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At 4:30pm EST tomorrow, you can virtually join a conversation led by the founder of The Fashion and Race Database, Kimberly Jenkins, featuring renowned fashion journalist Robin Givhan and luxury retail entrepreneur Sherri McMullen. The conversation is the third and final instalment of a series Jenkins created in partnership with Holt Renfrew’s H Project (which focuses […]

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“So pleased.” That was how Jean Paul Gaultier summed up his feelings about his retrospective Monday night at the VIP party held at Montreal’s Musée des Beaux-Arts. “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” opened Monday night with an intimate gathering that mixed Gaultier’s inner circle with Quebec designers and celebs. Male muse Tanel Bedrossiantz in skirt and mohawk, bald and tattooed Ève Salvail, Francisco Randez, star of Gaultier Le Male fragrance ads and doll-like French singer Arielle, in body-hugging tulle, joined musician Melissa Auf der Maur, International Herald Tribune critic Suzy Menkes, Newsweek’s Robin Givhan, and hairstylist Odile Gilbert in touring the show. An ebullient Gaultier, who initially had not been keen on the notion of a retrospective—“it can be like a funeral,” he told me back in January—was clearly enjoying himself, wandering the rooms and amiably chatting and posing for photos.

John Galliano on his own show-stopping runway outfits: “I get so immersed in the world that I am creating that – like a method actor – I tune with the muse, the story and the collection so much so that I evolve into an homage to the world I have created,” said Galliano. [Vogue UK]

Fashion journalist Robin Givhan is leaving the Washington Post after 15 years on the job. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer will be joining Newsweek and Daily Beast team as a special correspondent for style and culture. [Fashionista]

Nicole Richie wore not one, not two, but three Marchesa gowns on her wedding day. The designer and reality TV star married longtime boyfriend Joel Madden on Saturday. [People]