Uniqlo is the latest company to get the creative juices flowing for Japan. The retailer has tapped friends and collaborators like Karl Lagerfeld, Lady Gaga, Nicola Formichetti, Nicole Kidman, and Alber Elbaz to design a new series of tees to benefit the Japanese Red Cross. That’s Lagerfeld’s (left), which retails for a mere $19.99. It’s [...]

The Cheap Monday look—the skinniest of skinny jeans—stays its course season after season, but for Fall, the blues are going gray. The Swedish label showed an almost entirely gray collection during Stockholm fashion week yesterday (its second with new creative director Ann-Sofie Back) that drew on some unlikely inspirations. “We were thinking a bit about [...]

Is London still the capital of young, feral, and fearless fashion? So far this week, the most visible trend is definitively classic—as in classical Greek design. At Ann-Sofie Back, the models wore dove gray and buttery drapery. Marios Schwab sent legions of models sporting Spartan-inspired minidresses of loosely hanging folds gathered together with thick gold [...]

Eye-rolling was pretty much the de rigueur fashion response to the pack of young women dressed in skimpy garb, feather boas, and devil horns—accessorized with signs proclaiming “Ban size zero” and “BIG girls are sexy”—who paced back and forth outside London fashion week’s main tent on Sunday. But more subtle subversion was to be found [...]