Amber Valletta already proved herself capable of taking on the role of Catherine Deneuve once (the supermodel reenacted the actress’ legendary character from Belle de Jour in François Nars’ much-lauded photo book 15×15). So when the face painter decided to base his entire Spring collection around another Deneuve heroine—Lucile, from Alain Cavalier’s 1968 film La [...]

Last night, we bore witness to one of the more epic beauty-and-fashion parties we’ve attended to date. Together in one room were supermodels old and new and rag-trade megastars (see Theyskens, Olivier, and Jacobs, Marc), not to mention one very bedazzled Amanda Lepore—all of whom gathered to celebrate the launch of François Nars’ new photo [...]

Backstage invites are starting to flood our inbox as fashion week looms ever closer. As we’ve been mechanically adding them to the color-coded Excel spreadsheet we tote around each season, one in particular has stood out. That would be the Marc Jacobs invite we got today from NARS Cosmetics that reads:
Show: Marc Jacobs
Date: Monday, September [...]