Gingham check at Christopher Kane. White eyelet, Swiss dot, and jagged swaths of suede at Altuzarra. Crochet at Alberta Ferretti, peasant dresses at YSL, clog heels and hay underfoot at Chanel. After several seasons of urban warrior looks, fashion is teasing out a more bucolic mood for Spring ‘10. Add the desert-inspired looks from brands [...]

Who made our Top Ten list for Spring? Designers with a point of view: Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga, who went back to his haute street roots. Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, who made fashion fun again, and sent out some fabulously crafty clothes in the process. Celine’s Phoebe Philo, for her fearless new brand of contemporary [...]

Call it optimism or call it escapism, but Spring 2010 is the season of the ruffled party dress: usually short, often chiffon, and almost always nude (we refer to both the color and the prevalence of sheer fabrics). Marc Jacobs—who else?—kicked the trend into high gear with his parade of ballet nymphs in New York. [...]

Apart from “tube closures” and “swine flu,” what two words can strike fear in a Londoner’s heart like few others? “Postal strike.” That was the talk at last night’s inaugural LFW event, Still, hosted by Poltock & Walsh and photographer Poppy de Villeneuve at the very swish Sanderson hotel. A strike means that tickets for [...]

The folks behind the British Fashion Council’s NEWGEN sponsorship may well be the world’s best fashion talent-spotters: A few of the designers they’ve plucked out of obscurity and given a platform at London fashion week include Alexander McQueen, Matthew Williamson, Christopher Kane, and Gareth Pugh. This season, there’s a new name to know. Joanna Sykes [...]

Blame it on the Gossip Girl costume department, but Leighton Meester won our hearts with the fashionably prim getups she dons to play Blair Waldorf. As if to shake the notion that she lives in headbands, Meester has lately taken to showing up on red carpets in somewhat challenging ensembles (her Louis Vuitton Met ball [...]

Mayor Bloomberg is calling Thursday “Burberry Day” in New York, but it feels like that today in London, where the young designer community woke up to breaking news that the label’s Spring 2010 women’s show will bolster London fashion week in September. Christopher Bailey is promising “a big, sophisticated show” staged at a venue in [...]

Yes, there can be a lot of cattiness in the London fashion world, but when one of their own is felled, the close-knit group bands together. That’s what happened last night, when a crowd that included Tracey Emin, Marios Schwab, Trish Goff, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Daniel “Harry Potter” Radcliffe joined forces to support Oliver Helmsley, [...]

Donatella Versace relaunched her little sister label, Versus, today, debuting a small capsule collection of accessories made in collaboration with Christopher Kane, her onetime accessories consultant at Versace. Clothes will follow in July. “It’s a younger version of Versace, but with the same rock and roll spirit. Who better than Christopher to revive it?” she [...]

Donatella Versace has long been a fan of Christopher Kane. The Scotsman snagged a post as an accessories consultant with the Italian at the beginning of his career and worked on her Atelier Couture collection. And while some fashion gossips conjecture that Kane may one day replace Donatella at Versace’s helm, we say all in [...]