Jonathan Saunders is this year’s winner of the prestigious BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund. Saunders will receive a cool £200,000 prize along with a personalized business mentoring program. Saunders beat out the likes of Peter Pilotto, Mary Katrantzou, and Richard Nicoll for the award. [Vogue U.K.]The sporadic but well-received Comme des Garçons by the Beatles collection [...]

The eternal Serge Gainsbourg—the jug-eared Gallic crooner who has a good claim on being the twentieth century’s oddest heartthrob—rises again today, when a new biopic opens in New York. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is director Joann Sfar’s tribute to the late, great troubadour, who wrote frank songs of love and sex (”Soixante-Neuf, Année Erotique,” “Je [...]

A new class of mothers-to-be are celebrating their pregnancies in style—and definitely not covering them up. January Jones and Charlotte Gainsbourg, both visibly expecting, have both stepped out in recent days in sheer black outfits: Jones (above right) in a more casual Alternative Apparel silk modal boyfriend tee and jeans while shopping in L.A., and [...]

From the Department of We’re Staying Out Of It: Model Rie Rasmussen apparently took Terry Richardson to task in Paris for exploiting models. [Page Six]Details are finally emerging about the notorious Tommy Hilfiger/Axl Rose brawl of 2006. (We know—you’ve been on the edge of your seat ever since!) Apparently Axl pushed Tommy, Tommy called him [...]

The lull is almost over, party animals. Mid-January can feel like a bit of a social hiccup—men’s shows aside, there are always a sleepy few weeks between the mayhem of the holiday and the revving up of spring—but that will come to a definite end on Monday when the haute couture shows in Paris begin. [...]

Was anyone truly surprised that Nicolas Ghesquière chose Charlotte Gainsbourg to be the face of his first fragrance at the house? That would be a non. Less expected, perhaps, was the venue chosen to celebrate the announcement: a hotel in L.A., not a hôtel particulier in Paris. Designer and muse gathered an intimate cross section [...]

Ossie Clark,the relaunched British label that recently got a red-carpet boost from Harry Potter starlet Emma Watson, plans to shut down. You can blame that, like everything else depressing, on “market conditions.” [WWD]Charlotte Gainsbourg
is the face of Nicolas Ghesquière’s debut fragrance for Balenciaga, a post she’d been “secretly hoping” for. She’s probably not the only [...]

We thought the cowboy boot trend went the way of trucker hats (or back to the rodeo, depending on who you ask), but leave it to a chic Parisienne to have us coveting them all over again. We think Charlotte Gainsbourg looked impeccably laid-back in a leather jacket, slouchy tee, and faded denim at the [...]

Hadley Freeman is ready to welcome their return, are you?
To say that the eighties are back is almost as much of a cliché these days as palling up with Beth Ditto—and in no way is that meant as a negative comment on either Ditto or the aforementioned decade. But last week in Paris, the expressions [...]

John Galliano gets the royal treatment. While you were sleeping off your hangover, the designer was appointed a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, and probably designing some killer haute couture.
Ecco Domani announced 2009’s first fashion winners, awarding, among others, Lyn Devon, Cushnie et Ochs, and Ohne Titel handy $25,000 grants for [...]