>> Leather skirts have always been a wardrobe mainstay, but this season's version is full-skirted, feminine — and suddenly everywhere. Whether softly pleated or hyper flared, the voluminous silhouette feels totally fresh for right now — and will take you straight through to Spring. Click through for a bit of styling inspiration, straight from the chic streets of Milan, Paris, and London.
>> Kelly Wearstler's taste for sculptural interiors carries over naturally to her jewelry and bags. For Spring 2012, it was all about turquoise cube motifs, box clutches, hammered metal in geometric shapes, and chunky chains. Click through to preview the collection, currently available for preorder on Moda Operandi.
>> Marc Jacobs has taken plenty of turns in front of the camera — most notably for the 2007 documentary Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton — but he's always been himself. Now, he has the opportunity to do otherwise, he said last night at the WSJ. Magazine Innovator of the Year Awards: "I got cast in a role in a movie. They're filming next week and I'm excited. I get to play a character that's not myself at all." No further details were revealed. [Style.com]
>> Spotted backstage at the Parkmoonchoo Fall 2011 show, this inky ombre manicure is a fresh way to wear dark nail polish this season — and getting the look couldn't be easier. You'll need three nail polishes: an opaque nude color, a super-dark hue, and a clear topcoat. Start by painting nails with the pale hue, and let dry completely. Next, paint a very thick layer of clear topcoat over the nude color. While the topcoat is still wet — and working one nail at a time — use short strokes and a heavily-loaded brush to dab the dark color just along the tip of the nail. It's all about creating a painterly effect here, so be sure to lay it on thick and don't worry about being too precise; the two polishes should run together to create a marbled effect. Let nails dry completely, clean up any mistakes around the nail with nail polish remover, and finish with another layer of clear topcoat.
![V Magazine Winter 2011 Model Covers, by Carine Roitfeld [Pictures]](http://media1.onsugar.com/files/2011/10/43/5/166/1668379/289c6120bc366e6d_vmag-cover.xlarge/i/V-Magazine-Winter-2011-Model-Covers-Carine-Roitfeld-Pictures.jpg "V Magazine Winter 2011 Model Covers, by Carine Roitfeld [Pictures]")
>> V magazine collaborated with Carine Roitfeld on its first model covers in two years. The issue, on newsstands Nov. 8, featured four covers with two models apiece, styled by Roitfeld and photographed by Terry Richardson: Candice Swanepoel and Joan Smalls; Daphne Groeneveld and Saskia de Brauw; Sui He and Hanaa Ben Abdesslem, and Bambi Northwood-Blyth and Lindsey Wixson.
“It’s a big moment of change in fashion. In some cases, you feel like it’s the end of an era. I have been feeling this with cover subjects, and especially models,” Roitfeld explained. “These eight girls are unique, not one is like the other. Candice is the only blonde and blue-eyed of this new generation of supermodels. Joan is black, Sui He is Asian, Hanaa is North African. It’s their diversity that makes each of them, to me, truly modern. They bring a new energy to fashion.” The magazine plans to celebrate the issue on Sunday with a Halloween party at the gay nightclub Escuelita, hosted by Richardson, Swanepoel, Smalls, Northwood-Blyth and He.
>> Frida Giannini and Gucci CEO Patrizio di Marco have publicly announced that they've been a couple for over two years. Although many fashion brands are or have been run by couples — Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli, Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge — this marks the first time the couple is not the owners of the brand but rather its employees.
Giannini, 38, who became Gucci creative director in 2006, and di Marco, 49, who joined as CEO in January 2009, became romantically involved on a trip to China; both were divorced at the time. After their relationship changed, di Marco says he went to Rome to speak to François-Henri Pinault, the chief executive of PPR, which owns Gucci; Giannini also spoke to Pinault, separately. Both say they were fully prepared to leave Gucci if required, but Pinault “was very supportive.”
Pinault says that he is not concerned if the relationship were to go south: “If something changed and one left, well, we would deal with that. . . . This is a family business – it was started by my father, and I know how that can feel and seem to the outside world, but I also know how much that makes you be strict with yourself. And I knew them, so I knew if anything this would make them more demanding with themselves.”
