Early next year, Alber Elbaz will debut his “700-page bible” on creating and designing Lanvin collections. The Elbaz-written book will include “a mix of text and pictures—and blank page.” [Telegraph]In the latest H&M news, Jerry Hall and her daughter, Georgia May Jagger, are the faces of the Swedish retailer’s new ad campaigns. Karen Elson also [...]

Karl Lagerfeld hosted a party in Paris last night for his latest pet project: a few new bottle designs for his boisson of choice, Diet Coke. But as GQ rightly notes, this is only the latest of his many, many collaborations. The English magazine rounds up the top collabs, endorsements, tributes, and homages, from Spongebob [...]

Club Monaco continues its streak of high-profile lookbook and campaign shooters this season, hiring Ryan McGinley to lens its Spring 2011 ads. It’s tapped top talent, too: Lauren Hutton, Lou Doillon, Tali Lennox, and the Virgins’ Donald Cumming all appear in the spots. But they’ve also got starring roles in the behind-the-scenes video by Tracy [...]

Over in London, the fashion set celebrates Fashion’s Night In, with exclusive deals, live chats with designers, and get-it-first opportunities. Don’t know about you, but after Halloween, we could definitely use a night in. Let’s bring this one to the U.S., hmm? [Vogue U.K.]Bloomingdale’s is known for its shopping bags—it’s Big Brown Bag is something [...]

If clotheslessness has this many people in the fashion world talking, there’s likely one guy behind it: Mr. Ryan McGinley, whose latest exhibition, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, opens tonight at New York City’s Team Gallery. McGinley’s up to some of his usual tricks, stripping down eligible, hip young things of all stripes, but where [...]

You read it right. The whole world may be going nuts for twitpics, but this fashion week, we opted for Whitpics, courtesy of Trovata designer John Whitledge. Since he took a season off from showing his collection, Whitledge had a little free time to take in the sights of New York fashion week. We sent [...]

Pringle’s marriage of fashion and art has so far produced a David Shrigley film that’s a YouTube hit and Ryan McGinley’s hypnotic collaboration with Tilda Swinton. The three of them were involved in the company’s latest project, co-curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist of London’s Serpentine Gallery, to mark Pringle’s 195th anniversary and [...]

After Patrik Ervell’s show, Ryan McGinley said he felt like he’d been watching people walking past in an airport. If that means purposeful and modern, then I’m in agreement. I was also reminded a little of a Raf Simons show some years ago, where the models rose and fell on escalators, but that was mainly [...]

Move over, Madonna. Louis Vuitton’s new face for Spring is Lara Stone, who’s been shot by Steven Meisel rolling around in the dirt. Vuitton exec Antoine Arnault described the campaign as “fresh and summery,” hopefully to coincide with brighter times—because nothing says “financial rebound” like mud-caked finery. [WWD]
Meanwhile, Akris has a new face for Spring, [...]

As our celebration of New York’s fashion talent was winding down, a blowout of the city’s artistic talent was just getting started in Rome with New York Minute, an exhibition of 60 downtown artists curated by Deitch Projects’ Kathy Grayson. Yes, 60 artists. The big show stretched across two football field-sized nineteenth-century slaughterhouses repurposed as [...]