Actress Jessica Chastain, one of the stars from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, has been nominated, along with Caroline Champetier, Federica Pontremoli, Nansun Shi, and Athina Tsangari, for Gucci’s first Award for Women in Cinema. The final decision will be made at the 68th Venice International Film Festival by an impressive group of judges: Frida [...]

Doutzen Kroes, coming soon to a theater near you—provided you live in the Netherlands. In April, the model announced she would be starring in a 3-D Dutch film (Nova Zembla) and this week, she shared a photo of herself running around the set wearing a vintage dress with her done up in ringlets. [Modelinia]Louis Vuitton [...]

Hothouse blooms and leafy plants are springing up everywhere at the Paris men’s shows (and not just because Louis Vuitton showed Kim Jones’ first collection in their usual sultry greenhouse space in the 15th). Bold print has been one of the hallmarks of the season since Prada, Versace, and D&G went maximal in Milan, but [...]

Designers are hot under the collar for, well, collars. We spotted metal choker collars topping button-up blouses at Louis Vuitton’s Four Seasons Resort 2012 show; sharp, pointed ones on Miuccia Prada’s Fall 2011 Miu Miu runway; and removable collars atop sleeveless shifts at Carven for Spring 2011. Pink Clouds and Eleven Objects have partnered up [...]

Louis Vuitton is getting its feet wet with a new service: made-to-order shoes. The French luxury brand will unveil the project with a dinner hosted by Luchino Visconti di Modrone (nephew of the legendary filmmaker) in Milan during men’s fashion week. [WWD]Great Scot—it’s Jonathan Saunders (again). The designer, who showed his Resort collection in New [...]

Angelina Jolie has gone bare for her Louis Vuitton “Core Values” campaign. Annie Leibovitz photographed Jolie in her own clothes (with a monogrammed Alto resting by her side—one that, by the way, is no longer in production), on a wooden boat in Cambodia. [WWD]A swing bang humdinger—that’s the kind of bash Karen Elson and Jack [...]

You never know what you’re going to get when you step inside a photo booth—but if you’re decked out in Chanel, and styled by Carine Roitfeld, as Freja is in the new Chanel campaign, odds are, the results will be pretty good. [Fashionologie]House of Waris designer Waris Ahluwalia—”not a lady who lunches,” he says, “but [...]

“Who wouldn’t want to be this gorgeous young woman in the back seat of this beautiful car?” asks Marc Jacobs of his upcoming Fall Louis Vuitton ad campaign. Answer: no one. Even the dogs came barking to be in the picture, although only seven of them made the final cut to sit on the laps [...]

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 [...]

No sooner had Chanel’s Cruise ship (er, show) rolled out of town—attendee Rachel Bilson’s already back on the party scene in New York—than the Cannes Film Festival kicked off on the Riviera. The stars (and star jurors) aligned for the opening ceremony of the fest, and the first film, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, which [...]