If you’re a fashion diehard based below the Mason-Dixon, chances are your go-to boutique is Capitol, Laura Vinroot Poole’s ten-year-old Charlotte institution. She specializes in cherry-picking key pieces from the season’s top collections. For Fall, think Balmain jackets, Dries Van Noten’s brightly hued separates, and dramatic gowns from Olivier Theyskens’ final season at Nina Ricci. [...]

In seasons past, a real fashion week crush happened just before a show started, when everyone had filed into the venue and was scrambling for their seats. But times have changed. Now the hoopla begins much sooner and lasts much longer. Take yesterday’s Dior show, which had PETA protesters crowding fur-clad attendees and accosting them [...]

“This season, I wanted to create a collection with more feeling in it,” explained Joseph Altuzarra at his presentation on Monday evening. “I was hoping that these would be clothes people could connect to emotionally as well as aesthetically.” Mission accomplished: Altuzarra sent his Fall ‘09 looks down the runway several times, and each finale [...]

Joseph Altuzarra’s résumé may be short, but it packs a solid one-two-three punch: six-month internship at Marc Jacobs, freelance design assistant for Proenza Schouler, and former assistant to New York’s premier modéliste Nicolas Caito. That’s the CV in a nutshell, which all leads up to part four: designer for his eponymous line launched for Spring [...]

His name may not be printed on any of the invitations, but you can expect to see plenty of Eddie Borgo’s work at New York fashion week this season. The up-and-coming jewelry designer—who will make his retail debut in March at Barneys—is collaborating with at least three designers for Fall 2009: Jen Kao, Camilla Stærk, [...]

Ask the stylish buddies of Joseph Altuzarra, the young designer who refined his craft at Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, and Givenchy before launching his own collection this season, what he was celebrating on Thursday night, and you got a good answer. As his friend, lookbook model, and sort-of-muse Vanessa Traina, put it, “We’re celebrating it [...]