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Catwalk Watch: Natalie Joos
Before a model hits the runway—and before she snags her first editorial, her first ad campaign, and her first billboard—she’s got to make it past the sharp eyes of fashion’s casting directors, who are tasked with finding the perfect girls for designers’ exacting visions. In our new fashion week series, the industry’s top casting gurus [...]

They?re All There In Black And White
The German artist Robert Knoke has worked in all media and covered most every theme, but he’s got a special affinity for the world of fashion—he’s collaborated on collections, exhibited in stores like Seven New York, and shown up in the pages of i-D and Purple Fashion. With a résumé like that, no surprise he’s [...]

Rebecca Minkoff Steps Out
Though she may design the requisite go-to bag for the Young Hollywood set, Rebecca Minkoff is taking a decidedly more grown-up approach to her next project. “The same fanaticism goes into bags and shoes for me. And people just started asking me [about shoes], so it seemed like the next natural progression,” Minkoff admitted of [...]

Reed Krakoff Wants A Store You Can Touch
It’s been a busy year for Reed Krakoff. He’s launched his line, added resort, and now is opening his eponymous label’s first store, on Madison Avenue, as well as its e-commerce shop. It promises to be the first of many. On the eve of its opening, Style.com checked in with Krakoff—who, in his spare time, [...]

Books Marc The Spot, The Rise Of Honeysuckle Rose, What?s To Come At T, And More?
It’s a little late for beach reading, but Marc Jacobs’ latest shop—Bookmarc—opens on Bleecker Street today. Is it time for that street to officially be renamed Marc Jacobs Way? Grumpy neighbors, who have been complaining of long lines outside the Marc by Marc shop down the block, don’t think so, but Robert Duffy and Jacobs [...]

Cast Away
Fashion doesn’t exactly abide by regular schedules. So while the rest of the country was enjoying a luxurious long weekend, models were scampering around town proving that their runway struts (and figures) were sharp as ever. On a breezy, perfect sort of NYC Saturday, Andrew Weir of ACW Worldwide was casting for a bevy of [...]

At Redux, The Kicks Are All New
Tim Hamilton shows his eponymous menswear in Paris these days, but the New York-based designer hasn’t left his hometown fans out in the cold—for the second season in a row, he’s showing his secondary collection, Tim Hamilton Redux, during New York fashion week. Redux began as a sort of greatest-hits collection, reissuing favorite staples from [...]

Balenciaga Goes Back To The Future, What?s In The Cards For NYFW, Acne For Everybody, And More?
Balenciaga has revamped its Paris flagship. At the newly redone Avenue George V store, you’ll find more of Ghesquière’s (left) covetable collection, an ornate banister borrowed from the Balenciaga archives, and an enormous starburst clock—just don’t try to tell time by it, as it runs backwards. “Back to the future,” CEO Isabelle Guichot explains. [WWD]Fashionista [...]

Rabbit Season
What is it right now about fashion and pets? Cats, as we’ve seen time and again, are enjoying a moment, and according to Mandy Coon, who dropped by our office yesterday to preview her Spring ‘11 collection, bunnies are, too. Coon is known for her diaphanous, draped creations, which she’s showing for Spring in cotton, [...]

Is Silver The Color Of Spring 2011?
‘Tis the season to make jewelry. More and more of New York’s ready-to-wear designers—suffering, we’re sure, from an overabundance of free time—are adding custom or collaborative jewelry to their collections for the Spring ‘11 season. And if you’re a fan of silver, you’re in luck. Jen Kao has collaborated in the past with other designers on [...]