Alexander Wang can’t stop winning. The 2008 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner
scooped up this year’s Swiss Textiles Award, beating out five other
finalists including Thakoon and Ohne Titel. We guess sexy American sportswear translates everywhere.
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Daphne Guinness gets the shoes. The pint-size muse showed up in Alexander McQueen’s fang feet at last night’s party for François Nars, [...]

“I’m moving to Soho. I’m sick of everyone being like, ‘Oh, you’re Lower East Side—of course.’ Why of course? I’m going to prove them wrong. Besides, it was time for an upgrade.”
—Alexander Wang, who expects to complete his move to Soho in early 2010.

Alexander Wang hit Barneys’ Madison Avenue flagship yesterday for a trunk show to debut his Spring 2010 line. No surprise, the girls (and grandmas!) were waiting. Below, Wang’s report, exclusively for Style.com.
When I got to Barneys, I was welcomed with the news that our Rocco bag had a waiting list of 400-plus. By day’s end, [...]

One look at the sunglasses on the Spring runways and it’s clear: Gone are the days of the no-nonsense shades. Dries Van Noten and Marni, never ones to disappoint with eyewear, delivered fantastic plastic versions, building solidly on ground they’ve covered in the past. Meanwhile, the boys from Proenza Schouler ditched the neo-hippie orbs that [...]

Cintra Wilson reviews Isaac Mizrahi’s new shop (remember, he’s not calling it a store) and ends up reviewing Isaac himself. He’s the “Falstaff of the fashion world,” she writes, which, we think, is a sneaky way of saying he’s lovably loud. [NYT]Turns out there was no truth to the rumor circulating earlier this week [...]

Don’t waste your time sifting through our runway slideshow to suss out which Marc Jacobs Spring 2010 look Lady Gaga wore yesterday to the launch of her new Monster headphones at the New York Palace Hotel. As per the designer’s PR, the multifariously ruffled and be-pearled top and frilly bloomers are actually a loan from [...]

Just as we were digesting the see-through accessories on the Prada Spring 2010 runway, a photo of this bag from Alexander Wang crossed the Style.com transom. Boy wonder Wang has reinterpreted his sold-out—and we do mean sold-out—mini-duffel from Fall in a semi-see-through version for Spring 2010. We’re told that the bags will be “coming soon” [...]

The hybrid shoe is here to stay. A brief recap: open-toe, high-heeled hiking boots at Rag & Bone, where Marcus Wainwright and David Neville are busily expanding their accessories business, including footwear. Alexander Wang: clog brogues, open-toe, high-heeled motorcycle boots; peep-toe dual animal-print wedge booties. Preen showed a pair of platform sandals with a bootlike [...]

Is Alexander Wang a magnet for supes? The likes of Trish Goff, Tasha Tilberg, and Natasa Vojnovic stepped out for his Fall ‘09 show, and we hear that the designer has nabbed Frankie Rayder for his Spring ‘10 performance this Saturday. With the exception of appearances at Michael Kors last season and Givenchy a year [...]

The Olsens may be rich, but their production office for The Row is kind of janky: “The furniture is nicked, the windows mossy with grime, and the five employees who share the two-room office have to step around a stack of fabric bolts.” Never fear. The clothes are “perfect,” according to Bergdorf Goodman’s Jim Gold [...]