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Yea, Nay, Or Eh: Vanessa Traina In Look One From Givenchy Spring ‘09

We wondered if Spring's S&M trend would have legs off the runway. The answer: Yes, if you have legs like Vanessa Traina's. What do you think of her peekaboo Givenchy?—Nicole Phelps Photo: Eric Ryan / Getty Images

Katherine Fleming Carries The Future

If you spend enough time with designers, you quickly realize that many of them can't resist test-driving the wares on which they're currently working. In terms of fashion's time-space continuum, that means they're wearing today what they'll be selling to you a year from now. At her first official trunk ...

Victoire De Castellane’s Court Of Appeal

"I made up an imaginary kingdom about kings and queens of lost civilizations," said Victoire de Castellane, explaining the thinking behind her incredible collection of diamond pendants and rings for Dior. Each piece—kings for pendants, queens for rings—wears its own crown, tiara, necklace, lace collar, or ruff, and even earrings ...

Analyzing Aggy, Sayonara Celebrity Lines, And More…

Is Agyness Deyn "slightly dim…filled primarily with airy, whipped pink goo"? Or is she a calculating controller of her own public persona? The Times investigates. [NYT] The death knell for celebrity clothing lines has been ringing for some time, but it seems like now we really will be seeing the ...

Blasblog From Paris: Backstage Bubbles

I know a few women who say they prefer couture to ready-to-wear because of the lack of frenzy and excitement. But really, it's all about the alcohol and free food. Back on Monday, Dior invited guests downstairs into John Galliano's mirrored studio under the salon where he had just debuted ...

Boucheron Fêtes Its Marc Newson-Designed Necklace

It's been reported recently that shoppers are now more interested in investment purchases—things like jewelry—than the throwaway clothes that seemed so indispensible in flusher economic times. So the challenge for a luxury jeweler these days is to remind customers that it exists. Boucheron did a good job of that in ...

“V” As In Victory

Six thousand applications later, Ford Models and V Magazine's V A Model Search contest has yielded a winner: one Lea Groesland from Norway. Finally, Siri Tollerød will have someone to speak to in her own tongue! If past winner Amanda Laine's success is anything to go by (she booked ...

Isaac Mizrahi, Curator

Does Isaac Mizrahi sleep? It hardly seems likely. Not only is Mizrahi prepping Spring '10 collections for both his own label and Liz Claiborne, where he came on board as creative director last year, but he plays a starring part in Bravo's new series The Fashion Show, he blogs, and ...

Blasblog From Paris: Armani’s Full Front-Row Spectrum

I'll be the first person to admit that when it comes to a fashion show, I'm just as intrigued by what happens in the front row as I am by what's coming down the runway. So thank goodness for the Armani Privé show, which stuffed its front row with a ...

Postcard From Cape Town: A One-On-One With The One And Only Pat Cavendish O’Neil

I had a feast in Africa. No ordinary feast, mind you—I was the luncheon guest of Pat Cavendish O'Neil, heiress and author of A Lion in the Bedroom, a charmingly written and juicy chronicle of the lavish life she led as daughter of one of Britain's most famous beauties, Enid ...