KAREN WALKER AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Karen Walker is the designer behind her eponymous brand best known for collections that are original, unpretentious and always optimistic. The label shows each season as part of New York Fashion Week. Karen Walker collections are high casual, elevated with a signature love of print and colour. The reoccurring ...
MILLY AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK The MILLY collection epitomizes bold, advanced contemporary fashion with a feminine edge. Designer Michelle Smith transforms classic silhouettes by merging American sportswear influences with distinctive Parisian atelier techniques. Smith's eye for impeccable detail, use of luxurious, cutting-edge fabrics and precise tailoring have made MILLY a cult favorite across the ...
3.1 PHILLIP LIM AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK 3.1 PHILLIP LIM’S RAISON D’ÊTRE IS PROVIDING BEAUTIFUL EVERYDAY CLASSICS ACCENTED WITH A SENSE OF MADNESS. THE RESULT — COOL, EASY, CHIC LOOKS FOR MEN AND WOMEN THAT EMBODY YOUTHFUL ELEGANCE AND PERSONAL STYLE. THE COMPANY’S VANGUARD VISION OF DESIGNER CLOTHING, ACCESSORIES, AND FOOTWEAR AT A CONTEMPORARY PRICE ...
PAMELLA ROLAND AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK efforts for the prestigious National Art Show of the College Women's Association of Japan. Upon returning to the U.S., she and her husband Dan DeVos continued to build and manage their investments, exploring new opportunities in both business and philanthropy, melding the two whenever possible. Pamella entered into the ...
DONNA KARAN AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Donna Karan's whole career has been a love letter to New York. Rarely a season goes by that she doesn't call it out as an inspiration, but for Fall she made the point explicitly, using the nighttime skyline as a backdrop for the runway, and making the blacks ...
ALICE+OLIVIA AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Stacey Bendet loves a glam '70s moment. To illustrate, the Alice + Olivia designer's Fall collection opened with a Bianca Jagger-inspired tuxedo. "The story here is late '60s, early '70s boho with a sexy rock-and-roll vibe," Bendet explained at her presentation in the ballroom of the Beaux-Arts-style Prince George ...
THOM BROWNE AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK It's curious how many of Thom Browne's shows begin with protagonists in a deep, immobilizing sleep. You might think everything that follows is taking place in a languid dream state. Tonight was no exception. In a set that could have been borrowed from Steven Soderbergh's The Knick, blond ...
ZERO + MARIA CORNEJO AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Some designers pay actresses to wear their clothes on the red carpet. The basic rule is, the bigger the brand, the bigger the payday. A designer like Maria Cornejo, who operates without an international conglomerate at her back, doesn't have the budget for such things. ...
REEM ACRA AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK For designers like Reem Acra, fashion week might've fallen a little too close to the Oscars this year. (The awards season's defining red carpet will be rolled out this Sunday.) Acra's Fall dresses were already on a plane to Los Angeles just hours after her Monday night runway ...
VIVIENNE TAM AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Chinese-born designer Vivienne Tam is known for her East-meets-West aesthetic, and it feels particularly relevant right now with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass set to open this spring. Tam's Fall collection was inspired by chinoiserie—the European impression of China in ...
ZAC POSEN AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Half the point of a Zac Posen show is the spectacle. This time around he took over Grand Central's grand Vanderbilt Hall (thankfully, on a holiday, or imagine the commuter outrage), then added an appearance by a positively ladylike-looking Rihanna (where's the fun in that?). The show ...
VERONICA BEARD AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK With an endless flurry of winter storms disrupting New York fashion week this season, everyone has escape on the brain. ("Where are you getting away after the craziness ends?" has one-upped "Can you believe this weather?" in the way of preshow small talk.) Sisters-in-law Veronica Swanson Beard and ...
LIBERTINE AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Johnson Hartig may be one of fashion's more compelling magpies. Surrealism, rave, punk, street—he embraces it all with a gleeful exuberance and folds reworked vintage pieces in with the new. Fall found that Libertine spirit out in full force; it was a welcome, maximalist jolt in the midst of ...
RAG & BONE AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Designer: Know thyself. If there's one thing that this Rag & Bone show proved, it's that brands are at their best when their collections poke and prod around their most deep-seated preoccupations. The latest Rag outing was a fluent re-articulation of familiar themes—classic menswear tailoring; sport, military, ...
BROCK COLLECTION AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Brock Collection is just three seasons old, but the husband-and-wife duo behind the brand, Kris Brock and Laura Vassar, has quickly gained a cult following. Credit their full résumés for the lack of missteps new labels often experience: Vassar worked as a stylist in L.A. for several years ...
THE ELDER STATESMAN AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK The Elder Statesman’s Greg Chait typically starts with yarn, working with the company's team of skilled knitters to continue developing techniques until he gets the texture just right. But eight years in, he has quite the repertoire, and it's time to start building out other parts of ...
DENNIS BASSO AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Boho looks good on Dennis Basso. For Fall the designer spun his typically princess-y furs and ball gowns into something with more '70s flash. The tweak worked wonders. "It's about having a good time," Basso said backstage. Inspired by the glamazons of the Studio 54 era, he showed ...
ROSIE ASSOULIN AW15'16 READ-TO-WEAR NEWYORK FASHION WEEK Rosie Assoulin is a take-no-prisoners designer. Her clothes are theatrical, in the same way that the women who star in Broadway blockbusters like Wicked are theatrical: They want their expression to carry all the way to the cheap seats. There's something very canny about Assoulin's approach in an era ...
YEOHLEE AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Yeohlee Teng often thinks about her fabrics before she starts designing a collection, and for Fall '15, she was particularly dedicated to her "no waste" policy. Instead of discarding the extra fabric from a jacquard, she used it on the yolk of a sweater or as paneling down the ...
MM6 MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Today's Fall outing was the final MM6 collection not developed under the watch of Maison Margiela creative director John Galliano, so it's tough to discern how much or how little it's about to change. Focusing on the now, it's easy to make the case that this ...
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