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Tuesday February 28th, 2012

Milan Fashion Week Crib Sheet: The 7 Most Well-Reviewed Shows According To Everyone Who Matters
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Milan Fashion Week Crib Sheet: The 7 Most Well-Reviewed Shows According To Everyone Who Matters

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The fashion flock might have already taken flight for Paris, but in case you’re still getting your Guccis and Puccis in a row, this afternoon we check in with your ultimate crib sheet to Milan fashion week’s most well-reviewed collections.

As with our London and New York roundups, we’ve pored through The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Style.com, Vogue.com, SHOWstudio.com—and every other broadsheet and blog we can stream in our Google Reader—to bring you just the adjectives and adverbial phrases and other one-liners used to qualify the shows.

Which designers came out on top? In the spirit of the new Milanese minimalism, we’ve pared the list down to seven. Flash back with us now through the best of austerity chic and graphic tailoring.

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Published at 6:30 PM

Sunday February 19th, 2012

New York Fashion Week Crib Sheet: The 10 Most Well-Reviewed Shows According to Everyone Who Matters
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New York Fashion Week Crib Sheet: The 10 Most Well-Reviewed Shows According to Everyone Who Matters

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After 300-plus shows, it’s no wonder we’re still reeling. But while the calendar may have been jam-packed, there are only a few collections that really make headlines–which is why we’ve compiled the ultimate crib sheet of the season’s most important shows and what all the major critics had to say about them.

We’ve poured through every review (we mean that literally) for qualifying adjectives and other bon mots from The New York Times’ Cathy Horyn, Eric Wilson, and the International Herald Tribune‘s Suzy Menkes; Style.com’s Nicole Phelps and Meenal Mistry; Vogue.com’s Sarah Mower, Hamish Bowles, and Mark Holgate; Samantha Critchell for the Associated Press; Lynn Yaeger for New York, and a host of other friends and bloggers.

The result is a comprehensive guide to the season’s most well-reviewed shows–from Jason Wu to Marc Jacobs. Which designers came out on top? Flash back with us now. You don’t have to take our word for it.

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Published at 8:44 PM

Wednesday November 9th, 2011

Sarah Mower On How Nausea Helps Her Realize a Designer Is Really Talented

Sarah Mower On How Nausea Helps Her Realize a Designer Is Really Talented

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When Sarah Mower speaks, the fashion industry listens. And with good reason too: The industry veteran, who’s reported for Style.com and Vogue, is also the British Fashion Council’s Ambassador for Emerging Talent, a post which, it goes without saying, has the potential to make or break careers.

So how does Mower know, unfailingly, which designer’s going to make it, and which one will fall flat?

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Published at 12:45 PM

Thursday March 11th, 2010

Thursday March 4th, 2010

Quote of the Day

Dries Gives Women What They Really Want

“Freud’s great unanswered question, ‘What does a woman want?’ seems to be hanging over this round of collections, and it’s already turned up some funny, off-beam stabbings around in the dark. Funny, that is, because isn’t it obvious? What we want is a casual way of dressing that’s also formal enough, new yet not ridiculously Read more →

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Published at 3:30 PM

Sunday February 28th, 2010

Fall 2010 Milan

Full-time Marni Freaks

“Here is proof that a striking piece of shearling, a knit with a singular color, a fur accessory, and so on can be proudly carried off by chic women whose personal style has nothing to do with the full-time Marni freaks. – Sarah Mower’s review of Marni on Style.com

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Published at 3:09 PM

Thursday February 4th, 2010

Wednesday October 7th, 2009

Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

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Say What Alber: Remember when Alber told The New Yorker he’d never do a diffusion line? And then when he did do a diffusion line? Someone did and someone asked and he just couldn’t handle it. {ElleUK} On McQueen: Try to break up your Sarah Mower with other important critics. Like Hilary Alexander’s Alexander McQueen Read more →

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Published at 2:16 PM

Wednesday May 20th, 2009

Sarah Mower, Fashion Ambassador

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The British Fashion Council’s just appointed Sarah Mower its first ever Ambassador for Emerging Talent. You already know Sarah from her stories in Vogue and her brilliant Style.com show reviews. And now she’ll play an even bigger role in shaping the face of up and coming talent – so much of which comes out of Read more →

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Published at 3:59 PM

Wednesday April 22nd, 2009

Margiela in the House

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A few months ago, during Fashion month, everyone whispered about Maison Martin Margiela. Rumors of the invisible designer’s impending departure from his own line started the September before and quietly went away until the house showed their Fall 09 collection and Sarah Mower’s review almost definitively announced his departure, “In the absence of any definitive Read more →

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Published at 11:07 AM

Friday May 16th, 2008

Quote of the Day

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“Had fashion’s uncanny powers of economic prediction prefigured the coming financial crisis in the sudden drop of the crotch?” – Saran Mower, on the new loose pants, in the June Vogue.

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Published at 9:30 AM