Marc Jacobs and Lady Gaga will reunite this Monday at the ACE Awards, where Jacobs will present Miss Gaga with this year’s Stylemaker Award. Fingers crossed she’ll come in a Louis Vuitton Afro, which is totally this season’s bunny ears.
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Unlike last season, nothing will defy gravity at tonight’s Nina Ricci show. “I like wearable clothes,” says new designer Peter Copping. Though he does admit to a soft spot for Lurex. [WWD]
And over at Copping’s former gig, Louis Vuitton will stream its show live at 2:30 p.m. on its Facebook page. (That’s 8:30 a.m. EST [...]

Some trends are easy to identify because they come at you all at once, like ultra-mega-platforms and leather leggings. But other trends mark eras. They’re usually the ones that sneak up on you. Take knits: Word that up-and-coming London designer Mark Fast would be designing a range for Topshop arrived on the same day this [...]

The Jimmy Choo collection is still a month-plus away from landing at H&M, but plans for the next guest designer are under way: Sonia Rykiel will take on the masstige market not once but twice, first with a holiday assortment of lingerie in stores December 5, followed by a knitwear collection in February. Our stripey [...]

There’s fiction—Ugly Betty, The Devil Wears Prada. There’s “reality”—Project Runway, America’s Next Top Model, The Rachel Zoe Show, and so on, ad nauseum. Now comes reality. Tomorrow night, the Sundance Channel debuts The Day Before, a documentary series portraying the final hours before the Sonia Rykiel, Proenza Schouler, Fendi, and Gaultier Haute Couture fashion shows. [...]

Sonia Rykiel celebrated the 40th anniversary of her brand with a blowout party at her show last October, which may make the publication of the new book SONIA RYKIEL (Rizzoli) seem a little less than timely. Not so, for not only has Fall ‘09 fashion found itself in a Gallic mood, urging a re-look at [...]

Fashion week notes from the flame-haired British makeup artist and creative director of Myface.

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Though the debate in the fashion world about the negative impact of copycats continues unabated, taking direct “inspiration” from another creator isn’t necessarily always held against a designer. The latter was the case at Fashion Rio (which is underway this week in Rio de Janeiro) for Coven, a knitwear-heavy label with [...]

Sonia Rykiel is now wrapping up an event-studded 40th anniversary year that started with the opening of her new flagship in May and is now ending with her first-ever museum show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. The event found her daughter Nathalie jubilant. “I am very happy [with this year] because I [...]

The sweetest person I’ve met this Paris fashion week has been Emma Watson, the 18-year-old British actress making her first trek to the Parisian collections. “I’ve been to fashion shows before, like the Chanel show that was in London in December,” she told me. “But this is the first time I’ve been to shows like [...]