Seems the whole world is hung up on the royal wedding, but here at Style.com, we’ve got McQueen fever. (The Costume Institute’s exhibit, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, opens next week.) And we couldn’t help noticing that the Fall runways were blanketed in tartan, a motif that held a totemic appeal for McQueen dating back to [...]

After trekking from Hong Kong to Shanghai, Joyce Hong Kong’s celebratory 40th anniversary exhibition has arrived in Paris. And considering the show includes archived looks from over 50 designers on the store’s stock list, like Lanvin, Stella McCartney, and Alexander McQueen, it’s one to see. “Joyce was a pioneer of bringing luxury to Asia. And [...]

It wasn’t just Anne Hathaway’s caffeinated performance as this year’s Oscars co-host—a peppy, giggly turn that smirking pundits are already suggesting was amped up to balance James Franco’s lethargic cool-guy bit, borrowed, it seemed, from Pineapple Express—that caught viewers’ attention last night. It was also her ricocheting costume changes: seven in all during the course [...]

“If you don’t have a high school or college reunion, this is your reunion,” model Alva Chinn told Style.com yesterday at the Met. (Hers was far more glamorous than ours: Jason Wu, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Donna Karan, and Iman all stopped by.)Chinn and her “classmates”—from left, Amina Warsuma, Norma Jean Darden, Pat Cleveland, Charlene [...]

The model baby boom continues: Doutzen Kroes and Sunnery James welcomed baby boy Phyllon (pronounced Fillen) today in Amsterdam. Victoria’s Secret better look into a daycare center. [Modelinia]
Darren Aronofsky and Vincent Cassel have swapped ballet for perfume. The Black Swan director and his star collaborated on a video for Yves Saint Laurent’s La Nuit [...]

To put it one way, Cristobal Balenciaga’s first model was rather feline: “At age six, Balenciaga cut his first coat,” Vogue’s Hamish Bowles informed an intimate group at the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute in New York last night. “For his cat.” Not your typical first fitting, but a pivotal one nonetheless. “The cat kept [...]

As of today, planning a trip down the aisle won’t require a trip to the bridal salon—just one to your laptop. The new e-commerce site The Aisle New York, which offers discounted flash sales of bridal gowns and accessories as well as a selection of full-price, current-season product, launches today with goods from Monique Lhuillier, [...]

And the latest feather in the James Franco cap is (drum roll, please) the “Leading Man of the Year” title from GQ. We are fairly sure he is the first graduate student/author/actor/scenester to be so honored. [GQ]Odds are, you’ve retweeted her, corresponded with her, #FF’ed her—and here she is: Fashionista’s street-style photogs caught up with [...]

Want to see the villa the Seven Easy Pieces built? Until you’re invited for a weekend away at Donna Karan’s Zen manse in Parrot Cay, Turks and Caicos (above), at least there’s American Fashion Designers at Home, the CFDA and Assouline’s new coffee-table tome dedicated to the world of fashion designers’ interiors. The book offers [...]

Courtney Love reprised Gaga’s “Bad Romance” at Givenchy’s after-party last night (above). Let’s go to the video, shall we? [Vimeo via @THEMISSHAPES]When Gisele tells you to keep going, you keep going. The Brazilian supe was having such a good time at Paris Vogue’s 90th anniversary bash that she whispered to DJ Nick Cohen that he [...]