Consuelo Castiglioni isn’t one to latch onto passing fads; her collections for Marni tend to march to their own beat, season in and season out. So even past offerings from her forward-thinking label have a way of looking contemporary: For proof, look no farther than the vintage Marni pieces she’s adding to the mix on [...]

The secret to success for the new European collections? According to the IHT’s Suzy Menkes, boldness. “Who dares, wins,” Menkes pronounces, and accordingly, loves Jil Sander (left) and Marni. [IHT]Topshop is set to open its second U.S. store: The brand will bow in Chicago late next spring. That should help Windy Cityites weather the long, [...]

One of the accessory trends we’ve spotted on the runways this season in Milan is the return of statement eyewear. It feels like years since the Olsens-approved giant, goggle shade had its day, and if Prada (left), Jil Sander (center), and Marni (right) are anything to go by, that day is back. Oversize frames ruled [...]

The team at Marni loves a video—check out their animated takes on the pre-fall ‘09 and ‘10 collections, if you don’t believe us—so no surprise that for the label’s Spring ‘11 men’s collection, they set the cameras rolling. We’ve got an exclusive peek at the behind-the-scenes video, lensed at the Spring ‘11 lookbook shoot and [...]

Browns has been an English institution for four decades now. Mrs. B isn’t one to let an occasion like that go under-celebrated. For the store’s 40th anniversary, the pioneering retailer—who brought Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Sonia Rykiel to England and was an early booster of Hussein Chalayan and Marios Schwab—put together an exhibition, opening [...]

The jury’s out on socks with cutout shoes. They’ve become a mainstay of the runways—Prada and Marni both showed them for Fall—and a favorite of the street-style photogs like our own Tommy Ton. Dissenters, on the other hand, say they’re too editorial for everyday wear. (Try the look at the office and be prepared [...]

Marni’s keeping it animated for its new summer-edition (what we might call pre-fall) collection: Consuelo Castiglioni has once again collaborated with British video artist Rohan Wadham to create a short film for the label’s muse, a futuristic doll-creature with an enviable wardrobe—all Marni, of course. In her first video last February, she was taking on [...]

I’d already been through the racks of Marni’s fall collection for men when Consuelo Castiglioni, the designer herself, popped out of a door in the wall of the showroom. “What kind of man do you imagine in these clothes?” I wondered. “Gorgeous ones,” she answered. I pushed her a bit, and she specified architects, musicians…. [...]

Now that the snow’s banked high and winter is officially in full swing, your fall footwear ain’t going to cut it anymore. We combed the market to find six must-see boots that can stand up to the slush.
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In a word: perfection. And I’m not the only one who thinks so—the Gap recently [...]

No matter how much you think that fashion folk eat or don’t, one thing is for sure: They love a macaroon. Loïc Prigent famously captured Marc Jacobs basing Louis Vuitton’s Polka Dot Fleurs handbag on them. Monique Lhuillier based an entire collection on Ladurée’s pastels. And I’ve witnessed several instances of the sandwiched meringue sweets [...]