Kate Moss to Design her Own Wedding Dress.

From the runway to the aisle, bride-to-be Kate Moss is reportedly in full wedding planning mode. And of course the biggest question we've all been wondering -- what will the fashion icon wear? We know she has her own line for Topshop, and rumor has it, she's designing her own wedding dress as well.

Well-known designer and friend of Kate's for 15 years, Vivienne Westwood let the secret slip last week.When asked if she was going to create Kate's dress, Vivienne said, "No, I think she's designing it herself. She has done her own fashion range and she knows about clothes. She knows what she is doing, she doesn't need my help."


Then again, maybe her mind isn't totally made up, reports that during a London Fashion Week dinner for Topshop, Kate announced that John Galliano would be designing her gown. The creative director for Christian Dior, John Galliano has been friends with Kate since the early days of her modeling career.

Kate's wedding to 'The Kills' frontman, Jamie Hince is planned to take place July 2, with Kate’s eight-year-old daughter Lila Grace as her chief bridesmaid.

Ralph Lauren 4D Fashion Show.

Well, Well, Well, Fashion is making an amazing rise in mixing with intriguing technology. Last night, Ralph Lauren staged the much talked about 4D fashion show in New York City and in London. It featured a 10 minute 4D light installation which was projected onto the façade of the designer’s London and New York City flagship locations. The incredible show was put on to celebrate 10 years of RalphLauren.com in the U.S. and the launch of e-commerce in the UK.


This global event marked a first for the fashion world and further reinforced the brand’s dedication to innovation by seamlessly combining art, fashion, music and fragrance into a modern 4D moment that had never been seen before. The vibrant world of Ralph Lauren illuminated the evening sky as moving footage of iconic product was brought to life on the façade in a culmination of fashion, art and technology

“While celebrating 10 years of RalphLauren.com in the U.S. and the launch of e-commerce in the UK, we look forward to exploring new ways to tell our brand’s story through innovation and technology,” said David Lauren, Senior Vice President of Advertising, Marketing and Corporate Communications. “The light show is an extension of the Company’s dedication to pioneering the digital space with exciting and unique concepts.”

CK One 2011 Campaign.

With a star-studded cast led by Dutch supermodel Lara Stone, ck one unveiled today its Spring 2011 global advertising campaign as a multi-platform experience.

No longer just a fragrance, ck one ck one is the new lifestyle brand of contemporary men’s and women’s jeanswear, underwear, and swimwear. The label takes inspiration from the iconic, globally recognized ck one unisex fragrance brand.

The imagery for the campaign was captured during a multi-day shoot in New York City by renowned fashion photographer Steven Meisel, who shot the original campaign for the launch of the ck one fragrance in 1994, setting the tone for this powerful brand. The campaign imagery was filmed and all of the print images are still captures from the video footage.

Featuring over 30+ dynamic individuals, the ck one Spring 2011campaign builds on the iconic visual legacy of the brand. Unlike other campaigns wherein everything is revealed on one day, ck one is unveiling its multi-faceted promotion by stages, leading up to a full reveal on Tuesday, March 1st.

Planned to be on-line, mobile, print, and outdoor, this ck one campaign will be the largest digital initiative in the company’s history to date with the global hub of the ck one brand located at the newly launched www.ckone.com.

Created for consumers and fans to personally experience the brand and learn more about the lifestyle, products, campaign and featured talent, ckone.com will be the uniting factor the mobile web and social media applications created for the campaign.

Interactive, user-based experiences will be a key component of all aspects of the campaign and events that surround it and social media will be a powerful component of the ck one experience around the world.

In addition to the interactive video content featured on the site, ckone.com users will be able to generate their own content and create conversations around that content via social media platforms like Facebook® and Twitter®, making this content viewable and shareable with friends and fans globally.

Users will be able to view and share profiles of the campaign cast members, answer rotating prompts based on questions posed by the cast, and even create, upload, and tag their own videos on the site, thus becoming part of the campaign.

