The latest from scandal-embroiled John Galliano: The designer won’t show his namesake label at a show as planned, but will hold a smaller presentation on Sunday. [Vogue U.K.]Is the end near for D&G? According to sources at Italian retailers, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are considering merging their secondary line with their main collection. [WWD]Where [...]

In case you missed it earlier this week, rumor has it Balmain is designing a custom wardrobe for Kanye West (left, at Paris fashion week) to wear on tour. We’re looking forward to a season of bedazzled military jackets and megalomaniacal proclamations of supremacy. [Hint]Pantone today announced its colors of the year for 2011, and [...]

She may have been at GQ’s Gentlemen’s Ball yesterday, but there was no chance that Demi Moore was going to step back and let Mr. Kutcher have the whole spotlight. Mrs. K stepped out in a gold-embellished frock from Christophe Decarnin’s red carpet-friendly Fall 2010 collection for Balmain. She kept her accessories accordingly minimal, from [...]

Two days into the Paris shows, the spirit of ‘77 is in the air. It’s never blared more clearly than at Balmain (and the soundtrack, by the way, was Sid Vicious’ famous cover of Sinatra’s “My Way”). Christophe Decarnin has long borrowed punk culture’s tropes, but the affect here was full-on mosh pit: tattered fishnets, [...]

As you may have heard, Style.com is celebrating a big birthday this week. We’re not afraid to show our age—we’re 10 and proud! (Oh, the things we’ve seen—and rounded up for our decade-in-review anniversary feature!)It may be our birthday, but we’re giving you the present. We’ve teamed up with ten amazing designers and labels to [...]

When Balmain and Oliver Peoples teamed up to produce the label’s eyewear earlier this year, Balmaniacs were understandably enthused. We expect no less from the collaboration’s second model, the Balmain II. The modified aviator style has a sleek, continuous frame running across the top for a futuristic fighter-pilot look—think Top Gun circa 2050. And even [...]

Tom Ford is reportedly building his women’s team by poaching top designers from Alexander McQueen and Givenchy. Hard to blame him. We’ve always said the guy had good taste. [WWD]Speaking of good taste, speculation is running rampant that Victoria Beckham “borrowed” the design for her column gown from fellow English designer Osman Yousefzada. Reached for [...]

The inconvenient truth of fashion weeks this season? Chalk it up to whatever you will, but Mother Nature has not been on the side of style or stilettos. Snow drifts in New York, rain in London, gale-force winds in Milan—it’s enough to make you consider a night in. (Just kidding!) But knowing full well there [...]

For the fashion set, the opening of a Balmain envelope is a fanatically followed event. (Even the house’s “small” store party in Paris earlier this week turned into a full-fledged throng.) So you can imagine the fervor that’ll no doubt accompany the label’s new sunglasses, made in collaboration with Oliver Peoples. Creative director Christophe Decarnin [...]

Balmainia is no laughing matter. Last night, the fashion house had planned to host a simple little cocktail party to celebrate the refurbishment of their store on the rue François—but by the time word of the fête reached me, the whole thing had blown into a full-on fashion gala. A few hours before the party, [...]