Tag: FashionDesigner
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ARISE: AFRICAN PROMISE COLLECTIVE BLOWS BRYANT PARK AWAY.
Coming to Arise’s African collective was by far one of the most exhilarating highlights of the IMG MERCEDES FASHION WEEK so far. With the most colorful exotic collaborative attendees were left in awe and ardent stupor as the girls...
MONIQUE LHUILLIER- A pean to warriors.
Monique Lhuillier showcased her Spring 2010 collection at Christie’s. The small room on the second floor was decidedly minimalist in style. A razor thin white runway cut through a pure white room, which was divided in two enclaves; the...
“Genuflecting at Odyn Vovk”
"He always had the opposite style of everyone else. Deliberately."
So says mother of Odyn Vovk designer, Austin Sherbanenko. Plenty of friends and relatives were in attendance for the L.A. designer's show, but this was by no means a family...
Dries Van Noten Loved and Adored…
It was to be quite precise a who’s who of who not only exists in the fashion world but ultimately who really counts. Watching the honorary guests who had come to pay their respects to this year’s winner of...
Alexander Michael Snyder; ‘…because women deserve to be more beautiful.’
Welcome to the world where the first, second, and third row are all discerning. The world where the first row gets a bow on their gift bags, the second row gets a bowless gift bag, and the third row...
