
Oh Those Fashion Week Nights: Barbie Party is Like, Totally Pink!
After last night, The New York Observer can confidentially say it has gone where no man has gone before: Barbie’s Dream Closet. Read More

After last night, The New York Observer can confidentially say it has gone where no man has gone before: Barbie’s Dream Closet. Read More

Fashion’s Night Out drew a big crowd at Saks Fifth Avenue. People scurried about on the first floor: getting their make-up done, being sprayed with perfume and hand lotion, and, presumably, buying things.
On the second floor, designer Chris Benz stood awkwardly in front of a television with a sign next to it that read Read More

Twenty-six-year-old Chris Benz is among the designers who scaled back to a "presentation" this Fashion Week (after staging his first runway show in September 2008). But restraint was not otherwise in evidence Monday evening at the West Chelsea industrial space where 36 models in colorful cashmere, silk chiffon ruffles, sheared mink, and, in one instance, Read More

"From what I understand, New Yorkers aren’t approving of a third term of [Mayor Michael] Bloomberg," said actress Susan Sarandon at the U.S. debut of the French clothing store Comptoir des Cotonniers in Soho on Thursday, Oct. 23. "I’ll be interested to see who the opposition is because if they are mad at Bloomberg, they Read More

When New York Fashion Week starts on Friday, Feb. 1, many will promptly begin anticipating its climax seven days later, when Marc Jacobs is scheduled to show his fall 2008 collection at the Lexington Avenue Armory at 7 p.m.—an improvement over last season’s 9 p.m. start time, which turned into 11 p.m. Mr. Jacobs had Read More

Good God, is it Fashion Week again already? However did this happen?
In today's salmon sheet:

On Thursday, Aug. 30, the designer Chris Benz answered the door of his sleek studio space in the Garment District wearing Chuck Taylor All-Star sneakers, cutoff khaki pants, and a rumpled pink Ascot Chang button-down shirt worn Tom Ford-style—that is, revealing a respectable amount of chest hair.
Inside an expansive gray room, hanging in Read More