Philip Green, the owner of Topshop, has reviewed England's finances and has declared spending inefficient: "There is no reason why the government should not be as efficient as any good business." [Vogue UK]
Alexander McQueen will take control of the McQ contemporary line starting with the fall 2011 season. [WWD]
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This past season, many designers displayed a new “It” accessory known as the snood. But in fact this accessory isn’t new at all, and this time around, isn’t even necessarily a snood.
The original snood emerged in the 1940s as a practical item for women working in factories: a crocheted hairpiece used to hold their Read More
Don’t let the overhyped unveiling of the superlatively trashy Topshop in Soho distract you—the British clothing store has never ceased its search for yet more Manhattan locations.
Retail brokers say that Topshop owner Sir Philip Green is continuing to search for at least another couple of spots, about 50,000 square feet each, in all of the Read More
The New York Post: Last night, the President and First Lady arrived in England, bringing along hundreds of security guards and lots of vials of Barack Obama's blood. No, this isn't some kind of remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, though the British press is trying to play it that way. And that's a Read More
Late last week, the comely blond British socialite and model Poppy Delevigne, 22, called from her Nolita apartment—several blocks from the new four-story, 40,000-square-foot Topshop behemoth lurking behind covered windows at Broadway and Broome—and described some of her favorite items from the British retail chain, like an “amazing” emerald-green, one-shouldered dress designed by the model Read More
Kelly Cutrone passed on MTV's New York-based Hills spin-off; instead, she will executive produce her own show and become "the Ryan Seacrest of fashion." [The Cut]
The Accessories Council's Excellence awards will be held on November 3 at Cipriani on 42nd Street; accepting awards will be Jimmy Choo designer Tamara Mellon, Stella McCartney, Read More
Sean Avery's internship at Vogue is now the basis of a movie. [HR]
The fund-raiser for Barack Obama starring Anna Wintour and Sarah Jessica Parker at Charles Nolan's studio is tonight! [WWD]
There are now 152 fashion weeks in the world. Is it even possible to attend all of Read More
In addition to thinking that Cindy McCain's hairstyle makes her look like she's gotten a face lift, Tim Gunn now also thinks that her clothes look "duct-taped." [The Cut]
Mark Ronson will return as the DJ for his sister Charlotte Ronson's Spring 2009 show at Bryant Park in September, after Ronson Read More
This morning at around eight o’clock, Barneys flung open its doors to welcome stylish spendthrifts—reportedly over 100 of them—who had lined up to make like locusts at the store’s warehouse sale. Our morning coffee must have been spiked with too much sanity, because we weren’t there to report on the dumpling-line doppelganger. But a Read More
It’s been two whole years since Kate Moss was busted for bad stuff, but she’s still selling like hot cakes in a snowstorm. Word on the street is that the supermodel-cum-fashion mogul, 33, will cut the ribbon at America’s first TopShop store when it opens next year. She’s currently south of the border shooting Read More
