Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant is launching her own line, Mod by Janie Bryant, on QVC. It’s inspired by fifties and sixties fashions, like those on Mad Men, but Jon Hamm, sadly, doesn’t come with purchase. [WWD]Isabella Rossellini has designed a new bag for Bulgari (pictured), a rectangular tote available in four versions, including [...]

Two high-end jewelers have two high-end new campaign stars: Sienna Miller for Piaget (pictured) and Angela Lindvall for John Hardy. [WWD]New York canvasses the market for a few favorite short-short shorts, from the affordable to the, well, Chanel (pictured). In the latter case, expect to pay about $100 per inch. [New York]Mohammed Al Fayed has [...]

Contingency plans in case of volcanic eruption are scarcely the stuff of everyday life in London, but events in Iceland inspired knock-on ingenuity as airports across northern Europe were closed by a drifting ash cloud yesterday. Harrods fashion director Marigay McKee mentioned a friend who’d hailed a black cab outside Heathrow to get him to [...]

Central Saint Martins has developed some of the world’s great talents—Alexander McQueen, Phoebe Philo, and John Galliano, to name a few. But its runway show—one of the hottest tickets of the week—doesn’t do things traditionally. All that talent comes with a lot of noisy fans, which has turned the show into one of London’s most [...]

Some brands are tortoises. Others are hares. Preen is incontrovertibly—and in the best way possible—the former. Over the past dozen years, Preen designers Thea Bregazzi and Justin Thornton have taken an incrementalist approach as they’ve gone from hawking togs at the Portobello Arcade to selling out their Power dress on Net-a-Porter. Now the designers are [...]

Is Barneys for sale? Reports are of the he-said-she-said variety for now, but a new investor and CEO may be in town.
And across the pond, venerable U.K. outfitter Harrods CEO James McArthur (who previously punched in at Gucci and Balenciaga) is out the door after less than a year at the helm. Might he [...]

The scene: the Ladurée tea room at Harrods, which is hosting the launch of André Benjamin’s Benjamin Bixby line. The time: late night. In attendance: a bunch of ravenous and low-blood-sugared journalists, buyers, and publicists who have been running around to the shows and events all day with no lunch, no dinner—nothing but Red Bull [...]