Karlie Kloss, Jourdan Dunn, Hilary Rhoda, Coco Rocha, Ataui Deng—with all of these top catwalkers in the same room just hours before the shows at Lincoln Center begin, you wouldn’t be off the mark if you thought they were at a last-minute casting call or fitting. But these girls, along with supes Christy Turlington and [...]

There’s something to be said for the home-field advantage. When Hugo Boss-—based in Germany—elected to show its Hugo collection at Berlin fashion week, they went for broke, inviting 1,000 guests (including Hilary Swank, Eric Bana, and Ryan Kwanten) for a fashion show, dinner, and party at the Museum Island in the city’s center. Designer Eyan [...]

The Office actress and writer Mindy Kaling is one of our favorite writers—and Twitterers. The fashion-world tweets she cooked up for Harper’s Bazaar are fictional, the mag cautions—but we’re willing to believe there’s a grain of truth buried in there somewhere. If not truth, at least wisdom. To wit: “At Betsey Johnson, in a tutu [...]

The gridiron faceoff was fierce yesterday for Super Bowl Sunday, but so was the catwalk competition at ACW Worldwide’s model call for the casting agency’s Fall 2011 New York shows. The lithe and the leggy arrived to try for a spot on the New York runways (ACW casts Thakoon, Y-3, and Jen Kao, among others), [...]

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, [...]

London + New York = Lonny. The brainchild of a former Domino editor, Lonny is a new online shelter mag dedicated to both metropoles. The best part about its Web-based format? Click-to-buy home wares, of course. [WWD]
Twilight Fashion Week. It’s true, but it doesn’t mean you have to tweet about it. [The Cut]
Happy birthday, Brigitte. [...]

As far as sweeping up British fashion awards go, 2008 was a good year to be a girl and/or in shoes. Luella Bartley, London fashion’s homecoming queen (she came back from New York a couple of seasons ago), took the chunk of Swarovski crystal labeled Designer of the Year; Louise Goldin competed against Danielle Scutt [...]