Though the debate in the fashion world about the negative impact of copycats continues unabated, taking direct “inspiration” from another creator isn’t necessarily always held against a designer. The latter was the case at Fashion Rio (which is underway this week in Rio de Janeiro) for Coven, a knitwear-heavy label with [...]

Lily Rabe was born with the pedigree of an actor’s actor. Her father is playwright David Rabe (whose works were the subject of a recent New Yorker retrospective), and her mother is actress Jill Clayburgh. But Rabe, who graduated from Northwestern University in 2004, has been making theatrical inroads of her own. In 2005 she [...]

The best accessory to have this London fashion week is a great body, all the better to show off an Hervé Léger bandage dress, which is fast emerging as the outfit to be seen in. Lizzie Jagger sported a red one at the Jaeger show, a newly thin Jo Wood wore a pastel version, and [...]