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The continued rise of the underground fashionista.

Judging by what passes for popular fashion today you'd be forgiven for thinking that discerning fashion ennui is a tepid approximation of some of the easily recognized names and faces making mainstream headlines. From Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs,...

Vogue Italia is now sporting 3 plus size models on its July cover.

Italy's Vogue Editor in Chief Franca Sozzani is fighting an uphill battle... dailymail.co.uk: It's not unusual for fashion magazines to employ the odd plus-size model for an editorial spread. But Vogue Italia went one step further, featuring not one but three...

Karl Lagerfeld honored at F.I.T luncheon.

An icon comes to America. This past Friday noon, select members of society and press paid tribute to one of the most enigmatic dandies (or should I say scion?) of fashion- Mr Karl Lagerfeld,...

Scallywag is looking for tabloid and fashion interns.

Scallywag and Vagabond is looking for two brave merciless souls to join us as media interns.One position involves that of tabloid blogging, the other fashion reporting. Who I (yes I will be your spiritual guide) am looking...

The top 5 fashion faux pas of 2010. Who’s committing them and why we believe in public floggings.

We’ve all cringed at the sight of the most obvious fashion faux pas and yet because we supposedly live in a liberated society where one can dress and go as they wish we hold our tongue...

Anna Wintour refuses to let Ms Lily’s, a Jamaican restaurant open near her West Village pied a terre.

Anna will tell you what she considers fashionable thank you very much! This story keeps heating up week after week. On one hand you have a restaurant that wants to open its corridors for business and...

Graydon Carter’s toyboy is now for hire.

Ivo Juhani has finally arrived in society... Courtesy of Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair's editor in chief and the de facto ruler of everything south of Anna Wintour's nostrils and west 23rd st, mere mortals will now (for a set premium...

London Fashion Week: Day 5. Peter Pilotto, Basso & Brooke & Burberry Prorsum

In the space of a few years Peter Pilotto, designed by Pilotto and his partner Christopher De Vos, has grown from being relatively unknown into one of fashion weeks must-see shows. Known for their superb cutting and draping skills...

Ex Super model Paulina Poriskova offended that Anna Wintour now thinks that she is a bathroom attendant.

Bitches in heat. Well, it is here- the clash of egos and there's nothing much we can do about it except pray to Allah or whoever you pray to get your fix. The current bad blood dropped in society involves...

10 Ingenious Methods For Crashing Fashion Week Shows

Because you always belong on the guest list: We're already chaffing at the neck with invitations to the upcoming collections, but for all you other plebeians who are desirous of making it into the collections there are always these clever...

Will Anna Wintour and Hamish Bowles ever forgive fashion bloggers?

When it's not very fashionable to be out smarted by a blogger. With the rise of new media it's been well understood for a while that the way old media conducted business is no longer the way any business conducts...

London Fashion Week. Brands Back to Britain.

LONDON, U.K. Hooray for London Fashion Week! In the face of all this adversity, doom, gloom and downright depressing state of affairs London Fashion Week is stepping up its game. It's no secret that the industry generally regards London...

To Worship Fashion or not to worship?

The late, great, and oft-profound David Foster Wallace articulated the following idea in his 2005 commencement speech to Kenyon College (please indulge the long quotation)   “Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult...

Fashion Night Mayhem and the $50 Bribe.

The best way to describe an orgy of fashion, music, and sexy people, is my new guilty pleasure Fashion's Night out in New York city. Do you understand the kind of pressure you become under when there's that many...

Trying to figure out the ideal celebrity list that should be sitting front row this year.

When ego and pride are the new vocabulary everyday at Fashion Week.   Yummy- trying to figure out the ideal top ten who should always get to sit front row (no questions asked of course ) at every fashion show can...