Jonathan Saunders is this year’s winner of the prestigious BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund. Saunders will receive a cool £200,000 prize along with a personalized business mentoring program. Saunders beat out the likes of Peter Pilotto, Mary Katrantzou, and Richard Nicoll for the award. [Vogue U.K.]The sporadic but well-received Comme des Garçons by the Beatles collection [...]

Janelle Monáe has been announced as the performer for the New York amfAR gala next month. Sarah Jessica Parker has been confirmed as the evening’s host. [amfAR]Kate Moss has already shot a video for Mango with Terry Richardson, and today the label released its spring campaign featuring Moss. The images were shot by Richardson and [...]

Karl Lagerfeld has had his hands on a lot of projects lately, from a wine label to book projects to a Macy’s collection. The only thing missing is a namesake line. Today, WWD reports that is soon to change; Lagerfeld is set to launch a “rock ‘n’ roll-flavored” 100-piece collection ($95 to $450) of [...]

Macy’s is on a roll. Last month, the retail giant debuted collections by Karl Lagerfeld and Anna Dello Russo, and now, a covetable series of looks created by Giambattista Valli. Drawing on his experience as a world traveler, the Paris-based designer’s capsule collection for Macy’s Impulse offers a wardrobe for the chic jet-setter, at prices [...]

If you catch Anna Dello Russo during New York fashion week (after elbowing your way past her hordes of street-style photographer fans), chances are you’ll find her in the latest ready-to-wear, sometimes ordered straight from the runway. So when word broke earlier last month that the stylist and Vogue Nippon editor collaborated with Macy’s for [...]

More than anyone else in the fashion world, Karl Lagerfeld gives the impression that he’s propelled by a massive tailwind—nothing seems to irk him more than slowing down, revisiting, pulling into port. Even his words come out in rapid gusts. For his latest project, forward motion has brought him to Macy’s, of all places, and [...]

Actress, mom, author, singer, and chef are a few of Gwyneth Paltrow’s jobs these days. Photos from one of her newest roles, as the international ambassador of Coach, have finally been released, and she’s looking like the ultra American girl. The Peter Lindbergh-shot ads are set to roll out internationally, but unfortunately, they will never [...]

If anyone out there needs yet more proof that we’re living in the age of the blogger, head over to Macy’s new pop-up, Bar III, where the mega-retailer has enlisted a few e-personalities to do its styling and merchandising. Rumi Neely (of Fashion Toast), Jane Aldridge (of Sea of Shoes), Elizabeth Spiridakis (of Feels Like [...]

High/low collaborations have become as ubiquitous as celebrity “designed” lines. But Macy’s latest foray in the designer-meets-mass retailer sphere is left-field enough to get our attention. The department store approached the Italian-born, London-based talent Kinder Aggugini (left)—a growing presence in London, but still a relative unknown, internationally speaking—for a capsule collection. “I was 100 percent [...]

Business of Fashion previews Industrie’s list of the 50 fashion folks it considers the most influential creative forces working in the industry today. A controversial sampling? Yes. But of course, that’s exactly what such lists are for. [BOF]Karl Lagerfeld. Coming to Macy’s. Repeat: Karl Lagerfeld. Coming to Macy’s. With a new one-off capsule collection. In [...]