The folks behind the British Fashion Council’s NEWGEN sponsorship may well be the world’s best fashion talent-spotters: A few of the designers they’ve plucked out of obscurity and given a platform at London fashion week include Alexander McQueen, Matthew Williamson, Christopher Kane, and Gareth Pugh. This season, there’s a new name to know. Joanna Sykes [...]

Yesterday may have been the unofficial start of summer, but there’s still another month of New York benefits before the party set packs up and ships itself off to the Hamptons for the duration. That means you’re going to need more dresses. If you blew what was left of your clothing budget on that
Alexander Wang [...]

Devon Aoki, a Lagerfeld muse-turned-actress (her new project, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, is in post-production), looked every inch the leading lady in Alberta Ferretti and Chopard jewels at the Spring Fever premiere in Cannes last night. Makeup colors and soft pastels, like lilac, were big news for Spring and Resort. What do you think [...]

Hard beats and powerful female voices—Tina Turner, Grace Jones—characterized the catwalk tunes this season. These strong sounds helped models put their best feet firmly forward. Here’s what we heard on the runways this week.
Blugirl
The Mood: Girly voices to sweet tunes
The Specifics: Feist, “1234″
Blumarine
The Mood: Melted-chocolate smooth tunes, transporting us back to the eighties
The Specifics: Grace [...]

When the fashion week flurry dies down and designers can partake in some R&R, where do they head? While our first guess might involve Learjets and palm fronds, it seems that just getting out of town is the priority—no private plane necessary. We polled some of Milan’s leading ladies of design for their-post show detox [...]

Sure, the red carpet glittered at last night’s Grammys with many of the usual suspects—Zuhair Murad, Alberta Ferretti, and Reem Acra, for example—but the real story was the names that had us heading for Google. Katy Perry turned heads in a strapless bubblegum pink confection with elaborate origami-like detail from designer Basil Soda (Paula Abdul [...]

Julia Roberts once called Aishwarya Rai Bachchan “the most beautiful woman in the world.” Yes, Ash (as the Bollywood-fluent world calls her) is that eyeball-spinningly gorgeous. Plus, her star power is like Julia, Angelina, Reese, Renée, and Halle all rolled into one subcontinental supernova. But let’s talk about Ash’s fashion. While her black chiffon Alberta [...]

Nicholas Kirkwood better have a sturdy mantel. A bit of plywood shelving just won’t hold up under all the awards the English shoe designer has been racking up. There’s the AltaRoma Vogue Italia Who’s on Next award he took home last year, and then the Swarovski Emerging Talent Award for accessories he won at the [...]

Alberta Ferretti is the latest designer to get the avatar treatment (no, it’s not like Botox) and enter the virtual world of high-end shopping. She may have just opened and fêted a flagship in L.A., but her newest address is in StarPlaza, which is a decidedly more global locale. A Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti [...]

What we heard on the runways this week.
Giorgio Armani
The mood: ethnic tones, deep rhythms
The specifics: Angus & Julia Stone, “Paper Aeroplane”
Brioni
The mood: tribal techno
The specifics: Juno Reactor, “Swamp Thing”
Gucci
The mood: upbeat disco
The specifics: Kelley Polar, “Entropy Reigns”
Dolce & Gabbana
The mood: raw and strong
The specifics: Kanye West, “Love Lockdown”
Burberry Prorsum
The mood: tranquil, soft, romantic
The specifics: Des’ree, [...]