FASHION Magazine

House of Holland essentially arose out of a joke and a rhyming dictionary. [Guardian, via Refinery 29]

Gemma Ward may be ready to retire from her modelling career–her agent announced that she has no plans to continue on the catwalk. After photos of the absentee Australian surfaced on fashion blogs last week, Ward’s physique has come under scrutiny for being “plus-size,” as it has been with every model who starts to look normal. [The Cut]

It was only a matter of time before Christian Louboutin’s shoe designs got delicate enough for a princess—Cinderella to be exact. Louboutin teamed up with champagne company Piper-Heidsieck to design a glass slipper that will be sold in the Le Rituel gift set along with a bottle of bubbly. [WSJ]

For shoe fanatics, Salvatore Ferragamo is launching an online store to make luxury shopping that much easier. A site dedicated to the company’s museum will also be available shortly at museoferragamo.com. [WWD]

FitFlop, the shoes that tone your leg muscles while you walk, have signed Anna Sui to design a special edition pair. Did someone get their hands on a pair of Uggs and a Bedazzler? Even Anna Sui can’t work her magic on these. [The Cut]

Better know a blonde with The Pipeline’s handy chart. [Refinery 29]

Show: Alexander McQueen—and I wasn’t even present. Too sick that night to crawl from bed, I—and thousands upon thousands of other obsessives—watched McQ’s first live-to-air catwalk on ShowStudio.com. Even from afar, I was spun in, so totally entranced by his entire underworld of alien warrior princesses. (And those shoes! The most wondrously physics-defying footwear since Theyskens’ heelless hooves for Nina Ricci. Which was just last season…but still.) Magnificent in scope, meticulous in execution, it was a show to write home about. Unless you were already there.

In New York, celebrities and other pretty young things are given the ultimate VIP treatment (think private areas at nightclubs and concerts, and multiple security guard escorts before and after fashion shows). As I look around me at the Burberry Prorsum after party, held at Burberry headquarters on Horseferry Road, I realize that is not quite the case in London. To my left? Mary-Kate Olsen. To my right? Emma Watson, the face of Burberry’s fall/winter ad campaign. Yes, we are all bouncing around together to the music of The Kooks, who have arrived to do a live set (the lead singer makes sure to thank “Christopher.” Could that be Christopher Bailey, I wonder?!).