January—it’s a month for detoxes, cleanses, a refreshed dedication to working out. It’s also a time when everyone and their mother seems to miraculously develop a gluten allergy, but they will make an exception for one thing: cupcakes. But at BabyCakes bakery, founded by Erin McKenna in New York, there are no excuses needed and [...]

What do you give the girl (or guy) who has everything? That’s what Style.com’s senior market editor Marina Larroude set out to discover when she polled style setters and tastemakers about what they’d get their equally stylish pals for the holidays. It wasn’t always easy to find that special something—how do you get noted bibliophile [...]

You always remember your first—first kiss, first love, first job, first apartment—and Dr. Martens is banking that on that list of first reminiscences, you’ll fondly recall your first pair of Docs. (I personally remember getting detention for wearing a pair of the label’s oxblood combat boots with my Catholic school uniform.) Those epic firsts are [...]

For a girl not even finished with college—she’s got a semester left at Columbia—Lily Kwong has a pretty fair number of achievements already under her belt. She’s worked at the studio of her cousin, Joseph Altuzarra; in magazines, at GQ; kept an enviably packed social calendar; and modeled on the runways. But if that weren’t [...]

In fashion circles, it’s a particular point of pride to get snapped by Scott Schuman, better known as the Sartorialist. Schuman—along, of course, with the genre’s mainstay, the Times‘ Bill Cunningham—can take a fair amount of credit for reinventing and popularizing street-style photography as we know it, and he remains one of its sharpest practitioners. [...]

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 [...]

Coming soon: XOXO, Kelly? People’s Revolution founder Kelly Cutrone—whose reality show, Kell on Earth, aired on Bravo—has inked a deal with Gossip Girl’s production company, Fake Empire, for an MTV show about fashion. [Racked]Apparently, Madonna directed Miu Miu’s Fall ‘10 campaign video (below), because she showed up on the shoot to take photogs Mert and [...]

Madonna will star in Dolce & Gabbana’s ad campaign again this season, inspired by the classic Italian film Mamma Roma. Stefano Gabbana says it showcases “a more human and approachable side” of the star. Like, uh, the one above? [WWD] Meanwhile, Moschino is the latest brand to go to the blog well for its campaign: [...]

Club Monaco has leapt into spring with help from an old hand, 80-year-old photographer Bert Stern. The lensman—best known for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe—shot the brand’s latest campaign, and blowups of the resulting black-and-white images loomed over the party Club Monaco threw last night at its Fifth Avenue boutique.Known as a creator of classy, [...]

Catherine Malandrino’s feeling footloose for pre-fall: She dubbed her collection “iGypsy” and took the occasion to show pieces from the lower-priced Catherine Malandrino line. “I wanted it to be about a modern, everyday wardrobe,” she explained of the silk jersey dresses, airy bouclé sweater coats, and washed leather jackets on display. A sense of ease [...]