Raffaello Napoleone, Pitti Immagine’s dapper CEO, convened a group of editors and trade officials—many chattering away in Italian—at Quattro in New York City for a briefing on the upcoming Pitti Uomo and Pitti W fairs. It was a whirlwind visit (Napoleone and company headed for the airport while most were still sipping espresso), but the [...]

If you’re going to take your life in your hands, might as well do it in evening dress. That’s what David Blaine did when he swam—sans oxygen tank or cage—with a group of great white sharks in an Adam Kimmel tux for the designer’s new video (above). Kimmel and wife Leelee Sobieski screened the short [...]

The gentlemen of hip hop have a famous taste for finery—and not just Kanye, either. (Take it from Cam’ron: “We Gucci, Louis, and Pucci men.”) For Spring ‘11, designer Adam Kimmel returned the love, offering a sartorial collection inspired by “one of the most original artists of the last 30 years”—that is, Snoop (né Doggy) [...]

Man cannot live on fashion alone. And especially as the end of fashion fortnight (who ever said it’s just a week?) approaches, a little art starts to look very good. No surprise, then, to see the style types at the opening of the new Bortolami gallery last night. Artist (and fashion-friendly DJ) Nate Lowman; Adam [...]

Crystal Renn’s latest coup revealed: the holy grail of campaigns, Chanel (above). Karl Lagerfeld shot Renn and Baptiste Giabiconi in Paris for the new ads. [Fashionista]Lynn Yaeger convenes the “nutty-dressers’ convention” at the Carlyle Hotel, inviting New York’s chicest ladies-of-a-certain-age (including the legendary Iris Barrel Apfel) for a talk about their wild, Comme des Garçons-stuffed [...]

Karen Elson (pictured) walked a few New York shows this season, but she’s got her eye on a second career—country chanteuse. The English-born Nashvillian has posted a first song from her upcoming album on her Web site. Designers, we smell a runway soundtrack… [Karen Elson]
Art-loving menswear designer Adam Kimmel—who’s collaborated with artists on most of [...]

You can only bring up the “American in Paris” angle so many times, but, fact is, Adam Kimmel’s experiences in France have followed in the grand tradition of all those American artists who were liberated by Europe. And this time, he brought New York painter George Condo, one of his heroes, to up the ante—literally. [...]

Colette isn’t the first place you’d look for the Marlboro Man—the Gauloises Man, maybe—but kicking off 2010, that’s exactly where he’ll be. The store’s upstairs gallery space will host a show of photographs by the Chicago-born Jim Krantz. Krantz famously created Philip Morris’ “Marlboro Country” visuals, and when menswear designer Adam Kimmel wanted to channel [...]

Simon Doonan on anchorwomen: “A lot of women don’t have the courage to look like Daphne Guinness. Diane Sawyer is an achievable goal for them.” Yes, we’ve always seen those ladies as two sides of the same coin. [WWD]
If someone stole my Lanvin bag, I’d run 12 blocks to snatch it back, too. Well played, [...]

The tomboy trend that we picked up on at the Fall shows is still going strong for Resort. Witness the Marni look, left. So, we thought, why not send a few of the most fashionable women we know on an inspiration-seeking mission at the men’s Spring 2010 shows? Comme des Garçons was popular and Adam [...]