Feb. 11: British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, 40, commits suicide a month before presenting his collection in Paris. Known for coupling British tailoring with French couture, he was internationally acclaimed for wildly imaginative clothing and fashion shows that doubled as performance art.
Feb. 19: Levi’s collaborated with New York shopkeepers-cum-coolmakers Opening Ceremony for a Pantone-hued collection of cords and jackets, and rolled it off with a happening party.
‘Mad’ runway style
Feb 25: “Mad Men” TV fashions go international as Miuccia Prada focuses her fall 2010 collection on the early ’60s sexy silhouettes and ladylike styles, inspired by the show’s costume designer, Janie Bryant.
March 2: In a sign of San Francisco’s retail significance, Bulgari opens a 13,000-square-foot West Coast flagship at Stockton and Geary streets on Union Square, with a caviar-and-Champagne party for 600 guests, attended by Nicola Bulgari himself.
March 7: Best-dressed Oscar winner Sandra Bullock’s shimmery silver velvet and lace Marchesa Oscar gown is forever entwined in our memories with worst-dressed images of her then-husband’s tattooed stripper mistress.
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