Fashion Week

Nina Agdal, Max Azria, Lubov Azria in Hervé Léger, Dania Ramirez and Rico Love are all smiles at The Boom Boom Room.

Lubov Azria Dishes on Backstage Model Drama and Hosts Boisterous Party for Hervé Léger

Rebecca Taylor was not at Lincoln Center. Had we not been slammed with events, emails, editorial projects, tweets and social babysitting of our entourage, we would have easily noted this. Rebecca Taylor was scheduled for 2 p.m. on Saturday at Highline Studios Downtown. Yet we had eagerly arrived at the Mercedes-Benz complex, bewildered and irritated. Read More

Carmen Electra Wants a Trenchcoat and a Tropical Vacation

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

Leven Rambin on Fame and Fashion Week: “It’s Like Christmas!”

At Rebecca Taylor‘s fashion show today, starlets including a strangely punk-rock looking Mena Suvari were ushered from backstage to the front row by publicists, displacing less-important attendees to higher rows before being engulfed by a wall of flashbulbs. Yawn!

"The rigmarole is a lot, which is why I’m only going to Rebecca’s show," said actress Read More

All Hems Breaking Loose!

The young designer and downtown socialite Catherine Holstein was surveying a rack of clothes in her publicity company’s showroom the other day, planning out looks for her first runway show, scheduled for Sept. 6 at the Bumble & Bumble salon in the meatpacking district. She was wearing a schoolmarmish pale-pink, midcalf-length wrap skirt from her Read More

At Rebecca Taylor Show, Herd Ignored and Byrd Adored

Today’s—air quotes—1 p.m. Rebecca Taylor show in the Salon at Bryant Park had three distinct, carefully orchestrated parts. One involved folks sitting in chairs and watching Ms. Taylor’s clothes go back and forth. Another section was comprised of models wearing the clothes and stomping on a gold-sequin runway. And the third component, of Read More

What’s This? A Waist! Rebecca Taylor Returns To Tailoring

“We’ve all been living in these smocks and these big blobby things, and I just wanted to show off the waist, the shoulder, and to celebrate women’s bodies,” said designer Rebecca Taylor in a charming New Zealand accent, backstage after her show on Saturday at the tents. It had featured lovely, red-lipsticked models in demure, Read More