It’s a week before Fox unveils the seventh season of So You Think You Can Dance, and the show’s hostess is on the phone with a confession. “The first dress I bought where I thought I had gone completely mad was an Alexander McQueen,” Cat Deeley tells Style.com. “It was the most beautiful dress I [...]

Isabel Marant told us she was planning her first New York store way back in March of last year at her Fall 2009 show, and local fans of the French designer’s casual-cool sensibility have been waiting with credit cards at the ready ever since. We couldn’t get an official count on just how many pairs [...]

Despite a TV show that never quite caught on in the U.S. and a faint lingering of what-is-it-she-does-again, Alexa Chung has become a veritable style icon. (Just ask the customers—celebs included—eager to snap up Mulberry’s Alexa bag, or Chanel, which named her a brand ambassador.) As a result of the attention, she’s mostly traded her [...]

Jérôme Dreyfuss is, in his words, living the dream. His dream: He designs for a living, his handbag business is growing at a healthy pace, but it’s not growing so fast that he doesn’t have time to indulge in other, more domestic pleasures. Now New Yorkers are going to get a taste of the good [...]

You may not know Jade Lai, but if you’ve ever shopped at her L.A. boutique Creatures of Comfort, it probably feels like you do. The shop, tucked away on a strip of Melrose Boulevard in West Hollywood, overflows with pieces that reflect Lai’s taste for the funky yet timeless, which she skims from the collections [...]

The English are coming, the English are coming! Oh—no, wait, it’s the French. Racked reports there are signs of life at Isabel Marant’s (pictured) long-awaited Soho store: A French stick-figure drawing announces progress. [Racked]
And while Marant’s going resolutely 2-D, Burberry’s getting the Avatar treatment—the label is live-casting its upcoming London fashion week show in 3-D. [...]

WWD has more details on the exciting news you first heard here. The new Isabel Marant store is set to open in February at 55 Greene Street in Soho, near the corner of Broome Street. Thankfully, it’s a somewhat more peaceful part of the often overrun and occasionally unnavigable neighborhood. Marant’s New York outpost clocks [...]

Calling all Isabel Marant fans of New York: You can now raise your voices in a collective, chic cheer. As tweeted by our own Nicole Phelps, who spoke with the designer backstage before her show earlier today, Marant will open a boutique at the “very beginning of 2010″—so very soon!—in Soho near the corner of [...]

I’m just back from the second annual Dansk Fashion Awards in Copenhagen, for which I was a judge and presenter (in English). The awards are much like the upcoming CFDAs, only instead of Park Avenue princesses in the crowd, they have a real one. Princess Mary of Denmark presented the Best Danish Designer award to [...]

Erin Wasson, the Texas supermodel and current Maybelline spokesperson, is cleverly building a brand for herself. After dabbling backstage for a few seasons, doing a body jewelry collection, and launching her clothing line with RVCA, the one-time model is nearly ubiquitous. Which brings us to Paris. Lest we forget Wasson was first a household name [...]