Fashion week notes from the designing model and girl-about-town.

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Fashion Week notes from the co-founder and editor of Purple.

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Phoebe Philo wore a men’s jacket and Chloé tuxedo pants to the Ritz to tell WWD about her Celine debut for Resort. Buzzwords: sober and iconic. [WWD]
DVF goes blonde (well, sort of) for Purple and turns onlookers emerald with envy. [The Cut]
Alexander Wang thinks you should be a safety girl. [WWD]
DKNY makes like Marc. [Fashionista]
Admit [...]

Monday, September 29
8 a.m.
Wake up, order coffee, shower, dress. I’m in Paris for the opening of a group show I’ve co-curated with Aaron Bondaroff at Colette. Aaron, who’s sharing his 300-square-foot room with about five other people, is still asleep. I wake them up to ask for an adapter for my cell phone (yikes). I [...]

Tinsley Mortimer isn’t exactly the first person you think of when hip fashion rag Purple is mentioned. “What, I don’t have street cred?” the perpetually blonde New Yorker jested at a party for the magazine Monday night at the perpetually filled Le Baron. Well, not exactly, even if she wore black, deviating from her trademark [...]

*And for once it’s not his own. More fashion week notes from the editorial director and publisher of Dazed & Confused