Harpers Bazaar’s effusive executive editor Laura Brown, host of our fave YouTube series “The Look” dishes on touring Karl Lagerfeld’s bathroom with the Kaiser himself, her life slogan (it’s a good one), and whether she’d ever want to do her own show.
Being the wife of a Barneys New York executive certainly has its perks–like, say, snagging your well-connected husband’s ‘plus one’ invite to industry insider events that most people only dream of attending.
Sharon Socol–wife of Howard Socol, who served as Barneys’s CEO from 2001 to 2008–used that exclusive access to her advantage and then some. Toting a 35mm loaded with black and white film, Socol, an avid photographer since age seven, snapped behind-the-scenes photos of fashion shows, parties, and some of the industry’s most legendary characters.
Recently, she compiled those photos into a book titled Plus One: An Outsider’s Photographic Journey Into the World of Fashion–the release of which garnered a crowd of fashion’s elite last night on Barneys’s 9th floor.
Sunday afternoons usually aren’t the best time to rouse fashion industry professionals out of bed for an event–especially when it’s below freezing out–but when it’s Donna Karan’s name on the invitation, they flock in droves.
And that’s just what happened on Sunday at the premiere of Haven’t We Met Before, Karan’s new hosiery commercial conceived and directed by Anjelica Huston, starring Felicity Jones and Smash’s Jack Davenport.
Alexis Bittar has taken his colorful outlook on jewelry to Bloomingdale’s for an exclusive collaboration with the department store.
We already know that Padma Lakshmi’s a jack-of-all-trades. The former model hosts Bravo TV show Top Chef, writes cook books, does a ton of charity work, hangs out with cool people in the front row of fashion shows, has a fine jewelry line, and now, she’s designed a line of costume jewelry for HSN.
Lulu Guinness, she of the quirky, embellished bags, is finally hitting the high street. Later this month, the designer will officially launch LULU by Lulu Guinness, a diffusion line exclusively sold at JC Penney.
We chatted with her about English fashion and everyone’s favorite English fashion-wearer, Kate Middleton. Read on.
He may not be a household name, but renowned architect Peter Marino has played a key role in shaping the image of some of the world’s top luxury brands, designing stores for the most elite names in the business. He’s the man behind any Louis Vuitton, Dior, or Chanel boutique that you’ve ever visited.
So it makes perfect sense that the Financial Times invited Marino to speak at the dinner portion of last week’s FT Business of Luxury Summit at the Plaza Hotel. There, clad in his signature all-leather duds, he sat down in discussion with the paper’s fashion editor Vanessa Freidman to speak about the notable artwork he’s commissioned for his bespoke boutiques. “I think luxury brands want people to equate anything exquisite in life with their product,” Marino said of the reasoning behind his design hallmark.
Things that happened at Betsey Johnson‘s ‘Fashion Icon’ discussion with Fern Mallis at the 92nd Street Y last night: Cartwheels, flashing, and some talk of bankruptcy.
Who stood out in fashion this year?
From the most buzzed about model to the hotspot no one saw coming to the
coolest new French brand, read on for who we think made the biggest splash in the fashion industry in 2012.
It seems that every year, Karl Lagerfeld becomes more outspoken. In fact, in 2012 it seemed that news wasn’t news until The Kaiser had weighed in–and weigh in he did.
Read on for Lagerfeld’s most memorable quotes of the year–from his rather sensible take on Alexander Wang’s Balenciaga appointment to waxing poetic on “famous beauty” Choupette.
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n Friday, French perfumer Frederic Malle cut through the evening’s fog to make an appearance at his longtime home, Barneys New York.
“I see Barneys as sort of my second wife,” he told us of the store. And just like any good husband, Malle has done something special for his better half: He’s retooled the bottles of some of his most famous fragrances to include his abstract sketches on their labels.
Deepak Chopra, the writer and controversial physician, isn’t the first name that comes to mind when it comes to fashion. But like any good thinking man, Chopra has broadened his horizons and teamed up with Rachel Roy on a collaboration of jewelry to benefit his Urban Yogi Initiative.
Chopra told us how this unlikely collaboration came about.
