Watch as Mama Fetherston, Barbara, uses mini pumpkins from her own garden in Northern California (that’s right, she brought a handful of them in her luggage to NYC!) as bowls for the soup. We can only imagine what she told the TSA.
During the holidays, it’s easy to get a little misty-eyed about childhood and the past in general. So we decided to be the “Ghost of Christmas Past” and ask some of our favorite people in the industry to share their memories and old holiday pictures with us. And, wow, did they come through! We’ve got Read more →
What’s better than holiday cooking? Doing so alongside your mother! For our fourth installment of Haute Cuisine we join designer Erin Fetherston and her mom, Barbara, who created some decadent pumpkin soup for us.
Click through to check out the teaser for this very special holiday episode (coming soon!), wherein Erin and Mama Fetherston dish about Erin’s childhood, her boyfriend Gabe Saporta (of Cobra Starship fame), and all things festive!
Anyone who works in the industry has had ‘em: A fashion week related nightmare. We asked designers, editors and stylists to share theirs with us, and then we asked our friend (and super talented artist) Mara Sprafkin illustrate them. Don’t be scared… First up, Erin Fetherston dreams her collection gets stolen and she has to Read more →
We hear…that Elizabeth Olsen is lending her onscreen talents to the fashion world. The littlest Olsen has, aside from sitting front row at a fashion show here and there, really stuck to acting, proving her chops in Martha Marcy May Marlene, leaving fashion to her famous twin sisters who just picked up a CFDA award Read more →
Believe it or not, designers and PR companies have already begun to prep for fashion week. What does that mean for you? Internship listings galore! Check out our careers page to see what’s in store for you this week.
Happy Sunday! Check out Erin by Erin Fetherston‘s enchanted forest, Lacoste‘s sleek ski-bunnies, Jill Stuart‘s groovy rocker chicks, and Herve Leger‘s bondage babes. Enjoy all that and more on our dedicated fashion week page.
Tall, gorgeous, and without a hair out of place, designer Erin Fetherston could easily pass for one of the models in her Fall 2012 presentation, which as it turns out, is no coincidence. “What’s been authentic about [my line] is that I’m always thinking, ‘what would I want to wear?’ ‘what would my friends want to wear?” Fetherston told us before the presentation started.
It was this ethos, too, that led the designer to create her contemporary line, Erin by Erin Fetherston. “I realized the only disconnect that was happening [with Erin Fetherston] was that myself and the wonderful amazing people that I have around me who inspire me, none of us are really going to buy designer clothes,” she told us. “Because i think when you have a lot of style and you have creativity, you don’t really need to spend $2,000 on a dress to look amazing.”
New York has been full of brights the past week, none more obvious than the shades of orange that have already graced at least two dozen collections. From a single pop (Doo.Ri) to a longer stretch (Kimberly Ovitz), it’s about as attention-getting as a color can be.
Heading down to Milk Studios for a bevy of presentations, I have to admit I had my worries. Last season, I wound up caught in the wall-to-wall fashion traffic jam down in the lobby and wound up missing my scheduled shows. Thankfully, things ran much more smoothly this time around–perhaps due to thoughtful planning, and perhaps due to the fact that I arrived extra early to enjoy cocktails at the eighth-floor Kanon Vodka bar. But on to the clothes!
Erin Fetherston is a girl’s girl through and through, and for the resort/holiday collection she delivered exactly what the most feminine could desire. In the constant cycle of collections it’s easy to overlook the purpose of a line, namely, to clothe the body. When searching for a New Year’s dress or a light frock for a post-holiday vacation, it’s likely that the search will lean more towards fun and functional than the conceptual artistry of the larger main collections.
With Fetherston’s diffusion line, Erin by Erin Fetherston, which debuted for fall 2011, she sought to give girls just that. “It wasn’t so much a conceptual line, like the major spring and fall collections. I wanted to experiment with different fun fabrics but make something that could transition from holiday weather to spring,” she said. Centering around staple party dresses at more affordable prices (no item exceeds $695, and the average price is about $375), the line is a perfect mix of transitional yet seasonal pieces and avoids the wear-it-once demon that may set you back more than a one-night dress should.
