Fashion Week 2011

By Nate Freeman 9/30/11 2:59pm

You’re Invited to Kanye West’s Debut Runway Show

Kanye West is a usual fixture in the front row at New York Fashion Week, but this September he skipped the whole spectacle, leaving a void that

By Elise Knutsen 9/14/11 4:53pm

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Michael Kors Spring 2012 Collection

The Michael Kors show was packed this morning. Volunteers tried with moderate success to heard guests and photographers off the runway as Michael Douglas, Rachel Zoe, Anna Wintour, Patricia Field and Zoe Saldana made their way to the front row. We didn’t even recognize a demure looking Courtney Love, who had tamed her signature rat’s Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/06/11 8:36am

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Fashion Week Strategy: How to Get Noticed by Street Photographers

Fashion Week! It’s here, so time to get rid of your summertime clothes and put together something more presentable. You could get your picture taken at any time. It’s true! If you’re on the street, you’re fair game for the cameras.

Or as Anna Wintour put it in Bill Cunningham New York, “We all Read More

By Chloe Malle 2/23/11 12:59am

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Fashion Week Crowd Skips Proenza Schouler in Pursuit of Diamonds

On the final night of Fashion Week, New York’s sartorial royalty skipped the final few Fall 2011 shows in order to get a peek at Set in Style, the new Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt.

Bergdorf Goodman’s Linda Fargo, in frothy Vera Wang, lamented having to miss the two shows for the Read More

By Nate Freeman 2/18/11 11:08pm

Fashion Week 2011

Calvin Klein Flies In Kate Bosworth For His Woman’s Show

Meredith Melling Burke, the senior market editor at Vogue, tweeted the following at 3:02 p.m. yesterday afternoon: “Shazammed the gorgeous opening song at Calvin Klein and downloaded it – James Blake’s “The Wilhelm Scream.” So moody and pretty xx mmb.” Indeed, just seconds after The Observer took a seat at the Calvin Klein Women’s Read More

By Nate Freeman 2/18/11 10:14pm

Fashion Week 2011

Gwen Stefani Concludes Fashion Week With A Commando-Themed L.A.M.B. Show

The gridlock that seized the runway before the L.A.M.B. show last night had its heart near a cluster of seats in the front row — one seat, one empty seat, had pulled in a growing orb of press and PR flacks. When The Observer finally shouldered through the crescent of photographers and video crews ready Read More

2/18/11 5:22pm

Fashion Week 2011

Fashion Week Maybe Not All That Ready for the Country

Fashion Week may have ended yesterday, but the final word, as it were, for The Observer was at the Adam Kimmel party at Don Hill’s the night before. Hank Williams III, grandson of country legend Hank Sr., stood on a stage with a five-piece band: upright bass, fiddle, banjo, drums, and pedal steel. Everyone wore Read More

By Nate Freeman 2/17/11 10:45pm

Fashion Week 2011

John Legend Gets Scared of the Hairstyles at Le Bain

Jeremy Scott’s show at Milk yesterday had a lot of colors: bubblegum, magenta, tangerine, algae, ruby, soft lime, phoenix orange, neon lemonade.

By the time the designer and his crew had migrated to to Le Bain, however, the colors had drained — the crowd, sandwiched together, wore mostly black and the bar was as dark-lit Read More

By Nate Freeman 2/16/11 10:39pm

Fashion Week 2011

VMan Gives Partygoers $5,000 in One-Dollar Bills and the Presence of Kanye West

… Kanye West might be there. Kanye is gonna be there. No — Kanye is performing. What confetti machines? They’re going to blow dollar bills through confetti machines. No — they’re gonna blow five thousand dollar bills through confetti machines. At the Mondrian. The Mondrian Soho? That place isn’t even open yet. Read More

2/16/11 4:46pm

Fashion Week 2011

No Sleep at House of Waris

At a showcase for House of Waris at the Museum of Arts & Design in Columbus Circle, The Observer bonded with the designer Waris Ahluwalia over our mutual tiredness.

“I haven’t had a nap,” Mr. Ahluwalia sighed. “It’s hard enough going to all the shows and parties. Whose bright idea was it for me to Read More

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You’re Invited to Kanye West’s Debut Runway Show

Michael Kors Spring 2012 Collection

Fashion Week Strategy: How to Get Noticed by Street Photographers

Fashion Week Crowd Skips Proenza Schouler in Pursuit of Diamonds

Calvin Klein Flies In Kate Bosworth For His Woman’s Show

Gwen Stefani Concludes Fashion Week With A Commando-Themed L.A.M.B. Show

Fashion Week Maybe Not All That Ready for the Country

John Legend Gets Scared of the Hairstyles at Le Bain

VMan Gives Partygoers $5,000 in One-Dollar Bills and the Presence of Kanye West

No Sleep at House of Waris

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