A collection of works by haute couture illustrator René Gruau, who worked with major houses like Christian Dior, Balenciaga, and Balmain, is on the chopping block today at a Christie’s London auction. The pieces, commissioned by the influential fashion editor Fleur Cowles, are in the auction house’s Twentieth-Century Decorative Art & Design auction. [Telegraph]Miuccia Prada [...]

The theme of the Costume Institute exhibition at the Met next year will be Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion. Baz Luhrmann has been announced as the exhibition’s creative constultant and designer for the May 7 benefit. [WWD]Kanye is going to be on the runway again next month, but this time he’s performing for [...]

Now you can have your Fendi and drive it, too. As part of The Whispered Italian Grand Tour, a new Fendi project that includes a documentary about Italy’s craftsmen, the luxury brand created a special-edition Maserati. The designer car will make its debut at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show in September. [Vogue U.K.]After the Met’s [...]

The fashion world’s gone wild. But if you’ve been paying attention to the front rows for the last few months—or following along via Tommy Ton’s street-style dispatches—you knew that already. Still, our recent travels on the menswear circuit showed us that the animal motif trend has legs (and tails and fangs). The only question: Whether [...]

Ever since the Prada creeper brogue clomped its way down the runway way back in Spring ‘11, the heavy-soled shoe has been the go-to for menswear editors and savvy shoppers. In Milan, the layered brogue-espadrille (brogue-adrille?) was still one of the shoes of choice among the showgoing class, and on the runways, lace-ups continued strong. [...]

Looks like Miuccia Prada’s got true grit. Miu Miu confirmed today that its newest campaign face is the Oscar-nominated young actress Hailee Steinfeld, who set the rumor mill buzzing when she turned up at the label’s Fall ‘11 show in Paris (alongside Jennifer Lawrence and Mila Kunis), reportedly at the personal invitation of Mrs. Prada. [...]

Shot-out-of-nowhere actress Hailee Steinfeld perched front-row at Miu Miu’s intimate show this afternoon in Paris, an invited guest of Mrs. Prada herself. The 14-year-old, who nabbed an Oscar nomination for her braided star turn in True Grit, has been on a Prada and Miu Miu tear recently. She wore Miu Miu to the BAFTAs, and [...]

The latest from art patron (and fast-fashion abstainer) Miuccia Prada: “The Women’s Tales,” a series of short videos she’s commissioned from female filmmakers featuring clothes and accessories by Miu Miu. In the first film of the series, The Powder Room, director Zoe Cassavetes shoots French actress and front-row regular Audrey Marnay alongside models Caroline de [...]

Forget London—these days, it’s China that’s calling. The rest of the Far East, too. Designers and fashion labels have been courting the region for years, but in the last season, we’ve seen them really up the ante. There was Marc Jacobs’ Asian-inspired Spring show for Louis Vuitton, to begin with. Then Miuccia Prada staged a [...]

Michelle Obama’s Alexander McQueen dress at a state dinner recently stuck in the craw of some American designers, who chastised the First Lady for failing to promote U.S. brands and industry. She sidestepped the controversy at last night’s State of the Union address: Mrs. O chose Rachel Roy for the occasion (left). [WSJ]This morning in [...]