After weeks of unseasonably mild weather, the temperatures have dropped in New York in the past few days. And although designer Luis Fernandez is a Miami native, he was on the same page. For his Fall ‘12 menswear collection, the Number:Lab designer and CFDA Fashion Incubator (class of 2014) participant was inspired by ice climbing, [...]

New York is gearing up for the start of the 2011 U.S. Open, when tennis fans flock day and night to Flushing to watch the world’s best players face off for glory. The focus is, of course, on the game, but fashion has always taken an interest in the sport too—like a certain editor who’s [...]

This week’s New Yorker takes an in-depth look at one of fashion’s most intriguing (not to mention most tight-lipped) personalities: Tomas Maier, the German-born creative director of Bottega Veneta, who’s credited with bringing the label back from the brink of bankruptcy. How’d he do it? By embracing discretion and insider-style luxury when the world was [...]

For the relaunch of Bottega Veneta’s Web site and online shop, creative director Tomas Maier wanted to establish more than a URL; he wanted to bring a dose of Bottega’s understated calm and rich luxury online. Those are two qualities not always associated with the World Wide Web, but Maier has brought good company to [...]

Horiyoshi III is to the art of tattooing what Karl Lagerfeld is to couture: a living legend. Put the Japanese irezumi expert’s name on a line of clothing, and you aren’t going to get another Ed Hardy knockoff. Can you picture this pink peony-print silk and cashmere scarf in a Christian Audigier store? We didn’t [...]

As much as we love lists, we also love predictions. Yesterday, Vanity Fair gave us both, releasing its annual New Establishment ranking along with an appendage of on-the-verge comers, the Next Establishment. Along with power elite in finance and technology, etc, there’s a sizeable fashion industry factor. On the first are obvious choices like Bernard [...]

Yesterday in Milan, there was a kind of study in opposites. Bottega Veneta’s (ultrachic) casual walk in the park versus Gucci’s stomp in a vaguely futuristic cityscape.First, Bottega Veneta. As the Lord of Low-Key Luxe, Tomas Maier has never gone ridiculously Ricci-esque in his footwear. But we take these gently crafty wedges and nearly horizontal [...]

The recession has almost everyone in fashion scaling back and downsizing, but not Bergdorf Goodman—at least not tonight. The Fifth Avenue department store has just unveiled what it’s calling an unprecedented store-wide installation featuring the world of Bottega Veneta. It’s the first time that all of the Italian luxury goods label’s products—which range from handbags, [...]

If anyone can get me excited about a bathing suit on as frigid a day as this, it’s Tomas Maier. News that the Miami-based German designer (and Bottega Veneta creative director) is joining the modish migration to the Hamptons should be music to every bikini connoisseur’s ears. Maier will open his third store on the [...]

Hoopskirts paraded down the runways and they didn’t just come in record numbers, they arrived in record proportions. At Yohji Yamamoto, the bride’s sweeping hem even inched its way over the catwalk’s edge and into the front row. While hoops are hardly a surprise at Betsey Johnson—”My most consistent, true-blue look has been the puffy [...]