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Scene: Lincoln Center, Mercedes-Benz Lounge after Mara Hoffman‘s Saturday show.
Fashion Blogger One: Have you seen that “Shit Fashion Girls Say” video??
Fashion Blogger Two: So funny!
FB One and Two: (in unison) “Oh my god, I love truffle fries!” Read More
Walking up the graveled path leading to the lush and beautifulVersailles-inspired courtyard that would set the stage for Tommy Hilfiger‘s Fall 2012 Women’s Collection, we could almost forget for a moment that the temperature last night was almost in the single digits. Read More
There’s something refreshing about going “downtown” for a brunchy fashion show. Sorry, did we say refreshing? We meant exhausting: It’s Sunday morning and all we want to do is sleep in, but designers wait for no man. Well, actually they will wait approximately 30 minutes from their start time as a general rule, which gives us enough time to bustle our cold tushes to Made at Milk Studios, where we witnessed the somewhat bondage-y outfits from Kevork Kiledjian, the Parisian designer who earned his own T Magazine profile last season when he announced he’d be coming out with a line for women. Read More
“Who are all these people?” We whispered to the woman sitting next to me as we scanned the front row in the giant Eyebeam studio on the West Side Highway. We were waiting for the Doo.Ri show to begin.
“They’re bloggers, mostly,” whispered our seatmate, Kristin Booker, who was herself a blogger for Fashion Style Beauty. She pointed out that most of the editors of the fashion magazines were placed far away from each other in different sections of the front, “to promote competition.”
Meanwhile, photographers snapped pictures of smiling young people with blue hair who we didn’t recognize, or teenage women who looked like they hadn’t showered in a week. These were the new Fashion Week celebrities. Read More
Day three. Er, two? Day one? Whatever, Fashion Week is going full bore—and last night was something else. Read More
“Here’s all you need to know about Fashion Week,” a boutique designer from New Jersey was telling the New York Observer in the private American Express VIP SkyBox. “None of these sizes were made for you.”
Karlanne, the owner of Fresh by Karlanne was wearing a beaded dress, feathered hair–”Is it poofing up??” she kept asking her girlfriend–and brown suede boots. She had the look of an old-time pro, and since the AmEx box–a partitioned off room above the theaters in Lincoln Center that serves as a subdued meeting area to provide American Express Cardmembers with exclusive access to fashion week experiences– we felt we should take all the advice we could get. Even if it wasn’t pretty. Read More
Tacking together our schedule, The Observer noticed that Mercedes Benz Fashion Week technically starts Thursday, but nevertheless we found ourselves at a full-blown launch party Tuesday night. Read More
Yesterday, New York residents found themselves split into two categories: the people who celebrated the New York Giants’ victory over the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl—for the second time!—by reveling in the ticker tape parade that stretched all down Broadway, and the people who spent the day trying to get through their daily commute. We’re not saying that Eli Manning shouldn’t be celebrated like the “elite” quarterback (take that, ESPN) and god of pigskin that he is, but why couldn’t the city have the parade over the weekend?
Not that we’re complaining—O.K., we are complaining—but if there’s anyone whom we should be cheering on for their performance on Sunday night, we’d pick Madonna over Victor Cruz. Read More
On the eve of Fashion Week, style rookie-no-more Tavi Gevinson will be in town to promote a project that flaunts her little-known, nonsartorial gifts: acting and singing.
On Sunday, up-and-coming Chicago director Jonah Ansell (best known, to date, for his viral save-the-date wedding video, which was featured in Glamour) will screen his animated short film Cadaver for a select audience at The Standard East Village.
Based on a poem Mr. Ansell wrote to help his sister fulfill a creative assignment at Northwestern’s medical school, the seven-minute film, which stars Ms. Gevinson, Kathy Bates and Christopher Lloyd, is about a cadaver that comes back to life to say goodbye to his wife. When he decided to develop the story into a short film, Ms. Gevinson, a family friend of Mr. Ansell, was his first pick for the lead, a young doctor. Read More
Coach has come to Hudson Yards and classed up the joint as only a luxury bag maker could. Not only did the mayor make the company’s lease official today, flanked by Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Related’s Steve Ross, he announced that following the fashion house’s move would be Fashion Week itself, he hopes. They could ride the 7-Train over from Bryant Park, as it was also promised that the extension would be completed as promised by 2013.
But we know what you really care about, the tantalizing new renderings from KPF, who is planning the site and building the two eastern most office towers, the first of which will be home to Coach and open in 2015—full of other firms, too, if you’re in the market. Related is still looking to fill, oh, 25.4 million square feet here and there. Read More
