Valerio Mezzanotti/NowFashion.comProenza Schouler, fall 2012. IT’S easy to identify the best moment of Fashion Week. In the blacked-out setting for the Calvin Klein show on Thursday, the actresses Emma Stone (in red) and Rooney. Mara (in black) took their front-row places next to Emmanuelle Alt and Franca Sozzani, the editors respectively of French Vogue and [...]
Emily Berl for The New York TimesThe newly re-named exhibition: Fashion, A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum at F.I.T. As a title, the Great Designers was provocative, but perhaps it was a bit misleading. When the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology introduced a two-part survey of its holdings last month, many [...]
A screenshot from the Web site Stylyt, where fashion fans can play designer and buyer for their favorite brands. IN a setting reminiscent of a speed-dating bar scene, but with no promise of even a first date, much less a long-term relationship, more than 20 fledgling fashion companies pitched their talent, their drive and their [...]
Jason Kempin/Getty ImagesFrom left: Balenciaga pants worn by Charlotte Gainsbourg. Jewel-print silk pants, $ 1,880 at Lanvin. Cropped sequin pants, $ 330 at Reiss. PARTY pants, in updated styles from the resort collections, feel fresh for the holidays. Lanvin’s silk-print pants, with a high waist and tapered legs, are shiny and festive, as are Balenciaga’s [...]
For months a group of names has swarmed around the creative director’s job at Dior, with the industry joining the buzz. Among the names mentioned early on were Marc Jacobs, Riccardo Tisci, Nicolas Ghesquiere, Alber Elbaz. Then in November it was Alexander Wang, Jason Wu and Raf Simons. Today, Women’s Wear Daily, quoting industry sources, [...]
2011 Eames Office, LLC.Ray Eames. 2011 Eames Office, LLC.Ray’s wardrobe often included starchy white blouses with trim square-necked jumpers. To design aficionados the name Charles Eames conjures an image of the screen-idol handsome design visionary, studiedly natty in his tweed coats and bow ties. The figure of Ray, his wife and collaborator, is somewhat more [...]
3.1 Phillip Lim fox-head belts. B-Low feather belt, $ 155. A STATEMENT black leather belt can be the quick fix you need this holiday season. “With tailored high-waist trousers and a sheer blouse or crisp button-down, a bold belt will cinch the whole look,” said the stylist Kathryn Typaldos. If you’re heading straight out from [...]
Chris Jackson/Getty ImagesCatherine Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge wearing a Zara dress. FOR the last few days I’ve been in London on assignment, staying at the Portobello Hotel, where — my friend Tim Blanks tells me — he used to visit Nico in the ’70s. “It may have been the first boutique hotel in London,” he [...]
Jamie Mccarthy/Getty ImagesSarah Jessica Parker and Valentino Garavani attend the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum Launch party. Wednesday night’s torrential rainfall had a few unexpected effects at the party for Valentino Garavani’s new virtual museum at the IAC Building. For one thing, many of the late-arriving guests were torn between watching the streaming videos of the [...]
The new Marni store at 1 Gansevoort Street. Marni. Whether it is because of its unusual triangular footprint or the fact that a sumptuous Yohji Yamamoto boutique occupied it previously, the new Marni space at 1 Gansevoort Street, (646) 532-6015, empty for many months, seemed destined for a special tenant. Browsing Shopping snapshots. Indeed, Consuelo [...]