In the latest news of what the bad economy is eating off: Christian Lacroix just filed for bankruptcy (BUT the show will go on, just a smaller scale presentation in the upcoming couture fashion week), Veronique Branquinho is closing and now let’s look at the main editorial from the last issue of Mixte— ‘Medusa’ ph »

If you have some time on your hand, check out Vogue.com’s feature called “Welcome to my World” in which they document several designer’s typical working day from morning till night, most of them were in preparation for Fall 09′ fashion week. They have to go through meetings and more meetings, ‘make six decisions every five »

Givenchy Fall 09′ ph by Mert & Marcus models: Adriana Lima, Mariacarla Boscono, Ranya Mordarnova, Iris Strubbegger, Leonor Scherrer, Simon Nessman, Jacob Wiechmann This is really something different. New photographers, new casting and new settings. I particularly like the shoot location, doesn’t matter whether it matches the collection or not, but a Givenchy campaign has »

How often do the fashion people do ‘outside’ work that is not related to their own field? Not very. Commonly it is always designer-turn-photographer, but now check out Jean Paul Gaultier in the the styling role for Les Echos (for the clueless, it’s a French newspaper owned by LVMH, see their fashion page), for a »

Osman Yousefzada, the up-and-coming London based designer who is invited to show in Paris next season, has exclusively designed a range of jewelleries for online boutique Astley Clarke. The pieces are very much what you would expect from someone who is into minimalist and futurism— clear, sleek square crystals, neatly joined by sapphires— very artistic, »

Raquel Zimmermann’s No.1 spot at the ultimately prestigious models.com ranking is about to be knocked off after a two year run. So the debate begins at TI as usual (remember those times, the arguments over Sasha vs Raquel?). Like previously, the two models gunning for the No.1 spot are tricky… both of them are very »

Not trying to catch up with the Star Trek fever here, but the trend that is the galactic prints on dresses. Probably the starter of them all, is Risto Bimbiloski (Louis Vuitton’s knitwear designer), whose Spring 09′ creations have found fans in supermodels like Angela Lindvall and Anouck Lepere. The dresses with the starry images of »

60 Minutes [CBS] May 2009 Watch video here [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6J82fu2Bw] Barbara Walters [ABC] Dec 2006 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEkmKyBzDOE] Sometimes, I wish an insider can interview her instead of an outsider, because we can obviously get more scoop out of it. But seems like it will always be a well respected outsider that can have her sitting down for »

Something that I do twice every year: splurge on the ultimate collections book. You know those kinds of books that have almost every single image of the most important collections printed in cold hard pages? I like style.com and all, but clicking through the images one by one and wait for it to load can »

Is Iris Strubegger their new muse? Come Fall 09′ campaign season, she will be appearing in the Givenchy and Valentino ads , both lensed by Mert & Marcus. I have mentioned before that Givenchy is going to be ‘very Supreme‘, because Ranya Mordanova is also confirmed for Givenchy, both girls are from Supreme management. Imagine »