The Avenue des Champs-Élysées has been crowned as Europe’s most expensive retail location. Previously, London’s New Bond Street held the top spot, but New York’s Fifth Avenue remains number one on the global meter. [WWD]Lady Gaga has released her latest column for V. The subject? “Extreme critic fundamentalism.” [V]Valentino, the musical? Perhaps. The Italian designer [...]

Our sharp-shooting man on the street, Tommy Ton, has just sent his dispatch from Milan men’s fashion week. (If you haven’t seen them already, what are you waiting for? Head here now.) Glimpsing this transparent Prada clutch on the arm of one of menswear’s stylish dames, we were reminded how good see-through can look. If [...]

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 [...]

The popularity of floor-length skirts on the Fall runways suggests that the hemline index theory just might hold true, but Adam Lippes isn’t buying it. “Supposedly everything traces back to the economy these days, or Michelle Obama, but I think it’s just a reaction to all the hard looks we’ve been seeing for the past [...]

Among Malcolm McLaren’s many collaborators in his genre-busting career was Sonia Rykiel, who co-wrote and sang on the song “Who the Hell Is Sonia Rykiel?” on McLaren’s 1994 album Paris. “Malcolm was a lovely and wildly creative gentleman…truly his own person. He had the ability to bring you immediately into his exuberant world,” Rykiel wrote [...]

WWD checks in with a few key influencers to hear their fashion week plans, schemes, and strategies. Our favorite question? How to stay warm during NYFW. Our favorite answer? Model Hannah Holman’s (pictured): “Snogging.” [WWD]The latest designer to jump on the show-streaming bandwagon: Calvin Klein, which will stream its men’s and women’s Collection shows on [...]

It’s been a good few years for Sonia Rykiel. At its Spring ‘09 show in Paris, the family-owned, family-run label celebrated its 40th year in business with an exuberant homage: a surprise show-within-the-show featuring Rykiel-inspired looks designed by the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Martin Margiela, Giorgio Armani, and many others. Not long thereafter, Rizzoli published [...]

Marc Jacobs, American in Paris, was decorated as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France, alongside Nathalie Rykiel, creative director of Sonia Rykiel. Jacobs delivered a grateful acceptance speech in French, and even traded in his usual skirt for a suit for the occasion. [WWD]Couture’s only been going on for a few hours, [...]

Last night, at Chandelier Creative’s Christmas party, guests could line up for a quick sit on Santa’s—well, a shirtless go-go boy in a Santa-ish outfit—lap. (As you can imagine, the line got long, but we did spy Gossip Girl’s Amanda Setton waiting her turn.) What partygoers asked St. Nick for Christmas is between them and [...]

There are a couple of significant firsts involved in H&M’s Christmas collaboration with Sonia Rykiel. It’s the Swedish giant’s first designer alliance for underwear. It’s the first time that the collaborateuse will be selling H&M product in her own shops. And it’s the first time there’ll be a gigantic all-the-trimmings launch. Tomorrow night, the [...]