The Fall collections, believe it or not, start five weeks from today. Re-acclimating to the office after a long holiday break, we took a closer look at the pre-fall presentations in order to make some educated guesses about what we’ll be seeing on next month’s runways. First up is green for evening. If influencers like [...]

While Paris’ week of défilés and fashion fêtes finally drew to an end, a coterie of New York and Hollywood power brokers, including Bill Clinton, Ivanka Trump, and Wyclef Jean, convened at the School of Visual Arts Theater in Chelsea last night for the premiere of The Way, benefiting the Walkabout Foundation. The heartwarming film [...]

Paz de la Huerta is the new muse for lingerie label Agent Provocateur. The Boardwalk Empire star will appear in a series of short films to be shown on their Web site, along with a series of stills. [WWD]In case you missed the record-breaking Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Met, you could get a chance [...]

We’ve glimpsed quite a few exposed shoulders on the streets and at the Resort collections this summer. Casual, collared dresses popped up at Richard Chai Love and Chloë Sevigny x Opening Ceremony, and for after-hours examples, check out Vionnet’s royal blue, long-sleeved frock, or the framboise silk gown by Sophie Theallet that Karolina Kurkova wore [...]

When the lights at New York fashion week’s Bryant Park tents were set to go out in February 2010, a light in filmmaker James Belzer’s head went on. Since the Tents were pitched in 1993, they had become a launch pad for New York designers and a symbol of American fashion. They also served as [...]

The next edition of everyone’s favorite calendar that almost no one actually receives—that’d be the racy Pirelli calendar, naturally—is reportedly now in the works. The photog of choice for the 2012 edition? Sources says it’s Steven Meisel. [Fashionologie]A fond farewell to Don Hill’s, the legendary and then resurgent club that briefly became a fashion-world hub [...]

In between trips to Haiti (she’s set to depart again this afternoon), Donna Karan showed her Spring Urban Zen collection to a small group of reporters this morning. Models in suede lace-up sandals ambled through the West Village space, perching here and there on the collection’s line of handmade Balinese furniture. There were candles. There [...]

The rumors are ramping up: The long awaited Prada initial public offering may happen, sources say, as early as July. The Italian megabrand is reportedly eyeing the Hong Kong stock exchange for its first listing. [Vogue U.K.]The CFDA and Assouline want to help you travel in style. CFDA designers including Francisco Costa, Tommy Hilfiger, and [...]

Even in an ever more globalized world, jeweler Carolyn Roumeguere is especially international. Raised in Kenya, where she moved as a child when her mother married a Masai warrior, Roumeguere learned beading techniques alongside the women of the Masai. Her African-inspired pieces caught the attention of Donna Karan, who picked them up for her Urban [...]

“If you don’t have a high school or college reunion, this is your reunion,” model Alva Chinn told Style.com yesterday at the Met. (Hers was far more glamorous than ours: Jason Wu, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Donna Karan, and Iman all stopped by.)Chinn and her “classmates”—from left, Amina Warsuma, Norma Jean Darden, Pat Cleveland, Charlene [...]