The past few days in New York have been so hot, we’ve finally stopped complaining about working in an office with its AC set to “Siberia.” Every time we do venture outside, visions of last week’s couture shows and the resurgence of old-fashioned folding hand fans we witnessed there come to mind: Hilary Alexander churning [...]

LVMH has tapped the cool kids behind Opening Ceremony, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, to be the new creative directors of Kenzo. Odds are better than even Chloë Sevigny could be the face of the brand’s ad campaign. The OC collaborator is a fan of Kenzo Takada’s early designs. [WWD]Jean Paul Gaultier is getting his [...]

Maybe it’s his recent retrospective, but Jean Paul Gaultier is in a backward-looking mood. For his Fall ‘11 Couture show, Gaultier stocked his cast with a few favorites from days gone by. Men and women both stalked the Couture runway (including Jon Kortajarena, the face of JPG’s new men’s fragrance, Kokorico), but it was the [...]

The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts celebrated the opening of Jean Paul Gaultier’s new retrospective installation last night with an evening of all things French, Canadian, and French-Canadian. Guests sipped traditional Canadian ice cider through bendy straws and moseyed through the exhibition, transfixed in equal parts by the clothing and, in true Gaultier fashion, the [...]

Supers and celebrities hit the catwalk at Naomi Campbell’s annual Fashion for Relief charity fashion show in Cannes, which raised money for the Japanese Red Cross. [Racked]Thanks to Moscot, you can now come even closer to the Terry Richardson look: The storied opticians are now offering a Terry frame, inspired by the lensman’s trademark style. [...]

Jean Paul Gaultier’s favorite model of the moment is young Australian Andrej Pejic, whose near-absolute androgyny has made him a sought-after catwalker for men’s and women’s shows alike. JPG cast the statuesque blond opposite the equally statuesque blond Karolina Kurkova in his Spring ‘11 ad campaign, and sent him down the runway as both a [...]

The haute couture shows start on Monday, and in addition to the schedule’s usual suspects—Lagerfeld, Gaultier, Galliano, et al.—newcomer Maxime Simoëns is throwing his (presumably) hand-beaded hat into the ring. At 26, Simoëns is the first designer to join the official Couture calendar without ever having staged a runway show—unless you count his prize-winning [...]

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 [...]

Jean Paul Gaultier is the latest designer to get the retrospective treatment: A career-long show of his work (a Spring ‘09 couture look is at left) will debut in Montreal in June, before traveling to Dallas and San Francisco. It’ll be broken out by themes—including the tantalizing “Eurotrash/X-Rated”—and be accompanied by a catalog with contributions [...]

For his last show as creative director of Hermès—Christophe Lemaire takes the reins next season—Jean Paul Gaultier pulled out all the stops for an equestrienne extravaganza. (The designer recently admitted he can’t even ride a bicycle, much less a horse, but no matter.) And how did he kick up the luxe even further? By shrinking [...]