Doha, Qatar, is the latest hot spot of global luxury. The city’s extraordinary boom, fueled in large part by its winning World Cup 2022 bid, has already seen the arrival of outposts of Hermès, Stella McCartney, Balenciaga, and Alexander McQueen. The latest addition to its luxury Pearl Island complex is a new store catering to [...]

“Hermès is a very luxury brand, but it’s about horses and animals, so I wanted to link this roughness to something much more feminine,” designer Pierre Hardy tells Style.com of his newest Hermès Haute Bijouterie collection. Yesterday, the designer, who has helmed the French brand’s jewelry and footwear for 20 years (and also does the [...]

William Travilla is not a designer most people are familiar with, despite having designed many of Marilyn Monroe’s most memorable dresses, including her white halter-neck dress for The Seven Year Itch. In a new book, Dressing Marilyn, the public gets a rare glimpse into Monroe’s costumes and Travilla’s process of creating them. [Vogue U.K.]Giorgio Armani [...]

During the seven years that photographer Koto Bolofo spent documenting the sacred inner workings at the Hermès headquarters, hardly anyone (even Hermès insiders) knew what he was up to. Like a fly on the wall, he spent his days and nights trailing the craftsmen as they made the Kelly bag and the silk scarves that [...]

For its new Linea Rossa campaign, Prada has picked prizefighters—boxing champions Italian Roberto Cammarelle, American Bernard Hopkins, and a Briton from Pakistan, Amir Khan—to sport their shades. The glasses get in on the action, too, with sport-inspired names like Prada Upper Cut, Prada Jab, and Prada Barburner. [WWD]Despite what you may think, Daphne Guinness doesn’t [...]

The rumors are true: Sassy’s on the way back. Or, at least, the modern version is, and it goes by the name JanePratt.com. WWD discovers that the editor (who helmed the late Jane as well as Sassy) is hard at work on a comeback effort with the help of Style Rookie blogger Tavi Gevinson. Details [...]

No official word from Camp Zoe, but word on the Web is that the indefatigable celebrity stylist went into labor today. (She’d been looking very pregnant as of late, not that it stopped her from cavorting in the impossibly high stiletto boots she co-designed with pal Brian Atwood.) What to send the new mom? As [...]

Bend it like… Swank? Hilary Swank is apparently the latest silver screener to get in on the celebrity-design game: She’s developing her own line of sporty activewear. [WWD]Spend it like… Mizrahi? Isaac takes The New York Times through his Sunday ritual, which includes a morning swim, a midday dog walk, and plenty of HBO before [...]

The Rue de Sèvres space that houses Hermès’ new store—its 134th and second largest to date—used to be home to the Lutetia hotel’s indoor swimming pool. So in tribute to aquaculture past, the label trucked in a band of kids in matching swimsuits to salute arriving guests, while on a balcony, great moments in swimming-pool [...]

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen described the aha moment behind the founding of their label, The Row, at Women’s Wear Daily’s WWD@100 conference this week: On a press tour of Canada, they noticed that the audience was wearing giant sweaters, bug-eye sunglasses, and Balenciaga bags. Exactly what they were wearing, in other words. Well, no one [...]