Halston For The Guys, Pantsuits For the Girls, And More…
March 4th, 2010 by PalSahab
Striking while the iron’s hot, Halston announces—on the heels of Marios Schwab’s successful first collection for the label and the high-profile signing of SJP to creative-direct the heritage line—that it will develop heritage ... More
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Loading ...First Look: Lady In Rouge
March 4th, 2010 by PalSahab
Yesterday, we caught the first glimpse of Marion Cotillard as “Lady Rouge” in her latest campaign for the Lady Dior bag. Here’s your first look at the whole video, with Cotillard crooning Franz Ferdinand’s “The Eyes of M ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Window Shopping With The King Of Paris Vintage
March 4th, 2010 by PalSahab
Vintage couture dealer Didier Ludot is the de facto king of the Palais Royal, so when he decides to dress windows, pop a cork, and stay open late, many of his fashionable neighbors—Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, and Acne among them—follo ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Yea, Nay, Or Eh? Animal Magnetism
March 4th, 2010 by PalSahab
The Brucennial, the art collective Bruce High Quality Foundation’s annual free-for-all expo, may pride itself on being the downtown alternative to a certain Biennial uptown, but at last night’s Vito Schnabel-hosted party for the show, fu ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...On Our Radar: Albertus Swanepoel For Timo Weiland Turbans
March 4th, 2010 by PalSahab
First blanket capes, then all those furs and shearlings, and now the ever multiplying boot-cut trousers on the runways—I smell a certain ritzy-boho something in the air. (It’s not, thank God, patchouli.) This fall, it’s free to be ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Pamela, Paris, Purple
March 4th, 2010 by PalSahab
It’s a little too easy to make a wisecrack about Paris being the City of Love, but suffice it to say that the town is treating jewelry designer Pamela Love pretty well these days. Love touched down in Paris last week to set up her installation ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Yay, Nay, Or Eh? Charlize Theron, Flying High
March 4th, 2010 by PalSahab
Flying the friendly skies lost most of its glamour around the time of shoe scanning, but that doesn’t make it acceptable to turn up in a sweatsuit and trainers—especially if you’re angling for an upgrade. Take a cue from Charlize T ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Marion Cotillard Suits Us Fine
March 4th, 2010 by PalSahab
Marion Cotillard’s campaigns for Christian Dior to date have emphasized the screen siren’s ladylike beauty, so it’s a nice change to see her tapping into her masculin side in the next video, which goes up at www.ladydior.com this F ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This Doll Smells Like “Freshness And Poison”
March 4th, 2010 by PalSahab
Some men have inner demons; Undercover’s Jun Takahashi has his Graces. The lamblike stuffed dolls the Japanese designer invented a few seasons ago have stayed with him ever since, popping up in Undercover’s fashion shows (they sometimes ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Damir Doma Plays By The Books
March 4th, 2010 by PalSahab
Damir Doma’s capelike jackets and voluminous pants have attracted a zealous following of free-spirited men who refuse to be poured into skinny jeans. So when the Croatia-born, Germany-raised menswear designer announced he was launching a women ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Yea, Nay, Or Eh? Keeping Up With The Cullen
March 3rd, 2010 by PalSahab
Though Robert Pattinson is getting the lion’s share of attention from the still-rampant hordes of Twilight-ers, his new movie, Remember Me, also stars Lost’s Emilie de Ravin. If she stays red-carpet-ready, as she was at the film’s ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Yea, Nay, Or Eh? Harem Apparent
March 3rd, 2010 by PalSahab
Lindsay Lohan’s scarcely appeared during Milan fashion week—no big shock, considering the drubbing the fashion press gave her Ungaro collection—but she did make it to Roberto Cavalli’s show and, of course, after-party last ni ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rozae Outlook
March 3rd, 2010 by PalSahab
Last season, L.A.-based designer Rozae Nichols shuttered her namesake label and went, as so many were going, back to basics. She created IAN, a new collection, and traded in the flouncy, Angeleno-casual designs for a pared-down range of mostly black ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Née Coco Rocha?
