Outspoken model Rie Rasmussen revealed this week that she’s switched agencies and is ready for another go at the scene. The catwalker is breaking away from her longtime agency, One (of which she remains part owner), and signing with Next to focus on her own career. She’s already been making appearances in the front row [...]

Jason Wu’s accessories collection has been growing just like his ready-to-wear has been—that is to say, fast and furious. After launching a few key styles for Spring, Wu expanded for pre-fall, and for Fall, showed a gilded range inspired, as his entire season was, by Versailles and its painstaking restoration. “I wanted the accessories to [...]

The pre-fall shows continue to roll out: We’ve added Giorgio Armani and Emporio Armani, and later today we’ll be publishing Alexander Wang’s pre-fall ‘11 collection. Wang’s famous for wearing his hallmark stretched-out T-shirt to even the occasional black tie gala, but for the ladies, he’s proposing a more traditional formalwear—the tux. His slouchy take on [...]

Welcome to the future, St. Regis Hotel—and by the future, of course, we mean the App Store. New York’s storied hotel is the latest to debut its own PDA application, which will allow guests of the hotel (and those who wish they were) to find calendar listings and a directory of favorite places to shop, [...]

The French Séeberger brothers—high society lensmen of the early 20th century—are the predecessors of our street-style bloggers today, and it’s to them that Jason Wu looked when designing pre-fall. In this exclusive video from the pre-fall lookbook shoot with models Ming Xi and Julia Saner, Jason shares favorite shots from Elegance, a collection of the [...]

Last season, Jason Wu expanded his rapidly growing business with a small assortment of bags. For pre-fall, he raised the stakes, taking the Miss Wu bag launched for Spring and adding on two new sizes: a Miss Wu large and a Miss Wu mini. (There’s a new mascot, a little cartoon owl also called Miss [...]

The Met’s Costume Institute will stage a full-scale exhibition in tribute to Alexander McQueen next year. Curator Andrew Bolton prefers not to call it a “retrospective”: The show will look at the themes underlying the late designer’s work, from his earliest pieces, created at Central Saint Martins, through his tenure at Givenchy, to the heyday [...]

Jason Wu made a quick trip back to his native Taiwan for his brother’s wedding (and a quick radio chat with the president, natch)—and found that his star has risen considerably since the last time he’s been home. He was advised to prepare a security detail for the airport, where he was told he’d be [...]

Dolce e Gabbana, sticking up for the little guys? The designers will now be stocking the work of up-and-coming designers—including Yigal Azrouël, Sophie Théallet, Behnaz Sarafpour, and Fausto Puglisi—at a new shop in Milan. They’re even doing the buying and outreach personally. [WWD]Proenza Schouler’s Fall ‘10 platforms were so great, we almost snatched them right [...]

“Second only to Diane von Furstenberg, Sally Singer is my favorite woman in fashion,” Mickey Boardman said last night. “Wherever she is, I’ll be there with bells on.”Last night, “there” was the Spotted Pig, and Boardman was indeed on hand-draped in bling if not in bells. He’d turned up, like Charlie Rose, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan [...]