Category: Bow Ties and Black Cocktail Dresses at Lanvin

If you’re looking for a black cocktail dress this season, Lanvin is your label. Okay, let’s forget about the fur skirt under the patent leather jacket and assume that little mistake was just for the fashion editors in the audience. Much of the rest of the runway was completely wearable.

Lanvin Fall 2008 (Credit: Getty Images) […]

Olivier Theyskens influences other designers — particularly American ones. Case in point: The ostrich feathers he showed for Nina Ricci last October showed up all over the New York runways this season, from Carolina Herrera to Ralph Lauren. Little wonder that Pamela Golbin, curator of the Louvre MuseumÂ’s costume collection, was at his show […]

It’s truly hard to believe that the guy who sent skinned foxes and crocodiles down his own runway a few days ago is the same fellow who creates the uber-classy Hermes women’s collection, but that’s Jean Paul Gaultier for you, and it proves he’s one of this era’s most talented, versatile designers.

Hermes Fall 2008 […]

It’s truly hard to believe that the guy who sent skinned foxes and crocodiles down his own runway a few days ago is the same fellow who creates the uber-classy Hermes women’s collection, but that’s Jean Paul Gaultier for you, and it proves he’s one of this era’s most talented, versatile designers.

Hermes Fall 2008 […]

It was a royal nightmare.
A dark cavernous space. Crows cawing. A barren tree covered in silver parachute cloth. And then the models entered with frizzed electric-socket hair and black Victorian-inspired suits. I nearly expected Tim Burton to burst from the front row at Alexander McQueen’s nightmaresque show.

Alexander McQueen Fall 2008 (Credit: Associated Press) […]

It was a royal nightmare.
A dark cavernous space. Crows cawing. A barren tree covered in silver parachute cloth. And then the models entered with frizzed electric-socket hair and black Victorian-inspired suits. I nearly expected Tim Burton to burst from the front row at Alexander McQueen’s nightmaresque show.

Alexander McQueen Fall 2008 (Credit: Associated Press) […]

Valentino is the latest fashion brand to find itself with a new designer at its helm. Indeed, those at Paris fashion week and beyond eagerly awaited Alessandra Facchinetti’s debut show to see where she would take the house that founder Valentino Garavani built.
Senior fashion writer Teri Agins spoke with Ms. Facchinetti, Valentino Fashion […]

After the brouhaha of fashion week dies down, style editors and buyers begin the business of fashion: figuring out what looks should make it onto the covers of magazines and into stores. What you see on the runway won’t always get picked up — and if it does, it often will be altered to be […]

In his third big fashion show in eight days, the artistically ambidextrous Karl Lagerfeld delivered just what we expect of Chanel during the fashion house’s show at the Grand Palais this morning — a lot of Chanel and a little jolt.
First, we got the precise little frayed-edge suits — the bread and butter of Chanel’s […]

See a selection of boardroom-ready looks that hit the runways in New York, Milan and Paris.

Fashion’s runways are supposed to set trends and gather attention, but the outlandishly dramatic looks can turn off people who are looking for clothes they could see themselves wearing. This season — for fall clothes that will appear in […]