Claire Danes hit Rome this week for the Roma Fiction Film Festival, where she picked up an award for her new film Temple Grandin. We’re not sure she’d win the same award for her Valentino Couture dress. The contrast pink and lavender paneling, especially with the bold shot of green, picks up on the color-block [...]

Khaki and olive drab, military overcoats and aviator jackets, combat boots and cargo pants: The Fall ‘10 shows are chockablock with soldier style. But Farah Malik and Dana Arbib are bringing fashion literally into the war zone. The two founders of A Peace Treaty have set up production in Afghanistan, where they’re working with the [...]

Thanksgiving may be tomorrow, but Michael Roberts was thinking more ho, ho, ho than gobble gobble. Donning a fuzzy Santa hat and faux white beard, the Vanity Fair style and fashion director (and perhaps the chicest Mr. Claus we’ve seen) signed copies of his new children’s book Snowman in Africa at Gucci’s Fifth Avenue flagship [...]

Dear Marc, we’re going to strongly advise you against this. We know those Housewives can draw you in with their gripping mini-dramas, but pretty please don’t put yourself in a reality TV show about “high-powered (openly gay) playboys.” Just start twittering, or something, OK? Thanks. [NY Daily News]Emmy Rossum had a secret marriage, and now [...]

Sophia Kokosalaki is moonlighting again. The Greek designer, who briefly helmed Vionnet, will take on Diesel’s high-end contemporary line, Black Gold, in addition, that is, to working on her namesake collection. Those should be some pretty fabulous jeans. [WWD]
Stilettos for everyone! High-low takes on new meaning with the announcement of H&M’s latest collaboration, [...]

The thought of spilling something on a white dress sends shivers down the spines of most young women, so when that exact thing happened to Anne Hathaway—with a glass of red wine, unleashed by none other than Valentino—at last night’s dinner in honor of The Last Emperor, we weren’t sure what to expect. Would she [...]

Despite several designers forgoing after-parties this week, Narciso Rodriguez was having none of it. “We’re focused on the collection for so many months and then there’s that short time on the runway, and then you need to relax,” the designer declared at his elbow-to-elbow post-show fête at Rose Bar, where Julianna Margulies, Jessica Seinfeld, and [...]

“I absolutely tortured myself this summer, all for that couple of minutes that happened about an hour ago,” Narciso Rodriguez sighed at Indochine on Tuesday night, where the designer and his A-list crowd of well-wishers and admirers gathered for a late-night supper. “I. Am. Exhausted.” What Rodriguez lacked in endurance his party made up for [...]