Marie Antoinette is continuing to prove a source of fashion inspiration this season, with Australian actress Mia Wasikowska doing her best impression of the famed French queen in the latest Miu Miu video campaign. The technicolor pop art-influenced ad sees Wasikowska showcasing the Spring/Summer 2012 offerings of the Italian fashion house including an array of [...]

With a gold metal finish and an original cylindrical shape, this new Stella Cadente boutique recently unveiled on Boulevard Beaumarchais in Paris, is quite an attention-grabber. The visitors are welcomed in the shop through an ellipse-shaped window, allowing a sneak peek inside. The design of the boutique was implemented by the creative team at Atelier [...]

When I met Laure Kczekotowska, a fashion couture designer at a party in Paris, we chatted for 30 minutes. Her long blonde hair and flawless skin made me question her when she said she has been designing for 15 years. After all, she must have started at the age of 5 since she didn’t look [...]

The fashion designer is about to unveil her official London 2012 kit for Team GB – how has she managed to make the McCartney name her own?

Kate Middleton made her first solo appearance while Prince William is in the Falklands, wearing an affordable gray Jesire dress and four-inch heels. The 30-year-old Duchess of Cambridge attended a preview of Lucian Freud paintings at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The National Portrait Gallery is one of several charities Middleton officially supports. Middleton [...]

Here’s the very first look at Keira Knightley as Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle, a new campaign for the Chanel fragrance. Talking about the new campaign, Keira said: “I knew it was something about a motorbike and they said something about a catsuit. It was completely unexpected. It is the Chanel superwoman I think.” Previously: Actress Keira [...]

Christian Louboutin is set to enter the beauty industry, having teamed up with Batallure Beauty to form Christian Louboutin Beauté. The luxury beauty products are expected to launch late next year. “Twenty years ago I started what I thought would be a small adventure, which ended up becoming a company,” Louboutin said. “The beauty adventure [...]

Meanwhile, on the heels of Brad Pitt being named the new face of Chanel N°5, another Hollywood star is featured in a luxury campaign. Here’s the exclusive first look at Charlize Theron for Dior. In the new campaign, the actress spotlights the new white model in the Dior VIII collection of ceramic timepieces. What do [...]

H&M is taking a different direction with its latest collaboration by joining forces with global style icon Anna Dello Russo. The fashion director at large and creative consultant for Vogue Japan is a fashion week favorite, regularly appearing on best-dressed lists thanks to her extravagant sartorial choices. Her H&M accessories line will hit some 140 [...]

After its recent opening in Mayfair London, celebrity luxury shoemaker Nicholas Kirkwood inaugurated this week its boutique in New York’s hip Meatpacking District, precisely at 830, Washington Street. The boutique covers 140 sqm and follows the creative design concept of the flagship store in Mayfair, London. The store stocks the brand’s complete collection, as well [...]

Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini marked her return to China with the launch of a new advertising campaign featuring Chinese star Li Bing Bing and two other exclusive events. At the historic Wai Tan Yuan in Shanghai, Giannini hosted a cocktail in honour of Li Bing Bing where the new advertising campaign starring the Chinese [...]

Julia Bluhm, 14, a ballet dancer and aspiring activist, says she'd like one spread a month that shows bodies that aren't 'fake'

Kate Moss has donated a portrait of herself for a charity auction in aid of the NSPCC, to be held at Bonhams on May 17. The photograph, which was taken by Sølve Sundsbø, has a starting price of £3,000. – via Vogue

Above, Gap executives Pam Wallack, Stephen Sunnucks and Art Peck in a Manhattan store at Fifth Avenue and 17th Street. “We had to restate what Gap was about,” says Ms. Wallack, who leads Gap’s global creative center. Yet this is a Gap — at the Grove, an upscale mall in Los Angeles. Only it’s more [...]

Sneakers, like everything else, are now available in every conceivable shape, color and material, effectively rendering the search for a classic, everyday sneaker a painstaking and arduous process. High-top, low-top, sneaker, loafer, leather, fabric, lace-up, slip-on…the choices are endless and exhausting, so for anyone who has ever endured blisters, broken laces and unsightly logo placement, [...]