For L’Wren Scott, the old saying is true. Mother knows best—at least where handbags are concerned.The stylist-turned-designer debuts her first full-sized handbag, the Lula, this week, a ladylike structured bag inspired, she tells Style.com, by the bag her mother carried when she was a girl. “I didn’t really base it around anything other than my [...]

Celine’s on the expansion plan. According to CEO Marco Gobetti, the do-no-wrong minimal line is going maximalist in its U.S. push. Expect a new Madison Avenue store with 4,500 square feet of Phoebe Philo’s finery (left)—not to mention a brand-new Paris space as well. [WWD]Chinese consumers appetites for high-end fashion is growing, too—lightning-quick. Luxury brands [...]

Barneys New York’s Spring ad campaign, the first under CEO Mark Lee’s tenure, breaks in The New York Times this Sunday. Dubbed “Backstage,” it was shot at the Spring fashion shows in New York, Milan, and Paris by the likes of Nan Goldin (who shot at the Balmain show, above), William Klein (who shot at [...]

Diane von Furstenberg wants you! To vote for her DVF People’s Voice award, that is. The inspiring, do-gooding nominees for the annual award are now on the designer’s Web site. Zeinab Eyega (of the Sauti Yetu Center for African Women), Lyn Pentecost (of the Lower East Side Girl’s Club), Taryn Davis (of the American Widow [...]

Riccardo Tisci’s bags and shoes have long been available to e-commerce shoppers on Barneys’ Web site, but those after his ready-to-wear have had to repair to stores to get their fix. As of tomorrow, that all changes. Tisci’s collections hit the store’s e-tail site tomorrow, and the assembled parties are celebrating as fashion partiers these [...]

For warmer temperatures, you’ll have to wait a few months, and we wouldn’t advise attempting Aquilano.Rimondi’s short-shorts just yet. But Spring deliveries are already hitting major stores, and no time like the present to dive into the season’s best bags.Over at Barneys, spring-y, pop-colored Intrecciato bags from Bottega Veneta are now sharing shelf space with [...]

Over the course of a few hit-parade seasons, L’Wren Scott has become the designer to beat for show stopping, body-hugging dresses, reason #1 she’s become a mainstay of the celebrity red carpet. But the footwear she shows along with them has never been available—until now. Two styles have just hit the floor at Barneys, the [...]

Today, Fashionsnightout.com goes live, where you can find listings for FNO events both city-wide and worldwide. This year, the site features a new functionality, too: An itinerary planner that lets you search for events by neighborhood or category and plots them on a printable map. That way, you’ll be sure not to miss the Mercer [...]

Stay far, far away: The Soho Hollister store is infested with bedbugs. The store is closed while the label attempts to de-louse (or, we guess, de-bedbug-ify). [Huffington Post]The reign of the supes continues: Inez and Vinoodh shot Daria Werbowy for YSL’s Fall ‘10 campaign. [Fashionologie]It’s been speculated about for months, but Naomi Campbell (and, for [...]

Trunk shows have largely been the province of the designer floor. No more. Next week, Barneys’ Madison Avenue flagship plays host to Trunk-a-Palooza, a more-the-merrier trunk show and party featuring contemporary brands sold in the store’s Co-Op. Rag & Bone’s Marcus Wainwright and David Neville (pictured), Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos, Alexander Wang, Richard Chai, [...]