Noticed in Paris: a city in the midst of a full-on love affair with New York. We’ve always been big boosters of the Big Apple ourselves, but looks like the City of Light is feeling the NYC vibe at the moment, too. Consider this: On the 5th, Printemps joins forces with V Magazine—which recently put [...]

Trunk shows have largely been the province of the designer floor. No more. Next week, Barneys’ Madison Avenue flagship plays host to Trunk-a-Palooza, a more-the-merrier trunk show and party featuring contemporary brands sold in the store’s Co-Op. Rag & Bone’s Marcus Wainwright and David Neville (pictured), Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos, Alexander Wang, Richard Chai, [...]

As we enter a new decade, the fashion business, like the rest of the world, is encountering significant economic and technological change. In this series, Style.com’s editor in chief, Dirk Standen, talks to a number of leading industry figures about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.Julie Gilhart is fashion’s free spirit: a passionate surfer, [...]

Shoppers looking for shoes at Barneys’ Beverly Hills store last night got more than they bargained for: Specifically, Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post senior editor Willow Bay, Barneys’ Julie Gilhart, and designer Rozae Nichols discussing sustainability, the death of print media, and “joy-triggers” (a term Huffington coined for the simple pleasures in life). They’d gathered to [...]

Vogue alum and new Ecco Domani Fashion Fund winner Irini Arakas has been quietly making gorgeous scarves and jewelry for her label, Prova, for a few seasons now, but at yesterday’s NYFW presentation—her first—it was clear how far she’s come. It was also clear who’s been behind her for most of that journey. The evening [...]

Hopenhagen, a.k.a. Copenhagen, isn’t hosting just the United Nations Climate Summit this week. Yesterday, the Nordic Fashion Association held a summit of its own in Denmark’s capital. Featuring lectures, networking, and locally sourced cuisine (herring, anyone?), the day closed with a runway show of sustainable fashions by 20 emerging designers, four each from Denmark, Finland, [...]

As far as I can tell, the evolution of pants over the past couple years seems to have gone something like this: skinny, very skinny, legging-like, leggings, and then, of course, to utter extinction, with no pants at all. But like death and taxes, you can also rely on the fashion pendulum’s reverse swing. This [...]

The stereotype: The athleticism of the fashion person goes not much further than the lifting of a Nina Ricci Fall 2009 platform or the mad dash of a Party Pentathlon to make good on five RSVPs in a single night. (Ed. note: Neither are mean feats.) In reality, however, we have some true sportswomen and [...]

Thakoon Addition hit stores last week and we’ve been hearing some very impressive tales of sales. (It can’t be hurting that a slew of Resort shows have created a sort of fashion week lite. We’ve definitely spotted editors in TA.) Panichgul’s best-ofs line has the windows at Barneys New York on Madison Avenue (pictured here), [...]

Fashion week officially kicks off on Friday, but if you’re on the radar for young labels like I am, you’re probably already in deep. Last night Susan Woo showed her very first collection at the Thompson LES hotel, but she’s not new to the industry. Woo logged hours at Louis Vuitton, Derek Lam, and Chanel [...]