At last night’s Valentino fête in L.A., the dress code was chic and unusually easy to follow: all Valentino, all the time. That’s not to say it was a one-note affair. Valentino’s designers, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli, have dedicated themselves to shaking up the storied house, which means injecting a little more [...]

Los Angeles sweated through a heat wave last week, but it didn’t last quite long enough for the John Varvatos store opening in Malibu on Saturday afternoon—an abrupt change in the weather meant that the party went on during heavy rainfall. That didn’t stop several hundred guests from coming out to celebrate and take in [...]

Given the Scottish National party’s recent success it should perhaps come as no great surprise that Scottish fashion is declaring its independence from London. Just in time for fashion week in the U.K. capital, where Scots (like Glasgow’s Christopher Kane, left) are some of the most buzzed-about designers on the roster, Tessa Hartmann of the [...]