Tyra Banks’ debut fiction book, Modelland, has become a New York Times best seller. The book has secured the number two spot on the list and has reached number one on the Barnes & Noble charts, and is reportedly going to be adapted for the big screen. [Vogue U.K.]Sir Paul McCartney married Nancy Shevell in [...]

LVMH has finalized plans to jointly own a crocodile tannery. That means high-quality crocodile skins for the croc coats that its various luxury brands, like Fendi and Celine, showed on the Spring runways. [WWD]Ateliers are learning to cater to a “new breed of haute couture clients” from wealthy countries in the Gulf. One of their [...]

LVMH has tapped the cool kids behind Opening Ceremony, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, to be the new creative directors of Kenzo. Odds are better than even Chloë Sevigny could be the face of the brand’s ad campaign. The OC collaborator is a fan of Kenzo Takada’s early designs. [WWD]Jean Paul Gaultier is getting his [...]

Donatella Versace wants to know—along with the rest of the world—will Riccardo Tisci (left) do Dior? She asks the Givenchy designer the burning question in conversation for the new Interview. Alas, Tisci doesn’t give her the scoop, but he does open up about his current music obsession, Nicki Minaj, as well as old favorites [...]

On Friday, the audience at the Sustainability and Philanthropy panel at the AFINGO Fashion Forum got to hear Julie Gilhart speak—her first public pronouncements since her departure from Barneys, where she’s been senior VP fashion director these past 18 years, and where every fashion-loving New Yorker fell in love with her.“I’m super-excited,” she said. “All [...]

Marc Jacobs, uptown boy? Brand president Robert Duffy is fresh from his honeymoon and back to work, confirming today that the label will open a store on New York’s Madison Avenue, and has plans for a bookstore/retail shop in Hong Kong in the works. [WWD]Speaking of Jacobs, his contract is coming up for renewal at [...]

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen described the aha moment behind the founding of their label, The Row, at Women’s Wear Daily’s WWD@100 conference this week: On a press tour of Canada, they noticed that the audience was wearing giant sweaters, bug-eye sunglasses, and Balenciaga bags. Exactly what they were wearing, in other words. Well, no one [...]

The rumor of the morning: Rodarte in talks with LVMH? No one’s saying anything for sure, but the Arnault clan has been spotted at Rodarte shows (pictured) a season or two running… [WWD]Biba, the go-to label of London’s swinging sixties, is relaunching again, with Daisy Lowe now fronting the brand. (Though, crucially, founder Barbara Hulanicki [...]

For some in New York̬and many more, in all likelihood, in New York fashion—Champagne functions more as a meal unto itself than as a complement. (Just ask any style writer or PR who’s had to cull dinner from a night’s worth of store openings and parties—nice work if you can get it.) But Krug Champagne, [...]

For one night, at least, fashion did not compute. “The students, they’re on their computers now if they’re designing. But for this, they used their hands!” dean Simon Collins remarked happily at the LVMH/Parsons “The Art of Craftsmanship Revisited” presentation at Milk Studios last night. The two organizations tapped 23 student teams to design a [...]