Katie Holmes looks darling wearing sheer black with an Azzedine Alaia skirt. Also love that she’s growing her hair out.

Amazing Alaia leather cut out boots to lust over, start saving now cuz these are $2,680.

“I wore an Azzedine Alaïa brown snakeskin dress, which he tortured me for about two months to get into, but at least it’s something I can wear again. I didn’t want some stupid white dress; it seems like such a waste.”

And children: “It’s a bit like going to India — I can’t ever imagine myself going. I just never wanted to have kids.”

LINK: NY Mag via Times UK

Remember when Jourdan Dunn was just a fresh faced teenager? Now the English beauty is a big name in fashion.

Titled “It Will Be Ready, When It’s Ready” from i-D November 2008, Jourdan stared in the above spread shot by Alasdair McLellan for a story on Azzedine Alaïa’s designs.

The newest issue of V mag (with a glow in the dark cover) hit stores last week featuring a spread by Terry Richardson called “Little Black Dresses.”

The dresses: 1986 by Azzedine Alaia, 1996 by Syrilla, 2001 by Helmut Lang, and 2009 by Comme Des Garçons.

LINKAGE: The Pipeline

Gisele modeled for Craig McDean in a tribute to the designs of Azzedine Alaia.

The spread is in the March 2009 issue of Interview.

GALLERY: Gisele for Interview, March 2009.

Willy Vanderperre shot Kasia Struss for Azzedine Alaia’s Spring 2009 lookbook.  The shots are pretty straightforward, but pretty nonetheless, true to the spirit of Alaia’s designs. 

GALLERY: Azzedine Alaia Spring 2009 Lookbook