TONI FRANCESC: Like Water For Runway.
TONI FRANCESC Spring/Summer 2010 collection specializing in fresh urban clothing for the young, sophisticated woman.
As the lights dimmed around the Salon at Bryant Park, celebrities such as Project Runway winner Leanne Marshall and Real Housewives of New York star...
What advice can Lindsay Lohan give to ‘Gossip Girl,’- Taylor Momsen?
When listening to the queen of scandal may help your career along.
Photos of Lilo and Taylor Momsen surfaced today on TMZ with the 23 year old Lilo (how come we get the feeling as she’s been around for 40...
HELEN YARMAK:In the Lap of Luxury
As the elevator doors opened to the penthouse of the exclusive Crown Building, I was faced with a huge open space - I knew immediately that this would not be an ordinary fashion show. Furs aligned either side of...
The ten sure fire ways of making a public spectacle of yourself at Fashion week.
The things we notice when you can’t help yourself.
There’s a saying that goes- ‘People will be idiots. That said we have a saying that goes –“Idiots will be idiots.” Here’s our list of idiotic behavior this ongoing fashion week.
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Another Reality Bimbo admits to having (another) breakdown this weekend.
When the story line is beginning to get stale.
Is it just us or is there something happening in current American dialectics that portends to the total disintegration of reality and common sense? How is it that reality Bimbos from...
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...
