Someone once told me that John Fairchild would famously tell his WWD-ers the following when it would come to confirming fashion directions: “Twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend.” Well, last night at an intimate dinner for Giambattista Valli at Kaviar Kaspia, I had all three in one go: Margherita Missoni, Tatiana Santo [...]

There are at least two things I can count on in Paris: various fellow New Yorkers letting loose for fashion month’s last leg, and a late-night dance party at Regine’s. For the past few seasons, I’ve helped friends like Paul Sevigny, MisShapes Leigh Lezark and Geordon Nicol, and Tommy Saleh organize a little fête, appropriately [...]

Assouline hosted a party for its latest coffee-table tome, Russian Style, at its Saint-Germain store in Paris last night, which drew the likes of Dasha Zhukova, Tatiana Santo Domingo, and Olympia Scarry. Beyond pics of a few military jackets and posses of girls in head-to-toe Balmain, which are two dominant influences over there (trust me!), [...]

I’ve been to Moscow a few times now—about three times in as many months, in fact. With every visit I realize more and more just how important vodka is to the local culture. It’s like there are two responses to a crisis: vodka, or no vodka. At least that was how Alex Kiselev, the owner [...]

It wasn’t easy finding Riccardo Tisci at his party at Régine’s on Thursday night. First you had to get into the club—no easy feat, considering that there were more French hipsters than you could shake a baguette at outside, all moaning to the doorman. Once inside the club, you would have had to work your [...]