Tod’s iconic Gommino loafer has gotten a makeover, this time from New York based designer Marc Thorpe during New York Design Week. Thorpe is the sixth designer to tackle this limited edition project, led by renowned architect Giulio Cappellini, the art director of the Italian design firm ... More

To truly understand the Salvatore Ferragamo brand, one must walk in the shoes of its founder. In 1914, a sixteen-year-old Salvatore took a risk, packed his bags and emigrated from Italy to Boston, where he joined his brothers in a boot factory. His courage only continued when he and his ... More

Contemporary artist Jeff Koons fused high fashion and high art in his latest project. The lauded artist, acclaimed for his Balloon Dog sculpture, transformed Hermès Birkin bags into “Readymade” objects to support Project Perpetual, a new initiative to benefit children at risk. Koons’ ten new and unique works featuring ... More

“The Einstein of fashion,” “the world’s best and only dressmaker” and “poetry”—these are a few of the phrases used to describe the late designer, Charles James, and his cutting-edge fashions. Yet almost three decades after his death, James—who was earlier this year the subject of a retrospective at the Costume ... More

In the visually stunning new book Blow Me a Kiss, best-selling author and style innovator Alice Harris lets lips tell the story as she spotlights some of the most legendary puckers from the past decade through a series of iconic pieces of art and photographs. Blow Me a Kiss celebrates lips ... More

Two years ago, Barack Obama was gifted a Ben Eine painting by the U.K. Prime Minister—a gesture that helped turn heads toward an underground London street artist best known for his alphabet lettering on the shop shutters ... More

In his forward to the Rizzoli tome, which features over 100 of photographer Miles Aldridge’s vibrantly hued images (in addition to sketches and studies), writer—and GQ’s “Style Guy”—Glenn O’Brien refers to the world created as “Planet Aldridge.” And, there is no more accurate way ... More