Post Tagged with: "Fashion Week"

Life After Fashion Week for Alexander Wang

It has not taken long for newbie designer Alexander Wang to make a name for himself. Whether he had the right backing, the right trust fund, or simply the right connections we will never know. But his talent has certainly spoken for itself, and his inspiring knitwear lines have transformed the Wang name into a [...]

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Fashion Week By the Numbers

Well Fashion Week has come and gone….for now, and what a week it was! There are some people that don’t care much for Fashion Week, or only care enough to check out the collections and go on their way. And then there are the fashionistas who want and NEED to know every little [...]

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New York Fashion Week Presents the L.A.M.B. Fall 2011 Collection

Gwen Stefani has had one busy year, add her new job as the face of L’Oreal to her duties of rock star, fashion designer, and loving mom and wife, one could only wonder if this lifestyle would have an effect on her collection. In a few words, it didn’t, though there were some tweaks [...]

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New York Fashion Week Presents the Halston Fall 2011 Collection

One never quite knows what to expect from Marios Schwab, creative director for Halston, and his second collection for the label definitely aimed to please. And succeeded. This season it seems he did a complete 180, creating looks that were more reminiscent of Halston past, and not so much the Marios vision of [...]

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New York Fashion Week Presents the Calvin Klein Fall 2011 Collection

Francisco Costa, creative director for Calvin Klein, may have lost some fans in seasons past for those that were not too keen on minimalism. And by the looks of his Fall collection, he noticed, if only a little bit. Seasons past for Costa and the Klein collection have been all about line, fluidity, [...]

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New York Fashion Week Presents the Ralph Lauren Fall 2011 Collection

Hard to say where Ralph Lauren could possibly go “up” in his well established career as one of America’s most revered designers, but he still manages to do it time and time again. This year alone he has conquered his domain adding new flagships to Madison Avenue and Boulevard Saint-Germain, and he keeps growing. [...]

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New York Fashion Week Presents the Anna Sui Fall 2011 Collection

Ballet was clearly an inspiration behind this collection, and was so long before Black Swan made ballet inspired fashion the new It thing. Instead, the Ballets Russes exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London was so seductive, it was merely a matter of minutes before it reconfigured itself as a designer influence, [...]

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New York Fashion Week Presents the Michael Kors Fall 2011 Collection

If the celebrity crush was a little crushier and the furs on the runway a little fluffier at Michael Kors yesterday, there was a good reason. The designer is marking his 30th year in business. Yes, he started young—at 19, in fact. Tonight, he’ll celebrate in the tony confines of Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle, [...]

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New York Fashion Week Presents the Rodarte Fall 2011 Collection

The American Plains were the inspiration behind design team Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s Fall collection for Rodarte. This runway clearly presented a sleek and minimalist approach that has veered from some of the more opulent ones. Silk gowns, prairie coats, and ponyskin and leather separates complete with geometric inserts all embodied the American [...]

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New York Fashion Week Presents the Marchesa Fall 2011 Collection

Marchesa design duo Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig are well known English ladies with sensibilities that are often described as highly romantic, so given this, it was somewhat surprising that it has taken them this long to create a collection that is Victorian inspired. Whereas many designers only reach as far back as the [...]

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