It really is all about the simple things, and it takes real skill to go back to the basics and master them as well as Taoray Wang has. An incredibly successful designer in China, Wang brought her eponymous line to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week for the first time this season to debut her Spring/Summer 2015 collection. While some designers aim […]
If you’ve never attended Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, allow me to tell you how it goes: It’s basically a big game of hurry-up-and-wait, and once a show starts, models walk the runway ever so gracefully, stoically, before they typically march together single-file, to give you one last look at the line. But, the Libertine show, well, […]
No, we can’t change the cards we’re dealt, but, as we were shown during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, those cards can be a source of inspiration for one of the most amazingly mystical collections shown at the pavilion at Lincoln Center. Of course, we aren’t talking about your regular ol’ playing cards here. It was David Palladini’s tarot cards Australian […]
With autumn upon us, the leaves outside Lincoln Center have slowly but surely begun changing colors, but is it too soon to wish I could just breeze straight into spring? And if not, may I do so in a flowing dress from BCBG Max Azria? During Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, the show for their Spring 2015 collection transformed […]
Last season, Skingraft presented us with the moody nomad goth, but for the springtime, designer Jonny Cota is lightening things up. Sort of. Unlike the Alpha line of mostly all black looks, Skingraft returns to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week with a slight splash of color and white-on-white ensembles, though the inspiration is still as dark as […]
Here comes the bride. And her bride. And also, the groom and his groom. On the sixth day of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, guests in the salon of Lincoln Center stood at their feet as the show was opened by same-sex couples pronounced wife & wife and husband & husband by the power vested in Betsey Johnson. Her Spring […]
What’s black and white with colorful stripes all over? At Cedar Lake during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, life imitated art—street art, that is. The venue united us all to become part of the “New York Nation,” as assembled by DKNY in the Big Apple, with even bigger and bolder colors and cuts. An homage to the graffiti-filled city of dreams, […]
Since being a standout on the eighth season of Project Runway and moving on to dress none other than Beyoncé and other celebrities like her, Michael Costello’s name has been on the mouths of fashion folk far and wide. If you can recall, it was Michael who put Yoncé in that sheer floral gown at the Grammys (as if you […]
In fashion for over 15 years, designer Marissa Webb cued inspiration from her own style journal by translating her city gal chic look to the runway to create a collection that’s the literal definition of ready-to-wear. And considering Webb’s current gig as Banana Republic’s creative director, her wearable design aesthetic should come as no surprise. […]
The fusion of technology into garments that can be transpired as wearable art is an emerging semi-new trend in fashion with CuteCircuit design duo Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz leading the pack. The pair opened their show by explaining how the collection was created in conjunction with a social app that allows the consumer to control […]
Last night, the Nashville bombshell, Kandace Springs, performed with a live band at the Rockwood Music Hall in New York City. The singer, songwriter and pianist performed a set of songs from her upcoming EP due in the fall. Kandace Springs set a calming environment with her soulful voice and even a covered a few familiar […]
Meet the Pamella Roland girl, she’s a smart businesswoman who runs this town with sophisticated style, and she certainly loves her sequins. On day six of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, the New York sunset set the scene inside the salon at Lincoln Center. This is her city, and we were just living in it for the […]
