During his 13 years with the brand, the designer created minimal, elegant evening gowns that allowed their wearer to shine.

• By Dhani Mau
  Apr 20, 2016

What to wear if you're a quirky art teacher, but also an austere minimalist.

• By Chantal Fernandez
  Feb 18, 2016

Francisco Costa, Thakoon Panichgul, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim weighed in at Wednesday night's WSJ Innovator Awards.

• By Gemma Kim
  Nov 5, 2015

Thursday night's event also honored Francisco Costa, creative director of womenswear at Calvin Klein, who said he wanted to keep the attention on the students.

• By Chantal Fernandez
  May 8, 2015

A well-heeled crowd celebrated Mallis and her first book, "Fashion Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis," at Saks Fifth Avenue on Monday night.

• By Chantal Fernandez
  Apr 21, 2015

Francisco Costa ended New York Fashion Week with a pared back, deconstructed bang via his 10th anniversary collection for Calvin Klein. Tomorrow, the collection becomes available to buy on Moda Operandi (yep, they're fast!), so we chatted with Costa and Moda's Director of Ready to Wear Indre Rockefeller about the inspiration for Costa's collection, working together and how a Moda Operandi trunk show actually comes about, which pieces are Moda's favorites, and how tech-savvy shoppers and retailers are changing the industry.

• By Dhani Mau
  Sep 27, 2013

We've given you a sneak peek at what fashion week is like for an editor-in-chief thanks to Glamour's Cindi Leive--but what does it look like for a fashion director? Glamour's own Anne Christensen is giving us the behind-the-scenes scoop on what fashion week was like for her.

• By Fashionista
  Sep 18, 2013

Francisco Costa is celebrating 10 successful years as the women's creative director for Calvin Klein collection. In advance of the debut of his spring 2014 collection, he reflected back on his career with WWD's Bridget Foley, revealing some interesting tidbits about former boss Calvin Klein and his tabloid exploits, celebrity dressing, and runway shows as "propaganda."

• By Dhani Mau
  Sep 12, 2013

A couple of teeny earrings are causing a big controversy. Gisele Bündchen bears the brunt of Middle America's rage over her baby daughter's pierced ears--how young is too young to visit the Piercing Pagoda? {HuffPo Canada} Happy Anniversary, Francisco Costa! This year marks the creative director's 10th anniversary with Calvin Klein, and he's got some major celebration plans for Fashion Week... {Elle UK} Rihanna reportedly has a phone on which only BFF Cara Delevingne and her mom can reach her, and she uses it to confide her fears that her career is reaching an expiration date. (Does this remind anyone else of Spencer Pratt's "Bro Phone" and "Girlfriend Phone"?) {Entertainment Wise via The Sun} As for Cara's maybe ex-BFF, DKNY tapped Rita Ora for its resort campaign (ousting the brand's fall face, Ms. Delevingne herself). {Vogue UK}

• By Isabella Biedenharn
  Jul 31, 2013

Leonardo DiCaprio's Gatsby Charm Doesn't Work on Cara Delevingne: The model-of-the-moment remained unimpressed with the actor's lunge-style approach to flirting. Want Emilia Clarke's Elaborate Game of Thrones Braids or Zooey Deschanel's Adorable Waves on New Girl? Here are some YouTube tutorials on how to achieve your favorite TV heroines' hair. Khloe Kardashian And Hubby Kaught In Kopyright Trouble With New York State: NY Governor Andrew Cuomo has threatened to sue Rich Soil, the t-shirt company owned by Khloe's husband Lamar Odom, if it continues to sell t-shirts that feature a knock-off of the state's logo.

• By Miranda Barros
  May 26, 2013

This past weekend, the fashion crowd made its annual pilgrimage to Savannah, Georgia for Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)'s senior fashion show--and this year I had the pleasure of being a part of it--and even got to interview Francisco Costa, this year's recipient of the Andre Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award. We chatted about Savannah, his own fashion education, career challenges, and celebrity dressing--including his experience outfitting a few A-listers for this month's Met Gala. Also--expect another mass collaboration in the near future.

