Today, Gucci Group head Robert Polet announced {AP via Google News} that Alexander McQueen, the brand, would continue after last week’s suicide of namesake designer Lee Alexander McQueen. Polet described McQueen the man as “irreplaceable,” a sentiment many would agree with. The prospect of continuing a label after a visionary founder unexpectedly leaves the company [...]

In an attempt to establish a signature style that can encapsulate the everyday (and not so everyday) lives of men and women, fashion designers create a lot more than clothes these days. So it’s no surprise that, for the past decade, the epitome of a designer’s design aesthetic can be seen not on a runway, but in [...]

Move over, punk rockers: the fashion world is stealing your safety pin stash. Continuing in the same vein of the past seasons’ aggressive heavy-metal/warrior trends, designers like Vena Cava and style-savvy people like blogger Pelayo Diaz, shown left, have turned to the humble safety pin for more than pure utilitarianism. Designer versions of safety-pin-studded duds are [...]

In response to the still-lagging world economy and the drop in the luxury goods market, Versace has announced its plans to guillotine a quarter of its international work force in order to cut costs and pave the way for company restructuring. Although companies backed by luxury mega-giant LVMH are doing relatively well thanks to the [...]