“Plastic fantastic” was the theme at Melissa’s Soho flagship store opening last night, where the Brazilian shoe label fêted its arrival stateside, drawing the likes of Marc Jacobs, Lorenzo Martone, and Alessandra Ambrosio. Dubbed Galeria Melissa, the Greene Street shop opened its doors with a riot of acid tones thanks to the São Paulo-based label’s [...]

In May, Daphne Guinness famously settled into the window spaces at Barneys and turned them into her personal dressing room. While the world watched, the artist and social fixture prepared for the Met ball, modeling some of the enviable pieces from her collection. As it turns out, that’s not the last time Guinness played mannequin. [...]

“Melissa supported me with product sponsorship for my second show at London fashion week for Spring 2006, a good six years ago now, and we talked about doing something together ever since,” Gareth Pugh tells Style.com of the Brazilian footwear label. Tonight, the British designer celebrates the launch of his first original design for Melissa [...]

Daphne Guinness was “laid in state”—by her friend Gareth Pugh, no less—at a posh London town house to debut her new collaboration with jeweler Shaun Leane, a $1.76 million white gold wristpiece covered in birds made of pavé diamonds. The not-quite-corpse wore an Alexander McQueen one-piece and an antique veil. [WWD]Her wedding was only over [...]

A blurry Twitpic of a label reading “Carine Roitfeld” has led to rampant Internet speculation that the former Paris Vogue editrix is working on her own collection. Will the world ever be the same? (Our guess: yes.) [Fashionista]Lara Stone thinks she would make a great evil Bond girl. No disagreements here. You listening, Daniel Craig? [...]

Last night in London, the yet-to-open Corinthia Hotel welcomed the fashion set into its stingray-lined Bassoon bar, where the likes of Savannah Miller, DJ Princess Julia, and host GQ editor in chief Dylan Jones toasted the launch of GQ Style’s Spring/Summer issue. It was the first outing for the glossy’s new leadership, editor Ben Reardon [...]

Gareth and Ruth have done it again! Designer Pugh and filmmaker Hogben are such intuitive and iconoclastic collaborators that they’re managing to rewrite the book on the way a collection of clothes can be presented to the world. And Pitti Immagine gave them a stunning platform. Florence is full of breathtaking Renaissance venues, which the [...]

Today in Florence, Gareth Pugh shows his new Fall ‘11 women’s collection as part of Pitti W. SHOWstudio alumna Ruth Hogben (who created the film Pugh screened with his collection last season, and also lensed the video with Mariacarla Boscono for Barneys.com and Givenchy) created a short to play alongside, inspired by “religious iconography [...]

Raffaello Napoleone, Pitti Immagine’s dapper CEO, convened a group of editors and trade officials—many chattering away in Italian—at Quattro in New York City for a briefing on the upcoming Pitti Uomo and Pitti W fairs. It was a whirlwind visit (Napoleone and company headed for the airport while most were still sipping espresso), but the [...]

There’s been an explosion of florals and flower prints on the runways, and you can trust that if a trend is in the offing, Nick Knight will not be far behind. Case in point: The latest exhibition at SHOWStudio’s Mayfair gallery, Florist, which opens tomorrow. The Web site-cum-gallery project is celebrating its 10th birthday this [...]