Kara Laricks
Thursday August 30th, 2012
Monday August 13th, 2012
From Scott Disick Rolling Cigars to Grace Coddington Drawing Cats, Here Are the 12 Fashion’s Night Out Events You Need to Know About
It’s baaaack. Like it or not, Fashion’s Night Out keeps chugging along–and the official website for the globally expanding shopping extravaganza, now in its fourth year, is up and running. As has become the norm for FNO (or what is more accurately a boozy Halloween for shopping enthusiasts), come September 6, stores across NYC and Read more →
Thursday May 17th, 2012
Fashion Star‘s First Winner Kara Laricks on the Stigma of Reality TV and What’s Next (Plus Her Full H&M Campaign With Joan Smalls)
NBC’s potentially game-changing (though not so loved by industry people) new fashion competition show Fashion Star, which focuses a bit more on business and salability than design, crowned its first winner Tuesday night: Kara Laricks!
If you don’t watch the show, or stopped after the first few episodes because of the backup dancers and motorcycles, Laricks was the New York-based female designer known for her edgy, slightly avant-garde designs. And we like her. She won $6 million in orders for capsule collections at Macy’s, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue stores–all of which you can buy now.
We stopped by H&M’s fifth avenue flagship yesterday to see the collection and chat with Laricks and H&M “buyer” Nicole Christie, who thinks Laricks won because she had “the freshest design perspective,” which they could see even before the show when they were interviewing designers.
