If anyone out there is wondering what Guillaume Henry did after his first runway show for Carven, here’s your answer: He went home, turned off his phone, and took a really long nap. He awoke to glowing reviews, of course, recharged and ready to start a myriad new projects, including a menswear collection, a burgeoning [...]

President Obama and Charlie Sheen—both in town for visits of varying diplomatic necessity—were the cause of traffic jams all along Midtown, but on Madison Avenue, Inès de la Fressange was traffic’s raison d’être. The model, Roger Vivier brand ambassador, and newly minted style scribe was at Vivier’s uptown boutique to fête her new book, Parisian [...]

Inès de la Fressange’s personal directory of Paris’ best shops, haunts, restaurants, and cafés made her a perennial go-to among recommendation-seeking friends—and, she says with a rueful laugh, journalists. For her own sanity (and that of her assistant), she’s spilling her secrets and making her picks public with the new Parisian Chic (Flammarion, $29.95). Part [...]

The first day of Paris fashion week is usually judged too early for a bash, but you’d never know it from the crowd that crammed into Vincent Darré’s tiny interiors shop, Maison Darré, yesterday. There—packed to the rafters, almost, and spilling into the street—were Catherine Deneuve, Diane von Furstenberg, Pierre Bergé, Christian Louboutin, Mario Testino, [...]

Band of Outsiders’ range of polos is called, per usual Sternbergian antics, “This Is Not a Polo Shirt.” Okay. But this is a new e-commerce site where you can buy them and have them shipped right to your door. [Blackbook]Roger Vivier brand ambassador Inès de la Fressange (pictured) is writing a chic guide to Paris, [...]

If Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant has her way, offices will be filled with stylish Don Draper and sultry Joan clones. Bring it on. [WWD]Introducing Edward, the new men’s line from Duckie Brown and Odin. As girls, we are officially jealous. [WWD]Yes, Lindsay, it’s called pre-fall. Miss Lohan was pretty sure she had more [...]

Proof that Parisians love clothes? Witness the suited and booted guests at Vincent Darré and Inès de la Fressange’s cocktail celebrating Maison Darré’s one-year anniversary. Less is more might be the mantra of stateside summer dressing, but in Paris what you wear is not something to be taken lightly: Note de la Fressange’s velvet boots, [...]

For at least a short while, we get more Mayle. Jane’s namesake line and boutique will stay open through April and offer a very limited limited collection.
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Fabien Baron and Karl Templer [...]

With Jean-Paul Goude doing the rounds this week and Inès de la Fressange at Gaultier Paris, it seems like a full-on eighties couture revival is upon us. Alexandre Vauthier, former first assistant to Gaultier and a veteran of Thierry Mugler’s atelier, narrowed his vision on Grace Jones. A pointy shoulder formed the main silhouette story [...]

You could tell something was up from the first strains of Klaus Nomi’s “The Cold Song” on the soundtrack at Jean Paul Gaultier: Fashion’s former enfant terrible was having an eighties moment in a major way. A roll call of the era’s icons made appearances: paparazzi angling for a shot of Kylie Minogue in the [...]