Vena Cava’s Sophie Buhai and Lisa Mayock didn’t have their show as usual this season, opting instead to have their celebrity friends, including Nora Zehetner and Tennessee Thomas, model their forties-esque clothing in their Spring ‘12 lookbook. If you thought you had already seen all the looks, think again. Today, Style.com shares a few more [...]

Among the hats, shades, and shoes that hit the Vena Cava catwalk tomorrow, there’s one VC-designed accessory you won’t see: a condom. But Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai, whose Fall collection debuts tomorrow, can check prophylactic creation off their bucket lists; they’re the latest designers to collaborate with Proper Attire, the company that each season [...]

At the time of their Resort ‘11 show, Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai of Vena Cava unveiled Viva Vena, the lower-priced counterpart to the main Vena Cava collection. Those who can’t wait until the end of the year for those can feast on Viva Vena’s first offering for Fall, in stores now. Mayock and Buhai [...]

“We both grew up in L.A. and we were kind of weaned on garage sales,” says Vena Cava’s Lisa Mayock. She was talking about herself and her partner in VC, Sophie Buhai, both veterans of the flea market scene. “I think part of our aesthetic is formed by found objects, which is the best part [...]

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 [...]

As if there weren’t enough fashion swirling around this week, two new TV shows about the biz threw kickoff parties last night: HBO’s How to Make It in America and the Sundance Channel’s Web-based documentary miniseries Catwalk Countdown. The latter invited its featured designers to take a break from last-minute preparations at the Standard’s new [...]

Full disclosure: I like to eat almost as much as I like to judge what people are wearing. (Almost.) So when an invite came my way to a dinner that Veuve Clicquot (wait, I feel like I should add here that I like drinking Champagne while eating and judging) was hosting for the French food [...]

Great minds, as they say, think alike. So it pleased me greatly to find out that Vena Cava designers Sophie Buhai and Lisa Mayock, two girls for whom I have a ton of respect, are going to be using the Clergerie shoes I’ve been obsessing on since March at their show tomorrow. “I have no [...]

Rejoice! Printemps owner Borletti is serious about Christian Lacroix. The firm made a legitimate offer for the couture house yesterday, so those latest “restrained and approachable” creations may make it to red carpets after all. [WWD]
When a new designer can convince fellow designer pals—in this case Richard Chai, Doo-Ri Chung, Lisa Mayock, Sophie Buhai, [...]

Designers embraced their inner Cleopatras and Tutankhamens this season, offering fresh takes on Egyptian costume (click for slideshow). At Anna Sui, hieroglyphs provided the basis for elaborate prints, while Sophia Kokosalaki worked in a pharaoh-worthy palette of lapis lazuli and gold. Andrew Gn amped up tunic dresses with embroidered metal collars, and Sophie Buhai and [...]