Jean Paul Gaultier is happy to report his collection for Target will shock parents and teachers.
"Being at Yves Saint Laurent was such a negative experience for me even though the business boomed while I was there. I’ve never talked about this on the record before, but it was an awful time for me. Pierre and Yves were just evil. So Yves Saint Laurent doesn’t exist for me."—Tom Ford on his years in Paris to Advocate magazine.
It's official—Tom Ford announced in today's Women's Wear Daily he and longtime business partner, Domenico De Sole, are looking for financing to start a women's collection as earl as next fall. Although De Sole declined to discuss specific numbers, recent reports have estimated the duo needs at least 50 million to begin the new business.
Ford, who was in Tokyo to promote his film "A Single Man," sipped a Coke Zero during his interview with WWD and said, "I'm optimistic and this is something I plan on doing for the next 30 years of my life, so if I have to wait another six months or a year [to launch the collection], it's OK.
In the meantime, the designer/director is thinking about his next film—and planning to move production from Los Angeles to London where he can be closer to his design studio and jump easily back and forth between film editing and model fittings. [WWD]
Alexander Wang, whose Fall sample sale kicks off today, showed a Pre-Fall 2009 collection which paid homage to Tom Ford during his Gucci days. For Wang, that translated to slick nineties-inspired looks with luxe touches like a velvet smoking jacket, leather bomber or vamped-up underpinning. To see more from the Alexander Wang Pre-Fall 2009 collection, click here. To see his Spring 2009 collection, click here.
Its going to be tough to call models human clothes hangers come spring as the new exhibit at The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is titled The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion. The show aims to explore fashion, and the changing ideals of beauty that accompanied different eras. The exhibit, open to the public from May 6 to Aug. 9, will be held at the museum’s Tisch Galleries. And of course it will open with the customary The Costume Institute annual gala benefit. Marc Jacobs will serve as the night’s honorary chair, alongside co-chairs Kate Moss, Justin Timberlake and Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour.
One of your editors is in South Beach for the week trying to shake off the exhaustion of the many fashion weeks she tackled but she just can't help checking out the shops. The merchandising of the shops on Collin's Avenue, South Beach's shopping district is like stepping into a world in which black bikinis become basics and sarongs are as necessary as trench coats.
Tom Ford opened his first stand alone store in Milan yesterday. Much excitement over the venture was expressed by the fashionpress. "It's more contemporary than New York, which is in a 1930s building," he said during a walk-through. "We used the same vocabulary and colors, but this one is housed in a Fascist building so it's more linear and modern."Measuring nearly 12,000 square feet over five floors, its Ford's largest store to date. Liz Claiborne is working on a new logo and ad campaign for the spring launch of Liz Claiborne-brand women's clothing under creative director Isaac Mizrahi. No one is saying anything and naturally the whole thing is quite tight lipped. As big fans of Isaac Mizrahi we are certainly hoping for the best for the designer and his new label.
Jemima Khan, daughter of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart and the late tycoon Sir James Goldsmith, has designed a capsule collection for Paris fashion house Azzaro which will include ready-to-wear and accessories. It will be presented in the showroom during the Paris couture. accessories line.
Jimmy Choo is going to Japan with a new Ginza location. The 1,700-square-foot store will be set over two floors, with a mirrored staircase leading to a salon space on the second floor. The unit will carry the brand's handbags, leather goods and sunglasses, along with its most complete selection of shoe styles in its stores in Japan.
Lindsay Lohan's working relationship with the house of Emanuel Ungaro might finally be over. 
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London clearly has better Halloween parties than New York. Browns Focus is teaming up with stylist Alexa Chung to host a spooky chic Halloween party.
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