The CFDA’s partnered with W Hotels to create a limited edition calendar for 2009.
They’re aiming to inspire you with their twelve designer months. Marcus Wainwright of Rag & Bone, Sue Stemp and of course CFDA President Diane Von Furstenberg each snagged their own months. While the calendar itself resembles a sketchbook, complete with a pencil and blank pages in back, the designers picked images that move them to put on their pages instead of their own sketches.
All of proceeds from the $15 calendar go toward the CFDA and helping fledgling American designers, who could really use any help right now, and Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. You can buy it at any W Hotel or on their site.
So you have a gift, an inside look into designers’ creative process, the perfect calendar on which to schedule fashion week madness.
And, it’s all for a good cause.
We hope you can take an extra long lunch break today.
Start at the bottom on Walker Street for Proenza Schouler Fall 08 samples starting at $85. From there, swing by the Temperley sale on Broome and grab this season’s merchandise for 60% below retail. Don’t forget to make a pit stop at the Ksubi store where even their latest shipment is 40% off.
Then you can hop in a cab to the West Village and grab a handful of severely marked down Rag & Bone for both you and any deserving guy in your life, or the other way around if you’re a boy reading this. Maybe pop your head into Scoop - since they’ve marked down their sale racks - on your way to the Lutz & Patmos sample sale where you’ll snag cashmere for 80% off.
Jump on the subway and head uptown because Bergdorf Goodman just marked their designer collections down 75% in store.
By the end you might have one of everything for the retail price of a single Lutz sweater.
Or you might just be exhausted.
When we think of Spring, we don’t usually think black and white. But given the Spring 09 collections, this might be about to change. An overwhelming amount of designers showed black and white outfits and many had entire shows based on the shades. The graphic above is just the short list. We swear. We had to leave out Dries Van Noten, Balenciaga, Prada, Versace, Christopher Kane, Rag & Bone, Rock & Republic, YSL, Stella McCartney, Giambattista Valli, Cynthia Rowley, Band of Outsider, Philip Lim.. And we have a feeling the list could go on..
On a side note, this black and white thing could be well used as a background to some neon pieces you might have purchased for Spring 08, no?
— HAYLEY PHELAN
*editor’s note: the dress in the top row, labeled Sonia Rykiel, was actually designed by Michael Kors for Sonia Rykiel.