• By Dhani Mau
  May 20, 2013

The Savannah College of Art and Design's (SCAD) School of Fashion is one of the best in the country, and the student fashion show is an event that we always look forward to. Last year's senior fashion show left us seriously impressed with the students' skills, and we have no doubt it will be even better this year. Take a front row seat with us and watch the next big names in fashion bring their designs to life on the catwalk as we livestream the show on Saturday, May 18 at 8pm EST--in other words, now!

• By Miranda Barros
  May 18, 2013

Francisco Costa served up the sexy (in a subtle, minimalist way, of course) for his spring collection for Calvin Klein. The last collection of the week, it was also one of the best.

• By Leah Chernikoff
  Sep 14, 2012

Fans of Francisco Costa's chic, unfussy minimalism, for whom Calvin Klein Collection is a little out of reach, price-wise, rejoice: The designer's lim

• By Dhani Mau
  May 9, 2012

Kate Upton Dougied her way to viral fame and today, she's put us all in a trance Cat Daddying in an itsy bitsy bikini for Terry TV. *Sigh* But she i

• By Jihan Forbes
  May 1, 2012

Minimalists on a budget, take note: Macy's latest designer collaboration is going to be right up your (very straight and non-cluttered) alley. Macy's

• By Cheryl Wischhover
  Apr 3, 2012

Hello Kitty Lingerie Coming Soon: Lingerie brand Hanky Panky has teamed up with everyone's favorite mouthless cartoon cat, Hello Kitty, on a collection of undergarments. (Why no mouth? Because Hello Kitty "speaks from the heart.") Since there are honestly too many R-rated, half-witty comments and puns just begging to be made about this collaboration, we'll spare you entirely and will simply say: The collection launches in May. {Racked} Another Victoria's Secret Angel is Pregnant: There must be something in the holy water at Victoria's Secret because yet another Angel is pregnant! Adriana Lima announced yesterday that she's expecting her second child, which puts her on the growing list of growing bikini babes (including Lily Aldridge and Alessandra Ambrosio). No word on how far along she is, but the VS Fashion Show takes place in November (8 mos away), and we wouldn't be a bit surprised if she shows up with a six pack. {People} Anna Wintour Parties with the Democrats: As the election creeps closer, fashion's love affair with the Democratic Party hasn't shown signs of fading. Monday night, Anna Wintour hosted a fund-raiser to re-elect NY Senator Dem Kirsten Gillibrand, who also sat front row at Carolina Herrera's show last month. Other politically savvy fashion folk in attendance included DVF, Kenneth Cole, Francisco Costa, and Michel Kors. {WWD}

• By Nora Crotty
  Mar 21, 2012

Francisco Costa, the king of minimalism, went a more maximalist route for Calvin Klein's Fall 2012 collection. Opting for cinched waists and volumin

• By Steff Yotka
  Feb 17, 2012

NYFW came to a close with two immaculate collections by two of New York's most important and relevant designers, Narciso Rodriguez and Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein. Both designers went back to their roots for SS11. Cut was the star of each collection, each reworking minimalism in a season where it seems like everyone is striving to be the next Helmut Lang. But Rodriguez and Costa are anything but followers. Each has such a strong, focused voice--their collections stood out from the whitewashed masses like rays of light.

• By Steff Yotka
  Sep 19, 2010

Yesterday, I visited best-selling psychic Roxanne Hulderman, who was giving readings to editors in Michael Bolla's Chelsea Mansion. I did get a personal reading--Roxanne is amazing!--but more importantly, I asked the well-regarded fortune teller to predict the future for five of New York Fashion Week's biggest stars. Click through to see what she had to say.

• By Lauren Sherman
  Sep 3, 2010

1. Was anyone else outraged that Michael Kors wasn’t judging? Did he somehow know he would be getting the CFDA’s Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement A

• By Cheryl Wischhover
  Mar 19, 2010

“Kate! Kate! Kate! Over here! Kate!” There was a mob of photographers—unlike any I’ve seen all week—surrounding the sidewal

• By Kate Kaunitz
  Feb 19, 2010

Well hold on to your Tavi hat, because the pint-size fashion blogger's landed her most mainstream gig yet. She's written a column in this month's Kate

• By Britt Aboutaleb
  Dec 9, 2009

Over the past couple of years, it's become all the rage to throw fashion events in China. Karl Lagerfeld has definitely been out in front on that one

• By Abby Gardner
  Dec 7, 2009