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 [...]

In the bygone days before street-style blogs, there was just one man whose eye you hoped your outfit would catch. That’s The New York Times‘ Bill Cunningham, of course, a beloved staple on the fashion circuit for the last 50-plus years and the man who pioneered the art of snapping fashion trends as they happen [...]

To put it one way, Cristobal Balenciaga’s first model was rather feline: “At age six, Balenciaga cut his first coat,” Vogue’s Hamish Bowles informed an intimate group at the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute in New York last night. “For his cat.” Not your typical first fitting, but a pivotal one nonetheless. “The cat kept [...]

Ushered in by Phoebe Philo’s debut collection at Celine, minimalism is enjoying a revival on the fashion scene, acting as a sort of palate cleanser after seasons of bombast and excess. But as fashion historian Elyssa Dimant traces in her new book, Minimalism and Fashion ($75, available now in stores and online now), the minimal [...]

Want to see the villa the Seven Easy Pieces built? Until you’re invited for a weekend away at Donna Karan’s Zen manse in Parrot Cay, Turks and Caicos (above), at least there’s American Fashion Designers at Home, the CFDA and Assouline’s new coffee-table tome dedicated to the world of fashion designers’ interiors. The book offers [...]

Welcome to the constellation, Nicolas Ghesquière: The Balenciaga designer will be honored with the Fashion Group International’s Superstar award this October. [WWD]Speaking of awards, the newest Marc Jacobs store has already won one, and it’s not even open yet! The new MJ Collection flagship building in Tokyo’s Aoyama (rendering pictured at left), designed by Stephan [...]

Berlin fashion week is now in full swing, and Calvin Klein threw a fashion show and epic party to celebrate the occasion. (A few Teutons can be forgiven for being distracted by the Germany/Spain World Cup game, which the brand screened at the fête.) As you’d expect, plenty of house favorites, like newly signed face [...]

So many of Diane von Furstenberg’s collections are designed with the globetrotting woman-about-the-world in mind, but until recently, DVF fans in Brazil didn’t have a Diane outpost to call their own. But on April 8, the label opened its first Latin American flagship at São Paulo’s Iguatemi, a veritable luxury mecca—or, as von Furstenberg hailed [...]

“Any china, any soup tureen, any teapot or coffee pot will make a pretty vase with two or three flowers. Any glass bottle, any sauce bottle, any beer bottle. I just found these great paint cans from Home Depot that cost like three dollars, and they’re amazing.” Just some of the floral advice Carlos Mota [...]

This morning, our senior market editor, Marina, and I went to check out Calvin Klein’s offering for Fall. And though Kevin Carrigan and the design team helming the Calvin Klein and Calvin Klein Jeans lines aren’t on exactly the same nouveau-futuristic wavelength as Collection creative directors Francisco Costa (women’s) and Italo Zucchelli (men’s), there’s plenty [...]