Fashion’s newest rock star is…a violinist? Acne Paper is the latest coup for the 25-year-old English virtuoso Charlie Siem, whose classical chops (and model good looks) are quickly making him into an a sensation. At a party last night at the Ritz in Paris for the launch of Acne Paper’s 12th issue, editor Thomas Persson [...]

It’s surpringly easy to get seduced by the world of Delfina Delettrez Fendi. In fact, you quite happily drop down the rabbit hole into a place where the nunlike propriety of a governess’ dress bumps up against slugs, skulls, the Kama Sutra, and Virginia Woolf. All you need to feel just like Alice are little [...]

The first day of Paris fashion week is usually judged too early for a bash, but you’d never know it from the crowd that crammed into Vincent Darré’s tiny interiors shop, Maison Darré, yesterday. There—packed to the rafters, almost, and spilling into the street—were Catherine Deneuve, Diane von Furstenberg, Pierre Bergé, Christian Louboutin, Mario Testino, [...]

You bring the gas money; she’ll bring the iPod, a bottle of Brunello, her Eres swimsuit, and, of course, a few pieces of Missoni. That, at least, is what you could take away from Mini’s event yesterday at Milan’s Salone del Mobile furniture fair. The automaker asked Margherita (pictured, right), along with a few other [...]

Remember the silver finger ring and nail polish set we reported on earlier this month? Its designer, Delfina Delettrez Fendi, was at Opening Ceremony last night showing it off, along with other creepy-chic creations like bejeweled skulls, frogs, spiders, and eyeballs. It’s not as dark as it sounds: “I don’t take it too seriously. See [...]