Balenciaga bucked tradition debuting its new Fall ad campaign. Rather than break the images in a magazine and wait for some enterprising fashion spotter to scan them in and send them around, the label unveiled the Marie-Amélie Sauvé-styled and Steven Meisel-shot images online. Now you can go backstage online, too. In the new behind-the-scenes video, [...]

The next edition of everyone’s favorite calendar that almost no one actually receives—that’d be the racy Pirelli calendar, naturally—is reportedly now in the works. The photog of choice for the 2012 edition? Sources says it’s Steven Meisel. [Fashionologie]A fond farewell to Don Hill’s, the legendary and then resurgent club that briefly became a fashion-world hub [...]

As jewelry designer Lynn Ban laid out her silver pieces on a table at the Bowery Hotel’s Gemma restaurant last week, the stark contrast between the antique-chic setting and the industrial-inspired jewelry was marked. But that’s the dichotomy that’s categorized much of the Singaporean designer’s career so far. Ban first made her mark curating a [...]

“We’ve done so much with punk culture,” Eddie Borgo said in New York this week. “I wanted to do something outside of that.” Inspiration came by way of a particular friend—one who just happens to make leather harnesses, latex masks, and gear for bondage enthusiasts. And while that scene isn’t one that Borgo says appeals [...]

Gisele’s surprise appearance on the Balenciaga runway this September—closing Nicolas Ghesquière’s houndstooth-heavy show—was the talk of Paris. And apparently, her reign at Balenciaga isn’t over yet. Bündchen will front the new Balenciaga campaign, which hits February glossies next month. According to WWD, Steven Meisel shot the ads, which star the Brazilian supe alongside naked-and-face-painted male [...]

Anna Sui is a fashion lifer, with a 20-year career in the industry and, now, a 300-page retrospective coffee-table book to show for it. “As a designer, you never have time to look back because you’re always looking six months forward to next season,” Sui said at a signing of the book in New York [...]

Are we seeing more Miranda Kerr than usual? Actually, with the Australian Angel’s new Steven Meisel-shot Vogue Italia cover (pictured), we are—it’s the first fashion mag in 3-D! [Vogue Italia]Louis Vuitton’s “Core Values” ad campaign soldiers on with three new stars: Bono, wife Ali Hewson, and (gasp!) some non-LV apparel. Hewson and Bono wear items [...]

Designers design. Photographers photograph. Models model. That much—in broad strokes, at least—is clear. But what about the artists, technicians, and industry insiders, often unpublicized and underappreciated, who help to get clothes and accessories made and shown? Call them Behind-the-Scenesters: people who shape our experience of fashion but never take a bow on the catwalk or [...]

Steven Meisel’s jazz-themed campaign for Prada’s new Swing sunglasses allowed Angela Lindvall to indulge in some very satisfying make-believe. “I always had this secret desire to be a piano bar singer, and I kind of got to live out my fantasy through this Prada campaign,” Lindvall said last night at the launch party at storied [...]

For Fall ‘10, Marc Jacobs sent out a sophisticated, elegant-lady collection of dresses that seems a world away from the edgy, Sprouse-inflected and tribal referencing collections of seasons past. So how to do justice to it in a campaign? With three of the modeling world’s most elegant ladies, of course: Natalia Vodianova, Karen Elson, and [...]