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Jill Stuart Spring/Summer 2011- The Calm After the Kardashians.
The media and reality star circus leading up to the Jill Stuart Spring 2011 Runway show looked particularly absurd in the David H. Koch Theater. 2 Kardashian sisters, Miss J. Alexander and Nigel Barker from ANTM,...
Vivienne Tam- The New Silk Road.
If only two words could be used to describe Vivienne Tam’s Spring/Summer collection for 2011 they would no doubt be ‘dainty’ and ‘eclectic’. The show, dubbed by Tam as “The New Silk Road,” was dedicated to...
Bebe’s Mono Atomic Beige might be leaving the snooks behind.
I wasn’t smiling a whole lot when I got the Bebe show assignment. This is a retail chain, people, since when are those even allowed to run? My face had turned to serious frown by the...
Perry Ellis, Cool and as Classical as ever.
The Perry Ellis Spring/Summer 2011 collection helped us forget that the chilly Fall weather is on its way. This expansive collection showcased those thigh-length shorts we’ve been seeing all summer, paired here with dinner...
Timo Weiland- Hip, casual and very ready to wear.
What do you get when a fresh, twenty-something designer creates a Ready to Wear line for S/S 2011. You get a collection perfect for, who else, but young, fashionable, twenty somethings; a collection which...
Custo Barcelona: Hippie Haute Chic Sings Freedom.
NYC.Last night Custo Barcelona sent some of his finest pieces to date jostling (sprinting?) down the Stage at Lincoln Center in anticipation of his new 2011 Spring/Summer look. With a look reminiscent...
Candela: A vestige of a surreal Trading Post…
For their Spring 2011 Fashion Installation, Candela designers. Natalia Kuks-Jacobs and Gabriela Perezutti-Isacson transformed the Jane Hotel into a trading post out of the early 1900s. Shoes and accessories were displayed on barrels and shipping crates, ...
Vessel by Lois: Uniform Attraction.
Lois Samuels wears her inspiration on her sleeve. She’s done it all in the fashion industry – model, publicist, photographer – but she seems just as influenced by her youth in Jamaica. Her line, the...
Trina Turk: Tangy Miss Surly at the Key-Party.
Have you seen the Ice Storm? Ang Lee? 70’s families cross-pollinating on shag carpets or by the punch-jar… Far from the formality of LA (Formality? Have we been encountered with the same Miss Southern California?), in...
Popluxe by Richie Rich -Heaven to Hello.
Richie Rich Spring 2011: This time, it is about the clothes
In my article about Richie Rich’s last collection, I said, “I certainly hope no one went to the Richie Rich Runway Show expecting to pay...
The Women’s Mafia Fashion Show: Phuong My, Dominque Auxilly, Priestess by Cody Ross
The Women’s Mafia Fashion Show was a welcome change from the formal feeling shows of the day. The setting was relaxed, and before the show there were chocolate and wine...
Karl Lagerfeld honored at F.I.T luncheon.
An icon comes to America. This past Friday noon, select members of society and press paid tribute to one of the most enigmatic dandies (or should I say scion?) of fashion- Mr Karl Lagerfeld,...
Nicholas K, the desert Victor.
999. It’s not the devil in disguise. At least not quite. Or in an breezy, nonchalant kind of way. September 9th, 9 a.m. It’s the very first show of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in its brand new ...
Victor de Souza: Oceanic Imperial
Victor de Souza does weird well. His last two collections dressed women like they were living in a sequel to David Lynch’s Dune, in that they were both beautiful and bizarre. So it was...
Asian Americans strike it hard, Mercedes Benz Fashion week 2010.
This week’s upcoming Meredes Benz Fashion Week S/S 2011 represents an ascent of a new class.
According to a recent observation made by Eric Wilson in a the New York Times article—Asian Americans like Jason Wu, Richard Chai...
