The Virtual Vacation
As anyone who’s currently seated at a desk in the city knows, no one’s seated at a desk in the city. The entire world—well, the entire fashion world, at least—is on vacation this week, and judging by the updates from fashion’s favorite Twitterers, life’s a beach. Marc Jacobs made news when he was spotted on [...]
Philip Crangi Shows Some Skin
For more than ten years, Philip Crangi has made wrought metal jewelry his signature look. Barring his many collaborative projects with the likes of Jason Wu and Vera Wang, the charmingly grizzled designer consistently sticks to industrial materials like gunmetal brass, silver, and leather, but Crangi has decided to dress things up. Today, he launches [...]
All Jazzed Up For Coquette Atelier
The twenties were roaring loud and clear last night at Bergdorf Goodman’s BG restaurant, where Linda Fargo (who was looking fabulous in a Jerry Hall for Thierry Mugler, champagne-colored lace pantsuit with matching bunny ears) and company toasted the launch of ready-to-wear line Coquette Atelier. Guests including Uma Thurman, Kim Cattrall, Woody Harrelson, Angela Bassett, [...]
Out And About For FNO
There was a lot of ground to cover in Manhattan last night with what seemed like every retailer and designer in the city hosting an event for Fashion’s Night Out. Style.com’s editors hit the streets and braved the crowds, and among them we found the likes of Marc Jacobs on Mercer Street, Nicki Minaj at [...]
Where To Go On FNO
It’s that time of year again: Fashion’s Night Out is just around the corner. It seems like every store and e-commerce site on earth has activities planned—find them all at www.fashionsnightout.com—but as for us, we’ve got our itineraries set. Below, a few New York favorites. See you there.Bergdorf GoodmanBG has an all-star lineup of fashion [...]
Bernie Madoff’s Pants: Now Available For Your iPad
Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes, the saying goes. What about until you’ve swaddled your iPad in his sweater?A new company, Frederick James, will let you do just that, in the castoffs—or forcibly-removeds—of Bernard Madoff, the reviled Ponzi schemer currently serving a 150-year sentence in North Carolina’s Butner Federal [...]
Simon Spurr’s Wearable History
Simon Spurr founded his namesake label in 2006, delivering his first collection—then, largely composed of denim—to Bergdorf Goodman that same year. The line has grown significantly since then, splitting off into two separate collections (Simon Spurr and Spurr), growing in breadth and reach (it’s now known as much for Savile Row-inspired tailoring as for its [...]
Man’s Best Friend? Woman’s Best Shopping Adviser
“All we’re missing is the opium,” said Bergdorf Goodman’s Linda Fargo. Everything but was on the menu when BG transformed its seventh-floor restaurant into a casbah for a lunch and mini fashion show of Chanel’s Paris-Byzance Pre-Fall collection yesterday afternoon. It might’ve been the first time ever that Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon [...]
Lauren Hutton Assures: Glenn O’Brien’s Book Will Make You Better In Bed
Kate Moss went on the record—and on the book jacket, in fact—to support Glenn O’Brien’s How to Be a Man. But she’s far from the only stylish woman (to say nothing of the men) to do so. “Read this book it—it will make you better in bed,” Lauren Hutton advised last night. “It makes you [...]
The Kid Is All Right, Birthday Wishes For Anna And Viv, Hip To Be Square, And More…
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana hosted a party in Milan for Justin Bieber. While Dolce admits that “it might be slightly premature to talk about him as a style icon,” he’s definitely dressing the Dolce & Gabbana part at the moment (left)—just us, or do you see a slight resemblance here? [Vogue U.K.]Happy birthday to [...]






