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Perry Ellis Warms Fashion Week Up
This past Friday morning, John Crocco, creative director of Perry Ellis since 2003, repeatedly revealed what is most alluring to the affluent males that don the sporty chic sportswear collection at The Stage in Lincoln Center during New York’s...
Jill Stuart Fall 2011 Runway Show
Jil Stuart was one of my very first fashion shows, so there’s a soft spot in my hard heart for this line. I think even those more objective than I would agree that Stuart reliably produces outstanding collections, and...
Kati Stern for Venexiana, Fall 2011
Extremely low-cut, long dresses, ball gowns- Venexiana knows how to dress the Fall 2011 girl. Concerned more with the premature queen, than with young girls, flaring into youth—Kati Stern, Hungarian born designer--launched her rock style influenced line in 2003. Architect, pianist...
Christian Siriano: Proof of Concept
Who is Christian Siriano? If you divided up all Americans who know his name (and that is a lot), more than ninety percent would be those who remember him from his 2008 Project Runway win and the ensuing publicity blitz. But... why? Why...
Tadashi Shoji: Body Conscious
Tadashi Shoji has done it again- he’s created a collection full of versatile gowns that are designed to flatter the full gamut of female body types. Tadashi drapes, gathers, and details fabric with such precision and élan that he is impossible to knock...
Mara Hoffman and her psychedelic Japanese pop girl band
We arrived to Mara Hoffman early hoping to be enthralled by the young designer. We were met with a line of pseudo-celebrities and aggravated paparazzo already over the general hustle and bustle of fashion week with day one even...
Kimberly Taylor at Dop Dop Salon
Kimberly Taylor premiered her fall 2011 line this past Wednesday night at Dop Dop salon, in Soho. Her second Mercedes Benz fashion week, since 2009—the NYU graduate, is best known for her silk basics. Only twenty-five years old, she has garnered a lot...
Nicholas K serves us up Gothic Grunge glam.
If Goth is your forte than the designer duo of Nicholas and Christopher Kunz of Nicholas K was sure not to disappoint. Officially kicking of Mercedes Benz Fashion week here in NY, the brothers sent a motley crew of gaunt and wonderfully eerie models strutting the...
Number:Lab: Swish, Swish
Number:Lab’s menswear bills itself as “where sporty meets sophistication,” and line’s FW2011 collection demonstrates exactly why that tagline is so apt. Number:Lab draws inspiration from everything to vintage athletics uniforms to modern architecture, and the result is a collection...
Launch for Vivienne Tam and Jack Dorsey’s ‘Double Happiness’ Square
“I think design and art have a very interesting intersection with technology and when they do meet then it just feels really magical and it makes the experience feel beautiful so you don’t think about the technology anymore, you...
Crystal Renn reflects on having been a plus size model.
What does it mean to be plus sized anyway?
In a interview with a Ford blog Crystal Renn comes clean about her adventures, impressions and her immersion in the fashion world. From working with Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld and the things she was...
The rise of the ‘older’ model? The cunning tricks of the fashion world explained.
According to an intriguing article out of this weekend's UK Telegraph, fashion designers are turning to name brand models of yesteryear in their campaigns, thus creating a situation whereby older models are suddenly being (re)celebrated. What ought to also be...
The joie de vivre of Lou Doillon.
In today's 'models' section of the Huffington Post, the journal decided to pay a photo retrospective of Lou Doilon who it calls the French model-slash-actress. In its evocation of the young starlet's ascent to the gravy streets of uber cool, laconic sexuality and joie de...
The top 10 most likely suspects you can expect to see sitting front row at NY Fashion Week.
As we approach the upcoming 2011 IMG Mercedes Benz fall fashion shows speculation is rife as whom will get to sit the coveted front row fashion seats. After all, it is often understood that distinction (so I have been...
The Best and Worst Dressed of the 2011 SAG Awards.
Once again it's time to sit down and regard how our ambasadors of good taste (so I have been told anyway)- the SAG nominated actors fared with their latest fashion ennui as they turned up last night to the...
