Fashion month is over, and that means we're hunting for trends. Remember New York fashion week, way back when? Brocade was everywhere. It's a more refined answer to the very popular prints we've been seeing, and designers aren't holding back their enthusiasm for the fabric (and neither are we).
We've scoured the Fall 2012 collections for the most amazing shoes, and it was easy, because there were plenty. The best part? Footwear options for Fall 2012 are a lot more reasonable than their Spring 2012 counterparts. (Remember those 6 inch Versace lucite wedges?) Fall 2012 saw lots of wide heels and mary-janes on the runway, and sometimes both simultaneously--like at Prada, Louis Vuitton, and Marni. Knee-high black boots ruled at Alexander Wang, Altuzarra, Givenchy, and Rick Owens, and ladylike pumps could be found at Lanvin, Nina Ricci, and Jil Sander. Of course, if you're looking for something crazy, look no further than Alexander McQueen's heel-less fur shoes. Impractical, but so lovely. Take a look at all the amazing shoes from Fall 2012 and just try to pick a favorite. It's near impossible.
It's certainly been one whirlwind of a week, and just like that, NYFW has come to an end once again! Of course we still have shows in London, Paris, and Milan to look forward to--but there's nothing like seeing amazing people and style right in your own neighborhood. Each day this Fashion Week, our street style cam has captured the style and personalities of some of the brightest stars in fashion - from celeb stylist and Bravo star Brad Goreski, to blogger Elin Kling, to Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo and more. In celebration of the end of New York Fashion Week and all the fabulous street style that came with it, here's a gallery of our top 25 street style snaps from the past eight days. Which ones are your faves?
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It's been a while since Julie Haus and Jason Alkire have shown at New York Fashion Week. The husband and wife duo hit the tents six years ago when they debuted Julie Haus' contemporary eponymous line. They returned to the tents this week to present their new designer line, Haus Alkire, for which they won an Ecco Domini fashion foundation award. Haus and Alkire said showing this time around felt a lot less frantic. Alkire said they got 4 1/2 hours of sleep, which for them, is a normal good night's sleep (eek). The sponsorships that came with the Ecco Domini win----from make up to PR--helped a lot. But there was still a freak out before show time. "One of the models couldn't get her shoes on," Haus said. "It was a moment of full on panic--but that was the only moment we had." As for the clothes, Haus Alkire focuses on prints, which Alkire creates using his own photography.
Designers generally present their collections in one of two ways—strolling down the catwalk or stationary at a presentation—on a live model. After yea
Michael Bastian has taken Gant to school. Over the past two years, since Michael Bastian took over as the designer of Gant by Michael Bastian, and then relaxed into that job, the brand has experienced one of the great turnarounds in menswear. This year, Mr. Bastian did not disappoint with smart, playful college looks. It was a sartorial swap meet between Harvard and Dartmouth, a showcase of prep and cool. Girls sported high-volume (yet not exactly loud) plaid and printed trousers, fun striped sweaters, sexy, but restrained skirts (ending mid-thigh) and even the occasional cargo. Boys had raffish blazers (a double-breasted check was a particular winner), faded jeans and thick sweaters that were on the right side of goofy.
New York Fashion Week has come and gone. We survived! Yay! Now it's time to take a look back on the shows that really made an impact on us--from J. C
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Simon Spurr, whose expert tailoring is often showcased alongside denim, had a surprise for us, just minutes before his show began at Milk Studios on Sunday: “There’s not a single jean in the collection this season,” he revealed. Instead, Spurr offered a crisp, business-like selection that took its cues from a Robert Frank photograph of London in the 1950s. Spurr said he was striving for “a more elevated look.” Spurr achieved his aim. With Joe Jonas and Kellan Lutz seated in the audience, the show began with pieces tinged with mauve, and small, glistening touches. Silver buttons on his jackets glimmered along with umbrella handles, helping his looks cut a cool, collected path down the runway. The designer keenly focused on fabric this time around, flaunting his new found love of mixing materials (leather sleeves on a wool suit) and patterns (a check meeting a hound’s tooth). The British proclivity for overbearing checks, stripes and prints came to fore only rarely, and these instances were easily surmounted by the conservatism displayed by the resolutely “elevated” items that far outnumbered them.
Since his first collection in Spring 2011, Brood's Serkan Sarier has been steadily rising the ranks to become one of fashion's most promising stars. And his Fall 2012 collection has only solidified the designer as a major player (or player-to-be) in the industry. The show's "moving presentation" with mini-fashion shows staged every 15-20 minutes, was set at the Lori Bookstein Fine Art gallery--fitting because the collection certainly owed a lot, in terms of aesthetic, to fine art. Particularly, the prints, which were reminiscent of abstract painting (and the galleries conceptual runway design) as were oh-so-pretty.
