Bye-bye, Bryant Park. After 15 years of hoisting the tents and hosting fashion week, the park is reportedly being replaced by Lincoln Center in 2010. That’s the A, B, C, D, and 1 trains, ladies. Whole Foods Columbus Circle, get ready for an injection of fabulousness.
Calvin Klein model and Avedon muse Vincent Gallo [...]

“Marc Slashes Invitees.” I got the (slightly violent-sounding) WWD News Alert on my BlackBerry Friday night. But it wasn’t until this morning that I allowed myself to fully examine what the new fashion week development really meant. The specifics: The invite list will be smaller by a whopping 50 percent-plus, going from 2,000 people (1,100 [...]

Calvin Klein’s saucy (and banned) new Steven Meisel commercial sells jeans, flesh. Tops not available. WWD has the video. Make sure your boss isn’t around when you watch!
Put another point up for the tents. Narciso Rodriguez returns to Bryant Park . The move from West Chelsea is sweet music to the ears of editors now [...]

Is Barneys for sale? Reports are of the he-said-she-said variety for now, but a new investor and CEO may be in town.
And across the pond, venerable U.K. outfitter Harrods CEO James McArthur (who previously punched in at Gucci and Balenciaga) is out the door after less than a year at the helm. Might he [...]

It was inevitable, but we denied it in our souls. There will be fewer fashion week parties this year, starting with no fêtes for Alexander Wang, Calvin Klein, and Marc Jacobs (seen here at last season’s in less recession-y days). Big sniff.
After venturing into footwear with Puma this fall, Alexander McQueen is launching a [...]

Karl Lagerfeld dresses up the recession with a pretty catchprase: “Bling is over. Red carpet-y covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‘the new modesty.’ ” Another gem: “Throwing money out the window brings money back in through the front door.” Why couldn’t Karl have been our econ professor?
Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti [...]

No one likes to start the new year on a downer, and yes, there are many things to be cheerful about. Well, there’s Obama, anyway. And a new Michael Cera movie coming up. In regards to everything else, though, it’s all pretty much in the “to hell in a handbasket” category. The state of the [...]

If you see Dita Von Teese today, give her a hug. Bettie Page, the bondage-friendly 1950’s-era pinup who ushered in the sexual revolution, died Thursday
at 85.The latest recession dressing trend: No clothes, just skin. Poor, artsy, and naked is very in right now.More news from the recession front: Ring sales suggest that now turns [...]

The Gabbana half of Dolce & Gabbana hates strawberries in winter and buying fur coats in July. He’s not the only one who finds fashion’s current state of affairs to be out of whack.
What would a recession/
depression be without bootleg liquor and (new this decade!) shopping speakeasies? For those who can afford it, high-end shopping [...]

I’m just as guilty as anyone else on this point—it’s all I can think about, to be honest—but last night I joined several people in a conversational movement against talk of the R-word. It’s reached a point where the recession, the end of the art market, the burst of every bubble that ever formed, and [...]