• The fashion community is stepping up to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy. The CFDA and Vogue will launch their Fashion for Sandy Relief today with an online auction at Charitybuzz.com. Items up for purchase include a front-row seat at New York Fashion Week right next to Anna and the gang (à la Nicki Minaj at Carolina Hererra Continue Reading
• Dolce and Gabbana will present its first-ever couture collection in Taormina, Sicily, on July 9th, and they are not inviting the press. Present will be a few of the brand’s loyal clients. Why no press? Is the collection too awesome for the poors to behold? What do you think? (WWD) • Awww, how sweet Continue Reading
• Back in August, Karl Lagerfeld was spied in St. Tropez filming a video for electropop artist Jean Roch‘s “St-Tropez” with Snoop Dogg. Well, the video’s finally here. It rouses some feelings in me that I can’t explain. What do you think? (Fashionista) • Millenials are poor with expensive taste. The largely broke and unemployed Continue Reading
• The Telegraph has a peek at a few of the items Daphne Guinness is auctioning off from her personal wardrobe including a pair of heelless shoes by Japanese designer Noritaka Tatehana, a frothy black Lanvin frock, a strapless bubble dress from Christian Lacroix, and sculpted silver minidress by Alexander McQueen. Prices will start at a Continue Reading
• Plus sized ladies, rejoice! Mary Katrantzou is thinking of selling her cutting-edge prints in larger sizes. The designer told the Evening Standard that due to prompting from e-tailer Net-a-Porter, she is considering creating her pieces up to a size 16 . “Net-A-Porter asked us if we would go bigger [to a size 16],” she Continue Reading
• We’re on the last few days of New York Fashion Week, and it seems like the whole thing started ages ago. Here’s what’s up at the tents today: 8:30-10AM Norisol Ferrari, 9AM Tory Burch, 9:30-10:30AM J.Crew, 10AM Badgley Mischka, 11AM Vera Wang, 1PM Diesel Black Gold, 2:00-3:30PM Fotini, 2PM Naeem Khan, 3PM Dennis Basso, 5PM Pamella Roland, 7:30-8:30PM Haus Alkire 8PM Narciso Rodriguez, 9PM Emerson. • Franca Sozzani, the lone Vogue editor who Continue Reading
•Kerry Washington covers Essence Magazine’s March 2012 issue in a white hot dress. What do you think of the shot? (Essence) • First she features it-girls Solange Knowles, Julia Sarr-Jamois, and Oroma Elewa in her demi couture runway show, and now, she’s teaming up with Macy’s. Alberta Ferretti is the latest designer to lend her Continue Reading
• Street style favorite Julia Sarr-Jamois guest edited a section of the Topshop store in Oxford Circus as part of the retailer’s program, Edited, which enlists the talents of fashion insiders to curate a collection of the store’s pieces reflecting their personal style. See what outfits the 23-year old (!) editrix put together, and head Continue Reading
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