Emerging designers have a way of starting expensive and working their way down, but the young label Beatrixe is wisely pursuing the opposite course. The label, founded by longtime friends and co-designers Axel Burla and Begum Tuna for Fall 2010, is steadfastly contemporary. The vast majority of their collections retail for under $500, with only [...]

Pour a little out, Detroit: The White Stripes are no more. Jack and Meg White announced yesterday that their two-piece, color-coordinated garage rock ensemble is breaking up. Forget mourning black—clearly the shades to wear here are red and white. [Pitchfork]Is the Moss to be a missus? Rumors are swirling—from no particularly reputable sources, admittedly—that Jamie [...]

Sad news from Devi Kroell: She’s leaving the line that bears her name. [WWD]The incentive to smize just got a lot bigger. Contestants on the next season of America’s Next Top Model—which, 14 cycles in, is somehow still on—will compete for a cover of Vogue Italia instead of the usual Seventeen. Practice with Tyra, ladies! [...]

Devi Kroell greeted fellow Fashion Funders Doo-Ri Chung, Erin Fetherston, and Monique Péan at a party celebrating her new store last night. Surrounded by displays of her signature snakeskin hobo bags and knee-high flat boots, she mentioned that she’s graduating to a full-on runway show in February after three seasons of presentations. And that wasn’t [...]

Devi Kroell made her first metallic python hobo bag five years ago. It wound up on the arm of Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and just about every fashion editor in town, and Kroell hasn’t looked back since. The Austrian-born, New York-based designer introduced footwear, including a very early take on the now omnipresent [...]

If you’re a fashion diehard based below the Mason-Dixon, chances are your go-to boutique is Capitol, Laura Vinroot Poole’s ten-year-old Charlotte institution. She specializes in cherry-picking key pieces from the season’s top collections. For Fall, think Balmain jackets, Dries Van Noten’s brightly hued separates, and dramatic gowns from Olivier Theyskens’ final season at Nina Ricci. [...]