New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center
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Stories in both The NY Times and WWD scooped today's official announcement that NY Fashion Week will move from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center (at Damrosch Park), starting in 2010.Posts with tag mercedes benz fashion week
Stories in both The NY Times and WWD scooped today's official announcement that NY Fashion Week will move from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center (at Damrosch Park), starting in 2010.Top Designers Quit NY Fashion Week
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You think you're the only one with an empty wallet? Think again. Designers Betsey Johnson, Donna Karan and Carmen Marc Valvo have all pulled out of Bryant Park for the Fall 2009 shows in February.New York Fashion Week - Spring '09
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New Gap, less crappy
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It's been a really long time since Gap was anything to write home about. After achieving phenomenal success back when Hootie and the Blowfish had fans, the company lost its way -- limping along as a watered-down, cheaper (but not cheap enough) version of JCrew, too expensive to be Target, yet too bland to be worth the money. But things are looking up. Gap recently hired Patrick Robinson, a new creative director who they hoped would return the brand back to its glory days. And while sales still suck, the clothes are at least looking halfway decent.
Gap's showing at New York Fashion Week (the first new line under Robinson's guidance) revealed a new direction -- capitalizing on the 90s resurgence, and combining grunge aesthetic (read: flannel shirts) with more modern looking pants and boots. In traditional Gap style, it's all a little safe (fashionable, but not so fashionable that you'd get beat up for it at your suburban high school), but I bet even the discerning fashionista will be able to find an item or two that they'd be willing to include in their regular wardrobe.
LA Fashion Week: Dina Bar-El goes to the zoo
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Dina Bar-El makes evening gowns that have been seen all over the celebrity world: on Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, and Nicollete Sheridan in international ad campaigns for Desperate Housewives, Geena Davis, Sharon Stone, Tyra Banks, Angela Bassett, Kelly Rowman, Holly Robinson-Peete, Kelly Hu, and no one will forget the gorgeous sunshine yellow satin dress on Kate Hudson in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Bar-El's gowns. They are elegant, lady-like, and very sexy.Her Spring collection held no surprises, except that animal prints we have seen before seemed to play a bigger role. Not only was there the quintessential leopard print, but also an unidentifiable hybrid snow leopard-cheetah, and the giraffe. I have a strange attraction to giraffe, and was wowed by a short giraffe-print dress. I can't really imagine wearing it out, but it was fun to look at.
More photos I took of Dina Bar-El's Spring 2007 collection is available on Flickr.
What they DON'T tell you about fashion week
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You might think that fashion shows are all about glitz and glamour, but let me tell you, it is definitely not the fun and games that it appears to be from photos and videos on TV, the Internet, and in the papers. For the designer, models, and producers of the show, it is ALL work. Trust me, there is more than one reason why the models aren't smiling up there on the runway. I won't go into all the gory details about we encountered as media while trolling the LA Fashion Week shows over at Smashbox Studios last week, but I will list a few choice highlights:- Parking - Parking is absolutely atrocious. You can valet park for about a billion dollars, but unless you drive a Maserati (or a Benz -- they sponsored the show), you will be faced with snickers and hushed "OMGs" from the people waiting on the curb worse than if you were caught in a Gap t-shirt. From 1981. Hell, if you're wearing a Gap t-shirt from 1981, at least you'd be "retro." So, what do we plebeians do? We have luxury transport on a shuttle (read: short bus) from an off-site parking structure. Classy.
- Temperature - It is hot hot hot inside the main lobby, and we're not talking "that's hot" kind of hot. I am talking about the entire LA fashion world packed into a tiny studio lobby about the size of three trailers. Of course, if you're lucky enough to score a VIP bracelet, you can go into the uber-ooh-la-la space that's hidden away from the rest of us. I bet they had air conditioning. Come on people, this is LA in October. Dress for 80 degree weather so you're not sweating in your cashmere sweater dresses and tights.
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We're going to be running around LA Fashion Week
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First we visited New York, then peeked in on London, Milan, and Paris, and now, since some of us actually live here, we'll be galloping around the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Los Angeles at Smashbox Studios in Culver City. The week doesn't officially kick off until Sunday, October 15, but the festivities (yes, with all those pretty clothes and beautiful people, I call them "festivities") started gearing up this past week. We'll keep you posted as we go along, and if you are going to be there, maybe we'll run into you!
