Glimpses from Paris: Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Valentino, Anna dello Russo and Christian Loubotin
While Paris editor Lola Saab went Stateside to help our New York Fashion Week coverage, our new correspondent Léona d’Huy popped in to the Jean-Charles de Castelbajac autumn–winter 2011–12 show, entitled Woman/Ray, for Lucire at the Place de la Concorde. Her report from the events of March 8 follow, translated from the French. Photographers take […]
Alexander McQueen honoured with Met exhibition
The late Lee Alexander McQueen will be recognized with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, designer Stella McCartney, and UK First Lady and British Fashion Council ambassador Samantha Cameron were present to promote the Met’s Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, opening on May 4. The exhibition will feature […]
Kate Bosworth, Mario Testino and other celebrities arrive at Burberry
Burberry Prorsum’s autumn–winter 2011–12 spectacle at Hyde Park saw celebrities such as Kate Bosworth and Rachel Bilson attend, while ITN gets a quotation from model Douglas Booth on the Britishness of the label. Photographer Mario Testino, meanwhile, gives a brief comment about HRH Prince William and his fiancée Kate Middleton, saying that they are […]
Sam Cam, Burberry Prorsum and Pringle of Scotland lift moods at London Fashion Week’s busiest day
The busiest day at London Fashion Week saw David Koma, Holly Fulton, Peter Pilotto, Christopher Kane, Pringle of Scotland, Michael van der Ham, Todd Lynn, Paul Smith and Burberry Prorsum. The wife of the PM, Samantha Cameron, as ambassador for the British Fashion Council, was in the audience at David Koma and Holly Fulton. […]
Other angles on Unique and Matthew Williamson at London Fashion Week
ITN has its take on the Topshop Unique show—hinting that the Cruella de Vil inspiration was a dig at Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Not really a conclusion we were drawn to make ourselves. Matthew Williamson is known for his celebrity friends, and Yasmin Le Bon, Twiggy and Poppy Delevigne reveal some personal secrets about […]
Carine Roitfeld resigns as editor of Vogue Paris
Above Vogue Paris’s December 2010 issue, with Tom Ford as guest editor. Roitfeld and Ford had worked together in the 1990s and were close collaborators. Carine Roitfeld, editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, yesterday announced that she will stand down from the role in January. The April 2011 issue will be her last. Roitfeld, 56, would […]
Lucire gets its own search-engine command, and Elyse goes to Taiwan
I am pleased to report that fashion editor Sopheak Seng has been discharged from hospital—those who follow his Tweets know he was laid up there this weekend. Please feel free to send him some good wishes via his Twitter account at @fashiondarlin. Duck Duck Go, our search engine of choice, has very kindly added […]
Britain’s Next Top Model judge Charley Speed to give advice at Live event
Charley Speed, Britain’s Next Top Model judge and former Calvin Klein model, will appear on October 22 and 23 at Britain’s Next Top Model Live at London’s Excel Centre. Speed, 31, began his fashion career at 17 when he modelled with Kate Moss for Calvin Klein. He won Male Model of the Year in […]
Richard Avedon exhibition opens at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Above Richard Avedon: Veruschka, Dress by Kimberly. New York 1967. Copyright ©2009 by the Richard Avedon Foundation. Photographer Richard Avedon continues to influence what defines fashion photography today, six years after his passing. In a new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, entitled Avedon Fashion, 1944–2000, the photographer’s output is comprehensively examined, […]
Range Rover, Victoria Beckham show new Evoque model
Victoria Beckham was one of the guests at the launch of the Range Rover Evoque, held in conjunction with Vogue at Kensington Palace yesterday. Beckham, who was announced as the company’s creative design executive, said she was looking forward to working with Range Rover design director Gerry McGovern. ‘I’m incredibly excited to be […]
