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Day 2 at London Fashion Freak: Daks, Ashish, House of Holland & Jonathan Saunders
A 9am show after a long after-party night is a tough call but you wouldn’t know it as the Daks presentation played to a full bright-eyed and bushy-tailed crowd. Outside the rain may have been pouring but thanks to...
Vlov Qingqing wu Spring/Summer 2012: An Auspicious Debut
Last Monday afternoon saw the American debut of rising Chinese designer Qingqing Wu with his 2012 Spring/Summer collection, VLOV. Wu paraded his East-meets-West Men's Wear collection at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at the Lincoln Center. Wu brings an austere but...
LFW: Day 1: Style Speak from London’s Lord Mayor, Paul Costello, Bora Aksu, Jean-Pierre Braganza and PPQ
London Fashion Week kicked off with the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, declaring London as a leading Fashion Capital totalling 21 billion per annum and revealing schemes to take fashion & creativity into the next Olympic year. Fine style...
Daphne Guiness retrospective opens at F.I.T.
Thursday night saw the unveiling of Daphne Guinness' fashion retrospective at FIT as a fitting close to NY Fashion week, which will go until January 7th, 2012.
With opening night festivities sponsored by Kim Crawford Wines, Guiness and fellow fabulous...
Billy Reid Spring/Summer 2012: rustic, scruffy and chic.
Billy Reid, winner of several prestigious awards, including the CFDA/ Vogue Fashion Fund, held his Spring 2012 presentation this past Friday night. Set in a Milk Studio forum, textures were light—serene, angelic and sporty. The layered look was definitely the...
Venexiana caters yet another Masterpiece of Dresses, for Spring 2012
Long, elegantly embroidered works of art, Kati Stern of Venexiana did it again. A company whose signature is the extraordinarily embellished cocktail dresses, evening and ball gowns, Kati Stern’s adeptness only seems to get more acute. A plethora of...
Mara Hoffman Spring/Summer 2012: The age of Inca.
The line for Mara Hoffman’s collection snakes around the corner, spilling down the length of the corridor at the tents. Guests glisten in the humidity, fanning themselves with the look list from the previous show, looking pale from lack...
Christian Siriano Spring Summer 2012- Exquisite blood orange crepe and more.
Young Project Runway star, Christian Siriano—whose success followed the death of his notably ‘favorite’ designer, Alexander McQueen—has struck it big, lately. Hosting his 2012 spring collection at Eyebeam, in Chelsea this past Saturday—Siriano continued his trends of frills, outlandishness...
NY Fashion week faux pas and gossip- Day 2/3.
Yes fellow Vagabonds, it’s that time again, the time for us Scallywags here to spill all the delicious dirt heard and seen at the tents. You asked and here we have it… read on if you dare.
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A Lowlife’s Night Out, Rubbing Shoulders With Upper East Side Dames and Designers
Spending Fashion Night Out in the Upper East Side is a far cry from the days when Andy Warhol worked and lived in the area. The block of Madison Avenue between 58th and 59thStreet hosted three gala parties, red velvet...
Candela Spring/Summer 2012: The delicate struggle between structure and self-expression
The Caribbean-inspired notes echo from the room. The guests, an eclectic mix of fashionistas adorned in dark colors and oversized vintage jewelry, nod their heads to the enticing drum beat, anxiously awaiting the guarded doors to open for the...
Supima Spring/Summer 2012 bringing it on home.
The Supima design competition held yearly by Supima cotton brings new talent from prominent design schools to Mercedes Benz fashion week. Not only do all designers in the show receive a large amount of recognition, the winner gets $25,000...
Surface to Air: Parisian boutique opens in NYC, good girl gone bad, sort of…
Wednesday night saw a heady display of downtown cool as Euro's, hipsters, trust funders, fashionistas and a token few from the media world descended onto the opening night launch party for uber chic Parisian label: Surface to Air. If...
Gossip from the tents: NY Fashion Week arrives.
The woman sitting next to me is driving me nuts and as much as I want to back my jackhammer into her skull I pleasantly smile as she regales another insider fashion story. This if you must know is...
Albert Elbaz: I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them — I’d be a junkie.
Have you ever thought about what it takes to succeed as a designer? Lanvin's Albert Elbaz has. In a feature Vogue UK, the creative director muses how he manages in the face of temptation and an insular fashion world...