User generated content will not be separated from the cast content, but will rather be positioned alongside the cast videos. The site will be available in 11 languages and have a global retail store and e-commerce locator.

The campaign will be supported with custom mobile applications (iPhone, Android, and Symbian) with exclusive campaign content; global social media integration; and robust AR (Augmented Reality) programs with cutting edge image recognition technology (no code necessary).

An on-line teaser campaign with video ads begins this week on key global websites, which will encourage users to “like Calvin Klein on Facebook® to reveal more” about the campaign. The teaser campaign will also launch Calvin Klein’s permanent social media presence in China on popular social networking sites websites Ren Ren® and Weibo®.

Kate Middleton: who will design the dress of the century?

The road to the engagement may have been protracted and stressful, but now comes the really hard part: finding the dress.

Every girl regards her bridal gown as the dress of her dreams. But this is not just any girl, nor is it just any wedding dress. A future Queen of England needs to factor-in massive considerations.

For a start, this will be the royal wedding of the cyber-century. When Lady Diana Spencer married in St Paul's Cathedral in 1981, 750 million people watched on television, while radio listeners upped the total audience to more than one billion. But that was in the days before the internet, when mobile phones weighed as much as a breeze block.

Kate Middleton's bridal gown is a dress that will go down in history. It will turn its designer into a global household name; it will set trends; and it will be seen by billions - and preferably not on Twitter or Facebook before she walks down the aisle.

But to whom will the 21st-century's "people's princess" entrust this most monumental of royal commissions?

First, it seems safe to assume she will fly the flag and choose a British designer. Second, Kate is very much her own woman and, given her strong-minded individuality, is unlikely to pick someone with royal "form", such as, for example, Samantha Shaw, who designed the bridal gowns for both the Countess of Wessex and Viscountess Linley, or Sassi Holford, who created the dress for Autumn Kelly's wedding to the Princess Royal's son, Peter Phillips.

Third, Kate has never been one for obvious fashion choices. Her wardrobe, assured and appropriate as it may be, is selected from reliable brands such as Jigsaw, Kew, LK Bennett, Katherine Hooker and Issa. So it has generally been safe rather than über-stylish - save for her two catwalk outfits: her appearance in lingerie at St Andrews in 2002, which was the moment that Kate first caught Prince William's eye and the fluorescent roller-disco get-up that she wore in 2008 - so her choice of designer probably won't be predictable.

Wedding watchers support a classic, safe pair of hands, such as Stewart Parvin, who has a royal warrant, or Phillipa Lepley, who dresses top-tier Sloaney brides, or Amanda Wakeley, who specialises in grand glamour.

Miranda Eason, editor of Cosmopolitan Bride and You & Your Wedding , said: "Stewart Parvin is classic with a hint of Hollywood, Phillipa Lepley is classic but a bit girlie, and Jenny Packham dresses the Hollywood royals, so she could also be a possibility."

Deborah Joseph, editor of Brides , suggests Kate might opt "for one of Diana's favourite designers such as Bruce Oldfield or Amanda Wakeley, "out of respect for William".

Another strong tip is the Brazilian designer, Daniella "Issa" Helayel, who set up her label in London in 2001, and who has been designing dresses for the bride-to-be for the past five years. It was a one-of-a-kind Issa dress and jacket that Kate wore when she and Prince William attended the wedding of his friend, Harry Meade, a few weeks ago.

Helayel, who is something of a muse for Kate, has been building up a bridalwear business alongside the signature printed wrap dresses which first brought her fame at London Fashion Week. Her most recent aisle outing was at the wedding of Jessica Simon, one of the daughters of the multi-millionaire Monsoon and Accessorize founder, Peter Simon. Helayel's clientele includes Keira Knightley, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez and the Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, who are often front-row guests at her London Fashion Week shows. "I can't comment," said an Issa spokesman when asked if they will get the royal commission. "Nothing has been decided."

