ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: Luxury brand J. Mendel didn't depart from what it does best - design high-end fashion using superior textiles to create an ethereal look for Fall 2012 at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. The label's French

Gilles Mendel’s Fall 2012 collection floated down the runway Wednesday afternoon. This season, the designer derived inspiration from the visual texture of Gaudi’s work in Spain and the way Diana Vreeland interpreted it for Vogue through the lens of Helmu

One of the last living goddesses of cinema, hymned by the disparate likes of Mick Jagger, Noël Coward, and John Cheever, Sophia Loren still dazzles at 77. But she’s reluctant to discuss a life in which fame was easier to find than a home and family. In a

At , the Gibson Girl is out, and Veronica Lake is in. Entering his second season at the womenswear retailer, Charles Benton fused forties Hollywood glam with the imagery of Helmut Newton to create a Fall collection that was "dedicated to the diva, but mo

Marisa Berenson, granddaughter of Elsa Schiaparelli and dubbed "the girl of the Seventies" by Yves Saint-Laurent, was groomed by the likes of Diana Vreeland for fashion stardom. The model, who posed for famous photographers like Richard Avedon, Irving Pe

Those feline eyes. That Grecian nose. Those bangs. Anjelica Huston's style is a plucky, no-frills look that we've followed since she played Morticia in The Addams Family. And even before she was an Academy Award-winning actress, her face and style won th