spring 2012 - paris - 3

anne valérie hash

love. i would wear almost every piece of this.

hussein chalayan

he dressed as a waiter & served the models champagne!  doesn't he seem like someone you'd want to sit next to at a dinner party?

roland mouret

he knows how to dress the ladies!

roland mouret spring/summer 2011

aaaand he's back!  wow.  such a gorgeous collection - one of my favorites so far!  bravo mr. mouret.

roland mouret is now roland mouret

roland mouret has bought his trademarked name back from his former investors after 5 years. mouret split with his backers over strategic differences in 2005 whereupon they became full owners. mouret has shown under the name rm by roland mouret since then in partnership with 19M with simon fuller. mouret bought his name back for an undisclosed sum. "it took time but i am really happy." he added "things will be moving rapidly from now on. we are in expansion mode, and we've started to analyze other markets with an eye to opening stand-alone retail stores."

off to meet the queen

natalie massenet from net-a-porter recieved the MBE from the Queen yesterday. She wore a roland mouret dress and philip treacy headpiece for the ceremony. massenet grew up in los angeles and has worked for w, wwd & tatler in london. she went on to start net-a-porter in 2000. Other recipients include Burberry's Christopher Bailey, who received an MBE, conde nast director nicholas coleridge and warehouse founder jeff banks who both received a CBE and london college fashion's head of college frances corner and professor helen storey both received an OBE.