Fresh on the heels of the announcement of Topshop’s much anticipated opening date for its first New York outpost (check Style File later for news from the official press conference), Sir Philip Green held court last night at Amy Sacco’s party for Topman at Bungalow 8. Donna Karan, Mary Alice Stephenson, and Ann Dexter-Jones were [...]

Don’t write off ostentation just yet. Dior and Bergdorf Goodman pulled out all the stops at a posh lunch today for their devoted clientele. “Things are different,” admitted Delphine Arnault Gancia, who flew in from Paris to host the lunch at BG. “But Americans are resourceful, they look for solutions.” After an informal modeling of [...]

After you’ve been to as many store parties as I have (sigh), when it comes to New Year’s celebration it’s an internal struggle between going home to Missouri to be with people I actually like and eat fried food until the elastic in my sweatpants snaps, or to go somewhere tropical and thus be forced [...]

I’ve been to Moscow a few times now—about three times in as many months, in fact. With every visit I realize more and more just how important vodka is to the local culture. It’s like there are two responses to a crisis: vodka, or no vodka. At least that was how Alex Kiselev, the owner [...]

If one were to measure the success of a fashion show by the number of people who crush into the backstage area after it’s over—which, in my opinion, anyway, is a fairly accurate barometer—it’s a safe bet that Riccardo Tisci’s show for Givenchy was the hottest ticket yet this week. After all, the likes of [...]

Balenciaga pulled off the stealth fashion party of the week on Tuesday night with an under-the-radar gathering at Le Baron. On the stroke of midnight, the diminutive boîte suddenly swelled with in-crowd guests such as Natalia Vodianova (in an ice-blue draped number) and husband Justin Portman, Zoë Kravitz, Purple’s Olivier Zahm, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Pierre Hardy, [...]

Wren designer Melissa Coker pulled together a pretty impressive team for her Spring ‘09 video installation Another 3 Women. Screened at the Wren presentation in midtown last night, the video, directed by Alia Raza, is a mash-up of scenes from Robert Altman’s 3 Women and the Woody Allen film Another Woman, and it stars returning [...]

Fashion folks can be a difficult breed: We want our nighttime entertainment brief, free, and fashionably late. That’s why, at the beginning of the Boucheron party Monday night, many people were left pondering why exactly the legendary French jewelry house would choose the South Street Seaport’s Spiegelworld hour-and-a-half circus, which started promptly at 8 p.m. [...]

One of this season’s most anticipated newcomers is Paris-born, New York-based Joseph Altuzarra, who’s showing his first collection at New York fashion week. First off, there’s his background: Prior to striking out on his own, he worked for Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, and Givenchy. Then there are his friends: Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, who’s also his art [...]

In the old days, designers would spiral-bind a few photos together and call it a lookbook. Such simplicity, while touching, just doesn’t cut it anymore. On the rise: the short film-cum-lookbook, a trend that Melissa Coker of Wren is working for Spring ‘09. The L.A.-based designed asked her filmmaker friend Alia Raza to collaborate with [...]