After collaborating with socialites including Vanessa Traina and Dree Hemingway, French contemporary brands are celebrating vintage icons.  For images & more

Stylsize, a little-known start-up in Ontario that creates fashion-minded apps, is one of the winners of this year’s “NYC Next Idea” competition. Run by Amy Bergenwall, Dan McCann and Andrei Rotenstein, Stylsize is developing an app that will allow online shoppers to visualize how various clothing will fit.  For more

To mark its 30th anniversary at retail, Guess Inc. is returning to its roots with fashion icon Claudia Schiffer, a lace bustier and a lot of sex appeal.  For images & more

Even Marie Antoinette — famed for her extravagant shopping habits — may have balked at the eye-watering price a pair of her slippers fetched at a recent auction sale in Toulon, France.  For more

Sources noted that the women’s scent — said to be called Marc Jacobs Dot — is intended to be a new pillar in the designer’s lineup, joining his best-selling Daisy and Lola franchises.  For more

“The September Issue” director R.J. Cutler, along with Colac Pictures producers Julie Anne Quay and Gail Lyon, are now casting for their film adaptation of the 1986 novel “Fabulous Nobodies.”  For more