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Diane Von Furstenberg’s Good Advice

Andy Warhol, Von Furstenberg and Monique van Vooren in 1974 © Getty Images
Diane Von Furstenberg turned up last night at the New York Times Center to talk about her leopard-spotted mannequin, part of the Fashion Center’s Sidewalk Catwalk exhibition. As usual, she left us with a lovely little stack of one-liners.
On Twittering: “If you put [...]

Backstage at Castelbajac at Paris Fashion Week F/W10

Images by Spela Kasal
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Bibhu Mohapatra at NY Fashion Week F/W10

Bibhu Mohapatra was having a Mussolini moment. Haunted music piped through a gallery where models, pale-faced and red-lipped, presided like glamorous ghosts from 1930s Europe. A chocolate leather harness fastened across a masculine loden green shirt; silver fox fur lined the hood of a coated canvas parka. The gowns—shimmering, structured bodices that emerged from columns [...]

Simon Spurr at NY Fashion Week F/W10

Images by Jenni Avins and Seana Cavanagh
I’ll be honest. Sometimes I find myself a little flummoxed by menswear. I have a sort of limited gauge of its success, where items generally fall into one of two categories—those that make me want the wearer (dapper dark grey suit), and those that make me want the item [...]

Backstage at VPL at NY Fashion Week F/W10

Images by Kristiina Wilson
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