The September issue of V? Might as well call it C. The mag confirmed today that it’s snagged Carine Roitfeld to style its big fall cover and a spread inside. Roitfeld has worked with the oversized glossy in the past; she joins new columnist Lady Gaga at the title. [Page Six]Agyness Deyn’s latest role: erotic [...]

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 [...]

A new chapter in Pringle of Scotland’s near-two-century saga opens with the appointment of Alistair Carr as design director. He follows in the footsteps of Clare Waight Keller, who took the company’s signature knitwear places you barely knew it could go. But if anyone can fill Waight Keller’s quietly iconoclastic boots, it could well be [...]

You had to reconsider your notions about the crotchety and crocheted Afghan throw after it showed up in both printed and actual knitted form on the runways of vastly different British designers Christopher Kane (above left) and Henry Holland (above center). That’s just one example of the subverted Anglican heritage thread running through the London [...]

Pringle of Scotland prefers to pick its own countrywomen for its ad campaigns—see the previous Ryan McGinley-lensed Tilda Swinton shots for proof. (Or better, check out our video featuring Ryan and Tilda, self-proclaimed “brothers from another mother.”) For Spring 2011, the label tapped the Scottish actress Freya Mavor, who stars in the cult-adored English TV [...]

They’re performing an acoustic set at Galleria Carla Sozzani tomorrow to accompany Pringle of Scotland’s show, but today Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy of Franz Ferdinand were hanging out in Pringle’s Milan showroom, talking about art and sweaters. They’re among the contemporary Scottish artists who’ve designed a limited-edition piece of knitwear as part of the [...]

If you’re planning on investing in some shearling come fall, you won’t be alone. Countless designers turned out fuzzy jackets on the runways, and top models were snapped donning covetable vintage versions backstage—all but guaranteeing the material will be a must-have when the temperatures near freezing again. Should you prefer not to wait that long, [...]

Look hard enough at a fashion season and you can extract practically anything you like. I like forensics, so the appearance in Dsquared²’s mad scientist show of a sheer stretch top with arteries carefully outlined on it reminded me that I’ve been catching vague intimations of a CSI subtext over the past few weeks. We [...]

Legacy was in the air on Monday in London, as Claire Waight Keller showed her latest collection for Pringle of Scotland. Kilts and cashmere and sheepskin—the signposts of Scots style—got a new airing. Waight Keller is fluent in her archive. Shwetal Patel, meanwhile, is standing the whole idea of an archive on its head. Rather [...]

Pringle’s marriage of fashion and art has so far produced a David Shrigley film that’s a YouTube hit and Ryan McGinley’s hypnotic collaboration with Tilda Swinton. The three of them were involved in the company’s latest project, co-curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist of London’s Serpentine Gallery, to mark Pringle’s 195th anniversary and [...]