Kate could defy convention by choosing a gown by one of England's more outrageous couturiers. Dame Vivienne Westwood, for example, has made a fortune from her very regal corset-and-crinoline creations worthy of another Catherine, Catherine of Braganza, the wife of King Charles II - and also fit for queen of the small screen Sarah Jessica Parker. John Galliano, the British couturier at Christian Dior whose bridal clients include Penelope Cruz, Katy Perry, Gwen Stefani, Gisele Bundchen and Delphine Arnault, the daughter of his boss, Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of the luxury-brand conglomerate LVMH, qualifies with excellent connections as well as enough romantic inspiration to satisfy the ultimate in "most wonderful day of my life" scenarios.

The house of Alexander McQueen, with its blend of English and Scottish heritage, and now helmed by the late designer's former right-hand woman, Sarah Burton, could bring a welcome breath of northern grit, although the fact her first collection for the brand, shown last month in Paris, was inspired by pagan England, might raise the hackles of the Church of England, of which Prince William will one day be Supreme Governor.

Then there is Stella McCartney, who designed the wedding dress for Madonna, still secret after 10 years - a useful precedent for keeping a royal design impregnable - or Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig's deluxe Marchesa label, although the fact this was Coleen Rooney's bridal brand of choice may count against it in the royal wedding stakes.

Whoever the designer, however, several things are certain. The dress will not be short, simple or strapless. Given the religious, historical, ceremonial and global significance of The Day, Kate's gown needs to be sensational and timeless - and with sleeves.

Previous royal wedding designers were yesterday happy to offer advice to whoever becomes Kate's choice.

"I wish it was me, but I wouldn't hold my breath," said Jasper Conran. "You have to think of how the dress looks at any moment, from every angle, and how it will look in 20 years' time. It should not be an embarrassment. It has got to have dignity, so no helicopters!" he said, referring to one of the motifs on the Duchess of York's gown.

"Where the wedding is going to be held will, in some ways, denote the style and shape of the gown," said Lindka Cierach. "Diana was married in St Paul's, which is huge, so she needed a really big gown (the Emanuel design had 100 metres of silk in the petticoat alone), whereas Sarah Ferguson was married in Westminster Abbey, which is smaller. It is important to remember that every stitch, every seam, every bead will be under scrutiny by the world. And make sure you have a private rubbish collection."

"The most important thing he or she will have to worry about is security, because secrecy is the really big issue," agrees Elizabeth Emanuel, one half of the design duo who, along with her former husband, David Emanuel, made Diana, Princess of Wales's wedding dress. "We had to have a huge safe hauled in through the windows of our studio and the dress was locked away every night. We had two security guards 24 hours a day and only one person, apart from David and myself, ever worked on the dress. You have to be strong, well organised, and have a fantastic PR set-up, because this is going to be really, really big. Oh, and whoever it is, they must try and enjoy it, because it really is a wonderful thing to be asked to do."

Kate Moss smokes on the catwalk and steals the show at Louis Vuitton.

Seven years after 'retiring' from catwalk shows, the model's appearance at Paris fashion week proves her enduring appeal

There's only one thing the world loves more than a beautiful girl, and that's a beautiful girl who's a little bit bad. Therein lies the secret of the enduring appeal of Kate Moss. Louis Vuitton's show had plenty of talking points – waitresses in French maid regalia serving vodka shots despite the 10am start time, models  with wrists cuffed by crystal links – but the moment Kate Moss sashayed across the room in hotpants and high heels, puffing on a cigarette, there was no longer any doubt who the star of this show was.

Fashion  is a global industry built around the belief that our heart's desire changes several times a year. But somehow Moss has found traction, in this world obsessed with the new. Since she officially retired from the catwalk in 2004, Moss had made two appearances, one for a collection designed by a friend and the other for a charity show, before this one. In those seven years, dozens of models have been crowned and feted as the Next Big Thing, and tossed aside two seasons later, but fashion never seems to fall out of love with Kate Moss.

Marc Jacobs said Kate's appearance on his catwalk represented the idea "that the women in this show were all characters, not just anonymous girls". When Tom Ford had Beyoncé and Julianne Moore walk in his New York fashion show last year, he said that women who are "beloved" in the public eye gave emotional impact to the show. By dressing women who intrigue us, designers lure us into engaging with the clothes.

