Imagine a collection in 150 shades of blue, boots made from the gilt foil that envelops champagne corks, countless folds turned into a dress, Amy Winehouse embroidered back to life and the Age of Enlightenment expressed in a frothy, gossamer gown. Paris's Spring 2012 Haute Couture collections took to the high ground in ethereal, spirited collections designed to send the doldrums packing with an air kiss.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/27/12

Raf Simons has always run with the boys. Let's give credit where credit is due: the elongated, adolescent vision in the street-cast shows that launched his eponymous label in Paris in the mid-90's was the precursor for the new skinny that changed not only the way men dressed, but also their bodies.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/25/12

What does it take to dress like a man today? For a generation of eternally young men, it's not enough to slip into a suit anymore. So the challenge for Paris's top menswear designers is to discover just what contemporary elegance should be and how to incorporate the power and seduction of sport in a man's wardrobe.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/24/12

The Paris menswear collections are split between dressed-up and subdued, with some delving into technicolor pattern and haute posing, while others purify shapes in a graphic, neutral palette.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/23/12

Greg Lauren had already learned more about style by the time he was five or six years old than most people do in a lifetime. "Alteration," his menswear show yesterday at Colette in Paris, began as a comment on man's obsession with dressing the part, but has turned into Lauren's entrée as a designer in his own right.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/19/12

In the second installment of its "Vestirsi Da Uomo" (Dress Like A Man) fashion performance series, Florence's Pitti Uomo gave carte blanche last Thursday to legendary French art director Marc Ascoli, who took over the immense Villa Fayard, the new site of the city's Polimoda fashion school, for a series of tableaux vivants.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/17/12

Round about midnight at Florence's Trattoria Cammillo, Olympia Le-Tan and a chic and rowdy clique from Paris and New York were deep into the grappa in preparation for more post-supper revels at the Krisko club.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/13/12

Lacoste has been doing some stylish soul searching lately. France's chic alligator is at home on the tennis court as we know, but what if there was more to it than that. Much more. Just what would a Lacoste surfboard look like? Or how about a Lacoste bike, or a pair of skis?  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/11/12