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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just when we’d gotten used to brightly colored pants (see the Spring collections of Jil Sander, Marc Jacobs, Fendi, and, don’t forget, Zara), New York designers like Derek Lam and Phillip Lim went and upped the ante for Fall, parading trousers in not one but two tones down the runways. At first, we were, ahem, [...]

There was plenty of Chanel on hand at last night’s Tribeca Film Festival dinner, sponsored by Lagerfeld’s label. But among the star-studded guests, we couldn’t take our eyes off of Vanessa Traina, wearing Spring ‘11 Celine. The newly minted designer/muse (of French label Maje) arrived on the arm of her mother, Danielle Steel, wearing a [...]

Celine’s on the expansion plan. According to CEO Marco Gobetti, the do-no-wrong minimal line is going maximalist in its U.S. push. Expect a new Madison Avenue store with 4,500 square feet of Phoebe Philo’s finery (left)—not to mention a brand-new Paris space as well. [WWD]Chinese consumers appetites for high-end fashion is growing, too—lightning-quick. Luxury brands [...]

Plenty of celebs were snapped at Coachella last weekend, but the picture that got the most play was the one of Kanye West in women’s Spring 2011 Celine. Our first thought: Was Dan Gainor notified? (Gainor, in case you missed “Toemaggedon,” is one of the conservative media critics who criticized J.Crew’s Jenna Lyons for painting [...]

Fashion’s favorite leather-loving architect and store designer—Peter Marino (left, with a friend at Celine’s Fall 2011 show), who else?—chats with Women’s Wear Daily about his upcoming projects (Celine stores in New York and Paris, a “rather large” Chanel project in China) and the secret to his longevity in the business: “When [brands] hire me, I [...]

For most of us, macramé conjures up images of hemp-loving hippies, not the master of minimalism herself, Phoebe Philo. But Spring found the Celine designer channeling the festival set with woven vests and jackets. And she wasn’t alone. “Macramé is effortless,” said Catherine Malandrino, who knotted thin strips of leather into a linen T-shirt. Easy, [...]