Think “Los Angeles fashion” and Rodarte and Band of Outsiders may spring to mind (Ed Hardy we’ll save for another day). But come awards season, the city is transformed into an international melting pot of designers and fashions, which is exactly what was on display at the Recording Academy’s seventh annual Grammy Style Studio this [...]

Katy Perry’s one star who inspires some pretty heated style debates. She may have kissed a girl and liked it, but for fashion choices, she tends to leave people either hot or cold. At the MTV Europe Music Awards last night (the EMAs, to cognoscenti), Perry rocked 12 different outfits—including some of the best of [...]

There are at least two things I can count on in Paris: various fellow New Yorkers letting loose for fashion month’s last leg, and a late-night dance party at Regine’s. For the past few seasons, I’ve helped friends like Paul Sevigny, MisShapes Leigh Lezark and Geordon Nicol, and Tommy Saleh organize a little fête, appropriately [...]

“I have been very lucky,” said Bruno Frisoni last night while hosting a party at his Rue de Grenelle shop. “For the past ten years I have been lucky, and even tonight I am lucky.” Certainly being in business for a decade is a sign of good fortune, as is a cool Paris evening with [...]

Over the past year, Eddie Borgo has become one of New York’s jewelry design darlings. To wit, his neo-punk chic cone bracelet was the accessory for editors to be sporting during fashion week. Like many young American designers, Borgo headed this week to Paris for sales appointments—and yes, some shopping and parties. Here’s what Eddie [...]

Katy Perry might have kissed a girl and liked it, but we’re not too fond of the too short (at both ends) celestial-patterned tie-dye jumpsuit—accessorized with white-rimmed shades and a trio of neon bracelets—that she wore out shopping in New York yesterday. While eighties revivalism is a major trend, it’s hard to get right. What [...]

The Life Ball in Vienna, a fundraiser for AIDS charities founded by Gery Keszler in 1993, is the biggest event of its kind in all of Europe—40,000-plus guests big, all of whom attend for different reasons. Some come to raise money to find a cure for the debilitating illness; others use it as an excuse [...]

Sure, the red carpet glittered at last night’s Grammys with many of the usual suspects—Zuhair Murad, Alberta Ferretti, and Reem Acra, for example—but the real story was the names that had us heading for Google. Katy Perry turned heads in a strapless bubblegum pink confection with elaborate origami-like detail from designer Basil Soda (Paula Abdul [...]

It happened on Saturday in Tokyo. It’s happening right now in New York. And it happened a few hours earlier in London—that is the Kawakubo-crazed throwing up elbows to get their hands on the Comme des Garçons line for H&M. There is something about the Swedish retailer and its collaborations that bring out the inner [...]

Fashion Week notes from the MisShapes DJ and girl-about-town. Look out for more animated opinions in the days ahead.