In May, Daphne Guinness famously settled into the window spaces at Barneys and turned them into her personal dressing room. While the world watched, the artist and social fixture prepared for the Met ball, modeling some of the enviable pieces from her collection. As it turns out, that’s not the last time Guinness played mannequin. [...]

“What symbolizes your past 20 years in fashion?” The founders of Dazed & Confused asked themselves that question a lot in the past year as they prepared for the magazine’s slew of 20th anniversary celebrations, which included blow-out bashes, a commemorative book and exhibition, and 20 different cover shots by the mag’s co-founder Rankin. Now, [...]

Fashion houses, including Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Givenchy, and Christian Dior, all pitched in to create designer dolls for UNICEF, with proceeds going to help vaccinate children in Darfur. Les Frimousses, as they are called, will be on auction at Paris’ Drouot Montaigne on December 13. [WWD]Marc Jacobs is hosting a Halloween Beaux Arts Ball [...]

Prada is Beijing bound. The Italian label is the latest to take its show on the road to China, where Miuccia Prada will present her Spring ‘11 women’s collection (left)—with a few pieces created especially for the event—on January 22. [WWD]
The rumor mill is churning again, and this time it’s about the house of Paco [...]

December 1 marks World AIDS Day, dedicated to raising awareness and funding to fight the disease, and the fashion industry has stepped up to help. This morning, designer (and amfAR chairman) Kenneth Cole—joined by Liza Minnelli, Cheyenne Jackson, and Project Runway competitor Mondo Guerra—rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange, to commemorate the [...]

The rumor mill has been churning, but it’s all for naught: Alexander Wang and Nike confirm that they are not working on a collaboration. Well…as you were, then. [WWD]Midlife, no crisis. Germany’s Zeit magazine celebrates its 40th anniversary with 40 (yes, 40!) different covers of Deutschland’s favorite supe, Claudia Schiffer. She’s 40, too—not that you [...]

Marc Jacobs isn’t the only one with e-commerce news today. Maison Martin Margiela is also taking to the Web in the coming months—in classic outré Margiela style, it’s very Web 3.0 (see above). [WWD]Stella McCartney is debuting her first designs for men. They’ll be part of a new unisex lifestyle range for Adidas, leading up [...]

From Esquire’s recent chat with sharp-dressed Black Crowes front man (and Kate Hudson ex) Chris Robinson:ESQ: Your dad was a serious garmento, did that have an influence on your look? I mean obviously, the Stones and the Faces had some influence, but what about him growing up?CR: I mean, I liked clothes; not as much [...]

Her influence on American fashion—via one customer in Washington in particular—is already outsized, and now it looks like her store may be, too. Chicago retailer Ikram Goldman is said to be shopping for a new, larger space in the Windy City. Will there be a private salon for you-know-who? [WWD]
There’s been no shortage of Maison [...]

Fashion wasn’t built in a day. The industry obsessed with what’s new and what’s next has, of course, a long history, and no one knows it better than Olivier Saillard, curator at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs. (In May, he’ll decamp from the Louvre to take a post at the Musée Galliera, Paris’ museum [...]