When we set out to tell the story of 2011 by the numbers, one loomed especially large: 661,509, the record-breaking number of visitors who lined up, often for hours at a time, to see the Costume Institute’s Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (left) at the Met.But it wasn’t just a banner year for the Met and [...]

Style.com’s senior fashion editor, Marina Larroude, is finishing packing for her trip home to Brazil next week. Here, she shares her holiday travel essentials.Unlike most places in the States at this time of year, it’s hot and desertlike in Brazil right now, so I always think about Christmas as more of a summer party. Needless [...]

Artist-turned-designer Greg Lauren (nephew of Ralph) is opening a pop-up art installation and shop today called Barracks, and while his timing was coincidental, it couldn’t have been more appropriate for Veterans Day. Lauren created one-of-a-kind pieces ($185 to $3,000) from repurposed vintage military garb sourced from flea markets and eBay. “I’m obsessed,” he says of [...]

Unseen “intimate snaps” of Salvador Dalí and his wife, Gala, will be on display at a Dalí exhibit, set to open at Galeries Lafayette in Paris this Thursday. The Lancel-organized exhibit accompanies Lancel’s new Daligramme Collection bags, based on a Dalí-inspired bag the brand made in the seventies. [WWD]British actress Thandie Newton is the latest [...]

The wild nights at Studio 54 are long over, but a new show hosted by Marc Benecke, who manned the door, and Myra Scheer, a former assistant to Steve Rubell, will bring the club to life once more. The show, which makes its debut Sunday at 10 p.m. ET on SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s Channel 15, [...]

Steven Klein’s USAnatomy exhibit kicked off last night at the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture in São Paulo, Brazil. W has a few shots of the rare Polaroids on exhibit, including a few images from his W Brad and Angela cover shoot from 2005. [W]Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. is no more. Yesterday, the company decided [...]

Is Naomi Campbell set to help Kate Moss down the aisle? In a new interview (with, admittedly, one of the U.K.’s most incorrigible tabloids), the supe won’t say she’s Kate’s bridesmaid—but she won’t say she’s not, either. Developing! [Vogue U.K.]And speaking of weddings, model Lily Aldridge and Kings of Leon rocker Caleb Followill tied the [...]

You know, I know, and given the media saturation, even extraterrestrial life probably knows: Tomorrow’s the Royal Wedding. But who’s wearing what? Details are starting to trickle in: David Beckham will be in Ralph Lauren; Princesses Tatiana of Greece and Denmark and Matilde of Belgium in Armani Privé; Anya Hindmarch in Emilia Wickstead; and Prince [...]

Fashionologie begins compiling the Fall ‘11 ad campaign rumors and placements. Word from the fashion forums is that Kate Moss won’t be in Vuitton (a group of younger girls, possibly including Daphne Groeneveld, left, and Fei Fei Sun, may be instead), Mert & Marcus’ ads for Versace might star Saskia de Brauw, and Ralph Lauren [...]

It’s been a busy decade for Michael J. Fox and wife Tracy Pollan. Since the actor was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 1991, the two have raised $230 million for the Michael J. Fox Foundation, whose mission is to fund scientific research on the disease. “He knows them all,” Pollan said of the scientific terms [...]