We caught up with Carmen Electra at the afterparty for Rebecca Taylor‘s collection yesterday at Hudson Terrace; Ms. Electra, despite the rain, looked lovely and nonplussed. “It’s not been traumatic to the hair,” she said, scrunching her mane with one hand to prove it. “It’s better if it gets a little damp.”
Ms. Electra had Read More
Though it didn’t make Pitchfork’s Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s (it was an honorable mention), it seems that Sonic Youth’s “Kool Thing” is poised to become the official theme song of fashion’s ’90s revival. We’ve heard it at two shows so far this week — Alex Casertano‘s and Charlotte Ronson‘s — and Read More
There was a steady drizzle falling by the time yesterday’s Thakoon show began at Pace Gallery on 25th Street, a midway point between Milk Studios and Lincoln Center. And while the indoor Chelsea space kept the show from being hampered by the weather, such was not the case for the final match in Flushing Meadows Read More
After watching Iggy Pop tell a crowd of pretty faces they were going to hell, The Observer returned to hotspot Don Hill’s last night to check out a performance by the inimitable Courtney Love. The Hole frontwoman finally took the stage at 1:30 a.m., at which point the free DeLeón tequila had run out and the Read More
“I can’t believe this many people are here this early on a Sunday,” one of the assistants said before the Derek Lam show, which was scheduled for 10:00 this morning.
“Well, for Fashion Week—it’s only once a year,” said the guest standing next to The Observer. (What, fashion people aren’t the churchgoing type?)
Indeed, The Read More
Yesterday’s Alexander Wang show took place at the massive hanger that is Pier 94, and after the requisite delay the looks began to emerge from beneath the extraterrestrial Jason Hackenwerth balloon sculpture. André Leon Talley and Grace Coddington sat without companion Anna Wintour, perhaps because there was a certain tennis match of a certain friend Read More
At Charlotte Ronson‘s show yesterday, we ran into Alison Brie, who was enthusiastic about Ms. Ronson’s grunge-revival designs. “The music and everything kind of sent you to that era as you’re watching those clothes go by,” Ms. Brie said (the music: plucked straight from ’95 college radio by Ms. Ronson’s sister Samantha; the designs: nose Read More
We spoke with designer Vivienne Tam for a few minutes after her very successful show (attended by a hard-to-account-for group of people), featuring lots of crocheted knits and relaxed silhouettes. The models actually looked comfortable, and the collection as a whole reminded us a bit of reading Victorian novels on a distant shore. We Read More
Last night for Fashion’s Night Out, Vogue‘s kindest dandy, Hamish Bowles, co-judged a makeup competition with Trish McEvoy, Catherine Malandrino, and blogger Bryanboy. The winning look was, in Mr. Bowles’ words, “a real incredible fantasy makeup — with beetle wings and gold leaf and everything.” While we were waiting for Prabal Gurung‘s show this Read More
Having seen an episode or two of The Rachel Zoe Project in our day, we were pretty sure we had Ms. Zoe figured out: her Fashion Week is all running around, no time to sleep, no time for her lovely husband Rodger. But at Prabal Gurung today, all our conceptions were turned upside down! For Read More
