Summer reading? Fashion folks aren’t necessarily known for their book smarts (you’re more likely to catch them cracking the latest issue of i-D than Finnegans Wake), but they sure know how to fake it in style. Olympia Le-Tan’s whimsical clutches, which are made to look like famous novels such as Moby-Dick and Lolita, have been [...]

Comme des Garçons is having a Rosie the Riveter moment right now, thanks to their new collaboration with French uniform maker Bleu de Paname. The collection, available for pre-order now, is just for women at the moment, but a menswear collaboration is reportedly on its way for Spring 2012. [Hint]Now you can get your vintage [...]

Daphne Guinness was “laid in state”—by her friend Gareth Pugh, no less—at a posh London town house to debut her new collaboration with jeweler Shaun Leane, a $1.76 million white gold wristpiece covered in birds made of pavé diamonds. The not-quite-corpse wore an Alexander McQueen one-piece and an antique veil. [WWD]Her wedding was only over [...]

It’s “Cosmic Love” between Gucci’s Frida Giannini and Florence Welch. After meeting the ginger songstress at the Grammys this year, the designer says she was so struck by Welch’s presence that she inspired Gucci’s Fall ‘11 collection. Why? She’s got the “self-assured look that goes hand in hand with the Gucci woman,” Giannini says. [Vogue [...]

“Those outfits would have been great for someone for the Met ball,” Shala Monroque said as she eyed Thomas Tait’s collection, which stood on display last night at the Palace Hotel. “It feels like a cross between Celine and vintage Balenciaga.”Tait won the first Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize last year, awarded by a panel that [...]

How chic is that Daphne in the window? Daphne Guinness made a much publicized vitrine debut yesterday at Barneys, where the fashion-forward social took to the windows to prepare for the Met gala and show off some truly covetable wares from her collection and from Isabella Blow’s. She’s shared the full list of pieces that [...]

The graduating fashion students of Pratt Institute lived out every young designer’s dream last night at the school’s annual fashion show, where they had the opportunity to show their collections in front of an audience that included Diane von Furstenberg and Hamish Bowles.DVF, a former Pratt Institute Fashion Icon Award winner, was on hand at [...]

2011 is shaping up to be a good year for catwalker Tali Lennox, the daughter of Eurythmics front woman Annie Lennox and Israeli film producer Uri Fruchtmann. The Telegraph traces her career from the Dolce & Gabbana catwalk way back in Spring ‘10 to two Topshop campaigns and her latest coup, the Acne pre-fall lookbook, [...]

Plenty of creative types came out last night for the opening of fordPROJECT, a new gallery venture from Altpoint Capital Partners (the parent company of Ford Models), but catwalkers were not among them. Under the direction of Rachel Vancelette and Tim Goossens, the new art space (which occupies two floors at the top of [...]

After much Internet speculation, it’s confirmed: Blake Lively will front a Chanel bag campaign this spring—she’s the official ambassador for Herr Lagerfeld’s Mademoiselle bag. [WWD]Speaking of cute blondes, good news for another one, too: Anja Rubik and her boyfriend, fellow model Sasha Knezevic, are engaged. (That’s the two of them posing together for a Gap [...]