Alexander Wang can’t stop winning. The 2008 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner
scooped up this year’s Swiss Textiles Award, beating out five other
finalists including Thakoon and Ohne Titel. We guess sexy American sportswear translates everywhere.
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Daphne Guinness gets the shoes. The pint-size muse showed up in Alexander McQueen’s fang feet at last night’s party for François Nars, [...]

He’s a former director of sales at Oliver Peoples, she ran the sales and merchandising team at Thakoon. Together Adam and Kara Mendelsohn and their partner Dave Barton have launched KBL, a new line of wire-frame sunglasses that just might give Ray-Ban a run for its money. Economy-wise, experts are saying the worst could be [...]

Celebrities (see Beyoncé, Rihanna, Michael Jackson, et al.) may be the only people who can afford Balmain, but the French house has helped ignite a passion for little sequined dresses that seems to be recession-proof. Crystalline creations from Thakoon, 3.1 Phillip Lim, and Emilio Pucci sparkled defiantly on the red carpet at the Met ball, [...]

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Woke up after a restful night of sleep at the Four Seasons. Thank God, since it will be a long day today, after a very long day yesterday with four interviews and portraits. Even though it’s unseasonably chilly, I decided to go for a swim. It was really windy out; there were riptides in [...]

It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for—the meeting of the two First Ladies who’ve had us glued to their every stitch. We had previously mused as to whether they might discuss a love of Alaïa, but who could have predicted they’d be in such sartorial harmony, both wearing tie-neck coats? Of course, we’d never [...]

Of course, the First Lady dressed American as the Obamas boarded Air Force One this morning headed to the G-20 summit in London. Oh, but which Americans?! Her Chanel-esque ensemble of white and black collarless coat and black wool shift is, respectively, from longtime favorite Thakoon and new favorite Michael Kors, who also had the [...]

In what’s certainly a first, Marc Jacobs‘ name was called not once, not twice, but three times tonight at the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s official announcement of the nominees and honorees for the 2009 CFDA Fashion Awards. Come June 15 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, in addition to accepting the International Award [...]

Another addition to the constantly evolving fashion week schedule: We hear that Proenza Schouler will not be showing at the Park Avenue Armory, where the label has presented its last three collections. Instead, it seems that the design duo may be heading to a space in West Chelsea, a neighborhood that seems every season to [...]

Speaking of Kanye and how he delayed the Thakoon show (will someone please give the man a watch?!), has anyone else seen the Be Kanye ads on the New York subway or bus? They’re actually an Absolut viral campaign that has been around for a while now but it gets me every time, and they’re [...]

Fashion Week notes from the Net-a-Porter.com founder. Look out for more animated opinions in the days ahead.