At the premiere of her new film Date Night last night, Leighton Meester wore one of the fringed stunners from Giambattista Valli’s well-received Spring 2010 collection. The front of her dress is a pretty standard Valli super-mini—his fans no less than his models have got legs for days—but the back is a full panel of [...]

Good news for two of Europe’s best: Raf Simons (left) and Haider Ackermann (right) and have been selected to present their next collections at this summer’s Pitti Uomo and Pitti W_Precollections. Ackermann will show his womenswear at the pre-collection showing in Florence, while Simons will show his Spring ‘11 menswear for Jil Sander at the [...]

Last season, sheers ruled the runways—Dior to Dolce, Fendi to Ferré. (You can check them all out here.) And this season? They’re still here. See-through styles showed up at YSL, Stella McCartney, Givenchy, and Valentino, among others, but the point was really hammered home at Giambattista Valli’s dinner for Moncler Gamme Rouge last night in [...]

“It’s like an early George Lucas movie set,” Giambattista Valli said at his Moncler Gamme Rouge presentation today. True, fans of THX 1138 probably felt right at home in the Mylar-wallpapered alcove where Valli was greeting editors. But the clothes themselves—not unlike those in his signature collection, shown yesterday in the same Place Vendàme former [...]

If at first you don’t succeed…. Romeo Gigli (pictured), whose relaunched label, Io Ipse Idem, lost its funding, is back yet again with XII XII XLIX par Romeo Gigli. We love the guy and hope for the best this time around, but we wonder if a comprehensible, pronounceable label name might help. [WWD]
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Exposed lingerie and similar peekaboo pieces were everywhere in the Spring 2010 collections (at Marc Jacobs, and Giambattista Valli, and Christian Dior, just to name a few), but I found myself wondering how I could translate the runway trend into my everyday wardrobe—and remain, as they say, SFW. Luckily, the new brand Sinclaire10 has come [...]

The tomboy trend continues apace for Spring. You saw it in the plethora of pantsuits, and it surfaced in some of the active sports references to linebackers and latter-day Jacques Cousteaus. But the crisp white men’s shirt will always be the easiest (and, for us, coolest) way to get the look. Giambattista Valli topped a [...]

London is getting its own Moncler boutique at 197 Sloane Street today, just in time for winter. Company chairman and creative director Remo Ruffini is in town for the opening and we spoke to him via phone to get the details. In many ways it’s like the Moncler shop on Via della Spiga in the [...]

If you can’t find any designers to hang out with this weekend, it’s because they’re all in Rio. Diddy, Ciara, Grace Jones, Mariah Carey, and a “slew of models” will be there, too. We’re sure your plans stack up. [WWD]Recession, reschmession. Giambattista Valli is so over it. [The Moment]But Gawker isn’t. They sent their interns [...]

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 [...]