Fashion Week notes from the editorial director of Dazed & Confused.

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When I took my seat at Gareth Pugh’s show, his menswear debut and the finale of the week, my mind suddenly raced back to when another British designer made his first steps into menswear. Due no doubt to some seating snafu, I was in the front row of John Galliano’s first-ever menswear show for his [...]

Is Paco Rabanne set for a comeback? The French brand—most recently designed by Gap mastermind Patrick Robinson and known now for its fragrances—may shift its focus to include beauty and clothes. Now we get to play the new designer guessing game. Who might it be? Well, there are a few out of work: Paulo [...]

Katie and Tom’s spawn, Suri Cruise (you know, that adorable thing with the playground’s best bob), has claimed the coveted World’s Most Powerful Tot Under Age Five title, bestowed by Forbes. There’s always next year, Shiloh.
Floundering retailer-to-the-masses Steve & Barry’s has already been saved from bankruptcy once this cycle, so it looks like liquidation [...]

Co-hosts Elton John and Lily Allen exchanged onstage pleasantries at last night’s GQ Men of the Year Awards, and by pleasantries we mean insults, expletives, and a cocaine-snorting challenge.
Alert the blogosphere: Lindsay Lohan has spoken. The moral arbiter of teen propriety weighed in on the Bristol Palin pregnancy on her MySpace page, neatly pulling any [...]