Tomorrow night, Shipley & Halmos’ Jeff Halmos and Sam Shipley will unveil a new book, Everyone Must Be Announced, by their longtime friend, the photographer Aaron Stern, at New York’s Milk Gallery. The idea for the the tome, produced under their S&H Publishers imprint, first came about roughly eight months ago when the designers, both [...]

They’re back, darling! U.K. fashion mavens Patsy and Edina of Absolutely Fabulous return; Joanna Lumley, who played Patsy on the seminal Britcom, revealed that she and Saunders are recording three new episodes this summer for BBC1. Co-stars Jane Horrocks and Julia Sahwalla will return as well. [Hollywood Reporter]Angelina Jolie: the new face of Louis Vuitton? [...]

Shipley & Halmos are giving fans their 15 minutes. Readers of this blog may recall from back in August when Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos chronicled the Texan leg of their “Fill In the Blank” tour for Style.com, the raffish duo spent the summer hopping from Barneys to Barneys across the country, shooting portraits of [...]

They’ve had this date from the beginning. “Before we started our company, the first thing we did was design our label,” explains Jeff Halmos of Shipley & Halmos. “We wanted our label to have not just our brand name on it but also a message about what we make and what the brand stands for [...]

Shipley & Halmos’ Jeff Halmos and Sam Shipley (above, left to right) are currently touring the U.S.A., stopping in at Barneys locations nationwide. After spending a day in Austin, they sent back some of their favorite parts of their visit to the Lone Star State. We’re booking our tickets today.We are in the middle of [...]

It took some patience, but Ilaria Urbinati, the stylist and co-owner of L.A.’s Confederacy, finally got Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos over to the West Coast. “We’ve had this on the calendar for a while,” conceded Halmos (pictured above, with Urbinati and Confederacy co-owner Danny Masterson). “We’ve known Ilaria since she started out as a [...]

Damage was reported to a French national treasure: Culture minister Frédéric Mitterand accidentally stabbed Marion Cotillard with her medal when awarding her the Chevalier of Arts and Letters yesterday. Luckily, she’s fine. [Vogue U.K.]ABBA, Genesis, and the Stooges were among the groups inducted into the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame yesterday. In the service [...]

Hard as it may be to believe that the holidays are right around the corner, it’s even harder to believe that Fall ‘09 clothes are already being supplanted at stores by Resort deliveries. (When was fall? Is it over?) Anyway, believe it. Shoppers starting their yearly snoop for presents and party frocks will find a [...]

Is there such a thing as a healthy addiction? Philip Crangi may have discovered one: The jewelry designer is, by all appearances, addicted to collaborations. The past few seasons have seen Crangi go on a creative spree, working with Vera Wang, Costello Tagliapietra, Shipley & Halmos, and, as part of his 2008 CFDA/Vogue nominee duties, [...]

For at least a short while, we get more Mayle. Jane’s namesake line and boutique will stay open through April and offer a very limited limited collection.
The Ellen Show: Ellen Barkin’s new, vaguely familiar HBO show will be less warm-cuddly than a talk show, and more sexy-vindictive, like a telenovela.
Fabien Baron and Karl Templer [...]