By Jenna Sauers 6/06/12 10:15am

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The Style Set: The CFDA Awards at Lincoln Center

John Waters will not officiate your marriage, no matter how nicely you ask. “I don’t do that anymore,” he said firmly, at the after-party for the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards, held at Lincoln Center Monday night. “People expect me to write something. Besides, everybody’s in that church now!”

Mr. Waters became a legally recognized marriage celebrant of the Universal Life Church during the making of Cry-Baby, long before the Internet made ordination accessible to anyone with a wi-fi connection and $14.95. “If I’ve known you for 20 years, and it’s private, maybe I’ll do it.”

The director and author was in the unique position of accepting two awards on behalf of honorees in absentia—Johnny Depp (who was given the organization’s Fashion Icon Award) and Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo (who bagged the International Award). “Rei asked me first, so I said to Johnny, ‘You’re kidding! Rei asked me yesterday.’” Clad in an orange patterned Comme des Garçons suit jacket, Mr. Waters thus took the stage twice. “I was happy to be a double-feature for the evening.” Read More

By Benjamin-Émile Le Hay 4/27/12 6:27pm

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Fern Mallis Has “Achieved a Whole Fucking Lot!” Says Betsey Johnson

When you can drag CFDA’s Steven Kolb, Vogue’s Hamish Bowles, Paul Wilmot, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Cathy Horyn, Dennis Basso and Vivienne Tam from their hectic lives in the fashion and editorial worlds to attend a student fashion show, you know you have sway. Or you have industry legends Calvin Klein and Fern Mallis. Last night the former presented the latter with a lifetime achievement award at Pratt’s 113th graduate fashion show, where over a dozen talented designers presented their edited collections. Read More

By Rebecca Suhwardi 3/01/12 1:00am

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John Galliano - Runway Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 (Eric Ryan/Getty)

Where in the World is John Galliano?

“I love Hitler. People like you would be dead today. Your mothers, your forefathers, would be fucking gassed and fucking dead.” Fashion designer John Galliano spewed these despicable, beyond hateful and offensive words, in February 2011 at his favorite watering hole, Café La Perle in Paris’ chic Marais district. Galliano—seemingly drunk or high, or both Read More