At last night’s amfAR gala in Cannes, one partygoer stood out for us among the rest: stylist and W contributor Giovanna Battaglia, who showed up on the arm of boyfriend Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld in a jaw-dropping, barely-there gown we didn’t recognize. (Internet speculation briefly misidentified it as vintage Versace.)On a hunch that it was, in fact, [...]

For Louis Vuitton’s massive New Bond Street London flagship, creative director Marc Jacobs invited Love’s Katie Grand to curate a series of archival looks from Jacobs’ tenure at the house, and Jacobs and Grand were both on hand to take Derek Blasberg through the designs for our exclusive video. The pieces are pulled from throughout [...]

When he died of lung cancer not quite five years ago, Stephen Sprouse was in the midst of one of his many comebacks. Widely credited as the designer who made street style soigné, Sprouse had spent much of the nineties wandering in and out of the fashion fold: Several times, he’d relaunched his eponymous label, [...]

Last night, I had a revelation. I realized how appropriate it was that Madonna was the face of Louis Vuitton this season. In the fashion world, Jacobs is the king (queen?) of reinvention—of course, a finely honed Madge skill. It was only a handful of seasons ago that he was slightly pudgy and pale with [...]