Stick around at a fashion week after party long enough, and it becomes very clear: Wine fuels this business. But no vintner has been more influential than Ecco Domani, the winery that’s given generously to the industry, in the form of its Fashion Foundation awards, for a decade. This morning, Ecco Domani announced the 2011 [...]

This Fall, New York’s Museum of Arts and Design celebrates its second anniversary. The traditional gift for such an occasion, as any bride can tell you, is metal, so that’s what the museum’s well-wishers are offering: All manner of metal art, jewelry, clothes, and craft, which will be sold at its annual gala on October [...]

The last time jewelry designer Pamela Love presented a collection MAC & Milk, two seasons ago, she set up a static installation. Last night, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist went for something way more dynamic. A psychedelic live performance by Hisham Bharoocha accompanied new jewelry: more of her habitually dark and gothicized pieces, including a [...]

‘Tis the season to make jewelry. More and more of New York’s ready-to-wear designers—suffering, we’re sure, from an overabundance of free time—are adding custom or collaborative jewelry to their collections for the Spring ‘11 season. And if you’re a fan of silver, you’re in luck.
Jen Kao has collaborated in the past with other designers on [...]

Her star’s on the rise—there’s that CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award nomination, for starters—but Pamela Love’s outlook, at least to judge from her jewelry, is still reliably macabre. Her new collection for Fall has just arrived at Opening Ceremony, and the mood is a little dark. There are more of the animal-inspired pieces with which she [...]

Drumroll, please:Congratulations to Altuzarra’s Joseph Altuzarra, Christian Cota, Prabal Gurung, Robert Geller, Eddie Borgo, Oliver Helden and Paul Marlow of Loden Dager, Pamela Love, Moss Lipow, Gregory Parkinson, and Billy Reid, who are all in the running for a grand prize of up to $200,000 (runners-up get a cool $50K).

Looking for Shala Monroque any given Sunday? Try Café Gitane, her go-to brunch spot. But it was at the Crosby Street Hotel where Monroque (pictured, right), along with Bonnie Morrison (pictured, left), stylists Lisa Tobias and Julie Ragolia, and a mix of fashion girls, stopped for a bite (and a mimosa) to celebrate their new [...]

Earth Day turns 40 this month, and the eco-friendly guys at Loomstate are throwing the holiday a birthday party. Nature being in relatively short supply at the Good Units space at the Hudson Hotel, Loomstate founders Scott Hahn and Rogan Gregory (pictured) decided to bring the great outdoors inside, with a little help from jewelry [...]

Paris 1, New York 0. Thom Browne has announced he’ll show his eponymous menswear collection in the City of Light this season, taking a spot on the schedule’s final day. [WWD]Tokyo 1, Paris 0. Yohji Yamamoto (pictured) moved his eponymous menswear presentation for Paris back to his hometown, showing in Tokyo for the first time [...]

It’s a little too easy to make a wisecrack about Paris being the City of Love, but suffice it to say that the town is treating jewelry designer Pamela Love pretty well these days. Love touched down in Paris last week to set up her installation at Colette, an adaptation of the one she showed [...]