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 [...]

First comes The Hangover, then comes parenthood? That’s a familiar enough trajectory, we guess—and it’s the one that director Todd Phillips has taken, following his smash-hit lost-in-Vegas comedy with a new Zach Galifianakis flick, Due Date. Robert Downey, Jr., stars with Galifianakis as a man desperate to make it across the country in time for [...]

The Row may be one of the hardest invites to score at New York fashion week, but Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s e-commerce-enabled Web site is open to all, and the young duo is at the forefront of innovations in online retailing. The designing sisters have given Style.com an exclusive preview of their first-ever shoppable video, [...]

Today, Fashionsnightout.com goes live, where you can find listings for FNO events both city-wide and worldwide. This year, the site features a new functionality, too: An itinerary planner that lets you search for events by neighborhood or category and plots them on a printable map. That way, you’ll be sure not to miss the Mercer [...]

At the beginning of the year, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen launched TheRow.com for their fledgling, much-loved line. Today, they’re taking it one step further, with an e-commerce boutique selling the label’s apparel and eyewear.“We don’t do much online shopping,” Ashley admitted to Style.com. “But we spent a lot of time researching other online shops when [...]

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are two girls with some serious experience in sunglasses—there were years when they were never seen without a pair. Their eyewear range for The Row, no surprise, benefits from the experience. The specs have the same unfussy cool as the duo’s ready-to-wear, and should fly off shelves just as quickly. There [...]

Nicole Richie has already Twitpic’d hers and Mary-Kate Olsen was spotted wearing hers on the way to JFK. The latest iteration of the studded leather jacket, that is—this one from Katie Nehra’s Simone label. The L.A.-based designer is picking up left-coast fans, as they say, left and right. But the latest admirer of the Fall [...]

You’ve seen them—you just may not know you’ve seen them. The multicolored bands ringing the wrist of every kid on the block and on the subway? They’re Silly Bandz (and their many competitors, like the Wild Bands we found, above), a new line of rubber-band bracelets that are currently all the rage among the under-12 [...]

First The Row got eyewear, and now the Olsens are at it again, debuting two styles of specs for their Elizabeth and James line (pictured). In fairness, they are perennially bespectacled, so it makes sense. [WWD]Menswear designer Michael Bastian is dipping a toe into the waters of womenswear with a women’s counterpart to his Gant [...]

On Friday night, it was Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen vs. Amy Sacco vs. Mary Alice Stephenson in a bidding war to the finish. The prize: Dan Colen’s One of Everything, a hotly contested lot at Free Arts NYC’s annual benefit auction. It had all the potential for a social throw-down of epic proportions—except that (we [...]