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Spring 2012 preview: Milan

Susie Sheffman — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:00:59 +0000

We round up the best in show, best finale and top invitation designs of Milan fashion week. View our editor’s picks »

We explore the new Diana Vreeland art book with writer and would-be granddaughter Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Randi Bergman — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:00:39 +0000

Beloved for her wildly original style and joie de vivre, Diana Vreeland is right up there with fashion’s most legendary. The famed editrix’s career, spanning 50 years—from her first role in the fashion department at Harper’s Bazaar in 1936, to becoming editor in chief of Vogue in 1962, and moving on to the Metropolitan Museum [...]

MFW diary: Eyeing Tod’s spring styles, plus Diana Vreeland by the pool at Villa Necchi

Susie Sheffman — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:00:06 +0000

At the gorgeous Villa Necchi, for an equally gorgeous Tod’s presentation. The sun is shining and it’s all I can do to keep myself from plunging into the pool (the same one featured in the Tilda Swinton film, I Am Love). Viewing the collection over cappuccino with Derek Lam, Tod’s creative director, it’s remarkable to [...]

SNP’s word of the day: Vulgarity

Sarah Nicole Prickett — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:00:42 +0000

Word: Vulgarity Meaning: An act or expression that defies good taste. Usage: “Vulgarity is the conduct of other people.” –Oscar Wilde You should know it because: China has just, again, banned a slew of pop songs for being “in poor taste” and “vulgar.” In the fashion-y sense of the word, this is kinda redundant; vulgarity [...]

LFW diary: Mary Katrantzou’s garden of delights, Marios Schwab’s pearls and perforations

Sarah Nicole Prickett — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:34:10 +0000

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells and golden fish and pretty maids all in a row. Oh, and lotus flowers and Ming vases and tea-room wallpaper and… all this print which is more than I have words for. It left me faint. Fall ’11 is only Mary Katrantzou’s sixth [...]

Daily reads: SJP plays Vreeland and behind-the-scenes Meisel

Jennifer Campbell — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:35:03 +0000

Yay! Chanel Iman confirmed for the new House of Style. [Fashionista] DIY Balmain from our favourite auntie. [Auntie Fashion] Depending on how you feel about SJP, the Harper’s Bazaar editorial with her posing as Diana Vreeland will either be amazing or a travesty. [Cyana Trend Land] Suzy Menkes contemplates old houses scooping up new talent [...]

Daily reads: Everything’s peachy at Nina Ricci and House of Style returns.

Jennifer Campbell — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:25:51 +0000

Ever wonder what it really looks like in a fashion closet. This is pretty much it. [NYTimes] Despite earlier reports, everything seems fine between Nina Ricci and Olivier Theyskens. We really can’t take all this back and forth. [NYMag] Get thee to Rome for an exhibition on the relationship between Italian fashion and the divine [...]