It’s surely a coincidence—right?—that the first day the London Showrooms and its clutch of young designers hit New York, so did a blast of rainy, London weather.It didn’t stop the mass of editors who came for the Showrooms’ press viewing at the Soho Grand yesterday, where Mary Katrantzou, Holly Fulton, Michael van der Ham, J.W. [...]

The fire trucks were summoned to Ciano in New York City’s Flatiron district—site of last night’s cocktails, hosted by Ed Westwick and Georgia May Jagger (left) for up-and-coming London designers—by a small fire in a wood-burning oven. The firemen had it under control in a matter of moments, but they didn’t seem to want to [...]

Contingency plans in case of volcanic eruption are scarcely the stuff of everyday life in London, but events in Iceland inspired knock-on ingenuity as airports across northern Europe were closed by a drifting ash cloud yesterday. Harrods fashion director Marigay McKee mentioned a friend who’d hailed a black cab outside Heathrow to get him to [...]

Eighteen months ago, Sarah Mower sat down with Alexander McQueen to discuss one of the most remarkable aspects of his work: the staging of his shows. Below, in the designer’s own words, is the thinking behind those extraordinarily intense productions, prefaced by Mower’s reflections on their lasting power.
Everyone lucky enough to have been invited to [...]

Rumors of a Brangelina feud were doused last night when the couple got all lovey-dovey at the Inglourious Basterds after-party in Cannes. They were also spotted totally making out the night before, so all you haters can quit it.
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Style.com’s Sarah Mower has been named the British Fashion Council’s first Ambassador for Emerging [...]

Narciso Rodriguez and Liz Claiborne are calling it quits. The split was “amicable,” but we all know how Orwellian breakup-speak can be.
Brigitte Bardot weighs in on the Republican VP candidate (you know, Sarah Palin) and her analysis is not pretty. There goes the contested French siren vote for McCain.
Sarah Mower on the financial [...]