Flip through the market pages of any glossy these days–Lucky, Elle, etc.–and you’re likely to find an image of a soft, loungy IRO t-shirt. The collection, which we featured in “Five Frenchie Labels Set to Blow up Stateside,” is designed by Paris-based duo Laurent and Arik Bitton, whose mission in life is to sex up [...]
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Fall 2010 Milan
Fall 2010 Milan
An Ode to Clueless
I am not one to adequately analyze a movie, but I can tell you this about Clueless: Almost everyone who has seen the cult classic falls in love with it. In the most recent issue of Vanity Fair, another cult favorite—designer Alexander Wang—said Clueless was his favorite movie (along with Mean Girls). Well, the movie [...]
Read more »Perhaps you’re a little too tough to wade in the velvet sea, or maybe you’re not beginning to see the light… Worry not, AW10′s spawned another trend: power dressing. It emerged first in New York and again this weekend in Milan, turning away from Working Girl (good movie, bad clothes) and toward a less ostentatious, [...]
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Microtrend: Knee High Socks
Marni’s sheer tights confirmed what Prada‘s knitted socks foreshadowed: Knee highs are back in a big way for fall. I haven’t worn knee high socks since eighth grade, which was also the last time I wore a plaid kilt, another top trend. I plan on layering mine over textured tights. And maybe even with a [...]
Read more »We’re about half way through the season and little leather dresses are popping up everywhere. If you’re desperate to get your hands on this spring’s leather shorts and tees from Celine and Phillip Lim, you’re probably the same girl looking forward to next falls endless leather options. Camilla Staerk and Jen Kao showed short flirty [...]
Read more »We noticed leather harnesses pop up on a couple of New York Fashion Week runways, a trend that continued onto London’s catwalks. Reed Krakoff’s version came with fur on the bottom, while Sass & Bide simply belted their intricate white harness over an evening gown. Topshop Unique offered chocolate brown straps over pea coats and [...]
Read more »FW09 was the season of the Bad Girl, epitomized by Balmain’s super-short mini dresses and edgy shoulders. Nowadays, the masses are sporting studs, metal hardware, chunky black boots, etc. It’s an overall hardcore look that’s available to purchase everywhere from Barneys to Forever 21. So naturally it’s time for a black backlash. Technically the backlash [...]
Read more »Here’s a little nugget of trend wisdom we culled from New York Fashion Week: A few designers–from Yohji to Betsey–have shown jail stripes on the runways. Obviously it’s an extension of the Breton shirt craze, mixed with a sudden obsession with the Wild West. But what about the long coat dress Charlotte Ronson showed? Doesn’t [...]
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Fall 2010 New York
Fall 2010 New York
Is the New: Green and Grey
The last time I fully embraced forest green–heck, the last time I wore forest green–had to be in 7th grade. My favorite outfit that year was a green cable knit sweater with navy trim at the v-neck, paired with a green and navy kilt from Kaufman’s (a now defunct department store in my hometown of [...]
Read more »Fashionista teamed up with trend-tracking firm StyleSight for a lesson on Brazilian fashion. Pretty much every major retailer in the country employs StyleSight to tell them what’s new and next. So we thought it’d be interesting to see what StyleSight’s women’s market expert Joanna Manganaro had to say about the country’s ever-growing influence. Fashionista: It [...]
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