Alexander Wang’s OBJECTS Of Desire
Fourteen new stores in Asia by year’s end is just the beginning of Alexander Wang’s expansion plans. Style.com got an exclusive sneak peek at his new eight-piece lifestyle collection, OBJECTS, which will make its debut in goody bags gifted to lucky editors, buyers, and celebs in the front row at his show on Saturday. “I’ve [...]
Blasblog: Heaven Is A Tiny Little Place Called The Pianoke Room
I’ve followed the fine folks from Purple magazine all over the French Riviera this week (a quick visit to www.purple-diary.com could tell you as much, but please don’t forward some of those pictures to my mom). Their fourth annual Cannes Film Festival fête, held last night at a temporary seaside outpost of Le Baron, made [...]
Blasblog: A Fashion Week By Any Other Name?
I’d heard Cannes was like a fashion week for the film industry, but when I arrived here yesterday, I found that only half true. Yes, lots of dressed-up people were milling about, looking busy and stressed—fashion week to a T. But unlike fashion week, I didn’t see too many people I knew, and the spotting [...]
Americans Abroad: A Proenza Schouler Pitti Update
Lazaro Hernandez made a solo appearance at Il Buco today to discuss the label’s upcoming Pitti W show. The designer and his Proenza Schouler partner, Jack McCollough (who’s nursing a broken nose after the alleged Kiefer Sutherland head-butting incident), will present their Resort collection at a sixteenth-century Medici villa in Florence on June 18, but [...]
And The Winners Are…Pants And Hats
Alexander Wang, Vena Cava, and Albertus Swanepoel nabbed the three prizes last night at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards, but the evening also featured a couple of prevalent looks, which we’d like to think of as winners in their own right. The first is the pant—particularly one that’s carrot-shaped and cropped—a trend which reached critical [...]






