Carine Roitfeld stuck to using “real people” (as opposed to models) for her guest-edited issue of Vman, due out February 14. The exception: the bonus pinup girl calendar, shot by Willy Vandeperre, featuring “supermodels and Victoria’s Secret Angels, 12 of the planet’s most celebrated creatures.” Roitfeld dressed the girls, including Joan Smalls, Miranda Kerr, Adriana [...]

Joan Smalls and Saskia de Brauw might be a little too tall for gymnastics, but Karl Lagerfeld decided to give them a shot anyways for his Spring ‘12 Chanel campaign. To Smalls’ and de Brauw’s credit, they’re looking in great form perched on those uneven bars, in their matching white Chanel pencil skirts and cropped [...]

“It’s hard to know what to expect, but this is all quite amazing,” Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, who is pregnant with her first child, tells Style.com. “What I do know is I definitely need a bigger bra size!” Luckily for her, Restoin-Roitfeld has designed a new capsule collection for Kiki de Montparnasse to fit those needs. She [...]

Paris fashion’s long-reigning provocateuse has been spending her days and nights in New York lately and it’s been a buzzy kind of love affair. In the city, it’s been all about Carine Roitfeld—from her creative consulting contract for Barneys, to her fashion week karaoke fete to her new book, Irreverent. On a chilly Friday evening, [...]

A collection of works by haute couture illustrator René Gruau, who worked with major houses like Christian Dior, Balenciaga, and Balmain, is on the chopping block today at a Christie’s London auction. The pieces, commissioned by the influential fashion editor Fleur Cowles, are in the auction house’s Twentieth-Century Decorative Art & Design auction. [Telegraph]Miuccia Prada [...]

Carine Roitfeld has confirmed she is set to make her return to the magazine world. The former Vogue Paris editor will launch a magazine next September in the U.K. [Telegraph]Someone other than Lady Gaga is trying to stake a claim to the Gaga name? It appears so. The marketing firm Excite Worldwide LCC has applied [...]

Tonight, Barneys New York creative ambassador at large Simon Doonan kicks off his weekend Fashion in Film festival with a fête at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), where Qui Êtes-Vous, Polly Maggoo? will be screening. Before the festival, hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MAD, Doonan took a few minutes [...]

More than anyone else in the fashion world, Karl Lagerfeld gives the impression that he’s propelled by a massive tailwind—nothing seems to irk him more than slowing down, revisiting, pulling into port. Even his words come out in rapid gusts. For his latest project, forward motion has brought him to Macy’s, of all places, and [...]

In his foreword for photographer Anna Bauer’s new book Backstage, Style.com’s Tim Blanks calls the work “a benchmark for the present, and a reference point for the future.” For the book, Bauer caught intimate moments with some of fashion’s most influential people, including Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld, in between shows on Polaroid film. [Nowness]Tallulah [...]

Today we published a preview of Carine Roitfeld’s new book Irreverent, which Rizzoli is releasing in mid-October. Roitfeld watchers will recall many of the images we’ve posted. There’s Carine as arch provocateur, staging a portrait of the luminous Eniko Mihalik with an octogenarian’s hands, and another with a nude model sipping from an enormous bottle [...]