Color Blocked Perfection: Roksanda Ilincic Pre-Fall 2012
Design by any means necessary. You could say this was the philosophy that pushed London-based fashion designer and new mother, Roksanda Ilincic forward while creating the Pre-Fall 2012 collection. When you’re trapped in a house surrounded by dirty diapers, baby food and Legos, how else could you be inspired? The latter just happened to be...
Givenchy Pre-Fall 2012 Modeled By Joan Smalls, Caroline Trentini and Lea T
To say that Riccardo Tisci is an amazing innovator and extreme talent would be a grave understatement. When it comes to ushering new ideas and aesthetics in fashion he is the purveyor. What he’s done with Givenchy’s Pre-Fall 2012 collection is simply amazing. With the idea of 1950′s silhouettes and the 1970′s French horseback riding, he...
TSE Pre-Fall 2012
For his debut collection as Creative Consultant for TSE, Brian Reyes took us in a layered direction. I guess he thought about the looming cold New York Fashion Week season, with hopes of stylish bloggers and editors nabbing up his knit skirts and ponchos. With a mostly black and beige neutral palette fluttered with pops...
Kanye West’s “Dw” Debut — A Parade of Pomp and Circumstance
With Kanye West’s debut fashion collection I’m split down the middle. A part of me wants to love it because I love him, and then there’s the practical side wondering both who and how it will be worn. A week ago I posed five questions for Kanye before his debut and sadly, my greatest fears came...
Prints Galore At D&G’s Final Call
For the label’s final collection the clothes expressed the tale of a rather festive end to D&G. It was a time for celebration as the fluid garments exhibited. After years of successes and making a huge impact on the market, the designers decided it was time to fold D&G into the mainline. It was a...
Runway Report: Chanel Fall 2011 Couture
Business bitches in outer space. Oh yes, Karl Lagerfeld took it there on the set. The designer served up a zodiac conversation. Seeing stars for the Chanel Fall 2011 Couture show, Lagerfeld’s designs were cunningly witchy. Taking the old idea of matronly suiting into the next century. Style.com’s Tim Blanks also notes, “But, if the...
Easy Elegance At The Chanel Cruise Show
If there is ever a reminder that we are knocking on summertime’s door, it is when Karl Lagerfeld loads up the cruise ship packed with global top models, his muses, and over 200 esteemed guest for the most expensive afternoon tea party on the French Riviera to present the Chanel cruise collection. Chanel Front Row:...
Breaking News: Hannah McGibbon Out At Chloe!
There’s nothing like a huge shake up or two in the fashion world to welcome you back on a Monday after a relaxing holiday weekend. Now before I get into it, I just want to wish all of the mommy readers a happy belated mother’s day. Also, in case you haven’t noticed I have been...
Must Love Dogs: Topshop Unique Fall 2011
There it is. That excitement and surprise that was lacking during New York Fashion Week. I knew there had to be a reason why I wasn’t going crazy like everyone else. During the first day of London Fashion Week for Fall 2011, the designers showed up and showed out! First up and breaking the ice...
Karl Lagerfeld: Fashion is about moving ahead, if people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
Karl Lagerfeld is an extraordinary man. The designer, took a few minutes after his Chanel Haute Couture Fall 2010 show to be interviewed on the creation of his collection, overall views on fashion and how he is so over Hollywood red carpet gowns. This time around he stretched back to the 1920s and 30s– an era where...
