For its latest Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott-lensed campaign, Lane Crawford cast another group of Asian models. This time around, the retailer tapped a Chinese trio: actress Li Bingbing, Chinese It girl Chen Ran, and model Sui He, to show off the latest pieces from brands like Azzedine Alaïa, Alexander McQueen, Alexander Wang, and Balenciaga. [...]

“We felt that the time was right for the brand to open up a shop,” Nicolas Kirkwood said last night. So he did, and to judge by the crowd that flocked to London’s Mount Street for the opening, the world had been eagerly waiting. “We looked at a few places, but not that many because [...]

The night sky over the Sahara gave Giorgio Armani the inspiration for his Spring 2011 collection. That meant molto navy and plenty of glittering, starry sparkles—just what you’ll find in his new, Nick Knight-lensed campaign, dubbed “La Femme Bleue.” Mr. Armani tapped model/actress Elisa Sednaoui for the shots, which you can see here exclusively before [...]

Nick Knight’s short film for Alexander McQueen, To Lee, With Love, Nick (left) screened at last night’s British Fashion Awards in London. Now you can see the whole trippily beautiful thing on Knight’s SHOWstudio.com. It’s well worth a watch. [SHOWstudio]Speaking of fashion film, Phillip Lim is getting into the game, too. The designer is partnering [...]

At tomorrow’s British Fashion Awards, Alexander McQueen will be presented with a posthumous award for Outstanding Achievement. The late designer is due for a retrospective at the Met’s Costume Institute next year, but before his key pieces are spirited away for the museum and, later the archive, they’ve been placed into the capable hands of [...]

There’s been an explosion of florals and flower prints on the runways, and you can trust that if a trend is in the offing, Nick Knight will not be far behind. Case in point: The latest exhibition at SHOWStudio’s Mayfair gallery, Florist, which opens tomorrow. The Web site-cum-gallery project is celebrating its 10th birthday this [...]

School’s in—with Nick Knight, Ryan McGinley, Tim Walker, and Fabien Baron, no less. Beginning in the fall of 2011, the School of Visual Arts in New York is launching a new graduate program in fashion photography, the first of its kind on the scale being proposed. SVA’s Stephen Frailey and Art + Commerce founder Jimmy [...]

Here’s the latest dispatch from the annals of instant gratification. Gareth Pugh’s Spring ‘11 collection hits the runway (well, the video runway, as it turns out) in Paris today—and the first pieces hit stores tonight. One store, that is: Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio.com shop, where, following the presentation, a chiffon scarf in one of Pugh’s signature [...]

There seemed to be a palpable sense of confusion and then relief among editors who walked into Louise Goldin’s presentation at London’s St. Martins Lane Hotel to find just four sparse racks of clothes. Is that it? went the collective thought. On each hung the same six or seven pieces of minimal, body-con knitwear with [...]

“Dolls are everywhere in fashion. Even Galliano closed one of his shows with a three-foot doll of himself taking a bow in his place. How cool is that?” So says Nick Knight at last night’s private view of In Wolves’ Clothing: Re-Imagining the Doll at SHOWstudio’s Mayfair gallery and shop. “There is something fascinating, even [...]