Before a model hits the runway—and before she snags her first editorial, her first ad campaign, and her first billboard—she’s got to make it past the sharp eyes of fashion’s casting directors, who are tasked with finding the perfect girls for designers’ exacting visions. In our fashion week series, the industry’s top casting gurus share [...]

Uniqlo, like its fellow fast-fashion megaliths H&M and Target, has a long history of collaborating with designers; its Designer Invitation Project brings together wide-ranging talents together under one umbrella label. The latest additions to the Japanese retailer’s guest-star roster are Charlotte Ronson, Vena Cava, and Costello Tagliapietra, whose six-piece capsules debut this Spring.For Ronson’s line, [...]

While other designers may vie for a Los Angeles—and celebrity—following, Charlotte Ronson seems a natural on the scene, mixing business and pleasure with enviable ease. In town to celebrate the holiday season at the newly opened hot spot Everleigh with supper and cocktails, Ronson delighted in the left coast aesthetic. “So many of my best [...]

Two days into the Paris shows, the spirit of ‘77 is in the air. It’s never blared more clearly than at Balmain (and the soundtrack, by the way, was Sid Vicious’ famous cover of Sinatra’s “My Way”). Christophe Decarnin has long borrowed punk culture’s tropes, but the affect here was full-on mosh pit: tattered fishnets, [...]

Those hitting Charlotte Ronson’s runway show tomorrow are getting an extra-special surprise in their gift bags: a pack of condoms, courtesy of Proper Attire, designed by Ronson herself. Charlotte’s only the latest designer to collaborate with the prophylactic brand, which in seasons past has worked with Alexander Wang, Jeremy Scott, Yigal Azrouel, and Opening Ceremony. [...]

Not only does she juggle her eponymous label and I Heart Ronson, her secondary line for JCPenney, Charlotte Ronson also recently inked a deal to roll out 200 CR stores in Asia over the next five years. It’s Phase I of the Ronson family plan for world domination—and we’re only mostly kidding.Of course, even a [...]

Vice magazine can mobilize the hipster masses, but isn’t necessarily known for its ability to keep them organized. Interesting, then, that the mag teamed up with Intel to present 12 straight hours of movie screenings, digital art, and precisely scheduled musical acts at Milk Studios. Anyone with memories of Vice’s chaotic Halloween party last year [...]

After Monday’s star-studded festivities, last night’s screening of Sex and the City 2, sponsored by the Cinema Society, Swarovski, and HP (stringer Bradshaw types away on a mini HP, not the Mac of the HBO series), felt like a relaxed evening at the movies with friends—friends like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and J.Crew’s Jenna Lyons. [...]

As expected, Giles Deacon (pictured) has been named creative director at Emanuel Ungaro. Let’s just pretend the Lindsay years never happened. [Vogue U.K.]August will be Stefano Tonchi’s first issue at W. For his first cover? A twofer, Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall (co-stars in the new Ben Affleck movie The Town). W: the new, edgy [...]

Bottle service, deafening dance music, and an eager chorus of people clamoring to get in—just another Friday night at Avenue, except for the shared genes. Charlotte Ronson was throwing the after-party for her Bryant Park show, and, as usual, the family—less brother Mark, who’d flown back to London earlier that day for an album release—was [...]