One year ago, it was announced that Dennis Freedman, the longtime creative director of W, would be leaving the magazine. Freedman didn’t waste any time before embarking on a new chapter of his storied career: In short order, he accepted the role of creative director at a rebooted Barneys New York and revealed that he [...]

It’s been a fashion-world parlor game to guess at Carine Roitfeld’s next move, as the former Paris Vogue editrix gets clocked around town in Paris and New York. This morning, the picture became a little clearer: Barneys New York has announced that Roitfeld will team with Mario Sorrenti and the store’s creative director, Dennis Freedman, [...]

Christian Louboutin (left) gets the full-on profile treatment in The New Yorker this week, when Lauren Collins—who has also profiled Donatella Versace—sets out to explain the shoemaker’s mythic allure. The Louboutin secret, according to the man himself? “Le petit quelque chose qui fout tout par terre,” he says, quoting a French saying—that is, the little [...]

As jewelry designer Lynn Ban laid out her silver pieces on a table at the Bowery Hotel’s Gemma restaurant last week, the stark contrast between the antique-chic setting and the industrial-inspired jewelry was marked. But that’s the dichotomy that’s categorized much of the Singaporean designer’s career so far. Ban first made her mark curating a [...]

“It has nothing to do with drugs or money,” insisted Argentina-born Tin Ojeda, the designer behind Drug Money Art, as he organized a rolling rack of his colorful, handmade T-shirts in a NYC studio. “I just spray painted ‘Drug Money Art’ on a surfboard for fun one day and then took it to the beach—people [...]

Today, Opening Ceremony debuts its latest designer collaboration, a large men’s and women’s collection designed by Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte. The range will hit all Opening Ceremony stores (in New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo) as well as select others like Barneys and Holt Renfrew, and retail for considerably less than the duo’s [...]

The countdown to Christmas is advancing by the hour, but there’s still time for gift-shopping—assuming you can duck out of the office and make up to Madison Avenue. There you’ll find Finn, Barneys’ new discovery. The jewelry line is designed by Candice Pool and Soraya Silchenstedt, who drew on their childhood sense of whimsy for [...]

There’s no getting away from the little black dress, and Peter Copping designed a beauty for his new capsule collection for Barneys New York—perfect for a chic dinner out on the town, and accordingly called the 8 p.m. Avenue Montaigne dress (above right). But woman cannot live on L.B.D. alone, so the five-piece capsule, which [...]

Frédéric Malle has been crafting coveted perfumes and fragrances for years, but until now, had never done a candle. Why? The answer is simple: “Most candles are designed to cover bad smells, but my clients don’t have bad-smelling houses,” he said. Not these. Malle applied the same discerning nose to his votives that he did [...]

It arrives smack-dab in the middle of New York fashion week, but the latest project from Kitsuné is tout Français. The line is debuting Kitsuné Parisien, a collection that channels collegiate prepster staples, but reflects the City of Light’s unfussy chic—and is made, by the way, using only French manufacturers. That makes for pieces with [...]