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...
Would you still swoon for Justin Bieber if he went bald?
How much is that mop of hair worth?
In a sign that a boy's man's virility and relatively sexuality is worth the degree of lush hair head on his head, Jimmy Kimmel of ABC decided to find out if uber...
Johnny Weir wants you to know this NY Fashion week he is going to make you swoon.
This season's top contender for ubiqitous fashion whore belongs to figure ice skater, Johnny Weir. Why you wonder? Because when Johnny finishes showing you the size of his peens you will intimately understand.
insideavenue.com: There is always a celebrity that...
Fallout from AOL and Huff Po: Is There Life After Professional Journalism?
A particularly snarky sense of desperation and existential angst has gripped the news industry since the announcement of the AOL/Huff Po merger, catalyzing some of the only frank criticism of what is still apparently a multimillion dollar industry (provided you intend...
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...
Christopher Lee would like to explain how he intended to cheat on his wife.
Are you in the mood for some bad love?
Ho hum , it is that time of the year, where new year resolutions are already made and broken and the long list of porn starved lotharios skidding out of their...
Editor in Chief denied entry at posh club- public spat ensues.
The bad behavior of Fashion week and poseurs is here in earnest.
Nothing breeds more contempt than a doorman/bitch sneering from behind their safety rags velvet rope as you stand there waiting to be politely acknowledged and afforded your entry...
It’s Pretty Much Official: Paris Hilton is Now a Bodybuilder
Hide your weed, your coke, and all your steroids, because America's most tiring Page Six princess, Paris Hilton, is now apparently a bodybuilder. And not just any bodybuilder -- buzz over the heiress’s new physique has been steadily infiltrating our Twitter feeds since her...
Oxford students are reprimanded after Varsity ski trip goes awol.
Shouldn't Oxford students be respectable members of society?
Things are not looking too well for Oxford after word and images got out that some of its alumni had a bit too much fun at a recent ski outing which had...