Many women who retain the interest of the magazine-buying public over a long period do so by constant reinvention, as Madonna and Victoria Beckham have done. Kate Moss is different; her personal style has changed little in two decades. Instead, she piques interest with episodes of bad behaviour – most notably the cocaine scandal of 2005, but in 2011 smoking in public is borderline transgressive – and seldom speaks in public.

Her silence lends her an almost old-fashioned mystique. But more than that, it gives the impression of someone who is quite uninterested in making the world love her. In a world of celebrities desperate to be loved, she is never needy. Of course, we adore her for it. Shocking as it may be, Cocaine Kate is on her way to becoming a national treasure. And the thrilling part is, she probably couldn't care less.

John Galliano suspended by Dior following arrest over 'anti-semitic rant'.

John Galliano, the fashion designer, has been suspended from Christian Dior following his arrest for allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks towards a couple at a Paris cafe.

The fashion house said he would be asked to stay away from work pending the outcome of the police investigation, raising doubts over the Christian Dior fashion show planned for March 4.

The 50-year-old was arrested in the French capital's Marais district, which has always been the traditional home of the city's Jewish community.

He is believed to have been drinking heavily in a local bar on Thursday evening when he launched the alleged attack.

Witnesses called police during the incident, which took place in front of dozens of astonished revellers in a busy covered terrace.

A police source said: 'We arrived extremely quickly and managed to break up the disturbance. The man involved was briefly arrested and then released pending charges for assault.

'Witnesses said he swore heavily, using anti-Jewish insults, before attacking a couple. Both have provided witness statements, as have a number of other people at the bar, including staff.'

The source confirmed that Galliano, who has been chief designer at Christian Dior since 1996, was the only person arrested in connection with the incident.

Galliano, who was born in Gibraltar and then brought up in South London, is often seen in the bars and café of the Marais.

Galliano, who regularly performs his trademark 'rock star' poses at the end of fashion shows, is one of the world's foremost celebrity designers.

Close personal friends include pop star Kylie Minogue, for whom he has designed clothes for tours. Madonna has also visited him regularly in Paris.

His 'set' in the French capital has also included supermodels like Kate Moss, Helena Christensen and Naomi Campbell.

They are always so enthused by his creations that, it has been claimed, they regularly waive their usual couture appearance fees to appear in his clothes.

Private clients for his hugely expensive clothes included the late Princess Diana, who also loved his work.

A friend of the designer in Paris said: 'Women love John because he has a very feminine side. Reports of this assault are so out of character. I've never seen him being violent towards anyone.'

Marc By Marc Jacobs.

Inevitably, all roads lead back to the seventies for Marc Jacobs. That’s true for Marc Jacobs, the label, too, and as of Tuesday, his Marc by Marc Jacobs fall collection.

As I am writing this, I am kind of kicking myself for it, because, really, you’re not surprised, are you? If I had told you 1670s, well, maybe, but we are talking about the gleaming, throbbing, Shelley Hack 1970s here, and that is like telling you the sun will rise and fall each and every day: You know it already. But, actually, it’s a surprise, because here’s the thing—for season after season now, Jacobs has mined all sorts of the nexuses between street style, pop culture, and music for Marc—from the X-Ray Spex punk days of the seventies, to the shambling acoustic pop of the Marine Girls eighties (go check them out; it’s why God gave us YouTube), to the acid-rave nineties.

All young, young, young. Yet fall was, instead, all grown-up, a collection of great pieces—the likes of a gold leather cardigan, a striped camel blanket coat, and a yellow-gold velvet dress, all of which were worn with shearling wedge booties or high oxfords, a great example of the man’s shoe cantilevered onto a heel that has been around this past week. Jacobs caught a little of the glossy, fetish hardness that was slicked all over his Marc Jacobs collection Monday, but softened with his fluid, looser seventies-isms that will introduce a whole new generation of girls to looking dressed up without eschewing fun. And that can only be good.