If you get married while employed by a maison couture, they’ll make your dress for free. That’s a fun fact I learned when new designer Caroline Seikaly brought her dresses to our offices last week. Seikaly should know. The RISD grad tied the knot near the end of a six-year stint working for Karl Lagerfeld, [...]

While Karl Lagerfeld was literally having his work cut out for him at Chanel Haute Couture (by Kamo, a Japanese hairdresser who created the show’s elaborate paper headdresses), his fellow designers had a slightly different form of scissorwork in mind. The sharp, soot-colored suits at Anne Valérie Hash and Armani Privé recalled the fitted tailoring [...]

Now, I haven’t been the only one to document Kanye West’s current obsession with anything and everything having to do with high fashion. It’s been reported in nearly every media outlet that if there’s a runway, you can expect Kanye (or “Kenny,” as the French and Japanese paparazzi refer to him) to be there. But [...]

Has there been a better moment for Elie Saab since Halle Berry accepted her Oscar wearing the now legendary burgundy see-through confection in 2002? “There have been hundreds of mini-moments like that, but nothing like that for sheer impact,” said the gentleman designer, making a rare in-store appearance at the launch of his first-ever U.K. [...]