Models eating macarons before a runway show? It happened. Before nineties catwalk staple Erin O’Connor made her catwalk return in Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fall ‘11 Couture show yesterday, she says the designer fed her the French cookies to give her a boost. Last night, O’Connor took to the runway again for Natalia Vodianova’s charity show. [...]

Nicole Richie is adding a new addition to the family and no, it’s not another baby. It’s a 14-piece collection of handbags for her House of Harlow 1960 line, set to bow in stores in mid-July. [WWD]Where does Karl Lagerfeld likes to sup on caviar and sip on Diet Coke in Paris? The Kaiser shares [...]

Alaïa speaks! The reclusive designer spared a word or two when he showed a few Fall looks to a gathered mass in Paris. Here’s what he had to say of fashion’s frantic pace: “It’s inhumane…too many collections; too much pressure.” [WWD]The Times takes on a controversial topic: the dress code of the court appearance. Lindsay [...]

In a sequestered corner on Bergdorf Goodman’s seventh floor last night, Nicole Richie was a long ways from The Simple Life. “I honestly am so thankful for where I am right now,” Richie said at the BG-hosted fête for her line House of Harlow 1960. “It’s so great to reach a point where you see [...]

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 [...]

Maybe the St. Lucia sun melted her cares away, but Amy Winehouse showed up for court in London yesterday looking a bit, well, unkempt in an ill-fitting Roland Mouret-knockoff suit, dirty ballet flats, and a ragged ‘do. Maybe that’s not so surprising, but the question is: What’s appropriate court attire? We’ve seen Michael Jackson, may [...]

Gia Bahm isn’t alone in her fixation on vintage watches, but she’s done Mad Men-loving, 1960’s Timex-wearing types one better. A stylist-turned-jewelry designer whose raw crystal and empty bullet casing Unearthen necklaces are favorites of Christina Ricci, Nicole Richie, and Mary-Kate Olsen, Bahm has started popping faceted crystals on top of the faces of [...]

“It’s all about the Pyramid Club right now,” Proenza Schouler’s Lazaro Hernandez said outside the venerable East Village night spot. “It’s major.” Well, the Pyramid Club might have been major a few decades ago, when Debbie Harry dropped by and club kids in giant shoulder pads danced all night, but since then it’s kind of [...]

Newly reunited friends Rachel Zoe and Nicole Richie and old “friends” Sam Ronson and Lindsay Lohan all stopped by Andy LeCompte’s intimate little Thursday night party, co-hosted by his friend Jenni Kayne, at the stylist’s West Hollywood salon. Lohan, who wore a sexy vintage seventies Azzedine Alaïa frock with a new pair of Alaïa boots, [...]

Patrick Demarchelier talks shop (i.e., Vogue, Irving Penn, and famous subjects) on the occasion of an exhibition of his work at Paris’ Petit Palais museum.
How do gender roles play out in the midst of a recession? Shopping is for women, returning is for men.
What’s more surprising than the news that Nicole Richie and Rachel Zoe [...]