Designer News. After a Stint With The Gap, Roland Mouret Plans High-End Debut. Second City Style Fashion Blog

The famed Galaxy Dress by Roland Mouret, Spring ’06 Best known recently for his ‘Five Dresses’ for Gap last November, designer Roland Mouret will debut a high-end capsule collection in July during the Paris couture shows. The collection, RM, by the designer Roland Mouret, is the first under his new joint venture company, 19RM, formed …

It Girl. Dita von Teese is the Queen of Couture. Second City Style Fashion Blog

Sinfully delicious, Dita von Teese has seduced world’s most preeminent designers and beauty industry experts. Taking the Paris couture shows by storm, she looked the epitome of style: easily a contemporary Vivian Leigh or Ava Gardner, but with even more of an edge. Mastering the art of taking it off and putting it on, the …

Fashion Perspective. Too Skinny Model Debate: It's Not All Fashion's Fault. Second City Style Fashion Blog

Snejana Onopka in the spring Fendi show. Photo: Giovanni Giannoni A mere 72 hours before New York Fashion Week begins and the word to be heard on the anorexic model controversy is…expect to see skinny models oh, and don’t tell them what to do! According to an insightful story in today’s WWD, the fashion industry …

The Secret of St. Germain

You can find everything here on this two mile long shopping haven. Report from Paris.

Fashion Forward. Fall Fashion Preview and Predictions 2007/08: Truth, Beauty and Goodness on the Runway. Second City Style

With Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week only a little over a week away, we thought we’d take a look back at the last fall 2006 season, as well as what’s coming for spring 2007 to see how color, shape and form evolved in the hands of the industry’s most influential designers. Given their progression we anticipate the …