Tag: Fashion
The Dandy Set turn out for FIT Couture Council Summer Party.
There is a saying that goes “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” in the same light one could also argue "last night evening’s soiree was the beholder of beauty." Amidst a summer villa resonance courtesy of a...
Sally Golan- ‘A Hint of the Dark Side.’
Teetering along in my heels, I tentatively looked around in search of The Gallery Bar. Having never been there as well as have never attended Sally Golan’s Social Night of Exposure, I had no idea what to expect. As...
The Fashion Victim: Ideas, Notes, and Ephemera.
The quickened pace of consumer culture could make fashion victims of us all. As television and the internet have made everyone into a sartorial expert, high end fashion houses (Commes de Garcons, Chanel) must choose between competing with their...
Scavengers of truth and aesthetics- Vagabond’s/NYC stellar stab at Vintage.
Andrea Perini is a tall, blonde of wacky braids, intermittent freckles and lengthy velour strands who doesn’t give a shit what you think. She scuttles by me on the street, unaware of my seated position behind the trash cans...
Reflections of a former Male Model.
It’s not what it seems. That’s what I keep telling myself but what do I know I’m just a skinny rut standing in front of Valentino as he tells me to take my shirt off. The dame sits there...
Working it at the Tribeca Fashion Soiree.
The second fashion designer soiree held by Tribeca Retail Club in collaboration with Chacala NY and Laura Little Productions this weekend featured established and independent designers proudly displaying their menswear, women’s wear, accessories and art in fashion. A...
‘Human Intonation,’- Fashion’s siren for change.
Minutes after his mom handed me his business card, J-Harris was on the microphone somewhere between selling me a car and recording an interlude for his upcoming album of contemplative, easy listening, pop and b hits for a mature,...
Paige Gamble: handbag designer and her own ‘hidden gem.’
"Intrigued by the legacy of the handbag as fashion accessory de rigeur and one of the current stars in this embittered turf – Paige Gamble, we sent out Natalie Fasano recently to meet up with Paige. What follows is...
Fashionistas in a Bind: “Shall we go green? ”
This past Monday found this chap invited to a symposium held at the Soho House in part to reconstitute fashion’s ‘loveable’ status as a must have, but more importantly as a rejuvenated icon desirous in solving the current...
Tabloids Don’t Talk, They Swear. Gen Art’s Fundraiser SINGS.
Wednesday night - a swelling ring of thin, hip, young things smoke, legs bare, tattoos abound, decadent sandals and all. The marble and glass amalgamation of 7 W 34th street has put on its best face tonight, polished and...
Divas for Opera Lives Up to its Name.
The Divas Shop for Opera drew shopoholics and high society alike with its recent UES benefit shopping experience. With a chance at an exclusive first look at beautiful, gently used vintage, it would take a style lover with a...
“Yeah, I like that.”-Pay It Forward Fashion 2009 at M2.
This Thursday night, rain aside, we made our way to the luxe M2 lounge for the Pay It Forward Fashion 2009 event. Slated to honor forward thinking individuals, designers and brands that think beyond the vernacular and are prone...
Sashaying down the Met.
If you’ve ever wanted to know how to make a dramatic entrance to an exclusive party, just ask fashion and fabric designer Louda. She managed to cause quite the stir when she entered the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan...
A Bohemian’s Guide to Surviving the Recession.
The big bad Recession is everywhere you look these days and those who least expected it, are feeling the pinch. While normal middle class families are struggling to make ends meet with everyone in the family needing to...
Sally Golan Night of Social Exposure
The starving artist is a character that appears often in romantic renditions of New York City life. In a city whose door is always revolving, where the young and novel are soon shunted aside as old and stale,...
