For its new Linea Rossa campaign, Prada has picked prizefighters—boxing champions Italian Roberto Cammarelle, American Bernard Hopkins, and a Briton from Pakistan, Amir Khan—to sport their shades. The glasses get in on the action, too, with sport-inspired names like Prada Upper Cut, Prada Jab, and Prada Barburner. [WWD]Despite what you may think, Daphne Guinness doesn’t [...]

It felt like a boys’ club at this year’s ITS (that’s “International Talent Support”) 10, where a menswear-designing gang took most of the prizes at the competition’s tenth anniversary session featuring 11 recent fashion grads from around the globe. Central Saint Martins graduate Shaun Samson won the €15,000 Fashion Collection of the Year award with [...]

Jean Paul Gaultier is the latest designer to get the retrospective treatment: A career-long show of his work (a Spring ‘09 couture look is at left) will debut in Montreal in June, before traveling to Dallas and San Francisco. It’ll be broken out by themes—including the tantalizing “Eurotrash/X-Rated”—and be accompanied by a catalog with contributions [...]

Expect the fashion set to turn out to see a Brahms performance tonight. Just maybe not the Brahms you’re thinking of. This Brahms is an unsigned poppy, electronic trio out of Brooklyn—one that in very short order, less than a year after forming, has opened for some very top-bill (and wildly disparate) acts as Passion [...]

Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren—better known simply as Viktor & Rolf—chaired the jury of ITS9, the annual launching-pad competition for young designers in their final year of school, held this weekend in Trieste on Italy’s Adriatic Coast. That made good sense: The designers were themselves launched by a young talent competition back in 1992, at [...]

A large crowd gathered at Diesel on 54th Street yesterday. Why?

Fresh off a week and a half tour of Gap stores across the U.S., creative director Patrick Robinson was at the Fifth Avenue flagship this morning talking up the brand’s new premium denim. “They’re the best-fitting jeans in the world. That’s a big statement, I know,” he said. Robinson also told us, “They’ll change your [...]

Edie Beale isn’t the only one who can rock a turban. The evidence? Little Lykke Li, the Swedish songbird, at the Diesel:U:Music tour last night. True, the boots, hat, and silver jacket might not have been appropriate for the weather, which was as steamy as it gets, but it sure works as a total look [...]

Here’s another stop for your Thursday-night gallery crawl. In honor of its new men’s fragrance, Only the Brave, Diesel has commissioned artists like Sandra Chi, Bob Partington, and Keystone Design Union’s David Gensler and Aerosyn-Lex to create pieces that explore the nerve it takes to be, well, brave. The work will be on view at [...]

Not everyone is scaling back in the current economy. Renzo Rosso just opened a massive three-floor “Diesel Planet Store” in the heart of Milan’s Golden Triangle, and he threw a raucous dance party there on the last night of a generally subdued four days of Fall 2009 menswear shows. As dry ice pumped through the [...]