JILL STUART. Modern Day Seductress. Sleek and Hot.
There must have been something subconsciously synonymous with Jill Stuart having her girls strut the long winding corridors of the NY Public library yesterday lunchtime. Both are long, sleek, well maintained, and a tad too risqué. And to be...
RAD HOURANI Spring Collection: Clothed, Armed, and Anti Conformity.
None of the patrons are dressed in pastel colors. The room is teamed with black and white, thick and thin multi-directional stripes, silk screened patterns of dark burgundy and dense blues. The audience filing in fills the stark white...
VICTOR DE SOUZA- Modern Whimsy, Space-Age Grace
Entering the off-site space in the Garment District where Argentinean-born designer Victor de Souza was showing his spring collection was a pleasant relief. No thumping dynamic of a runway, no pressing rush of a Bryant Park crowd; instead there...
It’s confirmed you’re not a rock star until you have your own clothing design.
When selling music doesn’t pay anymore you have to find a more glamorous occupation.
According to a very interesting write up from GETBACK- a journal we suspect that is mildly Hollywood horny and onto something – it seems that musicians...
CUSTO BARCELONA- Absolutely Stunning and Breath Taking.
Coming to Custo Barcelona’s 2010 Spring Collection here at Bryant Park was widely anticipated to be one of the most exciting shows of the IMG Mercedes NY Fashion Week. So widely anticipated that I later learnt that it turned...
THUY- Lithe and Lux.
For most designers, spring lines are a time for spring colors. While pale pinks, sea foam greens, and eggshell whites may have ruled the collections of girlier designers like Leanne Marshall and Rachel Antonoff, Bryant Park veteran Thuy Diep...
RISTO; When the Theory doesn’t always pan out…
Two themes ran consistently through Risto’s 2010 Spring Collection- heavy use of printed sheer fabrics and a purple black print of lightning striking, often paired with other prints. On paper the mismatched prints sounds like a bad idea, but...
Mobile Gas Station Is Rocked Out By Courtney Love and other Media Whores.
What do you get when you put Courtney Love on a make shift stage at a Mobile service station on a Saturday night during fashion week(including car wash)? How about 1000+ people dancing, drinking, grooving and trying to figure...
MONARCHY gives preppy panache.
Coming to the Monarchy 2010 Spring Collections was ostensibly an exercise in learning in how to renegotiate one’s wardrobe to the mantra of post yuppie lexicons, post 80’s, 90’s and 2008, of embracing laissez faire attitudes but most importantly...
Being homeless is inspiring the current chic.
When being homeless isn’t so bad after all.
Here’s an idea for you next time you are grappling with what to wear. According to the NY Times, homeless chic is in. That said, we suggest next time you are up and...
Why has the suicide rate at France Telecom shot up?
When the death rate creeps up you have to wonder…
Since going private back in 1998 France Telecom has been experiencing an anomaly of sorts. With working conditions tougher and more stringent controls in place and other savory conditions...
Serena Williams nearly beats up line official and loses US Open Semi.
When memories of John McEnroe are induced.
It looks as things have gone sour for Serena Williams as she was playing Kim Clijsters at the US Semi Final. Not thrilled with a line judge’s call while serving (match point) Serena...
LUCA LUCA- Feminine and Ethereal.
Amidst the chaos of holding rehearsals 30 minutes before the show and a backdrop being continuously let down and tied back up again, the Luca Luca show went underway with tensions high and a vein in an organizer's forehead...
Fashion Night Mayhem and the $50 Bribe.
The best way to describe an orgy of fashion, music, and sexy people, is my new guilty pleasure Fashion's Night out in New York city. Do you understand the kind of pressure you become under when there's that many...
SPURR- Too Decadent for you!
I love it when fashion is synonymous to models spending lots of attention to the idea of cool to the point that the inhibitions are exclusive. Walking in to a hangar sized white room which I’m sure in it's...
