Alaïa

What were your first thoughts when you read the script for Cocaine Bear?I fell in love with the characters. I’m an actor first, and so I always read for the character journey and who they are. They were really quirky and in over…

New York City, Alaïa is officially back. Since closing the doors of its Soho store in 1991, the city was left without a retail outpost of the French house but last night, Alaïa officially cut the ribbon on a new Soho location—which is…

It was a bold and personal act for Pieter Mulier to invite a small crowd to his apartment in Antwerp to see his fourth Alaïa collection. There we were, sitting on Mulier’s furniture, and some benches he’d hired, in the spectacular duplex at…

Yesterday afternoon in Paris, as men’s fashion week was wrapping up, Arthur Elgort held court at the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa, welcoming old friends and peers including Sarah Moon, Dominique Issermann, Paolo and Laetitia Roversi, the models…

Of course, Mulier’s family looks different than Alaïa’s did. For the new campaign, the British photographer Tyrone Lebon photographed Gerber on the roof of the artist Sterling Ruby’s studio in LA. “I didn’t want a big set. You know, fashion…

When Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad album dropped, no black corset or edgy bob cut was safe. Rihanna's transformation from a fresh-faced girl next door to an It-girl siren felt like a dramatic shift out of nowhere…

Last night in Los Angeles, the who’s who of Hollywood came out to attend the 2nd Annual Academy Museum Gala. The glittering array of superstars celebrated the museum’s work to preserve film history—and paraded down the red carpet in all…

Photo: Courtesy of Lahssan / Spaghetti ArchivesThe beauty of a fashion archive is the history behind the pieces themselves, not just their design or quality. In the case of a coy Alaïa sale in Paris that opens today, the story is just as…

Pieter Mulier invited people to the unfinished space that will be the new Alaia store on the Faubourg St. Honoré—an architectural work-in-progress that he saw as the perfect foil for the feeling of his third collection: “something rough and…

When it comes to the Met Gala, Lauren Santo Domingo is a seasoned pro. The Moda Operandi founder attended her first Met all the way back in 2002, when she was an assistant at Vogue. “I was checking guests in, showing them to their seats, or…