A pall was cast over fashion week last night, as the news quickly spread from showgoer to showgoer: Whitney Houston, the wildly talented and later wildly troubled pop star, died in Los Angeles at 48. The cause of death is not yet known. Houston was in Beverly Hills preparing for a pre-Grammys party, hosted by [...]

The eternal Serge Gainsbourg—the jug-eared Gallic crooner who has a good claim on being the twentieth century’s oddest heartthrob—rises again today, when a new biopic opens in New York. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is director Joann Sfar’s tribute to the late, great troubadour, who wrote frank songs of love and sex (”Soixante-Neuf, Année Erotique,” “Je [...]

Knockoff Speedy bags are old news. In London a trial date has been set for three people accused of selling counterfeit versions of clothing Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren were selling at their store Sex in the seventies. What’s next? Faux Fortunys? [WWD]
One star sighting that might slip by the Japanese paps at the Bryant [...]