Someone once told me that John Fairchild would famously tell his WWD-ers the following when it would come to confirming fashion directions: “Twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend.” Well, last night at an intimate dinner for Giambattista Valli at Kaviar Kaspia, I had all three in one go: Margherita Missoni, Tatiana Santo [...]

When I opted out of Milan fashion week, I felt a bit pleased with myself. Post-London, seeing my colleagues pack their bags for yet another foreign city to stay in another hotel and see more fashion shows, I was happy to come home and recharge. But as I got the late-night texts and saw the [...]

I am finding this out the hard way: Venice is a late-night city. So late, in fact, that I’m having a hard time keeping up. (I’m blaming jet lag, but—heaven forbid—I hope this doesn’t mean I’m getting old.) Take Thursday night, for example: After François Pinault’s museum opening, an Interview magazine cocktail party on the [...]

“I was thinking of my friend Queen Rania when I designed the dresses, especially the little cream number,” said Jemima Khan, crammed into a corner at the Azzaro pop-up store in Mayfair, where she was fielding congrats from London’s polished set. Khan had just completed a stint as the brand’s guest designer, and friends had [...]

Remember back when we were little, that group of cool girls that would show up in homeroom all dressed alike? Maybe it was an I.O.U. turtleneck sweatshirt (or were those only big in Missouri?), or maybe it was a fancy pair of stonewashed jeans with a zipper at the bottom—which, strangely, is very Balmain Spring [...]

I’ve been to Moscow a few times now—about three times in as many months, in fact. With every visit I realize more and more just how important vodka is to the local culture. It’s like there are two responses to a crisis: vodka, or no vodka. At least that was how Alex Kiselev, the owner [...]

Starting last week, there has been talk about which London haunt would be the unofficial go-to destination for Frieze. Would it be Amy Sacco’s Bungalow 8? (It could be, as Sacco is in town, often on the arm of Eva Mendes.) Would it be somewhere in East London, where all the cool kids hang out? [...]

Essentially, Saturday night’s Brazilian dance fest was a party to celebrate another party. “But that is reason enough, no?” Carlos Souza asked in the foyer of Donata Meirelles and Nizan Guanaes’ swanky pad on the Quay d’Orsay. “We Brazilians know how to do that perfectly well.” He wasn’t exaggerating either; just ask Camilla Al Fayed, [...]

It’s official: “socialite” is a four-letter word. In some circles, mainly the really small ones that orbit the world in private jets, calling someone that term is the harshest of insults. While I’ve known that was the case here in New York, I learned last week in Russia that the anti-socialite brigade has gone international. [...]