Godfrey Deeny The chicest collection seen in New York this season was very definitely that of Oscar de la Renta, a hyper stylish series of looks, a bravura display of good taste and the most elegant clothes seen in Manhattan in some years – fashion of the quality of top French couture houses, but with [...]
Simone Goller Reggae and Harajuku influences, menswear inspired looks and lots of prints are what we’ve come to expect over the years from Gwen Stefani’s L.A.M.B. line, but this season she showed her versatility as a fashion designer at one of the last shows for fall 2011 at Lincoln Center on Thursday, Feb. 17, in [...]
Godfrey Deeny New York’s most defiantly modernist designer, Francisco Costa, went back to the past to reinvent the future in a bravura display of technical skill, path-breaking draping and advanced fabrics in his latest show for Calvin Klein. The roots of this innovative collection, presented Thursday, Feb. 16, was in the Bauhaus and the ideas [...]
Simone Goller Sticking to just a handful of silhouettes, Mark Badgley and James Mischka gave newly engaged femmes a range of classic but simultaneously updated gowns for Fall 2011 wedding season, as they showed their line up on Sunday, April 10, in New York. Most dresses hung close to the body accentuating the natural curves [...]
Simone Goller There was something enchanting in the air at the Oscar de la Renta showroom where he presented his Spring 2012 bridal collection on Monday, April 11, in New York. Always one to put on a show and create something awe-inspiring, de la Renta this season set the scene to something you would expect [...]
Godfrey Deeny
The chicest collection seen in New York this season was very definitely that of Oscar de la Renta, a hyper stylish series of looks, a bravura display of good taste and the most elegant clothes seen in Manhattan in some years – fashion of the quality of top French couture houses, but with the classy zest of this city.
For fall 2011, de la Renta offered a jaunt through Russian and central Asia presenting clothes that had a panache, poise and ethnic energy that could only be admired.
Simone Goller
Reggae and Harajuku influences, menswear inspired looks and lots of prints are what we’ve come to expect over the years from Gwen Stefani’s L.A.M.B. line, but this season she showed her versatility as a fashion designer at one of the last shows for fall 2011 at Lincoln Center on Thursday, Feb. 17, in New York.
We got more than expected in the staged line-up, divided in six sections, which opened to a projected helicopter landing, as “Soldier Girls” donning diaphanous camouflage tops and bottoms, boiled wool trench coats and aviator jackets and shades made their way down. Second scene’s Rasta “Ragga Muffin Girls” were anything but, as cleaned up reggae-colored getups in Navajo tribal print maxi dresses stood alongside intellectual-inspired, preppy ties and sweaters.
Godfrey Deeny
New York’s most defiantly modernist designer, Francisco Costa, went back to the past to reinvent the future in a bravura display of technical skill, path-breaking draping and advanced fabrics in his latest show for Calvin Klein.
The roots of this innovative collection, presented Thursday, Feb. 16, was in the Bauhaus and the ideas launched in that school of art filtered through these clothes, from the idea that each building, or in this case garment, be a total work of art, to the notion that radically simplified forms are often the most beautiful.
Simone Goller
Sticking to just a handful of silhouettes, Mark Badgley and James Mischka gave newly engaged femmes a range of classic but simultaneously updated gowns for Fall 2011 wedding season, as they showed their line up on Sunday, April 10, in New York.
Most dresses hung close to the body accentuating the natural curves of a woman, with embellishments close to the chest up top or, alternatively, adding volume as cascading white ruffles and rosettes just touched the floor. Many looks gave the illusion of an elongated torso with a trumpet shape, which will certainly be popular among the more petite set.
Simone Goller
There was something enchanting in the air at the Oscar de la Renta showroom where he presented his Spring 2012 bridal collection on Monday, April 11, in New York.
Always one to put on a show and create something awe-inspiring, de la Renta this season set the scene to something you would expect little girls to conjure up if they let their young and vivid imaginations run free. Always refined of course, these little women could be found hosting a tea party in the garden out back surrounded by freesia and lavender scents as they sip tea, or at least gesture as such, in little white gloves and paint pictures for each other envisioning their fantastical wedding dreams.
