Laura and Kate Mulleavy are filling Colette with Living Dead Dolls. Don’t even feign surprise. [NYT]There’s still no word on a successor at Maison Martin Margiela, though rumor has it the mysterious designer himself approached Raf Simons to be his anonymous heir. [Vogue U.K.]Speaking of rumors, remember the one that had Alber Elbaz taking the [...]

We kept our eyes peeled for pieces by Raf Simons at Leonard Cohen’s packed Radio City Music Hall gig last night. The singer-songwriter had served as inspiration for the designer’s Spring ‘09 men’s collection, but we didn’t see any of the “extreme tailoring” that Simons put on his Paris runway, although there were plenty of [...]

Nirvana, for sunglasses fanatics, is to be found in a converted schoolhouse in the Clerkenwell area of London. That’s where the Linda Farrow archives are housed—a few filing cabinets’ worth of specs dating from the origins of the Linda Farrow brand in the late 1960’s. Aviators of all shapes and sizes and superbly wacky ’80’s [...]

Jewelry is about as familiar a sight at Jil Sander as fringe and embroidery. But believe it or not, designer Raf Simons showed all three at his show this morning. The earrings and bracelets, made in collaboration with the Italian jeweler Damiani, had a vaguely tribal feeling. Often worn one at a time, the delicate [...]