The CFDA is the latest group rallying its ranks to benefit Japan. Beginning today, its Fashion & Friends for Japan online auction goes live on CharityBuzz.com, where the offerings are one of a kind—to say the least.Diane von Furstenberg has offered up a week’s stay at her private home in the Bahamas. More of an [...]

RVCA’s loss, Zadig & Voltaire’s gain? The French label has tapped Erin Wasson as its face for all of 2011—Spring and Fall—and will debut a capsule collection designed by the model later this year. [Elle U.K.]Speaking of capsule collections, men can look forward to a new one, too: Bergdorf Goodman has commissioned Tim Hamilton to [...]

For warmer temperatures, you’ll have to wait a few months, and we wouldn’t advise attempting Aquilano.Rimondi’s short-shorts just yet. But Spring deliveries are already hitting major stores, and no time like the present to dive into the season’s best bags.Over at Barneys, spring-y, pop-colored Intrecciato bags from Bottega Veneta are now sharing shelf space with [...]

Is Proenza getting a new parent? Rumor has it Theory president Andrew Rosen—who, in addition to controlling Theory and Helmut Lang, has invested in Rag & Bone, Alice + Olivia and Gryphon—is mulling a stake in the New York label. Pemira, which owns 45% of the business is looking to sell its share; designers Jack [...]

Earlier this month, we announced the debut of the patent leather PS1 from Proenza Schouler, the first time the now classic bag has been done in patent. And because no launch these days is complete without an accompanying video, here’s the clip. Model Danielle Zinaich—a nineties mainstay who took time off to have two kids [...]

Since its introduction back in 2008, Proenza Schouler’s new-classic PS1 bag has come in about as many colors and fabrications as you can imagine. One notable one was missing, though: patent. That all changes later this month, when Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez release a black patent version in three sizes (a pochette, a medium, [...]

Hard to imagine it now, but there was a time before fast fashion/designer collaborations. (It was a mythical year called…2003.) The meeting of high-end designer and mass retailer has changed the way we shop, and none more than Target, whose designer collab series, GO International, celebrates its fifth year in 2011. To celebrate, it’s digging [...]

Kalup Linzy, the (male) performance artist and collaborator du jour (he’s performed at Proenza Schouler’s Pitti show and rocked out with pal James Franco) is no stranger to a dress—he’s slipped on more than a few for the soap opera videos that he exhibits at venues like MoMA’s PS1. At a party a few months [...]

The Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women is out, and fashion plates are well represented: There’s our impeccably attired FLOTUS, Michelle Obama (we like to think of her as Clotheshorse in Chief), holding strong at #1, as well as Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (#35), Heidi Klum (#39), Sarah Jessica Parker (#45), and Burberry CEO [...]

Sometimes, trends that make a bright start in New York fade by the time the shows reach Europe, like brash Americans snubbed by their continental cousins. But that’s not the case with the brilliant fluoro tones that lit up Spring ‘11 in NYC (at Prabal Gurung, below right, and Proenza Schouler, below center). Vivid, neon [...]