All Systems Go
Ready or not, New York fashion week is here. Today, Style.com’s Marina Larroude shared a few of her front row-worthy clothing picks for the week, from the Prada Saffiano leather car clutch to black and red suede Celine platforms—all pieces likely to catch a second look from Tommy Ton. Here, find out what the Style.com [...]
Who Needs Shoulder Straps?
The new It bag you’ll be seeing in the front rows next month is a super-slim, stretched-out version of the Celine clutch you’ve been coveting for a couple of seasons now. Ms. Minimalism herself, Phoebe Philo, showed them at her pre-fall collection, as did other designers like Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci and Peter Dundas at Emilio [...]
The Season Of Nescher?
We first spotted Kati Nescher treading the boards at the Spring ‘12 shows, walking for labels like Marni (where she opened and closed), YSL, Celine, and Stella McCartney and eventually earning her place among our Top Ten Models of the season. Though she’s older than most of her catwalk compatriots (at 27) and, like fellow [...]
Pleats And Leather: Better Together?
Remember Melanie Griffith’s famous quote from Working Girl—”I have a head for business and a bod for sin”? We’re not sure the actress wore a pleated leather skirt in that classic eighties flick, but every time we see one on the runway, that’s the line that goes through our mind. One part lady, another part [...]
Are You Hip To Flouncy Peplums?
Couture-inspired silhouettes popped up in droves on the Spring runways, so it makes sense that peplums are having a moment. In the late forties and fifties, Christian Dior added flounces to the waistline of jackets as part of the New Look. This season, everyone from the current team at Dior to designers like Jason Wu [...]
LVMH Gets Its Own Croc Tannery, The Demands Of The “New Breed” Haute Couture Clientele, Kris Van Assche’s Foray Into Film, And More…
LVMH has finalized plans to jointly own a crocodile tannery. That means high-quality crocodile skins for the croc coats that its various luxury brands, like Fendi and Celine, showed on the Spring runways. [WWD]Ateliers are learning to cater to a “new breed of haute couture clients” from wealthy countries in the Gulf. One of their [...]
Top Honors
Noticed in Paris: Throughout fashion month, clutches have reigned as the It accessory for showgoers, but in Paris, Style.com noticed tastemakers like Emmanuelle Alt, Géraldine Saglio, and Samira Nasr trading their clutches and their trusty Celine totes for the LV Sofia Coppola leather top handle. Could this be the new editor go-to bag?Above: Louis Vuitton [...]
On Our Radar: Turtlenecks
The turtleneck is often reserved for the ski slopes and blustery, cold winter days. This season, however, the functional essential got a fashionable update and multiple designers layered them under jackets and dresses. At Celine and Bottega Veneta’s Fall ‘11 shows, basic, fitted white turtlenecks looked sleek under tailored coats. Altuzarra and Givenchy took a [...]
Opening Ceremony Brings On The Reyn
Hawaiian prints are riding one gnarly wave—see the Resort 2012 collections of Givenchy, Stella McCartney, and Celine, for starters. And it’s an equal-opportunity trend by the looks of Miuccia Prada’s Spring menswear show, with its kitschy sixties florals. The latest brand to sip the Kool-Aid (make that an Island Punch): Opening Ceremony. The New York-based [...]
Angie For Louis, Karen And Jack’s
Breakup Bash, A Celine Return, And More…
Angelina Jolie has gone bare for her Louis Vuitton “Core Values” campaign. Annie Leibovitz photographed Jolie in her own clothes (with a monogrammed Alto resting by her side—one that, by the way, is no longer in production), on a wooden boat in Cambodia. [WWD]A swing bang humdinger—that’s the kind of bash Karen Elson and Jack [...]






