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 [...]

Fashion people love a controversy, but there’s one thing that reporters, market editors, and buyers can agree on: There are too many runway shows. This weekend in Paris, KCD’s Ed Filipowski announced a new initiative created to address the overcrowded fashion week schedules.The company’s digital arm has teamed up with Tony King & Partners to [...]

And you thought her men’s show in Milan was a spectacle. On Tuesday in Paris, Miuccia Prada will celebrate her label’s new Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré boutique—not with a traditional store opening party, but with an ephemeral museum at the city’s historic Palais d’Iena (home of her Miu Miu runway shows) that has been conceived [...]

Cocktail parties are a dime a dozen this time of year. The limited-edition Standard clutch that was the cause célèbre at Reed Krakoff’s Madison Avenue get-together is decidedly not. In fact, only 15 of the envelope-style clutches have been made in exotic ayer skin (that’s watersnake, to you and me), in a range of colors [...]

My son Nikolas is three-and-a-half. We changed the words of “Santa Claus is Coming To Town” this year to “you better not pout, you better not whine,” because crying is OK, but whining is not. If he avoids the latter, we’ve told him Santa will bring him this Plantoys play set. It’s the best [...]

Milan Vukmirovic is no longer with Trussardi, but that doesn’t mean the fashion multi-hyphenate has slowed down. The launch issue of his new magazine, Fashion for Men, which is over 600 pages strong, hits newsstands at the end of the month, and Pitti announced last week that his capsule collection for Chevignon Heritage (four pieces [...]

Duran Duran’s much-blogged-about video for “Girl Panic!” went live on the Internet today. In the nine-minute clip directed by Jonas Akerlund of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” fame, Simon, John, Nick, and co. are played by the supermodels they partied with way back when: Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Eva Herzigova, Helena Christensen, and Simon’s wife, Yasmin LeBon, [...]

The eighties gave us supermodels, and they gave us Duran Duran. Fast-forward to 2011 and they’re all making headlines again. The band recruited five über-supers for a video for “Girl Panic!,” its new single off the album All You Need Is Now, released earlier this year. In the nine-minute clip directed by Jonas Akerlund (the [...]