After winning a large chunk of change from the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, Prabal Gurung decided it only seemed natural to launch a pre-fall collection.“You have to do all four seasons at this point,” he says of his first pre-fall collection, debuting exclusively here on Style.com in this video made during his lookbook shoot with photographer [...]

As summer shades into fall, the sunglasses start to retreat. That’s no reason to go without specs, especially when brands new and old are coming out with chic optical options like these. From more-the-merrier collaborations (like Selima Optique’s longstanding project with J.Crew) to ultra-luxe pairs from Linda Farrow to classic styles (like Moscot’s Miltzen, worn [...]

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are two girls with some serious experience in sunglasses—there were years when they were never seen without a pair. Their eyewear range for The Row, no surprise, benefits from the experience. The specs have the same unfussy cool as the duo’s ready-to-wear, and should fly off shelves just as quickly. There [...]

Accessories, I am sorry to report, do not get a good shake from the Great Thinkers. Seneca, for example, said, “They that mistake life’s accessories for life itself are like them that go too fast in a maze.” John Lennon posited that drugs are accessories to normal living, in a society too cruel to be [...]

Nirvana, for sunglasses fanatics, is to be found in a converted schoolhouse in the Clerkenwell area of London. That’s where the Linda Farrow archives are housed—a few filing cabinets’ worth of specs dating from the origins of the Linda Farrow brand in the late 1960’s. Aviators of all shapes and sizes and superbly wacky ’80’s [...]

Looking around at the party that the Feathers boutique threw for its 40th birthday last night, we couldn’t help but notice the total absence of the smock, the dress that London has embraced with a passion over the past few seasons. Whether from Alexander McQueen, Vera Wang, or Jil Sander, every piece was highly tailored [...]