Leave it to the ingenious mind of Miuccia Prada to lay forth a capsule collection that every one but screams “Honey, I shrunk the handbag!” Available this month through Christmas in Miu Miu boutiques everywhere, the Gifts Collection presents replicas of iconic Miu Miu favorites in an exceedingly miniature format. Here, the classic matelassé bag (shown in mink, but additionally available in ostrich, lux, metal, and crocodile) gets the mini-me treatment, measuring at a trifling 15 centimeters in size. Your stocking stuffing just got chicer.

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TO CELEBRATE THE DISCHARGE IN THEIR MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE BOOK, COMMONLY EVERYTHING, INEZ & VINOODH CAPTURE 5 WOMEN WHOM THEY’VE GOT REPEATEDLY DOCUMENTED THROUGHOUT THEIR CAREERS. IN THESE MODELS, IT SEEMS, THE DUTCH PHOTOGRAGPHERS HAVE FOUND BOTH BEAUTIFUL SUBJECTS AND WILLING ACCOMPLICES-TIME AND TIME AGAIN

Photography Inez & Vinoodh
Styling Melanie Ward
Text David Rimanelli

“Out of black-edged plates they’d drunk turtle soup and eaten Russian rye bread, ripe Turkish olives, caviar, smoked Frankfort black pudding, game with sauces that were the colour of licorice and blacking, truffle gravy, chocolate cream, puddings, nectarines, grape preserves, mulberries, and black-heart cherries; they’d sipped, out of dark glasses, wines from Limagne, Roussillon, Tenedos, Val de Penas, and Porto, and after the coffee and walnut brandy had partaken of kvas and porter and stout.”
–Joris-Karl Huysmans, À Rebours

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Above, the incomparable Lady Gaga poses atop her recent Visionaire Larger Than Life cover by Inez & Vinoodh for the duvet of Spanish V’s Winter 2011/12 issue!

In a different bilingual edition (Spanish and English), Spanish V looks back at 20 years of Visionaire, showcasing each individual issue with new interviews from the collaborators who made them come to life. The problem also celebrates V Magazine’s greatest moments from the past ten years, including never-before-seen images from Lady Gaga’s first shoot for V with Sebastian Faena, at which she and her close collaborator Nicola Formichetti first met. Other highlights include early work from contributors and icons along with David Bowie, Mario Testino, Karl Lagerfeld, Carine Roitfeld, and Inez & Vinoodh.

As Spanish V looks back in any respect of the incredible contributors who’ve shaped V and Visionaire through the years, we nominate Lady Gaga because the ultimate “visionary,” and celebrate the icon by featuring her at the cover. See how she embodies the spirit of V and Visionaire on this glimpse into our history. This is to the following two decades!

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Sonny Groo sat down with David Koma per week after showing his Spring/Summer 2012 collection during London Fashion Week.

SONNY GROO Hey David, It’s been some time. How are you doing?
DAVID KOMA It’s a piece crazy, actually, pretty insane to be honest. However, I just got back from the gym and had two cigarettes so I’m feeling far better now.

SG Could you tell me a piece more in regards to the inspiration in your Fall/Winter 2011-12 collection? From the gigantic printed faces to the various dots.
DK The foundation for the autumn/Winter 2011 collection was avant-garde art, particularly the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who’s renowned for her obsession with repetition and pattern.  I took this concept and translated it onto the feminine body. Re-interpreting the spot motifs within Kusama’s work-where objects and folks become distorted and indistinguishable-we did embroidery and layered, laser-cut patterns.  We also did a collaboration with Russian contemporary photographer Oleg Duo and created face-prints with bright polka dots and fur pom-poms, which have been almost concealed by the dotted patterns. The hallucinatory dots create the semblance of 3 dimensions.

SG Are you able to tell me more in regards to the accessories? As an example the shoes, are these still in collaboration with Alain Quilici?
DK Yes, they’re. My Spring/Summer 2012 collection was our third time collaborating and we actually turned good friends. i actually love working with him, so i feel increasingly shoes might be coming from us. Maybe not just shoes… but i will be able to’t let you know just yet.

SG What’s the next step for your agenda? What are you engaged on at this time?
DK For the last couple of months the U.S. Market have been paying loads of interest and because we’re not widely presented there it may be an engaging next step. i believe it’s all in regards to the right time, which i’m hoping will come soon. Another market we’re interested by is Asian. Our collection is stocked in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. It’s very exciting to explore different continents and spot more women loving the garments I design. 

