It's been a month since Marc Jacobs showed his eponymous spring/summer 2008 collection in Manhattan and The New York Times Cathy Horyn will not stop talking about how brilliant he is. On her blog today, Horyn writes: "I wanted to see a designer suggest the experience of contemporary fashion—the extra-importance of the

If we were The New York Times' Cathy Horyn, we'd be a little nervous right now. See, there's a new fashion critic in

Naomi Campbell is blaming Gianni Versace's 1997 murder for her problems with drugs, alcohol, and, uh, attitude. Yet another facet of the Versace murder left untapped by the NY Times' Cathy Horyn. [The Sun]

Tell us if we're reading this wrong, but is the latest trend in high fashion slumming it? Cathy Horyn reports that Lanvin's Alber Elbaz is shaking everything up by "bring[ing] clear design integrity to shapes that appear simple, in fabrics like polyester...so that the clothes are hard to copy." Uh, what's so hard to Read more

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