Elizabeth Taylor: The Collector
“I wanted to share my collection with others so they could get a glimpse of the joys, the thrills, and the pure happiness that these beautiful creations have given me,” Elizabeth Taylor once said. It’s a line that now covers one of the purple walls at Christie’s New York, where the Hollywood legend’s jewels, clothes, [...]
Back To The Future
Everything’s coming up Donatella. With print mania gripping the runways, Versace has been enjoying a renewed moment in the (presumably Miami) sun. The label, in its Gianni-designed days, led the charge for more-is-more prints, and Gianni’s sister has proven herself an excellent interpreter of his vision. Her Versace for H&M collection, which debuts next month, [...]
Will You Throw It Back With Vintage Versace?
Scarf prints, bondage straps, studded leathers—fashion is having a vintage Versace moment. That fact hasn’t been lost on Donatella Versace herself: She brought the house down last month with a menswear show that paid homage to the motifs that her late brother Gianni made famous in the eighties and early nineties. Back then, glamazon supermodels—Gianni’s [...]
Lanvin’s Bauble Man; Sir Paul, Balletomane; Stephen Jones To Take The Screen; And More…
Loved the toothy jewels Alber Elbaz sent down the runway at Lanvin (pictured)? Meet the man behind them: 33-year-old jewelry phenom Elie Top. [Hint Mag]“Buy It Now,” wherever: eBay launches an iPhone app for its fashion sales. (That sound you’re hearing is our checking accounts precipitously depleting.) [WWD]A new exhibition of Paul Smith’s photographs of [...]
Freida’s Next Role, Versace’s Home Goods, And More…
Could Freida Pinto be the next Bond girl? If you believe British tabloids, then yes. [The Sun]
Gianni Versace’s Lake Como relics are up for auction in London next Wednesday, and quite frankly, the stuff’s a steal. The pair of life-size nude wrestlers that used to watch over Versace’s Villa Fontanelle bedroom is only $55,000, which, [...]
Marco De Vincenzo: Kinda Versace, Kinda Margiela
“This is what I do after 6 p.m.,” says Marco de Vincenzo of the debut haute couture collection he presented in Paris this week—a patchwork of narrow, figure-hugging stripe dresses in a play of soft and stiff coated jersey. De Vincenzo, who will soon be 31, moved to Rome at the age of 18 to [...]
Was Sting Channeling Versace?
So, there were a few memorable moments at last night’s Golden Globes. Among my favorites was the strange, surely unintended synchronicity of Drew Barrymore wearing gray (a gossamer Christian Dior Haute Couture) and acting slightly kooky while promoting Grey Gardens, Alec Baldwin giving bubble gum the best PR it’s had in a long time, J. [...]






