In a sequestered corner on Bergdorf Goodman’s seventh floor last night, Nicole Richie was a long ways from The Simple Life. “I honestly am so thankful for where I am right now,” Richie said at the BG-hosted fête for her line House of Harlow 1960. “It’s so great to reach a point where you see [...]

With just a few days until the onslaught of New York fashion week, most designers are frenzied. Milly’s Michelle Smith is not. Maybe that’s what having a successful-and-growing label that’s a big seller without being a flavor of the month will do for you. Whatever it is, Smith is expanding her empire even further: The [...]

They say you should leave your work at the office, and as Tom Ford tells John Currin in the latest Interview, that’s a prescription he takes pretty literally. “When I come home…I wear no clothes until I leave,” the designer says. “I do everything completely naked.” [Interview]Diane von Furstenberg hit the slopes in Aspen and [...]

RVCA’s loss, Zadig & Voltaire’s gain? The French label has tapped Erin Wasson as its face for all of 2011—Spring and Fall—and will debut a capsule collection designed by the model later this year. [Elle U.K.]Speaking of capsule collections, men can look forward to a new one, too: Bergdorf Goodman has commissioned Tim Hamilton to [...]

It seems the days of the reclusive designer are over. “I live the life of your typical designer,” Roland Mouret told Style.com over tea at Bergdorf Goodman yesterday. “I’m traveling all the time whether I wake up in Boston”—his previous stop—”Hong Kong, or New York, but I love it. The beauty is you get to [...]

Every merchandiser in the world is confronted with the same quasi-existential question. In the words of Linda Fargo, Bergdorf Goodman’s SVP of women’s fashion and store presentation: “We’re always like, ‘How do you show handbags?’ “If you’re Fargo and her visuals deputy, David Hoey, BG’s senior director of visual presentation, you construct a Dalí-esque woman [...]

Should any of you ladies out there find yourself lacing up a pair of menswear-style oxfords today, spare a thought for Robert Clergerie. The venerable French footwear brand, which turns 30 this year, was the first to create a classic men’s-style oxford for women (on a man’s last, no less), and the ones Clergerie turns [...]

Bergdorf Goodman threw a cocktail party to celebrate the opening of Dries Van Noten’s men’s and women’s shops at the Fifth Avenue retailer last night. “We’ve been dreaming and scheming for a long time,” Linda Fargo, the store’s senior VP, said of the work involved in getting the Belgian designer’s wares into Bergdorf’s. Indeed, Van [...]

Missed the latest James Franco episode of General Hospital? L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art has printed up its own Franco-ized Soap Digest, called Soap at MOCA, to fill you in. Only $9.99! [MOCA Store via Hint Mag]Aggy’s back! Miss Deyn returns to the edit pages in September’s V, where she lounges on the streets in [...]

The good kind, that is. For fall, the Fifth Avenue retailer is expanding its offerings in the luxury luggage category. For the lady who never travels light, new carry-ons, rollers, and cases from YSL (a leopard trolley and the black patent trolley, left, which retails for a mere $3,795), Lanvin, and Balenciaga are already on [...]