- Mazes! Models! Moss! The scene from Chanel’s star-studded front row…”Grandiose, magical, and unforgettable!” says Kate Moss
- Gisele Is on the cover of US Harper’s Bazaar
- How do you predict global good taste in a time of economic downturn? LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault is quietly confident . A must read in The Wall St Journal for anyone interested in the richest man in France, and one of the most powerful in fashion
- Sex, Lies and Photoshop! A Fascinating video from the experts on retouching
- See the trailer from CNN following French Vogue Editor Carine Roitfeld during fashion week (with snippets from with Karl Lagerfeld, Hedi Slimane, Marc Jacobs, and Mario Testino, and a shoot where Carine directs with Patrick Demarchelier.)
- The New Yorker’s biannual Style Issue hits newsstands this week with — what else? — a Michelle Obama cover. Then read about the diffident New York Times society photographer Bill Cunningham. and his willfully ascetic lifestyle, including living in a former artist’s studio “without a private bathroom or cooking facilities,” and sleeping on “a piece of foam, a wooden board and several milk crates.” reports WWD
- Check out the trailer for Coco Avant Chanel, a film of Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel’s early life, played by the divine Audrey Tautou. In French!
- Read a fabulous interview with Lanvin’s Alber Elbaz in The New Yorker’s Style Issue this week (Asked what he imagines life would be like if he were thin, he replied, “Amazing,” with real conviction.”)
- Dree Hemingway is the new It girl and “the next new name on everyone’s lips. (her great-grandpa is Ernest, mom is Mariel)—Check her out at whowhatwear.com and her starring role in the Halston video
- Cathy Horyn , the fashion writer at The New York Times, blogs about the things she loves about Paris! “I love waking up on a sunny Paris morning knowing that my plan for the day includes a manicure.” .Me too
- “Where in the world is Martin Margiela? Judging from the house’s fall collection, the designer has finally left the building” says WWD
- The fashion flock is Twittering ( see last week’s FiFi Report) all over the runways…read the amusing snippets posted from the FROW ( Front Row)…..
- Fashion crowd is getting cranky, grumbling loudly about the eight-day Paris runway season…twitter.com/womensweardaily
- Snow is stinging my eyes at Galliano! What the heck is this stuff made of? Twitter.com
- Bubbles and babushkas on the John Galliano runway. But did he count on giving his packed front row a collective asthma attack! Twitter.com/themoment/
- Hermes: Tatiana Patitz almost trips and falls 3x! Painful to watch. Someone pls take this girl to a safe place where she can’t hurt herself? Twitter.com/cutblog/
- Kate Moss in a fit of giggles amid the frenzy that met her arrival at Chanel’s show, literally wiping tears from her eyes. http://twitter.com/womensweardaily
- It’s Pamela Anderson at the Vivienne Westwood show…
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