Givenchy Fall 2011 Campaign Video

Decarnin OUT and Rousteing IN at BALMAIN

It’s said that Olivier Rousteing, who worked closely with Christophe Decarnin during his six years as Creative Director of Balmain, is about to be promoted.

Decarnin’s absence was first noticed after the AW11 show in Paris last month—the show ended, the audience waited, and no one took a bow. Reports immediately surfaced that the designer had either entered a mental hospital, been too exhausted to bow, or had already been fired by the brand. He popped up at parties later that night, but Balmain officially “ended their relationship” a few weeks ago. Instead of conducting a search it sounds like the Parisian house is sticking to what works, or who works, in this case.

Rousteing, who’s French, has been at Balmain since 2009, following nine years at Roberto Cavalli. He faces a pretty big challenge—Decarnin managed to reinvent the brand and con people into spending four figures on ripped t-shirts, but his rock n’ roll spell rubbed off a few seasons ago which means Rousteing may have even more inventing to do. We’ll have to wait and see what he does come September. In homage, let's take a look back at the raunchy and massively expensive luxury Decarnin created for the house: click here Grab a drool rag first!

Rose Byrne in Chanel Spring 2011

Zoë Kravitz in Chanel Spring 2011

Cameron Diaz in Chanel Spring 2011

Behind-the-Scenes Look at Louis Vuitton Fall 2011 Campaign

You've seen a good portion of the Fall 2011 ad campaign for Louis Vuitton, but now the house has released a making-of video, complete with Marc Jacobs explaining the photoshoot's inspiration.

Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2011 Ad Campaign

A freelance career is agreeing with Carine Roitfeld — very early on in the Fall 2011 ad campaign reveal game, she's already racked up styling duties for two houses. First Chanel, and now Jean Paul Gaultier, the first images of which show Kristen McMenamy in a Roitfeld-esque pencil skirt, captured by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

Tom Ford Fall 2011

True to his word, Tom Ford finally bestowed his fall 2011 collection upon the Internet a full four months after its exclusive presentation at London Fashion Week in February. It's in the form of a video look book starring real models like Abbey Lee Kershaw, Karlie Kloss, and Daphne Groeneveld instead of Ford's celebrity friends. There's lots of close-fitting black lace, tailored velvet dresses, and a shaggy red coat that is sure to be as ubiquitous as that shaggy blue dress was last winter. Anyway, now that it's out, will celebrities and magazines go as apeshit over this stuff as they did before?

Miuccia Prada Is Clocking Work

As Prada prepares for its initial public offering in Hong Kong later this month, details that were once kept private about the company are now being filed publicly. Last week, we learned that Prada is estimated to be worth some $15 billion; Now, thanks to a 450-page document released today by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange website, we know that Miuccia Prada earned 9.7 million euros (approx. $14.1 million) last year, while her husband and Prada CEO Patrizio Bertelli made 10 million euros (approx. $14.6 million) in the same period of time — making them "two of fashion’s best-paid stars," as WWD points out.

2011 CFDA Fashion Awards Video Shoot

Here's a behind-the-scenes exclusive video of this years 2011 CFDA Fashion awards that hits off this evening, shot by the famed photog-duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. It features designers Joseph Altuzarra, Alexander Wang, Jason Wu and the Olsen twins from The Row. Also models Arizona Muse, Natasha Poly, Sean Opry and Anne V. Check it out below!