The newest McQueen tribute comes courtesy of the Dean-Gan-Kaliardos trifecta, who are dedicating the next issue of Visionaire—out in June, with a preview on www.visionaireworld.com today—to the late designer. Expect real wildflowers, a case designed by the McQueen studio, and a roll call of fashion’s best and brightest contributors: Klein, Sorrenti, Meisel, Inez and Vinoodh, [...]

If at first you don’t succeed…. Romeo Gigli (pictured), whose relaunched label, Io Ipse Idem, lost its funding, is back yet again with XII XII XLIX par Romeo Gigli. We love the guy and hope for the best this time around, but we wonder if a comprehensible, pronounceable label name might help. [WWD]
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Agyness Deyn, whose film debut premiered Friday night at the Bowery Hotel, had butterflies in her stomach—never mind that Mean to Me, a short written and directed by artist Peter McGough, has the Manchester-born model playing a steely 1930’s femme fatale. “I’m so nervous!” Deyn fretted before the screening.McGough’s 12-minute film noir is drenched in [...]

This year’s little movie that could is shaping up to be Precious, the inspirational tale of a supremely disadvantaged teenager in eighties Harlem. The curious crowd that dropped by last night’s Cinema Society screening for a preview included Donna Karan, Agyness Deyn, and Tommy Hilfiger, the evening’s sponsor.
Sure, it’s a big deal now. But before [...]

Jean Paul Gaultier for Target: confirmed. Items for the store’s third Designer Collaboration, which is different from Go International (McQueen and Sui did the former, Rodarte and everyone else the latter), will be available in March. Gaultier’s muse is American pop culture; we may get a mass-market cone bra yet. [WWD]First Lady Michelle Obama is [...]

It was a buzzy evening for the Cinema Society crowd last night—a chance to see Oscar contender pic An Education with rising-star ingenue Carey Mulligan and to check out the new Crosby Street Hotel. There to take in the event, co-hosted by Dior Beauty and Möet & Chandon, were Rachel Roy, Susan Sarandon, Charlotte Ronson, [...]

“The East Village doesn’t need another vintage store,” says Marco Querci, who tonight opens new boutique Change of Season. Instead, Querci and his partner Clinton Curtis created a whole new retail beast: the curated outlet. As anyone who’s spent a draining day at Woodbury Commons can attest, [...]

Yesterday we discussed the hirsute pursuits of Pixie Geldof and Alice Dellal. Today we ask you to reflect on Agyness Deyn and MisShape Greg Krelenstein’s his-and-her look. Is it a do or a don’t?

—Laird Borrelli-Persson

It’s been a slow month party-wise in New York City. Maybe that’s why a few members of the social set pulled out floor-grazing frocks for the Cinema Society’s Inglourious Basterds screening and Standard Hotel after-party last night (click here for a slideshow). We say it’s never a good idea to outshine the guests of honor, [...]

Is Agyness Deyn “slightly dim…filled primarily with airy, whipped pink goo”? Or is she a calculating controller of her own public persona? The Times investigates. [NYT]
The death knell for celebrity clothing lines has been ringing for some time, but it seems like now we really will be seeing the last of the contemporary vanity [...]