We never thought we’d see denim on a Valentino runway. But there it was, paper-thin, deep indigo, and spliced into shirtdresses and a shorts suit. Valentino’s Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli weren’t the only ones to dress up the forever-practical fabric. Stella McCartney, Celine’s Phoebe Philo, and Thakoon Panichgul cut it into full [...]

If you’re going to take your life in your hands, might as well do it in evening dress. That’s what David Blaine did when he swam—sans oxygen tank or cage—with a group of great white sharks in an Adam Kimmel tux for the designer’s new video (above). Kimmel and wife Leelee Sobieski screened the short [...]

Friday evening isn’t a time you’d usually find students milling about their school auditorium—at least not of their own volition. But for a chat between Parsons dean of fashion Simon Collins, J.Crew’s Jenna Lyons, and Derek Lam, fashion design majors happily packed the house. The two Parsons alums met as freshman on the first day [...]

In a way, it was their sense of smell that brought Christiane Amanpour, Thom Browne, Derek Lam, and WSJ.’s Deborah Needleman together last night. British fragrance house Jo Malone organized an intimate dinner party at Peels for fans of the brand that turned out to be a stimulating potpourri of editors, thread-makers, and interior designers—the [...]

Earlier this week, Tod’s presented its Spring ‘11 accessories by appointment in Milan. The usual luxe skins—calf, croc, and python—are all back in action, but we were most taken with the wood-soled Gardener Sandal, which marks the first time the brand has ventured into working with wood. Like the direction creative director Derek Lam is [...]

With the dust starting to settle on New York fashion week, one thing’s very clear: The seventies are back. Again. And rising from the rubble this time is an unlikely style icon: Shelley Duvall.This isn’t the first rumbling of Duvall devotion. Marc Jacobs favorite Jamie Bochert is basically a dead ringer, and the heavy-bangs, center-parted [...]

Designers have been moving forward from the skinny pant for a few seasons now. Last Fall marked the official return of the flare, and it’s been a front-row editor favorite at the shows this season. Judging from the action on the runway, those legs are only going to get wider. Yes, it’s only Monday, and [...]

Derek Lam’s Fall 2010 collection found its inspiration on the plains of the Wild West, so for his Fall ad campaign—shot, for the third season running, by Sølve Sundsbø and styled by Elissa Santisi—he kitted up Maryna Linchuk as a sort of urbane cowgirl. Lam was the only designer we saw for Fall who made [...]

Once a universally acknowledged style disaster, the socks-with-sandals look is experiencing a curious (if surprisingly rather chic) resurgence. Stylists at Alexander Wang, Derek Lam, and Prada (below, left to right) all showed peep-toe and strappy sandals with high socks. (At the Spring men’s shows, a few labels, like Bottega Veneta, even experimented with the pairing [...]

The first Tod’s shoe was the famous driving moc, and decades later, the pebble-soled loafer is still going strong. The label recently commissioned photographer Elliott Erwitt to shoot a few of its own personal style icons wearing Tod’s for an exhibition called Icons by an Icon. (It’s too modest to add “Wearing an Icon” to [...]