Tell us about the show, Stephen. It sounds fantastic.
It's a collection of hats from Georgiana to Boy George that I've collected over the last 30 years. I've always loved Georgian neoclassicism. It's in the Bowes, a museum built in the 17th century. Basically one branch of the family got the title and the other branch got the money. The guy who got the money went to Paris with an Englishwoman, and stuffed this mansion full of amazing paintings, antiques and furniture.

What makes a Georgian hat Georgian?
A Georgian hat has a very elegant line. Most of the old buildings in London are Georgian, built around 1750. They're the nice neoclassical ones, with really beautifully proportioned rooms. But then when it gets into the next era, Victorian, it gets gothic and really itsy bitsy.

Interesting to have Boy George in the title of your show. You two go way back.
Yes, here's a funny story about George. I used to have this little minivan. One day I was driving around Parliament Square and George was singing in the back of my van. George has got the most exquisite singing voice and I believe there's no recording that sounds as good. It's unbelievable. I remember telling him he should be a singer. He said, "Oh, I'd really like to, but I haven't got the confidence." How things have changed!

]]> http://www.hintmag.com/post/stephen-jones--may-17-2012-1358 Mon, 21 May 2012 18:58:00 -0400 http://www.hintmag.com/post/zen--may-21-2012-1735 Our latest up-and-comer shot to the model stratosphere last season with castings at Prada, Chanel (twice!), Hermès, Haider Ackermann, and Maison Martin Margiela. The Slavic beauty is just starting to make a splash in print, and we have no doubt that a bevy of photographers will be rushin' for the Russian this season. We caught up with Zen—an abbreviation of her actual name, Zenia Sevastyanova, not a self-proclamation—and learned all about her hopes, her hands, and her most embarrassing casting moment...

What's your favorite physical feature?
I don't have one. It's about overall balance and inner grace in a person. I do pay a lot of attention to hands though.

What's the strangest compliment you've received about your looks?
You're so attractive, you look like a boy.

What's the best advice you've gotten from another model?
Never be late.

When you're walking down the runway, what's going through your mind?
Storm on the inside, peace on the outside.

What's your diet during Fashion Week, and what do you eat immediately after?
Fish and greens, no carbs. Immediately after I eat something delicious, since it ends in Paris. Crepes with nutella and coconut.

If you weren't modeling, what would you be doing?
Same as now. Painting, drawing, making clothes or the opposite, I would be a journalist or a chemist, or pursue architecture.

What's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you at a casting?
I had an eye twitch while getting a snapshot.

What's the best city to work in and why?
New York, for the creativity, the amount of talented people and never knowing what to expect.

What would you ask for if you were granted one wish?
I ask for wishes every day and they all came or will come true.

What's your dream job in modeling?
Balmain campaign. Somewhere like Bali, the Maldives or other exotic place.

Available from May 31st on Karl.com, at the KARL pop-up store on Bleecker Street in New York and at Colette in Paris.

Though the actor is best known for her own brand of androgynous dressing, here, wrapped in custom gold lamé, she gives the perfect frontage for what’s dubbed the Extra Extravagance Issue. Inside, Swinton poses as a variety of über-glam figures for photographer Xevi Muntané, while other editorials feature pregnant men in S&M gear by Steven Klein and a recreation of Nan Goldin photos by David Armstrong, featuring the lovely Marcel Castenmiller.

But like a family of bickering brothers, each scent does carry a distinctly different personality, with formulations reflecting the namesake color of each. Play Red contains red mandarin, cinnamon, pink peppercorn and red cherry accord, while Green Play is made up of a grassy blend of mint nanah, lime, basil and vetiver. Black Play, fittingly, is the most intense of the trio, with black pepper, violet, black tea, incense and tree moss. And if the cult status of Comme's other stable of fragrances are any indication, you'll be fighting off a lot more than siblings from swiping your bottle.

At Dover Street Market in London and Dover Street Market beginning today

$440 at Jil Sander only

The nine-look collection, which walked the London catwalk in February, includes tailored coats and dresses in a variety of military-inspired neutrals, along with the brand’s famous tartans, plus a knockout of a leather skirt, deep-red rabbit fur vest and a red velvet brocade dress. The pre-sale will lasts only seven days—May 16-22—so get your Centurion card ready. Prices start from $765.

Rob Pruitt's Flea Market
Saturday, May 19, 18:00-00:00
Monnaie de Paris
11 Quaiy de Conti
75006 Paris

Shown yesterday in the gardens of Versailles, Karl Lagerfeld's vision proved to be one of his more provocative in recent seasons. When you're talking about a man who has shipped in actual icebergs for a runway set, that's saying a lot.

This time around the clothes did all the talking as models sporting helmet haircuts, some with long bow-accented ponytails, strutted around the Palace's spouting fountains in an eye-popping array of sugar-hued denim, tweed and ruffled lace. And though some ensembles almost veered into period costume territory, this was quickly tempered by tough-girl accessories such as platform creepers that accompanied most looks, statement cuff jewelry and cross-slung bags as M.I.A. pumped through the speakers.

As the Kaiser later said of the show, this was "Coco rock, not Rococo." That was made quite clear as the girls sauntered along, hands shoved in pockets with double-C beauty marks, reminding us of that original good girl gone bad.