Next week, the Versace for H&M runway show is set to go off in New York. It was already going to be a grand affair, but WWD reports today that it’s got even more star power than we thought—Prince and Nicki Minaj are both performing after the show. In the spirit of collaborations, maybe they [...]

Well, the fashion deck keeps reshuffling itself. This week, as we continued waiting for word on who will be taking the reins at Dior, two surprise—and surprising—announcements came from fashion’s headquarters over in Paris. First, it was revealed that Opening Ceremony founders and local kids-made-good Humberto Leon and Carol Lim are setting up shop at [...]

What will it take to catch the eyes of Roland Mouret, Claudia Schiffer, and the rest of the judges for London’s Fashion Fringe prize? “A little joie de vivre,” Mouret told British Vogue of the three finalists the judging panel selected for the annual award. (”Asking ‘would I buy it?’—that’s not important,” Schiffer added.) All [...]

“We felt that the time was right for the brand to open up a shop,” Nicolas Kirkwood said last night. So he did, and to judge by the crowd that flocked to London’s Mount Street for the opening, the world had been eagerly waiting. “We looked at a few places, but not that many because [...]

It’s hard to top last night’s Lady Gaga beach performance, but the starlets at Cannes today are aiming to try. The film to see is Sleeping Beauty, starring young Emily Browning (who picked Valentino for its evening, in-competition debut).Our favorite looks from the premiere? First place to Mia Wasikowska, who chose a sinuous, floor-length Roland [...]

At the Telegraph, Hilary Alexander scores a preview of the forthcoming catalog for the Costume Institute’s Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, which will include images by Sølve Sundsbø (left), and an interview with the house’s current creative director, Sarah Burton, by Style.com’s Tim Blanks. [Telegraph via Racked]London’s Fashion Fringe competition has added two new judges to [...]

“It is so twenty-first century!” enthuses Roland Mouret, reclining on a seventies metallic velvet sofa that graces the second floor (womenswear) of 8 Carlos Place, his new store (his first) and design studio in Mayfair. It’s a gorgeous building—a former embassy and bank—and a great neighborhood: near to Balenciaga, Lanvin, Christian Louboutin, and around the [...]

It seems the days of the reclusive designer are over. “I live the life of your typical designer,” Roland Mouret told Style.com over tea at Bergdorf Goodman yesterday. “I’m traveling all the time whether I wake up in Boston”—his previous stop—”Hong Kong, or New York, but I love it. The beauty is you get to [...]

A decade is an even longer time in fashion years, so for its tenth anniversary, Sophia Neophitou’s 10 threw an appropriately lavish bash. “It’s miraculous that I have made my dream come true and enjoyed it for ten years,” Neophitou said at her mag’s celebration in London last night. “I hope the next ten years [...]

It’s a week before Fox unveils the seventh season of So You Think You Can Dance, and the show’s hostess is on the phone with a confession. “The first dress I bought where I thought I had gone completely mad was an Alexander McQueen,” Cat Deeley tells Style.com. “It was the most beautiful dress I [...]