As a development of the Men’s day at London fashion week, the British Fashion Council has just announced a new menswear showcase, entitled London Collections: Men, set to launch June 2012.London Collections: Men, running June 15-17, will have most of the same brands and designers who participate in Men’s day, selected by chairman and GQ [...]

“We can’t move the dates earlier in September as they would interfere with Labor Day,” Steven Kolb said yesterday. “If Milan goes before New York, how would that work?”That’s the question fashion insiders are asking right now as they sort out the international fashion week calendar for 2012. Since New York decided to start the [...]

London, like most of the great global cities, is one divided. The same is true of its fashion, especially its menswear. On the one hand there is the Dickensian decrepitude of the East End, the home to much of the young design talent, who use it as a playground for experimentation. The recently graduated Saint [...]

New York fashion week is barely over, but the fashion set has flown on to the next: London fashion week begins today. In a new series, Style.com drops in on a few of London’s hottest young talents to find out what’s in store. First up, Christopher Raeburn, who presents his men’s and women’s collections tomorrow.“The [...]

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You can learn a lot about how designers see their collections by the music they choose. In Future Classics designer Julie Wilkins’ case, it was “Sing Swan Song” by Can and “Strange Overtones” from the recent Brian Eno/David Byrne album. Those particular songs don’t tell you much the way, for instance, “Girls & Boys” by [...]

No matter how clearly or concisely you try to present the information on a Web site, promotional space is at such a premium you always worry that some content might be overlooked. With that in mind, here’s a handy guide to all our coverage of the fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan, and Paris. [...]

How to maintain the currency of the show-season cycle when the Internet and high-street stores render runway designs if not irrelevant, then maybe, oh, a bit tired before they hit the sales floors? It’s a question the fashion world has been grappling with of late, and one Ann Taylor is addressing head-on. “The shows are [...]

Halston muse and pioneering black cover model Naomi Sims died Saturday, at 61. [NYT]With the exodus of designers to London fashion week this fall, we’re not surprised that rumors are already percolating about who will fill their front rows. On tap for Topshop: Blake Lively, Taylor Momsen, Anne Hathaway, and Kate Bosworth, among others. Let’s [...]

Krystof Strozyna and Emilio de la Morena don’t have much in common, fashion-wise, but that didn’t stop the two designers from sharing a runway Sunday afternoon. The off-schedule London fashion week show saw Strozyna, a native of Poland, kick off proceedings with a series of looks wound graphically with string and studded with small metal [...]