Last night was a good one for Lily Donaldson. She nabbed the finale look at Givenchy, a shocking two-piece number that had giant black removable shoulder pads. Then a few hours later, clad in a pair of PVC zip trousers, she found herself folded behind a table at Kaviar Kaspia with a gaggle of girlfriends [...]

The first thing that Colette’s Sarah Lerfel thought when she walked into the all-white, flower-bedecked venue of the Chanel Couture show on Tuesday morning was how such a grand space—a huge stone room with a giant spiral staircase—had been under wraps for so long. (It had been a mortgage bank office before, which makes it [...]

I’m going to say it right now: If I’m at Le Baron every night this week, I’m going to lose all self-respect. (Not that I had that much to begin with.) But for some reason—and I can assure you it’s not the space or the clean bathrooms—it seems every time I’m in Paris I end [...]

When I took my seat at Gareth Pugh’s show, his menswear debut and the finale of the week, my mind suddenly raced back to when another British designer made his first steps into menswear. Due no doubt to some seating snafu, I was in the front row of John Galliano’s first-ever menswear show for his [...]

As any fashion editor will tell you nowadays, it’s not a fashion show unless Kanye West is in the front row. The rapper/designer, who has been known to dabble in the fashionable arts—see Louis Vuitton, big orange kicks—hasn’t missed a beat at the menswear collections, taking on a schedule that would rival the editors that [...]

When I moved to New York, my mother gave me one piece of professional advice: Work begets work. I blew that off with the rest of her metropolitan tips. (She once bought me one of those tourist money belts for Christmas. Can you imagine?) Still, speaking to the most recent face of United Bamboo, Terence [...]

This might sound a tad unpatriotic, but last night I was really hoping to do something—if even for a second—that didn’t have anything to do with the inauguration. Not because I’m not as excited about Barack and Michelle as the next guy (Because I am! I love Obama! Remember I’m the one that campaigned for [...]

The annual Winter Antiques Show is one of my favorite events in Manhattan. It’s not because I’m decorating my apartment and looking for that perfect Louis XIV chifforobe (how many dressers does a girl really need these days?), but because I just love looking at old stuff. And every once in a while, you’ll find [...]

Last night, I had a revelation. I realized how appropriate it was that Madonna was the face of Louis Vuitton this season. In the fashion world, Jacobs is the king (queen?) of reinvention—of course, a finely honed Madge skill. It was only a handful of seasons ago that he was slightly pudgy and pale with [...]

For William Van Meter, going home to Kentucky wasn’t all Momma’s chocolate chip cookies and trips down memory lane. In March of 2005, he went back to Bowling Green to attend the trial of two men suspected of brutally raping and murdering a college girl after a party. At first intended to be a magazine [...]