By Drew Grant 4/17 10:45am

Fashion

Exclusive Punk-inspired collection from Moda Operandi.

Update: Moda Operandi, Punk Participants of the Met’s Costume Exhibit, to Sell Couture Chaos in Time for Gala

Already have your invitation to the 2013 Costume Institute’s Benefit, but can’t figure out how to turn your epic ballgowns from years prior to fit this year’s theme of “Punk”? No worries, digital luxury retailer Moda Operandi has your back: Starting on May 2nd, the site will be selling 100 one-of-a-kind, punk-inspired clothes and accoutrements from famed fashion houses.

Problem solved! Now you just have to figure out which designer you are pretending brought you to the event. Read More

By Benjamin-Emile Le Hay 9/14/12 7:27pm

Looks from the spring 2013 collection.

Calvin Klein Delivers for the Conclusion of the “Oscars of Fashion”

We love the clean lines and abstract nature of Francisco Costa’s designs for Calvin Klein Collection. Of Brazilian descent, he has an unmatchable talent for creating wearable art that is minimal and wearable—perhaps the only one who provides a Parisian level of artistic thrills in New York.

We had some time to spare before the show began—a departure from our general habit of sprinting four blocks and arriving sweaty and out of breath at the last minute. We left our seat-mates Bianca Jagger, Julie Macklowe and Kelly Klein, to name a few, to explore the front rows.

Amy Adams, Diane Kruger, Emma Stone and photographer Patrick Demarchelier were all present, but our vigilant eyes sought out someone less obvious: W Magazine’s Fashion and Style Director, Edward Enninful. Read More

By Daisy Prince 2/16/11 10:48pm

Fashion Week 2011

The Observer Gatecrashes Rodarte

Rodarte, created by the Mulleavy sisters Laura and Kate, is one of the most exclusive shows during fashion week. The company is a tightly run ship and they strictly ration the invitations. Even the location of the event is cloaked in secrecy and the address is only sent out to editors and photographers at the Read More

By Irina Aleksander 4/29/10 3:26pm

Rodarte, Wang, Thakoon to Design Eveningwear for Gap

On Monday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will once again swell with celebrities, socialites and fashion editors for the annual Costume Institute Gala to kick off the this year’s exhibit titled “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity.” But since this year Gap is the official sponsor and Gap creative director Patrick Robinson is honorary co-chair Read More

By Simon Doonan 3/03/10 3:57am

The End of Trends

“In fashion, you’re either in or you’re out.” So says Teutonic temptress Heidi Klum at the beginning of every episode of Project Runway, currently unspooling its seventh season on Lifetime.

Achtung! If Heidi were correct, I would be out of a job and so would vast numbers of other fashionably employed New Yorkers. Thankfully, Mrs. Read More

By Molly Fischer 12/02/09 7:08pm

High Line Fashion, Priced to Move

Items from Rodarte’s eagerly anticipated Target line will be available at a Target to Go pop-up under* the High Line next week, reports The Cut. The line won’t hit stores until the 20th.

Rodarte’s elaborately ugly-chic textiles seem like a weird fit for the mass-market retailer–like neither the craft nor the aesthetic particularly Read More

By Meredith Bryan 2/18/09 4:15pm

Elijah Wood Gets Spurred at Rodarte! It’s ‘Artistic’

Rodarte is the fashion equivalent of a Basquiat: people in the know really love it, but to everyone else it’s inscrutable or a little bit ugly. So it was no surprise that the couture-like label, designed by sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, managed to attract to its Tuesday runway show an insider-ish crowd including Anna Read More