On Tuesday, the troika behind the Webster in Miami—Frederic Dechnik, Laure Heriard Dubreuil, and Milan Vukmirovic (pictured)—took over the private salons of the Maison Baccarat to introduce selected friends to the Louis XIII Rare Cask by Rémy Martin. Dressed in a plunging, lace-up black dress by Joseph Altuzarra, Dubreuil noted that despite the fashionable guest [...]

With so few pants on the runway and so much leg on view, a tribute to Madeleine Vionnet—the designer who ensured that sexiness need not mean frostbite—is a welcome change from today’s usual eye candy. Madeleine Vionnet, Rizzoli’s latest coffee-table topper, is chockfull of designs replete with sensual draping and subtly suggestive nips and tucks; [...]

At last night’s opening installment of the French Institute Alliance Française “Fashion Talks” series, Donna Karan, the evening’s featured speaker (Catherine Malandrino and Diane von Furstenberg will round out the cycle), shared a few facts about herself the audience might not have known otherwise. The story of Karan’s first fashion show as a Long Island [...]