If James Coviello ever decides to hang up his fashion hat, it’s comforting to know he’s got a bright future as an antiques dealer waiting as a very viable plan B. The designer—who got into millinery when pal Anna Sui needed some headgear for a Steven Meisel shoot she was styling, followed it up with [...]

Lori Goldstein is the ultimate fashion insider. It’s not just that she’s outfitted Madonna or been the fashion whisperer to Donatella Versace or created to-die-for iconic images with Steven Meisel and Annie Leibovitz in the course of her career. (Though we still swoon over the Versace campaign from 2000 that Jay Jopling deemed gallery-worthy for [...]

What was the impetus for Anna Sui’s career? “I wanted to dress rock stars and people who go to rock concerts,” said the designer at last night’s Friends of the Costume Institute event, which drew the likes of Baby Jane Holzer, Stephen Burrows, and artist and longtime Sui collaborator Hiroshi Tanabe. Sui, who will receive [...]

Milan fashion week is officially under way. The party of the week (make that party of the season) is next Monday’s celebration for Extreme Beauty in Vogue, an exhibition opening March 2 at the Palazzo della Ragione. The mayor of Milan will be there, not to mention co-hosts Anna Wintour, Domenico Dolce, and Stefano Gabbana. [...]

Pringle of Scotland (founded in 1815!) has been massaging its reputation as a stodgy heritage brand for a few years now. Its new Spring ad campaign starring Pixie Geldof, Lydia Hearst, and Daisy Lowe (at left) is another step in the direction of It-ness and hot-ness. “We wanted it to feel young, fresh, and very [...]

Calvin Klein’s saucy (and banned) new Steven Meisel commercial sells jeans, flesh. Tops not available. WWD has the video. Make sure your boss isn’t around when you watch!
Put another point up for the tents. Narciso Rodriguez returns to Bryant Park . The move from West Chelsea is sweet music to the ears of editors now [...]

Media fantasies about fashion usually revolve around pouting bodacious bombshells strutting down runways or preening for gushing photographers. But actual fashion aficionados know that such images are rarely at fashion’s true core, where genuine innovation often takes the form of “Weird Beauty.” That’s the title of the new International Center of Photography exhibition opening today [...]

This morning, WWD picked up our scoop that Louis Vuitton looks set to unveil Madonna as the face of its Spring 2009 campaign. However, as the paper further reports, it seems that LV has a case of the seven-year itch with photographic wunderkinder Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. According to WWD’s sources, shooting the house’s [...]

Fancy spending Christmas with Steven Meisel? For a cool $750, your prayers can be answered this festive season—via jigsaw puzzle format, that is. Destined to be headlining gift lists of the fashion-fluent over the coming weeks is a limited-edition puzzle (manufactured by Editions Ricordi) imprinted with one of the famed photographer’s most popular works from [...]

The goal of the evening was seduction. And comfort. Seductive comfort. Sounds tricky. Turns out it is, but two years of research, consultations with lace experts in France, special fitting trips to Hong Kong, and a mandate for no more scratchy bra closures have put the underwear experts at Calvin Klein very close to righting [...]