Popdust, a music news site, where you can also purchase the looks. “Fashion Star” on NBC is probably the extreme example of the possibilities of merging content and commerce with pop stars, designers and even top-tier retailers. But those lines have been blurring for some time, as magazines adopt e-commerce strategies (expect a big push [...]

 

British Film Institute, via Museum of the Moving ImageA scene from the 1965 film, “The Tenth Victim.” British Film Institute, via Museum of the Moving ImageMarlene Dietrich in the 1936  “Desire,” at the Fashion in Film Festival. WHEN Ursula Andress, clad in a silver bikini, lifts her stiletto shoe after a killing scene in the [...]

It looks like the spring editions of New York Fashion Week will continue to commence on the first Thursday after Labor Day for the foreseeable future. Despite recent efforts to push back the beginning of the fashion season by at least a week to give New York designers more time to prepare, an idea that [...]

 

Phillips, $250 at a-morir.com. If you’re getting a toothache thinking about pastels and floral prints this season, Kerin Rose, the hands behind the eyewear line A-Morir, offers a playful, noncommittal way to approach these trends. Best known for using Swarovski crystals, spikes and chains that attract clients like Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj, Ms. [...]

 

Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times Status Update: Remember the Fashion NYC2020 survey Mayor Bloomberg announced about two years ago? He and other officials set out to analyze New York City’s fashion industry and, they hoped, identify strategies to better position the city as a global fashion hub. The forecast? Nothing to cheer about, [...]

 

Jennifer S. Altman for The New York TimesFred Distenfeld and his daughter Claire Distenfeld in their new shop. Jennifer S. Altman for The New York TimesFivestory. On Thursday afternoon, Fred Distenfeld looked unfazed and spotless in his suit as workmen carried slabs of polished stone into the town house at 18 East 69th Street. On [...]

 

Photos courtesy of the Museum of the City of New YorkFrom Charles Frederick Worth, an evening dress from 1885-86, included in an online exhibition by the Museum of the City of New York. While the Metropolitan Museum of Art will soon open its exhibition comparing the works of Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli, another designer [...]

 

A Jets Super Bowl ring at N.F.L. Shop at Draft. If you cannot get to London to see the crown jewels, their American cousins are on view in an N.F.L. Shop pop-up at West 42nd Street and Avenue of the Americas. That is where the 45 Super Bowl rings are being displayed through April 15, [...]

 

The mockingjay pin that Dana Schneider designed for “The Hunger Games”. The clothes in “The Hunger Games” may have been a bummer to some fashion insiders, but one accessory in the film has gotten a warmer welcome among online shoppers. Copies of the mockingjay pin Katniss Everdeen (played by Jennifer Lawrence) wore in the film [...]

 

Giuseppe Cacace/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe Belgian designer Raf Simons acknowledges the audience at the end of the Jil Sander Spring-Summer 2012 ready-to-wear collection last September in Milan. It’s official: Raf Simons has a new gig. Get up to speed on the Chinese fashion industry with these notes on China’s top 20 influencers. WWD published [...]

 

The documentary “Girl Model” opens with hundreds of scantily clad adolescent and teenage girls lined up in an auditorium. A model scout calls models one-by-one to the stage and begins commenting on their weight, body shape and signs of acne. Heavy scrutiny of young supermodel hopefuls won’t come as a surprise to most people familiar [...]

 

MSNBCDonny Deutsch was chided for his blazer on “Morning Joe.” IT’S cruel April indeed. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian have reportedly hooked up. That bombshell may finally ignite Mr. West’s fashion career, though it means the rest of us will have to hear from him what a design innovator he is and why he doesn’t [...]

There are risks to having a work party in your own home, as the Barneys New York chief executive Mark Lee discovered on Wednesday night when he invited a small crowd of editors to toast Alber Elbaz, once again, on the occasion of his 10th anniversary at Lanvin. Just as the party was going strong, [...]

 

The Black Milk X Jeffrey Campbell Damsel shoe, $239.95. Platform shoe enthusiasts can rejoice at the latest Jeffrey Campbell collaboration. Black Milk Clothing, the three-year-old brand known for colorful, and sometimes outrageous, printed leggings, has teamed up with Jeffrey Campbell to design a shoe line sold exclusively on Solestruck.com. For some, this three-way marriage is overdue. [...]

 

Aaron Tam/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Guess and Gucci pick up where Christian Louboutin and Yves Saint Laurent left off in the latest designer trademark infringement case. Questlove opens The Hoodie Shop the day before thousands of people gathered in Union Square for the “Million Hoodie March” to protest the killing of Trayvon Martin. The [...]