Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Albert II of Monaco own Fabergé eggs. Now you can, too. The fabled Russian jewelry house founded in 1897 by Peter Carl Fabergé, goldsmith to the Russian Imperial Court, was revived in 2009 with his great-granddaughters Tatiana and Sarah helming the company’s heritage council, and it’s opening its first [...]

Fans of VPL won’t be surprised to hear that designer Victoria Bartlett is obsessed with anatomy—VPL is short for Visible Panty Line, after all. But her fixation on the body goes beyond her signature maxi dresses with the bra-cup tops. Tomorrow night, Bartlett is hosting an opening for an exhibition at her Mercer Street store [...]

The Costume Institute’s Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations show opens to the public on Thursday, following tonight’s red-carpet gala. The press preview this morning provided an early look at an exhibition that juxtaposes the fashions of two of our industry’s most provocative practitioners with videos of imagined conversations between them. Miuccia Prada plays herself and [...]

How many designers have launched a collection and, in its very first season, found it hanging in between Celine and Rick Owens at Barneys? Exactly two that we know of: Laurence Nguyen and Brian Tamborello of the L.A.-based, not yet year-old label Les Aperizes. “We were there to look at shoes last week, and we [...]

Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting made for a fitting backdrop at last night’s Belle Epoque Ball, hosted by the Young Fellows of the Frick Collection. Photographers dashed from gallery to gallery setting up portraits of the fête’s upwardly mobile twenty- and thirtysomethings in front of grand-scale paintings of upwardly mobile Parisians circa the 1880’s. With [...]

Olympia Le-Tan, girl-about-Paris and the originator of those clever needlepoint “book” bags you’ve been seeing on street-style blogs for the last couple of years, launched her ready-to-wear collection on Saturday night—in the kitchen of Paris’ Musée Nissim de Camondo, a sumptuous early-twentieth-century private home modeled after Marie Antoinette’s Petit Trianon. The location wasn’t the only [...]

It’s rare to see new designers joining the Milan fashion week ranks. Rarer still for that designer to be a Chinese woman. Uma Wang, an alumnus of China Textile University and Central Saint Martins in London and the founder of a nearly seven-year-old eponymous line with a flagship store in Shanghai, made her Italian debut [...]

Fourteen new stores in Asia by year’s end is just the beginning of Alexander Wang’s expansion plans. Style.com got an exclusive sneak peek at his new eight-piece lifestyle collection, OBJECTS, which will make its debut in goody bags gifted to lucky editors, buyers, and celebs in the front row at his show on Saturday. “I’ve [...]

The CFDA is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exhibition at the Museum at FIT, and tonight is opening night. Preparations, of course, are full steam ahead for New York fashion week, but you can count on seeing plenty of boldface designers at the party. Many, if not all of them, contributed images as well [...]

Some people choose jeans based on what they do for their backside. Others select denim based on its backstory. If you belong to the latter camp, you may have already heard about Carrie and Matt Eddmenson’s Nashville-based brand Imogene + Willie. Born in 2009, after Carrie’s family shuttered a decades-old company that developed washes and [...]