Anna Piaggi, legendary Italian fashion editor and a style icon in every sense of the word, has died, according to La Repubblica. She was 81. News of her death first hit the internet when close friend and designer Stefano Gabbanna tweeted, “RIP Anna Piaggi… :((((( ciao grande Anna!!!” Since then, there has been an outpouring Read more →
Vogue Italia EIC Franca Sozzani has snatched the title of UN Goodwill Ambassador. She’ll be working with industry insiders to promote sustainable development and much more. {Telegraph}
World-renowned milliner Stephen Jones will be fabricating fascinators for Raf Simons’ Dior Haute Couture premiere. Jones called the collection “exciting, beautiful and new,” but wouldn’t say much more than that. {Vogue UK}
At last year’s Webby awards, Anna Wintour told us that “sometimes geeks can be chic,” and the rise of fashion-forward online games only reinforces her statement. {WWD}
Mary Katrantzou, reigning queen of jaw-droppingly beautiful digital prints, won’t, or rather can’t, show pre-fall or resort collections because her intricate patterns take too long to produce (hint: four days to make a single print). {Vogue UK}
LONDON–There’s something furtive-feeling about taking public transportation to the Dorchester. The storied Park Lane hotel is more a chauffeur kind of place, you see. But last night, a clutch of East London’s hardest-working young designers looked wide-eyed and happy to have made it there any way they could, as they sipped Laurent Perrier and hobnobbed with Daphne Guinness to celebrate their status as finalists in the first-ever Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize.
Guests of honor included Louise Goldin, Mary Katrantzou, Chau Har Lee, Hermione de Paula and Thomas Tait. It was the judging panel, though, that really brought the star power: there was Guinness, resplendent in a floor-length sequin gown and a cream lace headpiece that she drew across her face like a veil; Yasmin Le Bon in a flippy little Alaia dress; Manolo Blahnik looking natty and correct in a grey suit and evergreen velvet slippers with swimming-pool-aqua bows; and milliner Stephen Jones, wearing a three-piece suit and green cap (dream client: Michelle Obama, because, “she’s not really a hat person”).
