By Kat Stoeffel 3/28/12 11:10am

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Style.com Hits ‘Print’ Again

In the second issue of Style.com/Print, the Fairchild fashion site’s semiannual magazine, Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld reserved his trademark trash talk for a woman who can’t tweet back: the late house matriarch, Coco Chanel.

Mr. Lagerfeld blamed her late-career decline on her belief, in the 1960s, that jeans and miniskirts were “vulgar.”

“The collections from the mid-’60s to the ’70s were quite ecchh,” he told the magazine. “Then they had 10 years of respect, for what it’s worth, then the rest is … me.” Read More

By Simon Doonan 10/30/07 5:24pm

The Doonan Awards: You’re All Winners!

“How many sissies does it take to get a girl ready for a night on the town?” said Iman rhetorically, referring to the bevy of creative types whose joint efforts prepared her for a nocturnal sortie on Wednesday, Oct. 24. As usual, the sissies had all outdone themselves: clad in her purple/fuchsia Lanvin cocktail confection, Read More

By Simon Doonan 10/30/06 12:00am

Proust Positive! My Marcel Party Makes Major Waves

At the risk of sounding a bit elitist and foppish, I must confess that while Madge was trying to save Malawian infants, I spent most of last week attempting to conjure up the ghost of Marcel Proust.

Faced with the challenge of concocting an event to launch the new Lanvin men’s collection at Barneys, I Read More

By Simon Doonan 11/29/04 12:00am

Able Was I Ere I Saw Elbaz: House of Lanvin’s New Elf

Don’t shoot me-I’m only the window dresser. Every year, standing on the sidewalk directing the holiday window installation at Barneys on Madison Avenue, I am subject to the same verbal assaults: “Pur-leeeze don’t tell me these are your holiday windows!” “Huh! It gets earlier every year!” Etc.

For an entire week-this is how long it Read More