At last night’s party for less-than-a-year-old bespoke label The Gentlemen’s League at Noho boutique Début, fans old and new came through to check out the über-personalized canvas bags hand-decorated by portraitist and graphic designer Adam Razak. An old fan was spotted with a heavily embellished carryall covered in fauna (which, at $10,000, Razak later told [...]

As many a designer can attest, getting your senior thesis collection snapped up by Barneys is no easy feat (props to the Proenza boys). So what’s a burgeoning talent to do? Think smaller, for one. “The first entry point is always the hardest to get,” Lisa Weiss conceded at last night’s cocktail reception for recent [...]