Not even the rain in New York this week stopped a divine crowd from gathering to celebrate the tenth anniversary of jewelry label Faraone Mennella. Divine being just the right word here. Designers Amedeo Scognamiglio and Roberto Faraone Mennella were inspired by Greek mythology for their recent collections, and to spotlight them, picked nine women [...]

The twenties were roaring loud and clear last night at Bergdorf Goodman’s BG restaurant, where Linda Fargo (who was looking fabulous in a Jerry Hall for Thierry Mugler, champagne-colored lace pantsuit with matching bunny ears) and company toasted the launch of ready-to-wear line Coquette Atelier. Guests including Uma Thurman, Kim Cattrall, Woody Harrelson, Angela Bassett, [...]

“All we’re missing is the opium,” said Bergdorf Goodman’s Linda Fargo. Everything but was on the menu when BG transformed its seventh-floor restaurant into a casbah for a lunch and mini fashion show of Chanel’s Paris-Byzance Pre-Fall collection yesterday afternoon. It might’ve been the first time ever that Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon [...]

In a sequestered corner on Bergdorf Goodman’s seventh floor last night, Nicole Richie was a long ways from The Simple Life. “I honestly am so thankful for where I am right now,” Richie said at the BG-hosted fête for her line House of Harlow 1960. “It’s so great to reach a point where you see [...]

In the bygone days before street-style blogs, there was just one man whose eye you hoped your outfit would catch. That’s The New York Times‘ Bill Cunningham, of course, a beloved staple on the fashion circuit for the last 50-plus years and the man who pioneered the art of snapping fashion trends as they happen [...]

“At one point in my career, I had $98, a mattress, and a floor,” Norma Kamali told us at the Fashion Group International’s 14th Annual Rising Star Awards luncheon, hosted by Condé Nast Digital editorial director Jamie Pallot. “There’s always going to be something that tests your ability, so get past it and then get [...]

They say you should leave your work at the office, and as Tom Ford tells John Currin in the latest Interview, that’s a prescription he takes pretty literally. “When I come home…I wear no clothes until I leave,” the designer says. “I do everything completely naked.” [Interview]Diane von Furstenberg hit the slopes in Aspen and [...]

It seems the days of the reclusive designer are over. “I live the life of your typical designer,” Roland Mouret told Style.com over tea at Bergdorf Goodman yesterday. “I’m traveling all the time whether I wake up in Boston”—his previous stop—”Hong Kong, or New York, but I love it. The beauty is you get to [...]

Every merchandiser in the world is confronted with the same quasi-existential question. In the words of Linda Fargo, Bergdorf Goodman’s SVP of women’s fashion and store presentation: “We’re always like, ‘How do you show handbags?’ “If you’re Fargo and her visuals deputy, David Hoey, BG’s senior director of visual presentation, you construct a Dalí-esque woman [...]

Bergdorf Goodman threw a cocktail party to celebrate the opening of Dries Van Noten’s men’s and women’s shops at the Fifth Avenue retailer last night. “We’ve been dreaming and scheming for a long time,” Linda Fargo, the store’s senior VP, said of the work involved in getting the Belgian designer’s wares into Bergdorf’s. Indeed, Van [...]