There’s another seat open at the designer fashion table. News broke today that Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi (above), creative directors of Gianfranco Ferré, are out at the Italian house (no word on their namesake collection, which presumably will continue for the present). Reports blame dwindling sales for the duo’s departure. But they’re only the [...]

The inconvenient truth of fashion weeks this season? Chalk it up to whatever you will, but Mother Nature has not been on the side of style or stilettos. Snow drifts in New York, rain in London, gale-force winds in Milan—it’s enough to make you consider a night in. (Just kidding!) But knowing full well there [...]

Being down in Miami for Art Basel, it’s been impossible to avoid a few MIA stereotypes. We all know them: the surgically enhanced, tackily dressed beach clubbers. But as a few days here has shown me, the city’s home to some incredibly classy ladies, too—precisely the ones that Lanvin hopes to attract to its new [...]

Fluorescent bikini- and Lucite heel-clad party people of Miami, get ready: The gallerinas, collectors, and jet-setters are descending upon you in T minus 48 hours for Art Basel Miami Beach. (I’ve always been amused by the combination, but the social ecosystem seems to support it—for a few days, at least.) The fair doesn’t officially open [...]

The stereotype: The athleticism of the fashion person goes not much further than the lifting of a Nina Ricci Fall 2009 platform or the mad dash of a Party Pentathlon to make good on five RSVPs in a single night. (Ed. note: Neither are mean feats.) In reality, however, we have some true sportswomen and [...]

Coming off his high-energy debut for Pucci in Milan, Peter Dundas presented his Fall collection for the French fur house Revillon today. If his Pucci babes were rock ‘n’ roll, his Revillon girls are hip-hop. With House of Pain’s “Jump Around” for background music and leather baseball caps for accessories, models showed off raccoon printed [...]

For his Spring ‘09 presentation for Revillon, Peter Dundas said his recent travels north piqued his taste for 1960’s Scandinavian design. “It just colored off on me,” the designer explained. “I wanted something simple, essential, and upbeat—it’s time to be sweet now.” This translated into watercolor shades of lavender or green for constructed shift dresses [...]

Pucci has a new print master: Peter Dundas, formerly of Emanuel Ungaro, Christian Lacroix, and Roberto Cavalli, among other labels, will take over from Matthew Williamson when Williamson’s contract ends next month.
In wedding news, Barneys creative director Simon Doonan tied the knot with longtime partner Jonathan Adler in San Francisco yesterday. Congrats!
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