“I hate the crazy women—you know the ones at samples sales,” Rebecca Minkoff said. “If it’s a sale in a civilized environment, then I will go.” And despite the lure of a discounted Vena Cava wool cape or a Nicholas K leather jacket, shoppers at Lucky’s Lucky Shops VIP preview last night remained relatively calm. [...]

Though she may design the requisite go-to bag for the Young Hollywood set, Rebecca Minkoff is taking a decidedly more grown-up approach to her next project. “The same fanaticism goes into bags and shoes for me. And people just started asking me [about shoes], so it seemed like the next natural progression,” Minkoff admitted of [...]

Rebecca Minkoff is trading up. At Saks Fifth Avenue’s request, the New York accessory and ready-to-wear designer is launching a new line of more expensive Rebecca Minkoff Collection bags at the department store this week. For the many fans who helped her complete 200,000 sales since launching her company five years ago, it might take [...]

Once upon a time in the late seventies, Christian Restoin—the longtime partner of Carine Roitfeld—married the aesthetics of Network and disco with a line of breezy silk menswear-styled shirts for women called Equipment. Throughout the eighties and nineties, they were the linchpin day-to-night item in a smart city girl’s wardrobe. For a label to shutter [...]

It was a reunion of sorts: Ginnifer Goodwin, Selma Blair, a host of fabulous Bulgari jewels, and me. The occasion was Bulgari’s dinner at L.A.’s Sunset Tower last night, in honor of the upcoming Christie’s auction of the Italian jewelry house’s 125th Anniversary Collection. It was just six months ago that we’d all celebrated Bulgari’s [...]

What: Well Red
Why: Black may have been a big story on the Fall ‘09 runways, but behind the scenes, another color has been making a play for the season’s must-have status. Red is all over the showrooms right now, and as I’ve made my way from market appointment to market appointment, that’s the color of [...]

It’s all coming full circle. Rebecca Minkoff started out designing clothes in 2001, but a good friend, the actress Jenna Elfman, prevailed on her to create a bag for an upcoming film. Thus was the Morning After bag born, and with it a booming business in the accessories trade. These days, Minkoff even claims an [...]

Was Rebecca Minkoff psyched to meet Shannen Doherty? Uh, little bit, yeah. The designer was the guest of honor at a party given by Beverly Hills’ Beckley Boutique last night, and though she looked perfectly poised as she chewed the fat with the once and current Brenda Walsh, Minkoff later confessed that she was freaking [...]