New York Fashion Week is creeping toward us like a judgmental grandmother and the designers are out and about sharing opinions you'd probably rather not hear, like 'Hey, you look awful!' Enter Spanish fashion house head Carolina Herrera and her Thoughts On Your Ensemble.

The spring 2014 Carolina Herrera collection — shown today in New York — is not what one might call girly. It's not old, either — it's just that there's a level of maturity and a whole lot of elegance, calling to mind a statuesque, worldly, graceful and sage woman of a certain age — much like Herrera herself.

The fall 2013 collection Cynthia Rowley showed today during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week had a decidedly 1940s vibe: Nipped-in waists, strong shoulders, wide collars, and a teeny hint of Chinoiserie. There's plenty for the working girl: Day dresses, trouser suits, tweedy coats. Sleeves! But you'll also find fur and…

Last night, fashion designers and celebrities convened at the 29th Annual Fashion Group International Night Of Stars. The FGI is a global, non-profit, professional organization with a mission to be the pre-eminent authority on the business of fashion and design. But all we really want to know is: What did everyone wear…

The news that O.G. socialite-turned-HSN costume jewelry designer Iris Apfel's creations are less than original should — to anyone who pays attention to the celebrity clothing line industrial complex — be less than surprising. The story here is that Apfel, whose taste in jewelry is deservedly famous, was approached to…

We glimpsed Christina Hendricks in the flesh this morning at Carolina Herrera's fashion show. It was even better than that time we found her while browsing Lily Esposito's Etsy store. Carolina Herrera backstage, New York, February 14, 2011. Image via Getty.

Here is an internal Harper's Bazaar document that lists the brands to feature in upcoming editorial spreads, ranked according to priority — and helpfully divided between "Advertisers" and "Non-Advertisers." This is how your ladymag sausage gets made.

Cathy Horyn is not sorry for what she wrote about Snooki. Nor does she feel particularly bad for Tommy Hilfiger, Alexander Wang, Giorgio Armani, or any of the other people whose collections and/or fashion sense she has publicly critiqued.

In September of 2007, it was reported that of all the 101 shows that took place during New York fashion week, one third employed zero models of color. Since then, we've tried to track diversity on the runway every season.

María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1939. She based her luxury clothing line in New York 1980, and dressed luminaries like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In other words: expect classic, pretty, posh, proper ladylike looks.

Women with $4,000 to spend on a designer dress who wear sizes 10-20: Saks Fifth Avenue will soon deign to accept your cash. In an unexpected move, the retailer will begin stocking plus-sized women's wear from many top designers.

Q: Where can you find Sarah Jessica Parker, Natalie Portman, Carolina Herrera and all their fancy friends? A: At Lincoln Center's New York City Ballet Spring Gala, of course!

Love Ball London, hosted by Natalia Vodianova and Harper's Bazaar at The Roundhouse, brought out fashion's brightest stars. And their friends. And Kate Moss was blase.