In Manhattan, where a walk-in closet is a covetable luxury, finding the space to house over 50,000 garments and accessories is no small feat. Over the course of several years, that’s exactly what the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) has managed to do. Now, a hand-picked selection of looks are coming out [...]

Mugler creative director and Lady Gaga stylist Nicola Formichetti has had a big past couple of days. Last week, he set up shop downtown with his pop-up concept store, Nicola’s; yesterday, he hosted a presentation for nine emerging Chinese designers in an effort to celebrate international talent; this afternoon, Formichetti (who has worked with Uniqlo [...]

The name Mugler is on the fashion world’s lips again, thanks largely to the collaboration of super-stylist Nicola Formichetti, now the label’s creative director, and Lady Gaga, its muse and sometime model. But the man himself has left the building: Thierry Mugler, now known as Manfred, has decamped for other pursuits. The latest premieres this [...]

At last night’s Mugler show in Paris, house creative director Nicola Formichetti screened a video of his muse—no, not Gaga—Rico, the epically tattooed human skeleton. Working in collaboration with Mariano Vivanco, Formichetti has been teasing the world with stills for days, but the real thing hits the Web today at 12 p.m. EST. Odds are [...]

While Alexander Wang has done just fine, thank you, without advertising up to this point, he’s entering the arena next month with his first-ever billboard and, in March, his first-ever print campaign. The ad—Wang prefers to call it an “image piece”—was shot by Craig McDean and stars up-and-comer Aymeline Valade. Look for it on [...]

Last week, Nicola Formichetti (left) was announced as the new creative director of Thierry Mugler. Formichetti styles for just about everyone cool—he was fashion director of Dazed & Confused, and contributing fashion director at Vogue Hommes Japan. But he’s best known as Lady Gaga’s personal stylist, and she’s got something to say for the occasion [...]

Is this the new face of Thierry Mugler? Rumors are swirling that Gareth Pugh (pictured) will be tapped to head the French label, though no official announcement has been made yet. [WWD]Alexander Wang bought a new, $2 million Tribeca apartment with a history of fashionable tenants: Its previous owner was Holly Brubach, a former style [...]

“This is the only way to have a party,” Erin Wasson announced last night, looking breezy in cream linen overalls at Milk Studios’ penthouse patio on the Hudson. Behind her, the sky had turned tangerine and yachts slid by on the purple water while Leigh Lezark and the MisShapes manned the DJ booth. “What better [...]

The French fashion festival in Hyères wrapped up this weekend, with Belgian Alexandra Verschueren taking the top prize for her creations made out of paper and papery fabrics. “I don’t even introduce myself as a designer,” she said. Well, maybe time to think about starting. [Hint Mag]Industrious model/blogger Imogen Morris Clarke (pictured) polled her mannequin [...]

Fashion wasn’t built in a day. The industry obsessed with what’s new and what’s next has, of course, a long history, and no one knows it better than Olivier Saillard, curator at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs. (In May, he’ll decamp from the Louvre to take a post at the Musée Galliera, Paris’ museum [...]