Being a top model requires the ability to withstand some unpleasant encounters. “The snakes. I don’t mind snakes, but sometimes they’ve been quite…you know, snakes going up legs and snakes everywhere,” says Kate Moss, referring to one of her weirdest modeling gigs. [Huff Po]Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have brought on Prada’s U.S. president and chief [...]

“Entry-level” is not a phrase you often hear where The Row is concerned. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have kept the quality high and the prices higher on all of the pieces at their label, a strategy that’s endeared them to luxe obsessives and craftwork wonks, even while it’s earned them a detractor or two. (Their [...]

Presenting the Spring 2012 Accessories Index. For our seasonal compendium of all things bag, shoe, and jewel, senior market editor Marina Larroudé scoured the market for the best of the best—and came away with more than 4,000 of Spring’s finest. This season’s guide is bigger than ever, with new brands including Charlotte Olympia (above), Giuseppe [...]

The Row’s online home is getting beautified. TheRow.com relaunches this afternoon with a newer, easier-to-navigate e-tail store (above), a personal shopper to answer any questions, and online exclusives like unseen collection images, details of their recent TOMS shoe drop in Honduras (following the TOMS x The Row collaboration), and videos of all their collections. Pieces [...]

Designers spoke, and we all listened: Goodbye, big bags; hello, minis. I’ve been toting an envelope clutch around during the day—I even swapped my wallet for a Valextra card holder to save space. The clutch only has space for my barest essentials—cards, phone, sunglass case, and a lip gloss. I’m not ready to go back [...]

In this ongoing series, Style.com’s editor in chief, Dirk Standen, talks to a number of leading industry figures about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the fashion business.Dualstar, the world headquarters of Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen’s numerous enterprises, isn’t some high-tech fortress. Set on a nondescript Chelsea block, it’s a low-key loft building [...]

There was no shortage of star wattage at Cannes this weekend, but it was a few newcomers who stood out on the fashion front. Girl-to-watch Elizabeth Olsen has enviable access to one of fashion’s most-desired labels; her sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley are the designers of The Row. Olsen took the line day to night, wearing [...]

For Spring, the question on designers’ minds was: What would Yves Saint Laurent do? Everyone from Marc Jacobs to Gucci’s Frida Giannini took pages straight from the late great’s playbook, showing seventies-inspired designs. There was no lack of jumpsuits on the runways, but in contrast to recent seasons, these were more Studio 54 dance floor [...]

If Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are hoping to have the “celebrity” dropped from their traditional “celebrity designer” monikers, their recent collections for The Row have been steps in the right direction. The sisters are nothing if not hands-on—Mary-Kate even helped models in and out of looks at the duo’s Resort ‘11 presentation. That collection was [...]

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen described the aha moment behind the founding of their label, The Row, at Women’s Wear Daily’s WWD@100 conference this week: On a press tour of Canada, they noticed that the audience was wearing giant sweaters, bug-eye sunglasses, and Balenciaga bags. Exactly what they were wearing, in other words. Well, no one [...]