“With Spain, we think of bullfighters and flamenco dancers, but there is so much more,” Oscar de la Renta said last night at a private viewing of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute’s Joaquin Sorolla and the Glory of Spanish Dress exhibition. The designer (who conceived the exhibit) and André Leon Talley (who curated it) gathered [...]

Is Proenza getting a new parent? Rumor has it Theory president Andrew Rosen—who, in addition to controlling Theory and Helmut Lang, has invested in Rag & Bone, Alice + Olivia and Gryphon—is mulling a stake in the New York label. Pemira, which owns 45% of the business is looking to sell its share; designers Jack [...]

Whitney Sudler-Smith’s documentary Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston teases out the complexities of an enigmatic figure by communing with those who knew him best—think My Architect by way of Studio 54). But getting the late designer’s nearest and dearest to reminisce on camera was no easy feat. “At first no one was really willing to [...]

Do not adjust your set—that really is Jack and Lazaro of Proenza Schouler teaching Martha how to tie-dye on The Martha Stewart Show today. (But if you’d rather leave the DIY to the professionals, you’ll be glad to know that PS is offering a tie-dyed racer-back tank, pictured, for a limited time on its Web [...]

Does Isaac Mizrahi sleep? It hardly seems likely. Not only is Mizrahi prepping Spring ‘10 collections for both his own label and Liz Claiborne, where he came on board as creative director last year, but he plays a starring part in Bravo’s new series The Fashion Show, he blogs, and he hosts his own weekly [...]

Vera Wang introduced K.D. Lang at last night’s annual Kennedy Center Spring Gala, A Celebration of Women in the Arts. To mark the occasion, the designer hosted a table, and Style.com’s Candy Pratts Price and André Leon Talley, among others, were there. In addition to Lang, Chita Rivera, Patti LaBelle, and LeAnn Rimes all performed. [...]

A sizable but nevertheless intimate group gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday afternoon to honor one of fashion’s most provocative unsung heroes, African- American designer Arthur McGee. Born in Detroit in 1933, McGee recalled his mother’s sewing from a young age, a memory that would later inspire his career in design. He entered [...]

For many, this has been a most depressing holiday season. With unemployment rates skyrocketing and the economy in the can, it might be easy to just saddle up to happy hour and drink these next few days away until the new year rolls around. But that’s not what Stephen Gan had in store for his [...]

The Calvin Klein pre-fall show venue was an all-white, very minimal space on the 11th floor of the Van Heusen-owned brand’s headquarters on 39th Street. While most of the attendants in the single row of editors—and one celeb in the form of Rose Byrne—dressed in simple clothes and cardi sets, smack-dab in the middle sat [...]

Though killer heels are being touted as the new handbag, in Milan we’ve noticed a slightly different trend: that ultimate comfort shoe, the slipper. Take the Ferré show this past Sunday, where we spotted three prominent slipper-wearers. André Leon Talley was wearing a moccasin style with his sheepskin coat, designer Tommaso Aquilano had on a [...]