True haute couture is incredibly hard to come by. Even high-end designers like Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel or Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton rarely desig...
Vicky Tiel | Posted 04.04.2012
World Wide Fashion is the new real democracy. I decided to join the world: I will be the first French couturier to sell dresses on HSN.
Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 05.23.2012
Fashion designer Iris van Herpen is renowned for her combining traditional craftsmanship and diligent handwork with unconventional materials such as synthetic boat rigging, processed leather sorts and the whalebones of children's umbrellas to create visually stunning outfits.
The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 01.27.2012
The most memorable of this week's Spring 2012 couture shows was undoubtedly Jean Paul Gaultier's homage to Amy Winehouse. The irreverent French design...
The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 03.26.2012
When Couture Week kicked off with the Versace show on Sunday, we were a bit perplexed to see the guest list. Diane Kruger was there, of course, sh...
The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 01.25.2012
From the beehive hair and the cat-eye liner to the varsity jackets, corset tops and cigarettes, Jean Paul Gaultier's couture show was all about Amy Wi...
The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 01.24.2012
Despite last week's media frenzy over her supposed split from Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis braved the paparazzi cameras at today's Chanel Couture show...
The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 01.23.2012
It's not rare for designers to find inspiration in earlier designers' work (read: every designer and her mother who has referenced Christian Dior's Ne...
Tess Ghilaga | Posted 01.21.2012
Rome is a myth, like Valentino -- our past as accessories designers has always given us the desire to create iconic, timeless objects that can also be used in a contemporary way -- beauty and dreams are part of our history as well as Rome's.
The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 12.07.2011
Haute couture is traditionally associated with Paris and European glamour. But with a worldwide economic downturn and couture falling more and more ou...
The Huffington Post | Analise Roland | Posted 09.14.2011
Whereas other art may be confined to the halls of museums, there is one type that is created by the human form and lives on it: fashion. The most powe...
The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 09.08.2011
Haute couture season has wrapped up in Paris, meaning we've got lots of crazy looks to ogle and imaginary wish lists to make (you know, for all those ...
The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 09.07.2011
It was a triumphant return to the runway for Azzedine Alaïa, who presented his first couture collection in eight years on Thursday. The collection, ...
The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 09.06.2011
Newsflash: we may have found the nuttiest couture show this season. Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen presented her Fall/Winter 2011 Haute Couture coll...
Cameron Silver | Posted 09.05.2011
I may be the founder of a vintage couture store, but I am not a wearer of vintage couture. I do have an extensive collection of men's vintage designer clothing, but Haute Couture has usually been for the girls. Until today, that is.
Cameron Silver | Posted 09.04.2011
For the last decade, I think I have celebrated every 4th of July in the City of Lights. Yesterday was no exception. Although Giambattista Valli ma...
Anna Laub | Posted 09.03.2011
In a sea of fast fashion: increasing seasons, multiplying looming deadlines and huge fashion show productions, one designer has ignored it all and kept true to himself, true to his work and carried on doing things just the way he wants to - slowly, softly, consistently and in his own time.
Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 08.27.2011
Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 05.27.2011
Of the over one hundred etiquette subjects I have taught, dress and etiquette are always in the top ten. Dressing is not like setting the table, where rules rule. Are there rules for dress? You bet, but there's a lot more freedom of style.
Posted 05.25.2011
We've always wondered what goes on backstage at a Haute Couture fashion show -- where the hair is bigger, the ensembles more elaborate and the makeup ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Haute Couture season kicked off in Paris on Monday morning with a romantic, 1950s-inspired collection sent strutting by John Galliano for Christian Di...
Crane.tv | Posted 05.25.2011
Recognized first by Balenciaga at the tender age of 20, Rolland's passion for the theatrical stands as the foundations of his work.
Rebecca Macatee | Posted 05.25.2011
The only really bad fashion is making someone else feel bad about what they're wearing. Let's cut out this Mean Girls adult bullying nonsense.
Posted 05.25.2011
Welcome to Last Look, where we round up the Style scraps that didn't make it to our news page this week. Scroll through and catch up on what else happ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Paris's Haute Couture shows were reasonably tame this year but some real head-scratchers and eye-poppers still made it down the runway. Check out our ...
Shannon Bindler | Posted 05.30.2012