SG Are you engaged on the other collaborations for the time being?
DK There are a number of projects I’m engaged on at present, but as I said before, i will’t inform you yet. In the event that they get confirmed it’s going to be amazing, but instantly i will only say yes and never provide you with any explanation of further details. Give me another month to determine if everything is a go and that i may be the first to inform you.

SG I remember your collaboration with TopShop. How did that go with regards to working with a large company? Would you do another one with a brand or company?
DK The collaboration with TopShop was very natural. The team was really cool and we had a great connection. You know, if people connect well working together, the consequences are always great! i might definitely work with TopShop again because it was really successful and the feedback was amazing. On every other collaborations, I’m the type of person that is up for anything new so long as i think good about it. You never know what happens or how things will end up, so I trust my feelings and that i always try and glide.

SG Tell me a little more about your organization and team.
DK To begin with, i’ve got an excellent team at the moment. i’ve people i will trust and believe in working with me everyday. We even have a lot of wonderful interns helping out every season. We’re actually attempting to move our studio from next season on. You might tell the labor is paying off and we’re taking the proper steps, nothing too big.

SG Would you ever do menswear?
DK i really like the theory of doing menswear, but i believe it’ll be the proper time and that i feel now it’s not the suitable time yet. i believe i must do pre-collections and a second line before doing menswear.

SG The last time we met in Paris i discussed i’ll see you being involved in the re-launching of a brand. Would you be up working for one more brand or label?
DK If something like this will likely happen and it were truly the correct match, then yes, i might definitely do it. i need to maintain my very own line as well as this, however. To be honest, it’d be amazing. It’d be my ultimate dream come true to be the designer of my very own label and the Creative Director of another one. i admire challenging myself. 

SG Besides the complete fashion-design aspect, what other interests and skills do you’ve?
DK i really like to color. I don’t have enough time to do all the pieces i really like, but hopefully someday i will do more and show my vision through my paintings. i feel both are linked in a technique, fashion and art. For instance, while designing I treat the feminine body as a canvas to lay lines of the longer term garment on. 

SG To finish this conversation, is there anything you want us to grasp?
DK Let me think. Ah! We’ve moved a major element of our production to Italy and that i’m happy to be doing things now that i’ll never have done before, like working with fur as an illustration, which i locate very very fascinating. Each season i will be able to work with a cloth or technique that i have not used before-something that’s new and intensely exciting-which i am hoping will come again every season and become element of David Koma brand identity. 

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When Donatella Versace took a bow following her menswear show in Milan in June, she stood smiling, arms behind her back. Beyond the cascade of perennially platinum blonde hair and toned, tanned limbs, something stood out: Versace’s dress, a sensual but tough black leather shift punctuated with gold studs. Three months later, Anna Dello Russo will be seen wearing a similar number in Paris, and the designer herself would don the same style in white for her Spring 2012 Versace women’s collection. Come November 19, a shorter, slightly less embellished version of that dress, which Versace designed for H&M, will hit stores within the U.S.-and sure sell out within an issue of hours.

That Versace collaborated with the Swedish retail giant in any respect can have surprised fast fashion followers. Back in 2008, the designer said she had no real interest in making a lower-priced line, though, she added, she respected those, like Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney, and Alber Elbaz, who did. Three years on, and Versace has seemingly broadened her sartorial horizons, developing a wallet-friendly line that comprises women’s, men’s, and residential collections. The timing couldn’t be better, as Versace, in all its colorful, opulent glory, has recaptured the fad zeitgeist with its graphic, tightly edited collections and an endorsement from Lady Gaga, who seemingly wore archival Versace pieces all summer long.

Inspired by iconic vintage pieces created by Versace’s late brother, Gianni, Versace for H&M also channels a daring bravura that’s distinctly Donatella. Medallion, leopard, and floral prints come alive in a riot of kaleidoscopic color, covering leggings, bomber jackets, and bustiers; chain mail and cut-outs appear on minidresses, while studs dot clutches, trousers, and bright sheaths. In other words, the house’s DNA is writ large-manifest in an exuberant fusion of past and present. Sarah Fones

The Better of Versace for H&M hits stores this Saturday. hm.com

From V74 The Model Issue, on sale now!

Photography Paul Maffi
Styling Tom Van Dorpe

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Founded: 1995 Location(s): Latitude 40.74998389309733 Longitude 74.00540828704834 What number of models do you manage? 112 women and 158 men. Who’re your current stars? Current would not rhyme with timeless. Who’re your most promising up-and-comers? For us to fret about and that you can discover. What’s the most coveted job for a model? Not to must get a task anymore.

