It’s a week before Fox unveils the seventh season of So You Think You Can Dance, and the show’s hostess is on the phone with a confession. “The first dress I bought where I thought I had gone completely mad was an Alexander McQueen,” Cat Deeley tells Style.com. “It was the most beautiful dress I [...]

Don’t take it personally, Tracey Ullman (or fellow past hosts Fran Lebowitz and Jeremy Piven), but this year’s CFDA Awards will be host-less. (OK, maybe take it a little personally.) [WWD]Fashion’s most mysterious Tweeter, @dkny, gives a lengthy interview to discuss her life in cyberspace. Sadly not included: her actual identity. Foiled again! [Stylecaster]The Journal [...]

When Topshop invited Meadham Kirchhoff to design a limited-edition collection, designers Ben Kirchhoff and Ed Meadham didn’t have to look far for a muse. After beginning with a piece of antique beading as a reference and diving into fabric development, the duo turned their eyes to their young assistant Erin. “She’s 21, and she falls [...]

New Zealand’s first ever Topshop opened on Saturday. Almost immediately after, it closed. That’s a good thing (for Topshop, if not necessarily for New Zealanders). A near-dawn crowd took less than two days to pick the racks clean.The NZ branch opened in Karen Walker’s The Department Store in Auckland after the retailer approached Walker about [...]

Last London fashion week was all about its 25th anniversary. This one? If there’s one thing certain to dominate this season’s reporting, it’s the startlingly swish caliber of social events taking place night after night. The big news draw is the BAFTAs, which take place on Sunday night at the Royal Opera House, just across [...]

Tantalizing rumor of the day: Gucci’s Frida Giannini is working on a couture collection. (It won’t show in Paris, but by private appointment to VIPs.) Setting age-old ateliers to work crafting ultra-luxe rocker and scuba chic? Yes, please. [WWD]Giorgio Armani’s New York watering hole, Armani/Ristorante, has introduced a new, lower-priced bar menu. We still wouldn’t [...]

Chris Brown and Jean Paul Gaultier at JPG’s Fall menswear show. This picture is probably worth more than a thousand words. [NY Mag]
Louis Vuitton’s “Icons” campaign soldiers on, and the latest star is one who usually finds herself behind the camera: Annie Leibovitz. Apparently, she used her fee to hire another celeb to co-star with [...]

Topshop is the undisputed king of high-low collaborations, turning out more guest-designed collections each season than we can keep track of. But don’t miss Ashish Gupta’s, whose Spring capsule marks his fourth season working with the retailer. He’s not new to the game, but he’s got more buzz than ever: A leopard mega-platform wedge boot [...]

Looks like Mark Fast’s Topshop collaboration has given the Canadian designer a taste for, well, fast fashion. Adding to an already busy 2010, he’ll be launching his own lower-priced line of dresses, crop tops, and leggings called, appropriately enough, Faster. Haste/waste? Not this time. [WWD]
The Gap’s Fifth Avenue storefront has played host to a variety [...]

Halston muse and pioneering black cover model Naomi Sims died Saturday, at 61. [NYT]With the exodus of designers to London fashion week this fall, we’re not surprised that rumors are already percolating about who will fill their front rows. On tap for Topshop: Blake Lively, Taylor Momsen, Anne Hathaway, and Kate Bosworth, among others. Let’s [...]