Designer Andreas Melbostad will go to bed happy tonight. Models Erin Wasson and Natasha Poly and fashion plates Vanessa Traina and Lauren Santo Domingo all chose body-con Phi looks for their walks up the Met’s steps.

Photo: Sherly Rabbani and Josephine Solimene

After 20 years on the French fast-fashion track—most recently as a buying and style director at Naf Naf—Eric Denèle decided he wanted to ratchet things up a notch. Inspiration struck at the cinema, or, more specifically, when he was watching the Cannes Film Festival on TV. “There were images of all these hotel suites set [...]

As artists go, Richard Lindner is hardly a household name. The painter, born in Hamburg in 1905, put a geometric spin on Expressionism, taught at Pratt and at the Yale School of Art and Architecture, and died in comfort—if relative obscurity—in 1978. All that to say, Lindner isn’t exactly a go-to for designers, but that [...]

What: Footwear that takes a walk on the wild side
Why: Because nothing says “I’m a total badass” quite like a pair of four-figure studded leather platform boots. Plus, the detachable top cuff makes for great biker bijou.
Where: $950, down from $1,595, at Phi, 71 Greene Street, NYC, (212) 966-0076.
—Evelyn Crowley

Photo: Courtesy of Phi