This morning, the nominees for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced, marking the beginning of the 2012 Oscar race (and, more importantly, the red-carpet best-dressed competition). This year’s SAG Awards was ripe with newcomers and bright prints (cue: Hailee Steinfeld in the striped Prada dress that proved to be a game-changer for [...]

Uniqlo is the latest company to get the creative juices flowing for Japan. The retailer has tapped friends and collaborators like Karl Lagerfeld, Lady Gaga, Nicola Formichetti, Nicole Kidman, and Alber Elbaz to design a new series of tees to benefit the Japanese Red Cross. That’s Lagerfeld’s (left), which retails for a mere $19.99. It’s [...]

This weekend, the Kids’ Choice Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards offered two takes on event dressing: young, short, and bright for the kids, glammed-out for the twang set.At Friday’s Kids’ Choice Awards, the length of choice was mini. Miranda Cosgrove (above left) was the latest young Hollywood coup for Miu Miu; the [...]

All the talk in retail these days is of China, India, and Brazil, but Omega feels it has discovered another emerging market: the good old U.S. of A. The Swiss watch company is opening nine new stores here over the next few days in locations both obvious (L.A.; Chicago, pictured) and perhaps less so (Pittsburgh, [...]

Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz, Julianna Margulies, Lucy Liu. L’Wren Scott has been on a roll lately, and tonight, at the world premiere of Sherlock Holmes in London, she scored another coup. We love Heather Graham in Scott’s body-hugging ivory polka-dot and lace minidress. As for the button-up booties? In our view, they add an edge [...]

Nicole Kidman knows when to stick with something good: Witness her loyalty to L’Wren Scott, the six foot gal pal of Mick Jagger, stylist, and designer. NK absolutely dazzled last night in a three-layer black and green embroidered halter-neck, open-back Scott gown—rarely has she looked more radiant. Our question to you: As beautiful as Kidman [...]

L.A. fashion week is getting a splash of organized glam tonight with a runway show, photography exhibit, and video installation at MoCA courtesy of Cameron Silver and Downtown L.A. Fashion Week, a new group looking to fill the void left by IMG and Smashbox Studios. Celebs like Marisa Tomei, Kelly Lynch, and Zoë Saldana are [...]

Could a new cool neighborhood be on the horizon in London? Up until recently, Chiswick, about two miles west of Notting Hill, was considered the height of bourgeois living, filled with yummy mummies, Bugaboos, and Starbucks—a London version of Park Slope. Now, suddenly, it’s cool. First Soho House opened a branch there (High Road House); [...]