK] Gareth Pugh for the masses? According to an email we got today,...

Nightshades by Pleasure Principle

These Nightshades from Pleasure Principle came about from the idea of selling sunglasses in vending machines at nightclubs. Why? For that crushing moment you realize it's dawn and you're minutes...

Erin Wasson x RVCA After-Party

By all intents and purposes Erin Wasson's show of "things to wear with jean cut-offs," as she told me, was a major production—a beast nearly extinct in fashion. After a considerable delay, the...

Adult Content

We all know Marc Jacobs likes girlie, especially when it comes to fragrance. It’s like, his thing. He’s been releasing very straightforward body splashes for a while, and before that was the Daisy...

Tara Jean

Following in the footsteps of Coco Rocha, Tara Jean is the latest to emerge from the Canadian model assembly line. Discovered while waitressing in Vancouver, Tara has already caught the eye...

Band of Outsiders/Boy

Putting a damper on my “Ban the Runways, Give Me Presentations!” hurrah, the downstairs gallery at Milk was packed to the rafters for the Band of Outsiders/Boy show. Everyone was crushed around the...

VPL

Victoria Bartlett did her Victoria Bartlett thing: complexifying what would otherwise be pretty simple silhouettes and materials, manifesting something special out of what might seem...

3.1 Phillip Lim

First things first: presentations are genius. No door hassle, no rushing, editors can gab, actually look at the clothes, talk to the designer, all while remaining composed and civilized. “It just...

Robert Geller

Not even torrents of rain could dampen the mood at Robert Geller's spring '10 men's collection. Despite many a soaked pant leg, a buzzing crowd packed the house. And as it turned out, the designer...

Erin Wasson x RVCA

The first days of Fashion Week are always a little bewildering, so spotting Sarah Lerfel of Colette mistakenly standing in the non-invite line to Erin Wasson x RVCA's Bryant Park show was not...

Rag & Bone

On or about March 1910, the apocalypse came during a horseback ride through Wiltshire. That perhaps mangled Virginia Woolf quote, coupled with a sweetly melancholic sense of pastoralism, seemed to...

Tom Scott

Tom Scott’s presentation at the Chelsea Hotel today was inspired by “old-fashioned things you can find at home.” As I read this, Barneys' Julie Gilhart ran into the elevator in a pair of leather...

Witch Doctoring

Denver-based Pictureplane, aka 24-year-old Travis Egedy, produces fuzzed-out electronic tracks awash with nostalgic house beats and distorted samples, making for a sound that is equal parts dense...

Shop-Hopping

So you love porcelain memorabilia, fine, but how many times can you admire and caress your Judy Garland figurine collection? (We're looking at you, Rufus Wainwright.) Franz porcelain breaks the...

A Store Is Born

The Montreal-based, avant-garde shoe salon Mona Moore has unveiled its first U.S. outpost right smack in the middle of Venice—providing Rachel Zoe with a glamorous new backdrop to stage...

Mixed Up: Ed Droste

We recently caught up with Grizzly Bear frontman Ed Droste after his over-capacity concert, concluding the Williamsburg Waterfront summer "Pool Party" series. Playing to a packed park where...

Marlena Szoka

Perfectly proportioned Pole Marlena Szoka is the shape of things to come. Having already clocked up appearances in Italian Marie Claire and a Blumarine Blu Girl campaign, Marlena is now trying her...

Sugar and Spice

Kiddy beauty competitions necessarily conjure a lot of P words: pomp, paint, plumage, prurience and, well, pedophiles. Truth is, author Susan Anderson’s High Glitz: The...

Headline Trip

Fashion Week's worst-kept secret —Yoko Ono's collaboration with threeasfour—is officially detailed. Highlights include prints from her dot drawings and a friendly price range. [WWD] Giving American...

Royalty Interest

Soft grayish mauve may sound like a better color story for a salmon than a human face, but not when Guerlain is in charge. The colors in their fall cosmetics collection are so special and...