Click here to peer the whole Powerhouse, from V74 The Model Issue, and watch the video for more!

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Today V are proud to premiere the fast film The Visit, presented by adidas Originals and directed by Ry Russo-Young. The hot York director employs a natural, graceful use light and framing to inform the tale of a tender couple in love who take a trip to the boy’s grandfather at his Mediterranean-style house overlooking a hill. The piece takes inspiration from Russo-Young’s forthcoming feature film Nobody Walks, which earned the director a position as fellow of the 2010 Sundance Screenwriters Lab.

Essentially the mostsome of the most striking elements of the production is the outstanding casting, which incorporates a turn by Patrick Bauchau, of l. a. Collectionneuse, because the grandfather. All the characters wear clothing from the adidas Originals Blue Fall/Winter 2011-12 collection. Without further ado, experience The Visit:

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Marc Jacobs and Natasha Poly were available for Carine Roitfeld’s only Ny book signing event for Irreverent, her impressive new monograph out from Rizzoli. The development was held within Jacobs’ specialty fashion bookstore BOOKMARC. “Marc is usually behaving irreverently, and that i love that! He’s an incredible hero in fashion,” Roitfeld gushed as she handed over a signed copy of her book to a fan.

Crowds lined each side of the West Village bookshop cum party space. Male waiters seemingly transplanted from the runway of Marc Jacobs’ last collection served champagne flutes brimming with Veuve Cliquot. Eager fashion followers, many wearing their very own versions of Roitfeld’s haute-bourgeois leather and rock ‘n’roll flair, jostled to get a replica of the 368-page career retrospective.

Roitfeld’s Irreverent includes excepts from designers like Martin Margiela and Alexander Wang, commentary from Olivier Zahm and Cathy Horyn, and pictures of each Carine Roitfeld editorial ever printed. The photography is illuminated by Carine’s own hand; she uses a black marker for her own musings and to inform the stories of what went on behind the curtain of her famous shoots.

Roitfeld have been on a whirlwind tour promoting her book with signings and events. Weeks ago, Valentino serenaded Roitfeld with Sinatra’s “My Way” on the book launch at former strip club Westway. The development proved that if Roitfeld calls, they-designers, celebrities, models-will come. “I have a brand new day job now, producing parties,” Roitfeld joked.

Carine Roitfeld: Irreverent is on the market now. Click here to purchase.

Previously: A Life In Pictures: a brand new Book Honors Carine Roitfeld’s Subversive Career and Reminds Stephen Gan of excellent Times inside the Gloss

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THE OSCAR-WINNING COSTUME DESIGNER HAS MADE STRANGE BEAUTY HER SIGNATURE. IN HER LATEST PROJECT, SHE EXPLORES IMMORTALITY, AND THE IMPLICATIONS ARE APPROPRIATELY UNFORGETTABLE

Text Patrik Sandberg

“Beauty itself is her medium,” Francis Ford Coppola wrote of artist Eiko Ishioka within the introduction to her 2000 monograph, Eiko On Stage. “She is, and always may be, something of a foreigner within the film industry, regardless of what number films she works on or awards [she receives].”

“I do not know if it’s beauty or not,” Ishioka says in connection with this statement. She is seated at a clean, white table over a pile of carefully organized illustrations and sketches. We’re in her immaculate, minimalist high-rise apartment that overlooks Central Park from the seventieth floor. “It is from my viewpoint, and that i always desire to create my very own form of beauty.” But something is surely: the Academy Award–winning costume designer behind the costumes for Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula has not just found her niche as a designer for film, she remains one of the most industry’s most in-demand costumers.

“I am lucky to have set to work with Paul Schrader and Francis,” Ishioka says. “Dracula was my first big Hollywood film, and Francis gave me complete freedom by expecting never-before-seen, unique, timeless, and revolutionary design.”

Click here for the whole story from V74 The Model Issue, on sale now! Immortals is in theaters today from Relativity Media.

Photo: Eiko Ishioka at the set of Immortals, photography Jan Thijs © 2011 War of the Gods, LLC. All rights reserved.

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For V SPAIN 10, Fall 2011, V SPAIN commissioned twenty-five photographers to capture the spirit of twenty-five different collections. Here, Matthew Williams interprets Dior with the assistance of stylist Sally Lyndley. Take a look at these special animated .GIFs made for the occasion, by Williams and digital animator qilme!

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