On Wednesday, the scene at the Jane hotel was like a family gathering for movie night in the living room. Charlotte Kidd, Lydia Hearst, Aiko designer Cynthia Mittweg, Lily Kwong, and friends gathered to watch the Kidd-directed Aiko Fall 2011 short film, starring Hearst. The gritty short follows a mysterious Hearst throughout various places in [...]

“You can’t send ten jumpers down the runway,” said Markus Lupfer last week, while breakfasting on eggs and soldiers at New York’s Cafe Cluny. The German-born designer was explaining that he hasn’t shown in three years, investing the time, energy, and expense that used to go toward the catwalk back into the collection. The result? [...]

Odd Molly co-founder Per Holknekt named his handmade and organic women’s label after a skater girl he met while living in California in the eighties. So it makes sense that the Swedish label’s first U.S. store debuts in the Golden State (L.A.’s Robertson Boulevard to be exact), where it all started. Friday night’s opening soirée, [...]

Karl Lagerfeld used to sleep in a boxing ring. So not surprised. [WWD]
Rumor du jour: Jeffrey Monteiro is heading to Bill Blass. We’re cool with it as long as he keeps designing his own line. [WWD]
It’s not Jason Wu for Target, but Wu’s decision, announced today, to design a capsule collection for TSE is probably [...]

It was no Irish dance down a runway in Paris, but it was indeed another Coco moment. Last night at Saks Fifth Avenue, clad in a vibrant plum frock (the label was Pink Tartan, from her native Canada), supermodel Coco Rocha held court on behalf of MCM at the launch of its new handbag collection, [...]

Pringle of Scotland (founded in 1815!) has been massaging its reputation as a stodgy heritage brand for a few years now. Its new Spring ad campaign starring Pixie Geldof, Lydia Hearst, and Daisy Lowe (at left) is another step in the direction of It-ness and hot-ness. “We wanted it to feel young, fresh, and very [...]

Things really do happen in threes. Gareth Pugh joins Roland Mouret and Matthew Williamson in next season’s freshman menswear class. Clearly there’s something in the water over in London Town.The Queen goes vintage, eats leftovers, and turns out the lights. What’s next, bathes without bottled water?Louis Vuitton pulls the plug on its ginormous [...]

There are two ways to handle a scandal. Option one is to hunker down. Option two is to think Halloween. Lydia Hearst, for example, made a costume out of the recent foofaraw about her now-defunct column at the New York Post, showing up to Alex and Ani founder Carolyn Rafaelian’s pre-Halloween bash last night dressed [...]

As I am a sucker for anything resembling an English country club, it was a very sad day when I missed last week’s opening party for the new Libertine restaurant in the Gild Hall hotel. Not only did it have the rarest host committee I’ve seen in a while—no girls at all (sorry Tinsley) and [...]