Princess Diana’s Designer Dies; Models Forced to Model in Rain at Milan Fashion Week
• Catherine Walker, who designed more than 1,000 outfits for Princess Diana, including the black dress she was buried in, died this weekend at the age of 65 after a long battle with breast cancer. [Catwalk Queen]
• Claudia Schiffer is launching her own fashion line with "an event" next month; the collection will hit stores for winter 2011. [WWD]
• The show for C'N'C Costume National was expected to draw huge crowds of Milanese when it was held outside the city's cathedral on Friday, but torrential rains kept most locals away and got the models wet. [WWD]
• Suzy Menkes was not a big fan of the hip-hop inspiration for Missoni's new collection: "[It] ought to have been a brilliant moment for a house built on its heritage of color and pattern. But instead, Japanese hats, giant renditions of the house’s zigzag patterns and random lettering on vast garments just looked weird." [NYT]
