Archive for February 2010

Name: John Age: 18 Occupation: Student What’s your sign? Pisces If you could spend the day with any fashion person—designer, editor, model etc.—who would it be? Michelle Lee from KCD What’s your favorite magazine? Vogue Italia What was the last good book you read? I just read these really good, short excerpt fables about animal [...]

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Milk threw an impromptu party last night. Peter Jensen staged a last minute runway show in one corner, leaves flew out of Billy Reid in another, Victor Glemaud’s muscled men lined up against one studio wall while Camilla Staerk’s models covered the opposing side, and Graeme Armour held repeated runway runs in the fourth corner [...]

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Jessica McClintock might be the queen of prim prom dresses, but for girls who are more likely to wear a pair of Chucks to their formal than dyed satin shoes from Payless, Betsey Johnson rules. That’s why it’s interesting that Johnson did plenty of dresses inspired by McClintock’s Gunne Sax line, which is best known [...]

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Billy Reid, who just won GQ’s best menswear designer last week, showed his AW10 collection atop a bed of leaves at Milk Studios last night. The room was packed, everyone angling for a view of his very handsome cast in perfectly tailored, well-styled clothes. On the way out, we rode the elevator with Karen Elson, [...]

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I was confident Peter Jensen’s presentation at Milk Studios would be good. Not only am I huge fan of the Danish-born, London-based designer’s Scandinavia-inspired aesthetic (his “nurse” dress is one of my all-time favorite pieces of clothing) but I also love Nina Persson of late-90s band The Cardigans, who just happened to be performing at [...]

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A lot of brands show during fashion week that really don’t need to. Some are smaller labels that should be spending that money on look books or upgrading textiles, etc. For others like accessories-heavy Kate Spade and Tory Burch, market week is much more important than fashion week. However, for outerwear brand Moncler and athletic [...]

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1. You know it’s a celeb-free fashion week when the flashbulbs at DvF are for Anna Wintour. Molly Sims and Shenae Grimes sat front row, too. (The latter, by the way, is one of the most genuinely nice people we’ve ever met at fashion week.) 2. Pre-show, we spent 20 minutes trying to figure out [...]

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This fashion week’s been surprisingly laid back–less celebrities, no drama, fewer raging parties, but there’s always a bit of gossip to report. 1. At Saturday’s Elise Overland show, the morning’s makeup test was done on Vogue contributing editor, Lauren Santo Domingo. 2. One particular model at Alexander Wang’s show barely made the cut. She was [...]

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Walking into a room full of Mongolian goat-herder warrior princesses, I checked the program to make sure I was actually at Malandrino. There was nary a flirty Parisian frock in sight. Instead there was leather. Goat hair. Long printed dresses. Chunky tribal jewelry. At the back of the room were two chairs made out of [...]

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Name: Drue Age: 31 Occupation: Artist Type of artist: Sumi-E (Japanese style: ink on rice paper) Home: Silicon Valley Uggs or Wellies?: Neither! I bring a change of shoes. If you could collaborate with any designer, who would it be?: Karl Lagerfeld (note: Drue’s Selima-designed hat caught my eye because it was the similar to [...]

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You’ve seen how Jen Kao came together; now it’s time to check out the making of Elise Øverland’s runway show.

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