Being in Brazil for Claro Rio Summer was an easy task thanks to Carlos de Souza, Donata Meirelles, and Robert Forrest, among others who selected the best of the country’s brands to take part in the week. Speaking as a Brazilian fashionista, I’d call it a good representation of what the country’s fashion has to [...]

I caught up with Mr. Valentino last night at the Claro Rio Summer opening party, where he explained his love of this beautiful, beachy city. “It feels like home,” said Mr. V. “I came here 30 years ago for the first time. I sat down and paid attention to everyone passing by in the streets. [...]

It wasn’t too shocking to bump into Francisco Costa [seen here between Carlos Mota and Justin Portman] on the Fasano Hotel rooftop last night—he is Brazilian, after all. Still, the launch party for a fashion week devoted to swimwear wasn’t the first place I’d think to find the Calvin Klein designer. Turns out he was [...]

To the untrained ear it could have been any old mother hollering at an overactive child. But that coquettish voice was familiar, and I vaguely recognized the name Lucas Portman. Turn the corner, and what do I find? An impossibly blond and impossibly lovely (perhaps impossibly perfect?) family in the shape of Natalia Vodianova, her [...]

As any seasoned traveler will tell you, bad sartorial decisions are not limited to New York City. Perhaps that’s why Vanity Fair fashion and style director Michael Roberts has been on such an impressive international book tour with his Fashion Victims: The Catty Catalogue of Stylish Casualties, From A to Z. (I myself have already [...]