Laura and Kate Mulleavy are filling Colette with Living Dead Dolls. Don’t even feign surprise. [NYT]There’s still no word on a successor at Maison Martin Margiela, though rumor has it the mysterious designer himself approached Raf Simons to be his anonymous heir. [Vogue U.K.]Speaking of rumors, remember the one that had Alber Elbaz taking the [...]

Vintage hounds and the fashion fluent know Gripoix as one of the old-school specialists that has serviced couture houses for decades. Particularly famous for its collaborations with Chanel, it’s been the ne plus ultra of pate de verre (poured glass) jewelry since 1869. The company was acquired in 2006 by vintage jewelry collector Marie-Pierre Keslassy, [...]

No one likes to lose. Readers may recall that, a few weeks ago, stylist Lauren Goodman (above right) and I joined in a friendly battle of casts: Having each broken our wrists, we decided to compete to see who could turn her injury into the better fashion accessory. Votes were tallied; I had the lead [...]

It’s been a little over a year since photographer Todd Selby started inviting himself into people’s homes to document their domestic setups for theselby.com. To say thanks to all those involved and to celebrate his new book The Selby Sydney, he threw an intimate potluck dinner at The Smile. No, he doesn’t live there—but since [...]

When I interviewed Dasha Zhukova, the Moscow-born and L.A.-raised art patron, museum founder, and fashion designer turned editor in chief of Pop, about the magazine’s much-discussed September 1 debut, she was shrewdly vague on the details. However, the glossy’s online component, ThePop.com, recently launched with a slew of impressive collaborators like A Magazine, Colette, and [...]

Where does the sex kitten lead singer of one of the most critically reviled pop acts of all time go when her band breaks up? Why, to A.P.C., of course. Wendy James was hard on the heels of her first album post-Transvision Vamp when A.P.C. honcho Jean Touitou offered her his recording studio, which he [...]

Calling all fans of The Selby: Todd Selby has enlisted Jonathan Zawada, the Australian artist, art director, and one half of the brain trust behind cult fashion rag Petit Mal, whose home he photographed on his recent trip to Sydney, to create this signed and numbered limited-edition poster. “I gave him a lot of my [...]

Now that he’s one of American fashion’s wunderkinder, Jason Wu’s early work as a designer of doll fashions is an oft-told part of his lore. But even now that he’s got a pretty enviable set of life-size women clamoring for his clothes, the miniature mode is not a part of his DNA that he’s ready [...]

July kicks off not only Couture week but the first salvo in Didier Ludot’s tenth anniversary celebration of his La Petite Robe Noire (Little Black Dress) line. On Wednesday, Ludot’s Palais Royal boutique will be the first to unveil the designer’s new, more accessibly priced capsule collection called DL Palais Royal. Each season, the line [...]

We kept our eyes peeled for pieces by Raf Simons at Leonard Cohen’s packed Radio City Music Hall gig last night. The singer-songwriter had served as inspiration for the designer’s Spring ‘09 men’s collection, but we didn’t see any of the “extreme tailoring” that Simons put on his Paris runway, although there were plenty of [...]