Chloë’s London Debut
Chloë Sevigny has turned up in London from shooting a movie in Wales adapted from the autobiography of the drug smuggler Howard Marks. “It’s called Mr. Nice, and I’m playing his wife Judy,” she told a group of guests she’d invited to dinner at The Double Club, the London phenomenon underwritten by Miuccia Prada and [...]
Beth Ditto: “Helped, but Not Redrawn”
Katie Grand threw a Valentine’s Day Love shopping party at London’s Dover Street Market on Saturday, but only an hour into the event was forced to admit, “There’s not much left, we sold most of it this morning.” To soft-launch her new biannual title for Condé Nast (officially out Thursday), Grand asked her posse of [...]
Free Speech: Hadley Freeman On The Age Of The Surprisingly Good Celebrity Designer
Celebrity fashion collection. In the none too distant past—just last year, some might say—this phrase conjured up cheap vests and bad jeans, probably knocked out by some factory in the Philippines and then adorned with the diamanteé signature of a bubble-headed famous-for-being-famous twentysomething and then sold to tabloid readers across the land at around the [...]
And Gareth Makes Three
Things really do happen in threes. Gareth Pugh joins Roland Mouret and Matthew Williamson in next season’s freshman menswear class. Clearly there’s something in the water over in London Town.The Queen goes vintage, eats leftovers, and turns out the lights. What’s next, bathes without bottled water?Louis Vuitton pulls the plug on its ginormous [...]
Emma Watson Turns Tempest-uous
Emma Watson—teen style maven, wearer of Chanel, witch—has a new favorite designer: William Tempest. The 22-year-old designer worked for Giles Deacon, makes clothes for Madonna, and may or may not have been named by J.K. Rowling.Victoria Beckham defies the odds and launches a don’t-
compare-it-to-Roland Mouret luxury dress line people are actually buying. Don’t say [...]
Net-A-Porter Gets (Even More) Organized
It always seems as if e-tailer Net-a-Porter is pretty nimble in staying a couple steps ahead of our online needs, helpfully aiding any laptop shopping ventures to function successfully with the least frustration. Today, the site launches another feature that will make getting a fix of Roland Mouret or Rick Owens even easier for NAP [...]





