Designers from Anna Sui to Yigal Azrouël mobilized for yesterday’s Garment District rally, where protesters called for rezoning that would protect and, hopefully, create more manufacturing jobs. As per the demonstrators’ posters, supporting the fashion industry is “sew New York.” [WWD]
Susan Posen, a.k.a. Mom of Zac, stepped down from her role as acting CEO [...]

Want to see the villa the Seven Easy Pieces built? Until you’re invited for a weekend away at Donna Karan’s Zen manse in Parrot Cay, Turks and Caicos (above), at least there’s American Fashion Designers at Home, the CFDA and Assouline’s new coffee-table tome dedicated to the world of fashion designers’ interiors. The book offers [...]

Dolce e Gabbana, sticking up for the little guys? The designers will now be stocking the work of up-and-coming designers—including Yigal Azrouël, Sophie Théallet, Behnaz Sarafpour, and Fausto Puglisi—at a new shop in Milan. They’re even doing the buying and outreach personally. [WWD]Proenza Schouler’s Fall ‘10 platforms were so great, we almost snatched them right [...]

We broke the news that Yigal Azrouël was debuting men’s boots and sandals with his Spring ‘11 collection, and we’re glad to report that his female customers won’t go unshod, either. At his September 14 runway show, Azrouël’s models will tromp down the runway in—for the first time—the designer’s own footwear. (He’d previously collaborated with [...]

It’s just about a month until New York fashion week, and at his Garment District studio, Yigal Azrouël is busily preparing for not one but two shows. This season, unlike last, he’ll present his men’s and women’s collections separately, the better to let each speak for itself. (As our reviewer noted for Fall, showing jointly [...]

David LaChapelle has his own way of doing an art opening. Last night at Paul Kasmin Gallery, for the vernissage of his American Jesus show, he had cameos from Julian Schnabel and Lenny Kravitz (pictured above, with LaChapelle) and a crowd of people photographing him as he danced—in a white caftan, no less. As it [...]

You can start calling him Michel Kors. The designer has announced he’ll open a Paris flagship—his largest in the city—in the spring of 2011. [WWD]The first photo from Coco Rocha’s wedding to James Conran has hit the Web. As should be surprising to absolutely no one, Coco looks gorgeous in custom Zac Posen. [Huffington Post]Victoria [...]

Of the hundreds of gowns at this week’s Met ball, the most striking were also the most restrained. Zoe Saldana and Diane Kruger looked chic in unadorned Calvin Klein Collection gowns; ditto Jessica Stam in long-sleeved Rachel Roy. Plenty of minimal eveningwear could be found on the Fall runways, too. “Less is more these days,” [...]

Yigal Azrouël recently wrapped up a whirlwind tour of Eastern Europe, where he showed his collection in Kiev in the Ukraine and hopped over to Moscow for meetings with his Russian clientele. Below, the Israeli-born, New York-based designer dropped us a note from the road.Going to Eastern Europe proved to be the eye-opening experience that [...]

It was only fitting that Alex Casertano chose to debut his eponymous collection last night at Chelsea’s Luhring Augustine Gallery, since he worked there throughout high school and college. As a gallery guy, Casertano was inspired by the fashion and art crowds that surrounded him at work. And work is where girls will be wearing [...]