Forget the Red and the Black. Right now, it’s all about the Red and the Blue. The 2012 elections will mean a full year of face-off between the red Republicans and the blue Dems. All of a sudden, the red and blue Masai prints at Thakoon and Kim Jones’ men’s collection for Louis Vuitton are [...]

Giambattista Valli is no longer a guest member on the Couture calendar. The Paris-based designer, who made his debut on the Couture runways for the first time last season, was granted the official haute couture appellation early (typically designers have to wait five years to be eligible) by French fashion’s governing body, the Chambre Syndicale.Of [...]

Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte are the next stewards of the rotating-roster A Magazine, the glossy annual magazine. A, which selects a new designer or label each year to curate an issue, has in recent years turned to Giambattista Valli, Proenza Schouler, and Riccardo Tisci. For the 11th issue, arriving in mid-December, the sisters [...]

Macy’s is on a roll. Last month, the retail giant debuted collections by Karl Lagerfeld and Anna Dello Russo, and now, a covetable series of looks created by Giambattista Valli. Drawing on his experience as a world traveler, the Paris-based designer’s capsule collection for Macy’s Impulse offers a wardrobe for the chic jet-setter, at prices [...]

Giambattista Valli, Dries Van Noten, Haider Ackermann, Ann Demeulemeester—those are just a few of the heavy hitters photographer Erik Madigan Heck has worked with over the past few years. It’s no wonder those big names are knocking at his door. Just take a look at the images from his hyper-colored Surreal Planes series with Mary [...]

Hurricane Irene is barreling our way, which means we’ll be hunkered down in our apartments this weekend like the rest of New York City, our crazy surfer friends excluded. What better way to remember the summer that was than look back at some of its finer red-carpet moments? Our favorite shot of the season has [...]

H&M has picked the Misshapes DJ and model Leigh Lezark to front its first shop-in-shop opening at London’s Selfridges retail store this month as well as curate an exclusive collection of its latest key pieces. Lezark, who has worked with the Swedish retailer before, says she even threw color into her new curated collection. (A [...]

David Yurman has swapped the sands of St. Bart’s (not to mention former campaign star Kate Moss) for city streets. The brand’s newest faces, Joan Smalls and Arizona Muse (left), recently shot the fall ad campaign in Chinatown alongside an unlikely set of fellow models: fish. “We shot in a fish market, with all these [...]

There’s another seat open at the designer fashion table. News broke today that Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi (above), creative directors of Gianfranco Ferré, are out at the Italian house (no word on their namesake collection, which presumably will continue for the present). Reports blame dwindling sales for the duo’s departure. But they’re only the [...]

Nine-to-five is fine, but anyone with a day’s experience in fashion knows that the good stuff happens after hours. So that’s where we’re taking you in our new video series called (can you guess?) After Hours, for which filmmaker Alexis Dahan will be hitting the international party circuit, camera in hand, to bring you behind [...]