Fashion week

This September, American designers showed their spring collections just as the recession celebrated its first birthday. The big question: would the economy change Fashion Week? Yes, Anna Wintour tried to save retail with Fashion’s Night Out—but even Marie Antoinette didn’t say “let...

The director of Coco Avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel) Anne Fontaine and its star Audrey Tautou wanted to set one thing straight before the film's premiere Tuesday night at the Paris Theatre: This movie is not haute couture. 

By Meredith Bryan At the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards at Splashlight Studios on Monday, Nov. 17, election fashion was still on everyone's mind. "She saw that dress and she liked it," said Narcisco Rodriguez, who designed Michelle Obama's Election Night dress. "She saw it on the runway, she chose it, I gues...

By Meredith Bryan Love Heals benefit, 440 West 14th Street, 6 p.m., invite only; Glamour Women of the Year Awards, Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, 6:30 p.m., invite only; Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation’s A Magical Evening, Marriot Marquis, 1535 Broadway, 6:30 p.m., 212-763-8594; New Yo...

By Hillary Frey MR. MCCARTHY WORKS FAST; this collection, backed in part by close friend and makeup artist Kristin Gallegos, was made in just six and a half days. Unlike other designers, he worked directly with the fabrics he’s using, only later hiring a technical designer, Rebekah Allen. He needed the bac...

By Simon Doonan Just to refresh your memory, the Fashion Group International Awards (an annual hosting gig for yours truly) is to the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards what the Golden Globes is to the Oscars—that is, the naughty, cuter little sister.

By Meredith Bryan SHOES HAVE INCREASINGLY become a focus of runways, with titanic designers like Manolo Blahnik and Christian Loubotin collaborating with young up-and-comers like Peter Som and Chris Benz, and other fledgling designers, like Alexander Wang, branching into footwear just several sea...