McQueen’s Unofficial Muse, Lady Gaga Takes to the Design Table

After the tragic and unexpected death of designer Alexander McQueen, many have wondered about the direction his namesake brand will take. There is new speculation that pop star and worldwide fashion icon Lady Gaga may be part of the next step for the label. It has yet to be confirmed, but there is talk that […]

The RSVPs for Fashion Meets Finance Are Rolling In, We’re Rolling Over Laughing

Are you a stereotypical fashionista in need of a rich boyfriend to support your shopping habit? Or perhaps a trader who can’t get a second look without dropping your annual bonus into the conversation? If you’re in Manhattan on April 8th, you’re in luck! Fashion Meets Finance will be hosting a spring soiree at the Empire Hotel (fresh off its staring role in Gossip Girl).

If the premise isn’t enough to get a laugh out of you, perhaps the guest list will. To say it’s notoriously unreliable would be an understatement, but the names speak for themselves.

Fashion Community Toolbox: 30+ Social Style Sites (Plus the Ones Who Didn’t Last)

Everyone uses Facebook, some people are still using MySpace, and Twitter has found more than its share of fashion followers. But even though MySpace has 580,000 fashion “friends” and Facebook counts 790,000 people in the US who are interested in fashion, chances are that most of those people aren’t there specifically to talk style. Here are a few places where they are.

Love, but No Marriage: the Romantic Destinations Where You Can’t Put a Ring On It

Thinking of getting married in the country of your dreams? How about just a honeymoon?

Many people around the world dream of a destination wedding where they can be married abroad. With a small wedding party, the prices of certain locations can make this seem easy to achieve (or at least no more than the cost of a larger local wedding). Then you discover that the place you’re most keen on won’t allow you to actually be married. Here are a few of the romantic destinations that are happy to play host during your honeymoon – as long as your first wedding takes place somewhere else.

MTV Takes the Jersey Shore Worldwide

Have you been pointing at your abs, asking your international friends to check out your “situation” and getting puzzled looks?

This week, they may understand. Or not.

MTV’s taking the Snooki, J-Woww and Situation show on the road and pushing it out to more than 30 countries this week, pushed up from an originally planned late spring/early summer roll out.

We Have a Hunch About Your Twitter Followers

If you’re a technophile, you already know that Hunch is Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake’s latest company, and that it makes pretty accurate decisions about what you’re like based on how you answer a few questions. Hunch’s latest time killing, but fun, service is a Twitter followers analyzer that makes educated guesses about the people following you.

@Karl_Lagerfeld followers: prefer smaller portions of food that are arranged well, have dated or hooked up with someone they met online, choose the New York Times over the Wall Street Journal or USA Today as their free hotel paper of choice, can make reservations in 2 or 3 languages (only at restaurants that don’t overfeed you, of course), aren’t reading Vogue for the articles, think All-You-Can-Eat buffets are gross, are Mac people, and like celebrity gossip, reality TV and awards shows among other things.

Greasy Hair: If Everyone Jumped…

We know times are tough, but greasy hair as a new fashion statement? The newest trend taking over the runways is one most consider a sign of poor hygiene. At shows by Alexander Wang, Jonathan Saunders and Acne models with severely slicked, messy locks were the trend. {Refinery 29} You know who we blame? Vampires. […]

MZ Wallace: Show and Sell

Though MZ Wallace has been around for ten years now, it’s become pretty firmly established that even those who can afford the highest priced items, aren’t lining up to buy them in the quantities they used to. With words like “classic,” and “value” becoming more fashionable than “extravagant” and “luxury,” the shift in consumer preference certainly can’t hurt in the brand’s quest to become the luxury lover’s second bag.

Saks Fifth Avenue Makes Cuts to Improve Revenue

Even the most luxurious of fashion retailers, Saks Fifth Avenue, can’t escape the hard hit from the economic downturn. “I doubt you’re going to see a lot of new stores opening on the full-line side,” said Stephen Sadove, Saks’ Chief Executive. “It’s going to be making the current stores more productive.” Sadove was speaking about […]

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