“For me, fashion, art, music, textiles, film, etc., it’s all very intertwined. This is basically a collage of things I like, which is what my work is about,” explains London-based designer Duro Olowu of his New York art show and pop-up shop, opening today at Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn’s Salon 94 Freeman Alley gallery.In the [...]

Following the CFDA and eBay’s first collaboration on one-of-a-kind designer tote bags promoting anti-counterfeiting, the two have partnered up once more for another “You Can’t Fake Fashion” campaign. After the first round of bags, designed by labels including Rodarte, The Row, and Rebecca Minkoff, sold out within hours, over 75 designers signed on to create [...]

Despite her own published concern—her new essay collection, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, is out now—these days, everyone’s dying to hang out with Mindy Kaling. The writer/producer/actress/former shopping blogger has been on a promotion tour of late, first fêting her book with a Tory Burch-hosted party in New York and, last night, one helmed [...]

In her new book of musings, memories, advice, and gently inflected agita, Mindy Kaling (above) ponders a time-honored question: Is everybody hanging out without me? (It’s not just a concern—it’s also the title.) But as worries go, it’s not well-founded. These days, it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t want to get close to the [...]

The promos for Christopher Burch’s new concept retailer C. Wonder talk a big game: “You’ve waited your whole life for this!” But at last night’s opening party for the 5,000-square-foot flagship in Soho, there was plenty to be excited about. C. Wonder offers a full spread of brightly colored merch (the electric green, lacquered doors [...]

Attention “fashion-sexuals,” little monsters, Andy Warhol, and Stephen Gan: Gaga 101 is now in session. The Lady’s first column for V Magazine has hit the Web and it’s a doozy. “Dear critics and bullies: get your library cards out because I am about to do a reading,” Gaga writes. Our take-away? Don’t ever leave [...]

Last night, Maria Cornejo and husband Mark Borthwick hosted an event at Cornejo’s Bleecker Street store for the T-shirts and tanks they created together to benefit Japan. They’re far from the only ones. Ralph Lauren, Tory Burch, Anna Sui, and Opening Ceremony have all created for-the-cause tees, too, proceeds from which go to Japanese relief [...]

Tory Burch—whose business, we thought, couldn’t get much bigger—is mulling a new venture: menswear. Burch mentioned the possibility at a recent talk at New York’s French Institute, where she also revealed a menswear line would be modeled on the wardrobe of her father. [WWD]U.S., get ready for Magnum Ice Cream, the European treat that recently [...]

Yesterday, over plates of halibut and pomegranate salad at Bergdorf Goodman’s BG, some of fashion’s most powerful women gathered in honor of perhaps the industry’s most hotly debated topic of late: Michelle Obama. Tod’s and Tina Brown hosted the icon-studded group, which included Iman, Veronica Webb, Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, Tory Burch, and Michelle Obama favorites [...]

In the lead-up to New York fashion week, designers go through hundreds of behind-the-scenes preparations to arrive at the completed show. This NYFW, we’ve sweet-talked a few of them into giving us an exclusive peek behind the curtain as they cast, score, style, and ready their presentations. First up: Tory Burch.
“We had model castings all [...]