People have been predicting the death of nail art (at least on runways) for a few seasons now, and this is the first time we've been worried it may ac
Katie Ermilio just keeps getting better and better. She took her signature feminine simplicity to the next level with this tightly edited and utterly
Francisco Costa, the king of minimalism, went a more maximalist route for Calvin Klein's Fall 2012 collection. Opting for cinched waists and volumin
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Best known for her über girly yet super quirky mix-and-match style, Lepore’s adorable fall offering captured the essence of her usual design aesthetic. Packed full of stylish, versatile pieces that are perfect for layering, the sixties-inspired collection consisted of lace, satin, tweed, and velveteen fabrics fashioned into fun flouncy skirts, cool cigarette pants, sharp boxy jackets, and shape-skimming shift dresses in vibrant in-your-face hues like chartreuse, cobalt, cyan, and tomato, which popped vividly against muted tones of gold lamé, mulberry, pumpkin, and forest green. And of course Lepore’s pattern-play this season was far ou: her pretty beaded prints felt one-part psychedelic-chic, two-parts gypsy glam, and 100% wearable. A celeb-packed front row including Stanley Tucci (a long time fan), Kristin Chenoweth, and Kelly Rutherford will attest to that.
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New York Fashion Week: It's over! Phew! Peep the last of our super duper fly street style subjects: artist Terence Koh, Jezebel writer Jenna Sauers
It's the last day of fashion week, but we're not done yet. Check out our review of Anna Sui's predictably fun collection, ThreeasFOUR's circular ins
Overheard last night backstage at the Nomia presentation at The Box at Lincoln Center at 6:53 P.M.: "Girls, keep your outfits on—we're going to do it again!" chirps designer Yara Flinn, as a couple of models with blunt ponytails who've just glided down a mini runway shed their sleek silk carapaces. "Sorry," she says, turning to us. "I'm totally the crazy mom right now." In keeping with her arty reference points, Flinn, who for spring built her collection around Georgia O’Keeffe, took inspiration from installation artist Dan Flavin's fluorescent light fixtures. "Last season was the first time I used color," said the designer clad in head-to-toe black of her work in a desert bloom color palette. "This season I was like, 'I’m going to go out completely."
Jeremy Scott's shows ocassionally draw the odd celebrity and this season's was perhaps the oddest. Calvin Klein staple Joe Jonas was there (we've also seen at Simon Spurr and the Miu Miu party this week) in the front row alongside the likes of The Misshapes, Cory Kennedy and Sky Ferreira. However, Jonas was probably more able to relate to Scott's fall collection than you'd expect, as many of the prints and accoutrements featured icons from his own childhood. We're about the same age and there are few things I nostalgically recall more frequently than Lisa Frank (okay, I'm also a girl). And guess what covered one of Scott's colorful corsets? Lisa Frank stickers! It was a hodgepodge of '90s references, as Scott's collections often are, from Lisa Frank to Rainbow Brite to The Simpsons (Bart's head was a print on a few pieces) to video games to AIM emoticons. A very different, and more childish '90s inspiration compared to the grungy, post-punk outings we've seen from more conventional designers.
In a time of fast fashion, with trends coming and going in the blink of an eye, it can seem like nothing lasts. ThreeASFOUR’s Fall 2012 collection works to combat that feeling of temporality by touching on lasting themes. Taking inspiration from eternal and supernatural occurrences, like crop circles and the "end of the world" rumored for 2012, threeASFOUR created a collection based on the shape of a circle. Leather was laser cut into circular fractal patterns and made into elegant headdresses and knee-high boots. Circles made their way onto the clothes as an adornment, like on some mini dresses, or as the shape of the garment itself, like in an architectural cream wrap coat. A favorite piece of mine was a mini dress in a fragmented landscape print, which while resonating with environmentalist and apocalyptic themes, was just plain beautiful.
You always know what you're going to get at an Anna Sui show: A star-dotted front row, loads of colorful prints, some funky hats, and smiling models. Sui's Fall 2012 show certainly didn't stray too far from the formula--But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Actually, we have to say that in such a fickle fashion era, it's kind of refreshing to see a designer stick to what she likes. And in this case, it's also what she does best. To wit: The paisley and geometric printed dresses, which ranged in color from turquoise to cranberry, were classic Sui and you need only to glance at pictures of rock groupie goddess Anita Pallenberg to know that they'll stand the test of time.