US State Department Tweets to Protesting Iranians: “We want to join in your conversations.”
In the wake of recent Iranian protests being broken up by riot police firing paintballs and tear gas, The US State Department has now taken to politicking over Twitter, eager -- they said to Iranian netizens -- "to join your conversations." Not by...
Timo Weiland 2011 Fall Collection.
Every girl (and guy) that loves Chuck Bass will love Timo Weiland. Their career actually started with Gossip Girl after Timo Weiland and his partner Alan Eckstein met and collaborated on a line of neckties. Impressing the producers of Gossip Girls before even debuting...
Nautica 2011 Fall Collection- and let’s go sailing.
Nautica sent a sea breeze wafting through The Lincoln Center with their Fall 2011 Men's collection. They moved a pier into the Library of Performing Arts, across the courtyard and around the corner from the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week building....
Victor de Souza- 2011 Fall Collection.
Victor de Souza is an artist. You’ll see it in the image he projects, with his soft-spoken demeanor and Yves Saint Laurent-esque eyewear. More importantly, of course, you will also see it in his work. It’s refreshing when a designer seems to eschew...
Custo Barcelona: Not in Love. But Absolutely…
Last night saw one of the best presentations to date in this season's NY 2011 Fall collection with the visage of Custo Barcelona models thumping it down in intricate woven wool fabrics, with jagged woolen tassels,lapels, emerald, orange marmalade...
Richie Rich- I want to be a Villionaire!
The crowd went on for a block either way this recent Thursday night, waiting to get into Richie Rich's Autumn/Winter 2011 fashion show “Villionaire”. The event was a disco fevered catwalk held to generate charity for DoSomething.org, a program dedicated to cultivating...
Whitney Pozgay’s Fall 2011 collection plays dress up.
Whitney Pozgay's Fall 2011 collection, WHIT, which marked her second show, was a confident blend of her whimsical personal aesthetic and her savvy knowledge of what women want to wear. The collection was billed as Hitchcock meets Tavi, with...
RETNA: The Hallelujah World Tour, presented by Andy Valmorbida & Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld
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Valmorbida & Roitfeld kick off Fashion Week with RETNA’s first New York solo show .
New York, NY – Thursday, February 11, 2011:...
Ann Yee: Fall 2011
If you really want to see what a designer is made of, show up early to a fashion show. As someone who rarely shows up early to anything, it was a particularly novel experience for this writer. As I...
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...
