Models Boycott High-Heel 'Stilts'

Extra stitched equipment hits Madrid runway

(NEWSER) - The well-dressed metrosexual looking for a little something extra can now scoop up a pair of pants with a cloth penis and scrotum stitched to the crotch. The unusual accoutrement, paraded on the Madrid runway thanks to designer Isabel Mastache, isn't for everyone, of course. As Queerty's fashion reviewer declares: "Three words. Do not want." Click here to watch the pants make their way down the runway. More»

The 'brash boy' was hailed as a genius for his designs

(NEWSER) - The apparent suicide of 40-year-old British designer Alexander McQueen has stunned the fashion world.

• "I found him about as complex and beguiling as any human,' writes fashion journalist Cathy Horyn in the New York Times . "He was enormously creative and intelligent—and funny and rude and fearless." More than anything, though, he was a "genuinely talented man."

Designers are tamed by recession fears

(NEWSER) - Thanks to the recession, “disciplined good taste” reigned on the Paris runways this week, leading Bloomingdale’s fashion director to dub the season “terrific, from a commercial point of view, but not so much so that it’s safe and boring.” Guy Trebay begs to differ. “If success is measured by distance traveled, then this has been the Paris season that ran the gamut—as Dorothy Parker once famously sniped about Katharine Hepburn's acting range—from A to B,” he writes in the New York Times. More»

Alexander McQueen creates a stir with his towering shoes

(NEWSER) - Alexander McQueen’s collection, inspired by Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species, had quite a few avant garde elements when it was unveiled last night in Paris—think shaved eyebrows, gills painted on temples, and devil-horn-shaped hair—but the shoes took the cake. The crystal-studded creations, part shoe and part boot, measure a towering 12 inches, the Daily Mail reports. View the pictures at left. More»

Designer Mark Fast responds to complaints about starving catwalkers

(NEWSER) - A London stylist quit in a snit after a fashion designer chose three "average size" models for his runway show, reports the Guardian. Mark Fast, known for his body-hugging mini-dresses, used three models sizes 8 and 10 to show off his collection yesterday. The move followed a warning by the director of a psychiatric eating disorders association about the use of super-thin models. More»