Random designer news from last night’s CFDA party at the Ace Hotel for the organization’s new Assouline-published book, American Fashion Menswear: Italo Zucchelli confirmed that, after last winter’s successful experiment, he will again be showing his Fall Calvin Klein menswear in New York in February (Milan remains his venue of choice for his Spring collections). [...]

Menswear has long lived in the shadow of its more flamboyant sister, but if retail numbers are to be believed, the guys are catching up—and now they’ve got a new CFDA-approved guidebook, too. At the Ace Hotel last night, Assouline and the CFDA toasted American Fashion Menswear, a comprehensive history edited by former New York [...]

If James Coviello ever decides to hang up his fashion hat, it’s comforting to know he’s got a bright future as an antiques dealer waiting as a very viable plan B. The designer—who got into millinery when pal Anna Sui needed some headgear for a Steven Meisel shoot she was styling, followed it up with [...]

Calvin Klein’s cocktail party and panties preview (as people were calling it) in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night was equal parts homecoming and frat party. The former because Calvin Klein Collection’s Francisco Costa is Brazilian and was joined by his sister and assorted other relatives, and the latter because the models, some of whom [...]

“It’s great to have a regular movie night!” said Michelle Monaghan at Friday night’s Cinema Society screening of her new film Trucker. Well, at least as regular as these things can get. Instead of a velvet-rope affair, the opening mixed it up downtown at the Village East Cinema, where regular fans noshed their popcorn alongside [...]

My birthday is in April, and though I like to think I have loads of friends in this town, every year about when February rolls around I start to wonder whether or not I’m popular enough to have a party. Will people come, or will I be there alone [...]

Designers with ties to the East End of Long Island were the guests of honor at a gala opening and reception at East Hampton’s Guild Hall on Friday night. But Marci Klein, Calvin Klein’s daughter, went unrecognized at the check-in desk. “I’m the daughter of one of the honorees,” she said. “I’m Donna and Ralph’s [...]

Attention, beefcakes: Calvin Klein is looking for a man who “embodies the attributes of a Calvin Klein Underwear model.” In other words, must be well read, cosmopolitan, multilingual, and good with kids. Did we forget anything? [WWD]
Cynthia Rowley goes baby crazy, calls it Hooray. [WWD]
Take a peek into Veronica Webb’s super-organized closet, T-shirt labels [...]

Fashion power players including Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein and Proenza Schouler’s Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, along with a slew of top editors and retailers, joined CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg and executive director Steven Kolb this morning at FIT’s Katie Murphy Amphitheatre to discuss the future of New York fashion shows. “Are they [...]

How does Isaac Mizrahi feel about reliving his past with a viewing of the ultimate cult-classic fashion doc, Unzipped? “I hate it. I hate it! I think everyone should go home,” the designer declared last night at the Met, where a screening of the film in question was about to begin. Unzipped was the third [...]