You never know what you’re going to get when you step inside a photo booth—but if you’re decked out in Chanel, and styled by Carine Roitfeld, as Freja is in the new Chanel campaign, odds are, the results will be pretty good. [Fashionologie]House of Waris designer Waris Ahluwalia—”not a lady who lunches,” he says, “but [...]

The Museum of Arts and Design held its annual benefit last night, and the theme this year was fluorescents. Neon art—donated by the likes of Rogan Gregory, Jen Kao, and jeweler Bliss Lau—hung on the walls and stood in the galleries, although it wasn’t all as inviting as it was bright. “One of my favorite [...]

Art and design go hand in hand with fashion, so no surprise to find plenty of style-world names on the invitation to next week’s Museum of Arts & Design gala and auction. Waris Ahluwalia, Tyson Beckford, and Mazdack Rassi (founder and creative director of Milk Studios) are a few of the evening’s co-chairs, and Mandy [...]

In an effort to help offset the cost of the most expensive disaster in history, a dedicated group of New Yorkers braved the elements last night to show their support for Japan at a fundraiser co-hosted by Martha Stewart and Wynton Marsalis. At Reika Yo Alexander’s En Japanese Brasserie, guests including Hilary Swank, Zac Posen [...]

Waris Ahluwalia acts, designs fine jewelry, offers a selection of teas that spawned a pop-up tea house last fall, collaborates on skivvies with Yoox.com, and is now debuting a line of scarves. Renaissance man may not be the most original reference, but luckily, Ahluwalia had other terms on his mind. “I don’t think there’s [...]

Waris Ahluwalia is gearing up for his New York fashion week debut, and visitors to his House of Waris presentation will see not only his jewelry, but a new offering, too: scarves. Ten styles of scarf, embroidered, tie-dyed, batiked, silk-screened, and block-printed, will make up the House’s first foray into knit accessories. (Technically, it is [...]

Manish Arora works between New Delhi and Paris, but that’s been no deterrent in his current mini-takeover of Mercer Street. You can see his unmistakable kaleidoscopic and cartoony visual stamp in the windows of the Nespresso store at the corner of Prince Street, and if you wander south, you’ll now stumble upon his new jewelry [...]

Somewhere along the line, workaholic Americans got the holidays wrong. “If you’re in India, they actually take off the two to three weeks before the festival even starts,” Waris Ahluwalia explained of the Indian holiday Diwali. “If you’re headed there for work around that time, you just kind of have to forget about meetings because [...]

One of the pleasurable discoveries I made last week at the House of Waris Tea Room, a temporary pop-up store orchestrated by the jeweler Waris Ahluwalia on 24th Street in New York, was the work of Eric Chase Anderson. Even if I didn’t recognize the name, though, it turned out I was already familiar with [...]

“Women know too much, too young, these days,” said photographer and director Jerry Schatzberg as he scanned the well-heeled crowd huddled under the High Line. “They don’t have the chance to grow into it…to become women.” It’s the ladies of years gone by that fill the pages of his new book, Women Then, fêted at [...]