“I don’t have much time to think about what to wear in the mornings, so it was important to me to create chic-but-effortless pieces that you can just throw on for the school run, then head off to work for meetings, and feel great in what you’re wearing,” model-turned-designer Claudia Schiffer told Style.com of her [...]

Colette faithfully adheres to the mosh-pit school of event promotion: Position a bunch of people with interesting new ventures on the store’s upstairs fashion and art floor at bustling evening hours, have them invite all their friends, turn up the music, and watch the elbows fly to get in.Monaco-based jeweler Gaia Repossi and her new [...]

What will it take to catch the eyes of Roland Mouret, Claudia Schiffer, and the rest of the judges for London’s Fashion Fringe prize? “A little joie de vivre,” Mouret told British Vogue of the three finalists the judging panel selected for the annual award. (”Asking ‘would I buy it?’—that’s not important,” Schiffer added.) All [...]

At the Telegraph, Hilary Alexander scores a preview of the forthcoming catalog for the Costume Institute’s Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, which will include images by Sølve Sundsbø (left), and an interview with the house’s current creative director, Sarah Burton, by Style.com’s Tim Blanks. [Telegraph via Racked]London’s Fashion Fringe competition has added two new judges to [...]

Recognize those lips on Markus Lupfer’s Fall ‘11 sweater?“They are Lara Stone’s; I was going for the gap-tooth look,” Lupfer says of his latest take on his now-infamous “laughing lips” sweater—the designer’s leitmotif. The lips (as well as his other merino jumpers with cheeky slogans like “Sunday Best” and “Oh, You Pretty Young Thing”) are mainstays of [...]

The rumor mill has been churning, but it’s all for naught: Alexander Wang and Nike confirm that they are not working on a collaboration. Well…as you were, then. [WWD]Midlife, no crisis. Germany’s Zeit magazine celebrates its 40th anniversary with 40 (yes, 40!) different covers of Deutschland’s favorite supe, Claudia Schiffer. She’s 40, too—not that you [...]

Street-style photogs may be everywhere now, but at the beginning, there was one: The Times‘ Bill Cunningham, who is celebrated with a documentary at the MoMA tonight. The Times‘ appreciation is required reading for anyone who’s ever sent around a Sartorialist link. [NYT]The Daily Beast salutes the stars who dare to dress themselves, like Diane [...]

Alber Elbaz got a present: “a capital injection estimated in the tens of millions of euros” for Lanvin. We’ll take two. [WWD]
Monday night’s CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner Sophie Théallet runs a tight ship. In her home-cum-studio in Brooklyn, it’s just a three-person show. Four including the baby. [WWD]
Zac Posen is heading to double-digit territory. His [...]

Ellen von Unwerth doesn’t pick and choose. She loves all women. “There are many who are my favorites, from Claudia Schiffer to Eva Herzigova to Elizabeth Hurley to Lindsay Lohan,” said von Unwerth last night at Sloane Square’s Michael Hoppen Gallery during a private viewing of Fraulein, a collection of her rarely seen or published [...]

Karl Lagerfeld knows how to put on a show. This morning at Chanel, it was a real barnstormer in the Grand Palais, with a set inspired by Marie Antoinette’s peasant-y playground Le Petit Trianon, that featured a giant haystack and barn, of course branded with a huge Chanel logo. Taking it all in were Prince, [...]