“Have a listen. This is educational,” screamed Pulp front man Jarvis Cocker before playing to a rowdy crowd at Friday night’s farewell celebration to Central Saint Martins College’s buildings on Charing Cross Road. A CSM graduate, Cocker, whose song “Common People” was famously written about one of his classmates, was just as nostalgic as the [...]

Is Naomi Campbell set to help Kate Moss down the aisle? In a new interview (with, admittedly, one of the U.K.’s most incorrigible tabloids), the supe won’t say she’s Kate’s bridesmaid—but she won’t say she’s not, either. Developing! [Vogue U.K.]And speaking of weddings, model Lily Aldridge and Kings of Leon rocker Caleb Followill tied the [...]

“We felt that the time was right for the brand to open up a shop,” Nicolas Kirkwood said last night. So he did, and to judge by the crowd that flocked to London’s Mount Street for the opening, the world had been eagerly waiting. “We looked at a few places, but not that many because [...]

The Brit brand Sunspel stands tall in the annals of underwear history: The label, founded in 1860, claims to have introduced the boxer short to England. No small achievement, that (although, in some ways, it is: The English call underwear “smalls”.) The line has had its ups and downs in the century-plus since, but its [...]

Emmanuelle Alt’s ascension to the throne of Paris Vogue meant that her former employers—Balmain and Isabel Marant—were left without a stylist for their shows. Christophe Decarnin (left) has officially filled the position: longtime Helmut Lang stylist Melanie Ward is doing the honors for the label this season. [WWD]And speaking of Alt, the editrix has revealed [...]

Noticed: One very vibrant outfit pick-me-up has surged ahead of the rest this spring. That’d be Prada’s neon-and-candy-striped stoles. A few eyebrows were raised when they marched down the Spring runway, but judging from the editors and tastemakers who’ve been sporting them at home and abroad, we’d say any objections have been long since laid [...]

Speculation is running wild about Google’s hush-hush fashion event next week after an anonymous fashion tweeter suggested an e-commerce boutique is in the offing. Details are still sketchy, but our sources say there’ll be more than online shopping going on at the event next week—croquet, tattoo artists, and a swing set are all in the [...]

Nothing like a royal benediction to kick off fashion week, and last night, that’s exactly what London got. At the lawn of Clarence House (Prince Charles’ London pad), Mayor Boris Johnson, Livia Firth (the eco-minded Mrs. Colin), Laura Bailey and a smattering of ladies, lords and baronets attended an eco-sustainable fashion show, presented as part [...]

What is it right now about fashion and pets? Cats, as we’ve seen time and again, are enjoying a moment, and according to Mandy Coon, who dropped by our office yesterday to preview her Spring ‘11 collection, bunnies are, too. Coon is known for her diaphanous, draped creations, which she’s showing for Spring in cotton, [...]

In case any further proof was needed that cleavage is back, here’s LOVE’s first video for its iPad app, debuting any day now from the iTunes store, alongside its fourth issue, “The Gorgeous Issue” (out now). Katie Grand styled Elle Macpherson in Bottega Veneta, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Nina Ricci, and Macpherson’s own line of [...]