The first time I saw this new look during New York Fashion Week almost two years ago, I loved it but, I said to myself that those ladies obviously don’t live among us daily street-walkers in the city. To wear an open coat, or jacket over your shoulders without securing it while doing everyday activities on the go are impossible. Let me list some possible scenarios.
Continue reading “Fashion’s Shoulder Slingers” »
Look down, then up, and down again. Watching fashion shows during the Fall/Winter ’13 presentations was like viewing a vertical tennis game every time the models walked the runways. Continue reading “An Arm and A Leg In Fashion Terms” »
MONDAY FEBRUARY 11TH
8:30AM THE COSTUME INSTITUTE
9:30AM MATHIEU MIRANO
10AM CAROLINA HERRERA
11AM BELSTAFF
12PM THEYSKENS’ THEORY
1PM OHNE TITEL
1PM PAMELA ROLAND
2PM DONNA KARAN
3PM KAUFMANFRANCO
3PM MARK MCNAIRY NEW AMSTERDAM
3PM 3.1 PHILLIP LIM
4:30PM MM6 MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA
4PM KAREN WALKER
5PM THOM BROWNE
5PM BETSY JOHNSON
6PM REEM ACRA
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12TH
9AM TORY BURCH
10AM BADGLEY MISCHKA
11AM VERA WANG
12PM RODARTE
1PM JENNY PACKHAM
1:30PM ADEAM
2PM PERRY ELLIS
2PM NAEEM KHAN
3PM DENNIS BASSO
5PM SOPHIE THEALLET
5:30PM ELIE TAHARI
6:30pm OSCAR DE LA RENTA
7PM ASHER LEVINE
7PM VANTAN TOKYO
9PM MICHAEL BASTIAN
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13TH
9AM BIBHU MOHAPATRA
9AM PETER SOM
9:30AM BRANDON SUN
10AM MICHAEL KORS
11AM NANETTE LEPORE
12PM PHILOSOPHY
1PM RACHEL ZOE
1PM JEREMY SCOTT
2PM J.MENDEL
2:30PM TOKYO ABOUT LEATHER JAPAN
4PM REED KRAKOFF
5PM MARCHESA
6PM ANNA SUI
6:30PM ELIZABETH AND JAMES
7PM THREEASFOUR
7PM ZANG TOI
8PM PROENZA SCHOULER
9:30PM THE BLONDS
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14TH
10AM RALPH LAUREN
8PM MARC JACOBS
Two of my favorite collections from day 1 of New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013. BCBG Max Azria and Creatures of the Wind. Rich deep colors, cool prints, kitten heels and so much leather I could smell it through the computer.
ph: Vogue
Now for today! From sunrise to long after the sunset, fashion shows will be available for your viewing pleasure. Air kisses my fashionable comrades.
Click on the designer’s name to view their live presentation.
11AM CARMEN MARC VALVO
11AM SALLY LAPOINTE
11:30PM KATE SPADE
11:30PM JENNI KAYNE
12PM NOON BY NOOR
12PM CHADWICK BELL
2PM NAUTICA
2PM YIGAL AZROUEL
2:30PM MONIKA CHIANG
9PM PARKCHOONMOO
9PM BILLY REID
The battle for front row seating at fashion show, is it really worth it? I’ve sat in the front row at several fashion shows, and instead of me luxuriating in my prime fashion week real estate, I was to worried about not sitting like a proper lady or reaching out to touch the clothes on the runway while the model was doing her job. Yes I would be the one to not stay seated until the very end of the show.
So I’ve swapped one form of front row seating for another.
Live-streaming gives all of us the good seats at the fashion week shows and once one show is over, we can sit in the comfort of our homes, offices, coffee shops, etc and wait happily for other fashion week presentations to stream on whatever device we have handy at the time.
So enjoy the shows I’ve listed below, just click on the designer’s name to see what they will be dressing us in for the next cold and snowy season this city will see.
1PM DUCKIE BROWN
CHECK BACK TOMORROW FOR MORE DESIGNERS AND THEIR SCHEDULED LIVE-STREAMING PRESENTATIONS.
The ladies will always find ways to dress up the arms, ears and necks throughout the winter, spring and summer seasons. If it’s not with the use of statement making jewelry, the fabrics are put to work in forms of scarves, over-sized collars and bejeweled turtlenecks during the colder months. On the other side of the fence, men do the same thing with the exception of bejeweled turtlenecks, or maybe I have yet to see that in person. The stand-up collars look sexier on a man, and the weight of over-sized neck-pieces can be held up much better by the strength of a man’s neck, but the turtlenecks will always be that piece of garment that looks good covering the necks of both sexes.
Continue reading “Monday Men Style: Dressing The Header Holder.” »
The men have started it. roaming the Italian streets glaring, walking with swag, charming those who pass by with smiles all the while dressed in high fashion. But if you weren’t close enough you would of missed trends this batch of men were serving during Pitto Uomo Fall 2013 tradeshows in Florence. I browsed through the photographs taken by Tommy Ton, and found some good looking men were thinking alike while others were creating trends all by their lonesome. 
A little bit of stripes can do a body good. Continue reading “Monday Men Style: You Hunk Of A Trendsetter.” »
It seems as though my entire summer was the month of September. July and August were quite compared to exciting chaos September served me from beginning to end. In 30 days I managed to traveled the NYC world and the seven train lines, in the name of fashion. Pss: I was listening to Eurythmics ”Sweet Dreams”
There were so many things that happened in one month, why would I bother writing about it when we all know pictures are better than words.
So I’m taking back to my head-of-the-classroom days.
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The streets were filled with red, grey and navy blazers on the backs of men during New York Fashion Week, helping to create the perfect uniform for the gentlemen that attended the shows. Yet these fashion wise guys made the uniform their very own with must-have accessories of watches, necklaces, neckties, and pocket squares.
Continue reading “Monday Men Style: A Fashion Week Uniform” »
Graphic, chunky heels from Rodarte
Let me worship your soles, your pretty, feminine, dainty and simple shoes. Don’t think those adjectives would be used to describe the S/S ’13 shoes we saw on the catwalks during New York Fashion Week. The designs were extreme, chunky, architectural, and colorful. Some soleful creations, are sure to be painful after walking 4 long blocks in New York City, but we shoe pros are well aware there is a little pain for some fashionable gain.
Embellishment love from Rachel Roy, Christian Siriano and Rachel Roy
Pointed in that direction from Sophie Theallet, DKNY, Chado Ralph Rucci.
Gladiators I salute you. Band Of Outsiders, Victoria Beckham
Strappy ankle wraps of soleful love Donna Karan and Prabal Gurung.
Pump pump pump it up Alice + Olivia.
Left, Left, Left, Right Left. Black, Black, Black White Black. For S/S’ 13 an obvious trend is less color, and Marc Jacobs pulled it off with monochrome prints and simple silhouettes. Jacobs also showed us that covering it all up can put you into the sexy-fashionable crowd with straight lines, t-shirts and patent leather boots and flats. A collection that channels the 1960s fashion it-girls of that decade like Twiggy and Edie Sedgwick leading the marching band.
Continue reading “March Of The Jacobs” »
Once fashion week hits the streets of the New York, the men tend not to get as much attention as their female counterparts. Thank goodness for Tommy Ton looking out for the fellas and providing me with some plain old eye candy that just walks on by.
All photos via GQ.com
