Fashion week came, and brought a feisty lil’ friend named Nemo along for the ride–forcing us to consider forgoing, “Well, doesn’t she look chic!” for, “Well, doesn’t she look warm?!” The runways begged to differ, offering up endless new ways to bundle-up beautifully for fall 2013. Check out our top ten trend takeaways from the fashion week that weathered the storm in style.
New show reviews and galleries are in! Check out Louise Goldin, Monique Lhuillier, and Ostwald Helgason.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian made an unexpected appearance at Louise Goldin’s show last season and caused a pretty big media shitstorm (and gave way to one of the most awesome Instagrams I’ve ever taken). Today, everyone’s eyes were peeled as they filed into their seats to see if it’d be a repeat performance–but alas, Read more →
Worried you’ve missed any NYFW shows? Don’t be! Check out Reed Krakoff‘s sexy-sporty runway, Brood‘s loud florals, and Louise Goldin‘s sculptural layers.
Sculptural, sporty and straight-up cool.
Summer is almost officially over (we know, sad) and that means that New York fashion week is right around the bend. Like three-weeks-from-now-around-the-bend. Seriously, where does the time go!? Anyway, we had the chance to scour over the week-long event’s calendar and turns out there are some pretty notable changes ahead. From who’s new in Read more →
Even though Kanye’s staying mum about his rumored fashion line, his actions (attending Alaïa couture, mining a Central Saint Martins prof and A.P.C. founder Jean Touitou for fashion advice, designing silk scarves with French graphic design and art direction team M/M, and performing in women’s Celine) would suggest otherwise. The latest rumor about Kanye’s forthcoming fashion line comes from Grazia, who is reporting that the rap star will debut his womenswear collection at New York Fashion Week.
If Vogue writer Sarah Mower is Louise Goldin‘s muse, as has been suggested in the past by a few British magazines, it’s not surprising. Goldin, whose knitwear skills have been utilized by Donatella Versace, designs for a curvy-but-fit lady who isn’t looking to take shortcuts with her clothes, yet doesn’t want to ever look uncomfortable or put-upon. Sounds like Mower to us, or at least the woman we know via her essays.
Since working with Isabella Blow in the ’00s, Nadja Swarovski and her fashion team have made it their responsibility to support designers–both emerging and established–during fashion week and beyond. This season, Swarovski will underwrite the shows of several important New York, London, Milan, and Paris designers. In New York, this includes:
If you live in New York and you happen to prefer Alaia and Proenza over Aldo and Payless–even if it’s just to look at–you’ve probably heard of Tribeca boutique Edon Manor. Launched in 2007, the beautifully furnished, beautifully stocked shop attracts those chasing after the perfect pair of Giambattista Valli pumps but aren’t willing to hike all the way uptown to Bergdorf to get them. (The boutique also happens to be right around the corner from Locanda Verde–one of our favorite restaurants in the city–and Smith & Mills, a favorite bar.)
Now the team behind Edon Manor wants to get to know shoppers outside of their New York City niche a little bit better. Owners Ryan Korban and Davinia Wang recently launched their gorgeous e-commerce boutique, Edonmanor.com. I recently sat down with the duo to discuss what it’s like to build a luxury boutique in the midst of a recession, and how to maintain unexpected success.
Fashionista: I’d like to hear how you guys got together. How did you two meet?
LONDON–There’s something furtive-feeling about taking public transportation to the Dorchester. The storied Park Lane hotel is more a chauffeur kind of place, you see. But last night, a clutch of East London’s hardest-working young designers looked wide-eyed and happy to have made it there any way they could, as they sipped Laurent Perrier and hobnobbed with Daphne Guinness to celebrate their status as finalists in the first-ever Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize.
Guests of honor included Louise Goldin, Mary Katrantzou, Chau Har Lee, Hermione de Paula and Thomas Tait. It was the judging panel, though, that really brought the star power: there was Guinness, resplendent in a floor-length sequin gown and a cream lace headpiece that she drew across her face like a veil; Yasmin Le Bon in a flippy little Alaia dress; Manolo Blahnik looking natty and correct in a grey suit and evergreen velvet slippers with swimming-pool-aqua bows; and milliner Stephen Jones, wearing a three-piece suit and green cap (dream client: Michelle Obama, because, “she’s not really a hat person”).
LONDON–I ran in and out of Louise Goldin‘s intimate presentation at St. Martins Lane, mostly because I felt feverish, but also because, well, there wasn’t much to see.
Yet this was most certainly a positive. The celebrated designer decided to pare things down this season. There were just a few looks in four colorways: red, black, white, and nude.