March 3rd, 2010 by PalSahab
She might be Mrs. Conran soon. Coco Rocha announced today that she and her longtime boyfriend, interior designer James Conran, are engaged. That’s good enough reason for us to post a picture of her in a wedding-worthy frock by her friend Jean ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Blasblog: My Fashion-Week Week Off
March 3rd, 2010 by PalSahab
The inconvenient truth of fashion weeks this season? Chalk it up to whatever you will, but Mother Nature has not been on the side of style or stilettos. Snow drifts in New York, rain in London, gale-force winds in Milan—it’s enough to ma ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Creatures’ New Comforts
March 3rd, 2010 by PalSahab
You may not know Jade Lai, but if you’ve ever shopped at her L.A. boutique Creatures of Comfort, it probably feels like you do. The shop, tucked away on a strip of Melrose Boulevard in West Hollywood, overflows with pieces that reflect LaiR ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...French Invasion Edition: Lanvin To Vegas, Le Baron To New York, And More…
March 3rd, 2010 by PalSahab
Lanvin has opened its second American outlet—and the first to sell its menswear—in Las Vegas (pictured). Well, there goes any chance of those casino winnings actually making it home. [WWD]Groan: Project Runway, the Wii game. Beca ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Stylists Take The Stage
March 3rd, 2010 by PalSahab
Stars like Ginnifer Goodwin, Christina Hendricks, Abbie Cornish, Marisa Tomei, and Perrey Reeves kicked off Oscar week last night in L.A. at a private reception, sponsored by Dior and Vanity Fair, for artist Kimberly Brooks’ (pictured, with To ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Browns’ Mrs. B On English Matrons, French Schoolgirls, And Young London’s Fashion Victims
March 3rd, 2010 by PalSahab
Joan Burstein—Mrs. B, as she’s popularly known around London—is an English lady of the old school. Remarking, for example, that the hot water in her house has been out for two weeks, the founder of the venerable Browns boutiques sa ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Lab Beakers Not Included
March 3rd, 2010 by PalSahab
Look hard enough at a fashion season and you can extract practically anything you like. I like forensics, so the appearance in Dsquared²’s mad scientist show of a sheer stretch top with arteries carefully outlined on it reminded me that I ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Meet The Milliner Of The Week
February 18th, 2010 by PalSahab
Even if “Yestadt Millinery” doesn’t ring any bells, Molly Yestadt’s clients will—among them, she counts Thom Browne and Vena Cava, both of whom commissioned the designer to create hats for their Fall 2010 collections. ( ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Billy From ‘Bama
February 18th, 2010 by PalSahab
To the insular, New York-centric work of American fashion, Billy Reid is a bona fide Southern ambassador—he doesn’t need to get two words out in that molasses voice of his before you realize that he ain’t your average Seventh Avenu ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Alexa Chung On Challenging Winter Weather
February 18th, 2010 by PalSahab
At the launch of Alexa Chung’s debut collection for Madewell at the Bowery Hotel last night, it was apparent that the model turned MTV host turned designer was attending to the details. From the illustrations on the gift bags to the polka dots ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Coming Full Circle at Casertano
February 18th, 2010 by PalSahab
It was only fitting that Alex Casertano chose to debut his eponymous collection last night at Chelsea’s Luhring Augustine Gallery, since he worked there throughout high school and college. As a gallery guy, Casertano was inspired by the fashio ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Is Chris Benz Thinking Rackets For Resort?
February 18th, 2010 by PalSahab
Chris Benz may have thrown his after-party last night at Flatiron Ping-Pong palace SPiN, but the designer himself confessed to having no plans to pick up a paddle. Out in the main pong area, club co-owner Susan Sarandon was watching as players inclu ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Thakoon Tries Out Menswear
February 18th, 2010 by PalSahab
No rest for the working man. Thakoon Panichgul had hardly put his feral new women’s collection to bed than he was back on the scene: The designer debuted his first men’s item, a cardigan collaboration with (and available exclusively at) ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Perfect Tenoversix
February 18th, 2010 by PalSahab
What with the snow falling yet again on New York fashion week, it was tempting, yesterday, to fantasize about hopping a plane bound for L.A., sans return ticket. As it turned out, the snow abated by early evening, and the party for the Tenoversix po ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rebuilding Equipment
February 18th, 2010 by PalSahab
Once upon a time in the late seventies, Christian Restoin—the longtime partner of Carine Roitfeld—married the aesthetics of Network and disco with a line of breezy silk menswear-styled shirts for women called Equipment. Throughout the ei ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Two Sides Of Michael Bastian
February 18th, 2010 by PalSahab
After his inaugural Gant by Michael Bastian presentation—for which he transformed a pre-war gymnasium into a Bruce Weber fantasy filled with Gant-clad high school jocks (pictured below)—Bastian heaved a sigh of relief. “I feel like ... More
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mountain Men At Michael Kors
February 18th, 2010 by PalSahab
Michael Kors loves those tawny-maned 1970’s supes like Lisa Taylor and Patti Hansen. It was an Arthur Elgort image of Taylor in a convertible that he had in mind when he designed his new womenswear. But who would be the man she was with? Kors ... More
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