La Mer-acle

The very nature of concealer implies the opposite of glamour. It’s only used in times of trouble, any glitziness in the product would render it pointless and, honestly, it’s kind of a bore to have to...

Jonny Johansson

Not long ago Acne was a relatively unknown skinny jeans company from Sweden. Now with sixteen stores internationally, phenomenal collaborations with Lanvin and jeweler Michael Zobel, and an...

Money Where Your Mouse Is

Thank goodness for young Alexander Wang, who's breaking the monotony of aimless Tweets and Facebook updates with the launch of his US-only e-shop. We can now devote ourselves to countless hours...

Arty Party

Thank goodness fashion tires of trends quickly (last season's "recession chic" cast a dour pall over our festivities). But spring '10 is already looking up, and the strongest trend taking shaping is...

Flyer on the Wall

Hint Tip: Alexander McQueen

Guess who's the latest to join Twitter. Alexander McQueen! (McQueenWorld) Be the first to know what's going on in his houndstooth-lined head in the run-up to the spring collection. We also hear he...

Headline Trip

Rodarte signs with William Morris for "yet to be specified" film-related projects. Costuming a Dawn of the Dead remake? The possibilities! [WWD] A first look at Linda Farrow’s collaboration with...

BeBe Zahara Benet

Like so many before her, BeBe Zahara Benet high-tailed from her native Cameroon in West Africa to Paris, where she quickly developed a flair for the haute art of feminine illusion. Today,...

Pattern People Tote Bags

Karl who? Karl Lagerfeld, that's who. Exclusively for Hint, our friends at Pattern People—who've created prints for Adidas apparel and Estee Lauder perfume packaging, as well as...

Proenza Schouler's "A Magazine" Launch

Fashion gays, party girls, designer friends and a drunk, black-eyed photographer came out to celebrate the launch of the latest issue of A Magazine, "curated" by Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez...

Ingrid Auestad

With a look that's both classic and futuristic, Norwegian knockout Ingrid Auestad is a kind of runway dominatrix who commands attention. The leggy lovely with bedroom eyes is a recognizable face back...

Rachel Scott

North Carolina cutie Rachel Scott has plenty to smirk about. Currently the Taurean teen is taking Paris by storm, with plans on the rest of Europe. (Major) -

YSL Men's Spring 2010

The short films Stefano Pilati cooks up to introduce his men's collections are turning into an Yves Saint Laurent tradition. Last season it was sexy talk abut zippers and close-ups of a...

Show and Teller

Marc Jacobs' advertisements and the strange worlds they depict, with their ample negative space and kooky people doing mundane things, have been essential imagery in fashion magazines for ten years...

Christopher Shannon

Sometimes fashion isn’t about clothes. Many designers think runway drama first, wearability second—or third, or fourth. But London-based men's designer Christopher Shannon is out to change all...

Paris Men's, Spring '10

Stefano Pilati

In their own selfish way, fashion victims help the world go 'round. But no one wants to see the end result of hoarding, not even the creative engine behind one of the world's great luxury brands,...

Anti-Sweden Jeans

The modern cultural history of Sweden and Norway pretty much boils down to ABBA versus Black Metal. As in, lilting melodies and disco beats versus shrieking vocals and grating guitar distortion. With...

Natalia Brilli

Skintight leather is one of fashion's perennial fetishes. Hell's Angels, Black Panthers, Marlon Brando, Peter Marino, Bettie Page and Dasha Zhukova's leatherette Lycra leggings are prime examples,...

Christopher Bailey

Given his fantastically glamourous job as Burberry's creative director, you might think Christopher Bailey is the type to have glitzy million-dollar condos stretching from Rio to Goa and keep a staff...

Porn Again

Ten years ago Taschen introduced The Art of Pleasure, an influential tome about the work of Tom of Finland, born Touko Laaksonen, whose explicit sexual drawings of ultra-masculine men who love men...