Yves Saint Laurent

Socialite Maggie Betts hoped that there would be a secret photo shoot with a wind machine at the CFDA awards dinner last night and there totally was! [FWD]

Former Project Runway contestant Christian Siriano was asked to make a guest appearance on Gossip Girl, but he's still considering. [E! via The Cut] 

British design couple Mary Eley and Wakako Kishimoto have departed as the design duo behind Cacharel, citing creative differences and brand vision as the reason. [WWD]   read more »

Christie's International has announced that it will auction off the art collection belonging to Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge, Bloomberg reports.

While the particular contents of the collection have not been revealed, it is rumored to be worth as much as $599 million, featuring works by Picasso, Warhol, Mondrian, Matisse, and Goya.

The auction follows the designer's death on June 1 at his home in Paris. He and Mr. Berge co-founded the couture fashion house and were once romantically involved before becoming longtime friends and partners. Mr. Berge was the one who announced the designer's death to the press.

Scarlett Johansson's brother, Hunter, who until recently worked for Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, has reportedly left to work for the Obama campaign. Now they can both have regular email correspondence with the candidate. [P6]

Even though Roman Abramovich reportedly paid Amy Winehouse $2 million to perform at his girlfriend Dasha Zhukova's Moscow gallery last week, she still couldn't make it onto the stage on time. [NY Daily News]  read more »

Isaac Mizrahi's favorite hair pomade has been discontinued, so naturally he holed up in his apartment and made a lifetime supply of his own, to be called I-Hair. [P6]

Being married to Gwen Stefani means getting used to her untamed fashion sense, or as Gavin Rossdale puts it, "It's like marrying three different people a week, because you never know who's going to come out of the bathroom." [P6]

HarperCollins is suing Victoria Gotti, daughter of Gambino family boss John Gotti, for collecting a $70,000 book advance and then failing to pen the actual memoir. [NY Daily News]

Yves Saint Laurent was laid to rest in Paris yesterday with over a thousand guests arriving to wish him farewell, including Marc Jacobs, Christian Lacroix, John Galliano, Sonia Rykiel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, and Claudia Schiffer. [WWD]

Jane Fonda is so over men. [P6]

Tyson Beckford likes to pick up non-famous women at New York Whole Foods markets. [The Cut]

“I’m very sad about Yves Saint Laurent, which is why I’m wearing a 30-year-old jacket,” Council of Fashion Designers president Diane Von Furstenberg, clad in a blue “Le Smoking”-esque number by the late designer, confided at the New York Public Library on Monday, June 2. “It’s from my attic.”

Mr. Saint Laurent, who died June 1 in Paris from a brain tumor, was much on people’s minds at this, the annual CFDA Awards, otherwise known as fashion’s Oscars. “He was wonderful, he was divine, he was mischievous,” Ms. Von Furstenberg said. “I loved him.”  read more »

Yves Saint Laurent's funeral has been scheduled for Thursday at the Eglise Saint-Roch, a Baroque church in Paris according to Women's Wear Daily, with president Nicolas Sarkozy expected to attend.

Meanwhile The Daily Transom has received a statement from chairman of Christian Dior, Bernard Arnault, who said,  read more »

Designer Yves Saint Laurent died at home in his apartment in Paris yesterday at the age of 71. [NY Times]

Tatum O'Neal, who wrote a memoir in 2004 about her drug addiction, was arrested for buying crack on the Lower East Side on Sunday morning from a homeless man. [NY Daily News]  read more »

Yves Saint Laurent’s plans to show his fall mean’s wear collection in a video, instead of on a traditional catwalk, went off without a hitch thanks, in large part, to the film’s sole model, Simon Woods. According to WWD, Mr.  read more »