FASHION Magazine

In London’s far far east, where no fashion boutique has gone before, LN-CC is boldly going in a new retail direction. While the industry bickers over whether worldwide e-tail like Net-a-Porter or hyper-localized concept retail is the future, LN-CC is doing brilliantly at both like it’s no big thing.

It was nice to catch up with Deena Weinberg, owner of Toronto’s Max Mara shop at the Sportmax show. It’s a little out of context for the two of us, we’re more often caught sweating on our bikes at Sunday morning spin class than at a fashion show! The collection was big on coats with swingy tweed toppers, parkas and a particularly strong rusty patent leather floor length trench. Texture was the name of the game with sheer appliqued embroidered floral prints, chunky rib knits, sequins and this season’s obligatory coloured fur.

Stefano Pilati, Karl Lagerfeld, Christophe Decarnin, Hedi Slimane, Alber Elbaz and Raf Simons have all been caught up in the rumour mill–again. According to a number of unnamed sources, Pilati is set to be replaced at YSL with either Slimane, Simons or Decarnin. The Kaiser is rumoured to retire from Chanel in 2012 (on his 30th anniversary with the brand) and will be replaced with Elbaz of Lanvin. And if the gossip is true Theyskens will be replacing Elbaz at Lanvin. [The Cut]

Kelly Cutrone‘s wildly popular reality TV show Kell on Earth is finally coming to Canada. The show will premiere on CosmoTV on Monday October 11.  [CosmoTV]