Category: Video: A Buyer, Behind the Scenes

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 […]

Handbags, shoes and other accessories are often the big earners for major fashion houses. For Fall 2008, Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior continued to bet on bags with recognizable logos, while Chloe and Hermes focused on construction details. At Kenzo, some purses matched coats. And for his royalty-themed collection, Alexander McQueen created evening purses inspired […]

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 […]

He did it again! The newly timely Marc Jacobs started the Louis Vuitton show well ahead of the normal schedule, leaving fashion editors, movie stars — and me! — racing to their seats at the Louvre museum just in time for the first model to strut down the runway Sunday afternoon — roughly […]

Handbags, shoes and other accessories are often the big earners for major fashion houses. For Fall 2008, Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior continued to bet on bags with recognizable logos, while Chloe and Hermes focused on construction details. At Kenzo, some purses matched coats. And for his royalty-themed collection, Alexander McQueen created evening purses inspired […]

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) […]

He did it again! The newly timely Marc Jacobs started the Louis Vuitton show well ahead of the normal schedule, leaving fashion editors, movie stars — and me! — racing to their seats at the Louvre museum just in time for the first model to strut down the runway Sunday afternoon — roughly […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]