Noticed in Paris: Throughout fashion month, clutches have reigned as the It accessory for showgoers, but in Paris, Style.com noticed tastemakers like Emmanuelle Alt, Géraldine Saglio, and Samira Nasr trading their clutches and their trusty Celine totes for the LV Sofia Coppola leather top handle. Could this be the new editor go-to bag?Above: Louis Vuitton [...]

Paris Vogue’s Emmanuelle Alt, Colette’s Sarah Lerfel, Opening Ceremony’s Humberto Leon, and other fashion insiders—myself included—gathered at the Ritz in blazing-hot Paris today to cast our votes for this year’s ANDAM Fashion Award winner. Last year, the €200,000 prize went to Hakaan Yildirim. This year, Adam Kimmel, Anthony Vaccarello, Commuun, Jeremy Laing, Palmer/Harding, and Yiqing [...]

ANDAM, the French organization devoted to the development of young fashion talent, announced its six finalists for its annual award today, and it’s an international bunch of up-and-comers—some better known than others. Adam Kimmel (a look from whose Fall ‘11 men’s collection is above, right), Anthony Vaccarello, Commuun, Jeremy Laing (a look from whose Fall [...]

Emmanuelle Alt’s ascension to the throne of Paris Vogue meant that her former employers—Balmain and Isabel Marant—were left without a stylist for their shows. Christophe Decarnin (left) has officially filled the position: longtime Helmut Lang stylist Melanie Ward is doing the honors for the label this season. [WWD]And speaking of Alt, the editrix has revealed [...]

Michelle Obama’s Alexander McQueen dress at a state dinner recently stuck in the craw of some American designers, who chastised the First Lady for failing to promote U.S. brands and industry. She sidestepped the controversy at last night’s State of the Union address: Mrs. O chose Rachel Roy for the occasion (left). [WSJ]This morning in [...]

Announced this morning: Emmaneulle Alt (left), longtime rédactrice en chef mode at Paris Vogue and Carine Roitfeld’s front-row companion, will take the reins of the French glossy beginning February 1, 2011. Condé Nast France president Xavier Romatet made the announcement on Vogue.fr; Alt calls the appointment an “honor” and “a great pleasure.” She’ll continue to [...]

The year in style from the year’s best street-style chronicler. Below, Tommy Ton’s favorite subjects this year. Click here to check out TT’s snaps, and see below for our handy gloss on who’s who.Giovanna Battaglia: Stylist, honorary Roitfeld (dates Carine’s son, Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld).
Leigh Lezark: DJ, Misshape, Chanel beauty ambassador.
Vika Gazinskaya (left): Designer of Vika Gazinskaya.
Emmanuelle [...]

We’ve already established that it’s great to wear white after Labor Day. (Designers have given us umpteen great reasons to, and the only objecting party is likely your rulebook-thumping great aunt—all due respect to the lady, but times have changed.)That’s what to wear; here’s how to wear it. Editors and stylists hitting the shows in [...]

The first day of London fashion week is habitually a bit of a cozy domestic affair, mostly modeled by new faces and attended by assistants, but lo! At lunchtime today the full power of international fashion friendship networking was almost surreally visited upon The Old Dairy on Wakefield Street. There on the runway were Natalia [...]

For Julia von Boehm, the stylist who recently moved to New York, her birthday party Monday night was a major Parisian homecoming—and not just because she was back in her native city. In fact, if she was honest, that wasn’t even such a plus—”I much, much prefer New York,” she admitted. “I actually can’t wait [...]