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 [...]

Justice was served—we guess—in Dallas today, where city officials report that R&B singer Erykah Badu has paid a $500 fine for stripping down to her birthday suit in the city’s Dealey Plaza for a music video for her song “Window Seat.” (You can see the NSFW video here; in it, Badu re-creates the assassination of [...]

Eva Mendes stars in Anchorman director Adam McKay’s new flick, The Other Guys, where she plays Will Ferrell’s impossibly hot wife. Her dress at the film’s NYC premiere last night? Somewhere a little below that. Mendes selected a silvery gray number from Oscar de la Renta’s Resort collection, complete with a detachable, bow-tied puff around [...]

She came, she saw, she married. After weeks of harried speculation—on everything from the dress to the guest list—Chelsea Clinton married Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, New York, this weekend. And despite early rumors of a dress by Oscar de la Renta (it was Hillary, the mother of the bride, who went the ODLR route), Clinton [...]

Clinton wedding shakeup shocker: Chelsea to wear Vera Wang, not Oscar de la Renta, as previously reported?! WWD has its crack investigative team on the case. [WWD]In less controversial news, Tommy Hilfiger is celebrating his label’s 25th anniversary with a retrospective scrapbook, chronicling his personal and professional life over the past two-plus decades. It will [...]

Oscar de la Renta—old guard though he may be—isn’t resisting the tides of change. Don Oscar may not tweet himself (he leaves that to @OscarPRGirl), but he embraced the future with a live-stream of his Resort ‘11 show on Monday. And on that runway, another harbinger of the digital age: ODLR iPad-case clutches storming down [...]