Gossip Girl returns to the air tonight at 9 p.m., and sources tell Style.com it’ll have a new guest star: contemporary artist Laurie Simmons (right, with gallerist Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn). The “Pictures Generation” photographer and portraitist appears on the show to create a commissioned portrait of the van der Woodsens—one that, one presumes, will hang [...]

The haute couture shows start on Monday, and in addition to the schedule’s usual suspects—Lagerfeld, Gaultier, Galliano, et al.—newcomer Maxime Simoëns is throwing his (presumably) hand-beaded hat into the ring. At 26, Simoëns is the first designer to join the official Couture calendar without ever having staged a runway show—unless you count his prize-winning [...]

James Franco does drag on the cover of Candy, “the world’s first transversal style magazine.” Terry Richardson shot the cover (pictured) and the images inside because, really, who else would you expect to do it? It will cost $55 when it arrives at Opening Ceremony. [Opening Ceremony]In further not-that-surprising news: on Gossip Girl, accessorizing a [...]

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 [...]

As the costume designer of Gossip Girl, Eric Daman knows from plaid skirts. So he was an obvious choice to jazz up the proceedings at the eighth annual Dressed to Kilt party and men-in-skirts fashion show, hosted by Hollywood’s go-to Scots, Sir Sean and Lady Connery. “Oh, I did my research. I hunted around and [...]

The new age of media, part 1: Longtime W creative director Dennis Freedman will leave the magazine. [WWD]The new age of media, part 2: The Times takes a moment to celebrate these rising young stars called bloggers! Have you ever heard of such a thing? But we are glad to see Fashionologie’s Tommye Fitzpatrick get [...]

In his new book You Know You Want It, Gossip Girl costume designer Eric Daman goes boldly into some of the styling trade’s most intimate regions: “underwear and breasts and bras and things that can push and pull,” he explained last night at Henri Bendel, where Ed Westwick and Leighton Meester were co-hosting a launch [...]

Attention Upper West Siders, Angie and Brad could be your new neighbors. The couple and their brood are reportedly co-op shopping, and while we’ve always pegged AJ as more of a Lower East Side kind of gal (more tattoo parlors), we guess this move befits Hollywood royalty. [NY Daily News]
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It’s not often that the shiny Gossip Girl world of the Upper East Side welcomes old, ragged T-shirts, recycling, and bake sales, but that’s exactly what’s happening tomorrow at Barneys on Madison. In exchange for your holey Flaming Lips tee from 1996, you’ll get 20 percent off the organic wares from Loomstate and Loomstate for [...]

Not every high school can inspire a musical. As The New York Times reported this weekend, the exclusive and seemingly idyllic Miss Porter’s School (Jackie O’s alma mater) was more like a little shop of horrors for one senior, who is now suing. It seems as though reality is a lot more like Mean [...]