fashion week

‘Twas the night before fashion week and all through the house…Designers are offering teasers of their collection! Take this Milly by Michelle Smith sketch, sent over for our perusal. “Layers of rich textures and saturated colors with modern, precise tailoring,” Smith revealed in a statement. Who comes up with this stuff?

(NEW YORK) Zac Posen Launches New Contemporary Line [Vogue UK]
The designer launches Zac Zac Posen

Marc Jacobs Joins Forces With Diet Coke [Telegraph UK]
Move over Jean Paul Gaultier, Diet Coke has tapped Marc Jacobs

No Man Repelling Here! Check Out Leandra Medine’s New Clothing Collab [Refinery29]
Leandra gives PJK her fashion two cents

Kate Moss Celebrates Her 20 Years Of i-D Cover Shoots With Another Four! [Grazia UK]
Kate Moss graces not one but four i-D covers

Karl Lagerfeld to Pen a Column for WSJ Magazine [Fashionista]
Expect a plethora of “karlisms” to Grace the pages of WSJ Magazine

Macy’s Teams Up With Made for a Pretty Random Collaboration [Racked]
Macy’s moves from designer collabs to fashion week partnerships

Kenneth Cole’s return to the runway involves a digital-savvy fash world. The designer understands that the world has changed since his last show. “Fashion Week is now consumable by everyone, everywhere. Before a look even leaves the runway, people are able to shoot it, post it, share it, pin it, blog it, tweet it, and retweet it.

She’s baaaaaaack! After recently announcing that she was going to sit this fashion week out, Betsey Johnson has changed her tune. The designer announced today that she’s returning to Lincoln Center to show her collection on February 11th. Wouldn’t feel like NYFW without a Betsey cartwheel or two.

How should you behave sitting front row? Cover’s fashion director Carola Niemann brushes us up on FASHION ETIQUETTE 101! What’s the proper time to arrive at a fashion show?
To be on time, someone should show up 10 or 15 minutes before the scheduled time.

Just over two weeks until the whirlwind of the Fall 2011 collections begin. Time to start organizing the hours of fashion week frenzy, whether you rely on a Filofax, your iCalendar or your assistant to keep you sane and on time—or fashionably late, if you’re like some designers hot enough to keep the masses waiting season after seaso

Editor Du Jour [Vogue UK] Rumor has it, Anna Wintour will be fêted this year with France’s plummiest title, the Legion d’Honneur

H&M teams up with fashion blogger [Daily Telegraph] A line designed by Swedish fashion blogger Elin Kling will launch February 3 in her homeland. Next up, Tavi for Target?

‘Visionary’ Lady Gaga Unveils Her Polaroid Collection [People StyleWatch] Gaga, the brand’s creative director, goes high tech with the release of her Grey Label collection

Right Now: Neiman Marcus is Hosting an Online Fashion Week [Racked] Finally, a fashion week you can don skivvies for, as the retailer showcases its spring collections via virtual shows

Kelly Cutrone is Casting Her New MTV Show [Fashionista] Life coaching by this fashion PR power player is up for grabs, young chicettes!

The beginning of 2011 means much more than the start of the new fashion calendar: it’s also a chance to brush up on the intriguing French fashion terminology that may have already started creeping into the vocabulary of your globetrotting Franglais fluent friends. Being understood by the masses is so 2010!