Ecco Domani Wines has announced its 2010 Fashion Foundation award winners. For womenswear, Prabal Gurung, Joseph Altuzarra, Ross Menuez of Salvor Projects, and Phillipe Rollano and David Trujillo of The Blonds; for menswear, Siki Im; and for accessories, Irina Arakas of Prova. If you’re looking for the appropriate beverage to toast the winners, we’re sure [...]

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 [...]

“It’s not a dog-eat-dog world,” Kate Moss’ hairdresser, James Brown, said at James Purdey & Sons in Mayfair last night, as he was smothered by a very happy pooch. “It’s a dog-lick-human world.” The fashion set may be used to cattiness, but at the book launch for Dogs in Vogue: A Century of Canine Chic, [...]

Miles Chapman always had a good visual eye as an editor (he helped Tina Brown reinvent Vanity Fair), but he claims he’s “as surprised as anyone” by his new incarnation as a jewelry designer. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he needed to do “something fiddly” to keep his fingers nimble, so he started breaking up and [...]

What: A paper hat from the newspaper of your choice, made by you.
Why: The Guardian has an interview with master hatmaker Stephen Jones today, who, besides providing headgear for Rei Kawakubo and John Galliano, has outfitted plenty a posh head in his day—Gwen Stefani, Beyoncé Knowles, Dita Von Teese, etc. The accompanying DIY video got [...]

Monday, September 15
Wake up later than planned (9 a.m.), as I’d gone to see the fantastic Emmylou Harris in concert the night before. I check my e-mail and find a message from a PR asking if I’ve received the invite for an event on Wednesday. Can’t think straight. Have I? Thought all my invites were [...]

Fashion Week notes from the Style.com and men.style.com contributing editor. Look out for more animated opinions in the days ahead.

“You can always tell if a party is good, not by the quantity of gate-crashers but the quality,” said Fergus Lawlor, owner of London PR agency Purple. “And these crashers are particularly good,” he continued, nodding at the well-dressed couple in the corner, quaffing Champagne. In other words, it was a bun fight at Rei [...]