The best way to celebrate the new? At Lanvin, it’s with an eye to the past. France’s oldest couture house marked its 120th anniversary on Wednesday night at the Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo’s main sumo stadium. Amid red paper lanterns, glittering chandeliers, and bright lights, Alber Elbaz, Lanvin menswear designer Lucas Ossendrijver, and exec Thierry Andretta [...]

The Olsens are adding eyewear to their fashion repertoire, with plans to launch a collection for The Row this spring. The shades come in four classic shapes (oversize? check) and will retail from $325 to $390. There’s a joke in here about seeing double, but we’ll spare you. [WWD]L.L.Bean makes a play for a chicer [...]

Jean Paul Gaultier is the latest designer rumored to be getting the Target treatment. First Rodarte, now the French…what’s next? Maybe a diffusion line of looks from Cristobal Balenciaga’s archives. Sure to have mass appeal. [WWD]
As if the abuse he’s been getting in the blogosphere hasn’t been enough, Kanye West has now been invited to [...]

“I feel like fame is like being an extremely obese person.” —Kanye West, Prince of Pop-cum fashion intern at G-Shock’s press conference-cum-concert at Cipriani Wall Street.

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Brazil tops the list of 2009’s emerging markets (no surprise there), but the number two slot goes to dark horse Romania. Who knew? [WWD]
If you’re looking for a seat at Monkey Bar, avoid “excessive socializing” while at the restaurant. According to Graydon Carter, this could lead to a 10 p.m. time slot (embarrassing!) or, [...]

The Brits have Glastonbury; the Danes have Roskilde. Drummer-slash-designer Henrik Vibskov will be upping the festival’s fashion quotient this weekend with a pop-up store (I know, we’ve sworn them off, but this one’s different; it’s at a music festival!) that will sell “limited hand-picked samples from previous collections at friendly prices.” Runway darling Agnete Hegelund [...]

Beyoncé and her mom are launching a junior apparel label inspired by the singer’s alter ego, Sasha Fierce. The line will hit stores just in time for back-to-school shopping. Principals, you’ve been warned. [WWD]
Madonna ditches the hard-body look in her new ads for Vuitton and gets the solarization treatment. For photography neophytes, this is [...]

Stella McCartney falls into the Gap, but unless you’re pint-size or learning how to walk, you’ll have to stick to her full-priced line. Lucky brats. [WWD]
After much speculation and internal juggling (read: layoffs), Fabien
Baron is back at Interview. [WWD]
Hey, single ladies, apparently Kanye West is a free man. See for yourself at our brother site’s [...]

Robert De Niro, Kanye West, Bono, Edie Falco, and Debra Messing may have been downtown last night at Vanity Fair’s Eighth Annual Tribeca Film Festival party, but there were plenty of boldface table-hoppers at Graydon Carter’s newly reopened Monkey Bar in midtown. We spotted Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, Dr. Lisa Airan, Billy Norwich, Lady Liliana Cavendish, [...]

We didn’t think so. But that’s just one of many illuminating tidbits you’ll find in our video of the week, which features Burch and Surface to Air’s Gordon Hull—an intriguing duo if ever there was one—shopping for show tunes at West Village record store Rebel Rebel. There’s drama: Gordy likes the Upsetters while Tory likes [...]