New York, get ready for more Balenciaga. Label execs have confirmed that the brand will open a second NYC store, but are remaining mum as to where that’ll be. Our fondest home/greatest fear: Right next door to our offices. [WWD]Because she doesn’t already have enough going for her, Gisele Bündchen is launching a line of [...]

Here’s an inconvenient truth: Dressing eco-friendly is good for the planet, good for the future, and good for your karma, but many environmentally conscious and sustainable clothes are still lagging in the style department. Just ask John Patrick of Organic, one of fashion’s do-right pioneers. “I’m no Balenciaga, but this crunchy, green-bean crowd thinks that [...]

LOVE is the latest mag to come to the iPad, with a dedicated app that will launch with the new “Gorgeous” issue on August 23. It’ll feature specially made short films to accompany the issue, inspired, says editor Katie Grand, by her love of Guy Bourdin’s seventies shorts. Adorably pixelated bunnies (above) not necessarily included. [...]

“We’re hoping people will walk away from this totally inspired,” said Rogan Gregory, looking around to check the crowd’s reactions as last night’s kaleidoscopic affair at the Hudson Hotel’s Good Units space was wrapping up. Gregory, his Loomstate partner Scott Hahn, and the jeweler Pamela Love had organized a 40-drummer-strong drum circle, led by Hisham [...]

Earth Day turns 40 this month, and the eco-friendly guys at Loomstate are throwing the holiday a birthday party. Nature being in relatively short supply at the Good Units space at the Hudson Hotel, Loomstate founders Scott Hahn and Rogan Gregory (pictured) decided to bring the great outdoors inside, with a little help from jewelry [...]

Above the grateful hum of editors noshing on free tacos at MAC and Milk Studios’ eighth-floor Surf Lodge, you can almost hear the question on everyone’s mind: What genius dreamed this all up? Credit goes to MAC exec Jenne Lombardo, who figured it would be wise to give fashion weekers a place to hang out [...]

What: The venerable Keds Champion—you know, the one you’ve loved since second grade?—run through the mellow green machine of Loomstate boys Rogan Gregory and Scott Mackinlay Hahn.
Why: Because I’m in dire need of a summery canvas alternative to my beloved but embarrassingly ubiquitous off-white Chucks, and Loomstate’s Keds are a sweet printed riff on another [...]

As WWD pointed out yesterday, eco-chic hasn’t fallen prey to the recession. Yes, green fashion stays viable by being partly a marketing kick. (Last year one publicist told me point-blank that she had her client do a couple organic cotton tops just to get into every magazine’s now-inevitable Green Issue.) But keeping the trend [...]