Plus, the growing accessibility of cashmere.
Plus, his thoughts on the Met Gala and why he changed his mind about logos.
"Paris is honestly just a bigger audience, and it was time for our audience to get bigger."
The demonstrators played recordings of shrieking animals and shouted "Shame on you!" at the designer.
Plus: the special gift that allows him work hard and play hard.
In a talk at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Monday evening, Wintour spoke about that kontroversial cover, the (ignored) advice she gives to designers and Oscar de la Renta's last words to her daughter, Bee.
Victoria's Secret model Barbara Fialho beefs up (literally) in CR Fashion Book's "ode" to Italian artist Caravaggio. {CR Fashion Book} The reviews are in for Alexa Chung's new book It--and it's not pretty. One reviewer calling the book "one great big enhanced selfie." Ouch. {Front Row View} Designers are taking time off their busy fashion week schedules to vote at New York's mayoral elections. Find out who designers like Rebecca Minkoff and Bibhu Mohapatra voted for! {PopSugar Fashion}
Oh, Karl. That's really all we have to say after watching the promo clips for Alina Cho's upcoming "Fashion Week: Backstage Pass," in which she interviews everyone's favorite candid and cat-obsessed fashion personality, Karl Lagerfeld.
Last night, 100 of the world's most influential people--well, according to TIME, anyway--were celebrated at the magazine's annual 100 Gala in New York. As one might expect from such accomplished influencers, the red carpet offered up plenty of notable outfits-- from Mia Farrow's sweet Boston tribute to Lena Dunham's divisive Saint Laurent outfit. Click through to see all the looks.
We chatted up a bunch of fashion industry people today to see how they're prepping for the storm, how they'll dress, and whether or not they're worried. From Tim Blanks' plans to buy Timberlands to Cara Delevingne's concern that it will turn into "fashion Lord of the Flies," here's what the industry thinks of Nemo:
Is there anything that rattles Tory Burch? On Wednesday, the designer sat down with CNN’s Alina Cho to chat style, business, and of course, that ongoing lawsuit with her ex-husband, in front of an audience of industry VIPs, WWD is reporting. But if you were hoping for any digs or gaffes--which other designers seem so fond of doling out--you'll be sorely disappointed. Burch remains as unflappable as ever.
Raf Simons' first show for Dior was over a week ago--a veritable eternity in internet time--but that doesn't mean we're tired of hearing about it. Alina Cho, CNN's style reporter, was at the show and got some primo interviews with Raf himself, Marc Jacobs, Sidney Toledano, and Anna Wintour. We tuned into CNN International this morning to catch the spot and learned some new things like exactly how many flowers adorned the walls of the salons at the show (spoiler: one million!), what Anna thought of the collection, and why the heck Sidney Toledano et al took so long to choose a successor to Galliano. Read on for all the nuggets:
]New York Fashion Week runways may lose the best legs in the business this season, if rumors are to be believed. Thanks to the alert eyes over at Fashin, there's some Twitter rumbling that Karlie Kloss is skipping the season for a better opportunity. Alina Cho, a hard-news reporter who's bringing back fashion coverage at CNN (check out the profile on her in the New York Daily News--she's the new Elsa Klensch!) tweeted (via @AlinaChoCNN) this nugget last night:
Karl Lagerfeld is many things, not the least of which is a smart business man. CNN's Alina Cho explored this side of the designer/photographer/direct