Monique Lhuillier has mastered the art of the beautiful evening gown, but for Spring '15, her focus shifted to daywear. "I really wanted to grow that category and dress my customer earlier," she said. Her inspiration stemmed from a recent trip to Harbour Island in the Bahamas. "When the sun rose over the ocean, the ...
Born in Montreal to an Italian family, Antonio Azzuolo attended Ryerson University in Toronto where he received a BAA in apparel design, specializing in men's tailoring. After graduation, Azzuolo won first place in the menswear category at the prestigious "Festival des Jeunes Stylistes de Hyères." For the next ten years, he cultivated his proficiency ...
Peter Som (born in 1970) is an American fashion designer, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Peter Som graduated from Connecticut College in 1993 with a degree in Art History. He continued his studies at Parsons School of Design where he apprenticed with American designers, Michael Kors and Calvin Klein. At Parsons, his ...
Maybe it was last winter's Polar Vortex, but designers left and right are referencing balmy, sun-dappled destinations for Spring '15. Lyn Devon said she was thinking about her time in the Bahamas as a young girl, where glamorous women lounged poolside in maillots and heels—beehive hairstyles intact. "There was this flair and exuberance to the ...
Wes Gordon has spent the past few seasons working to define his brand's mission. "It's becoming really clear who we are as a company, and who I am as a designer," he said. Maybe that's why he decided to compete for the second time in the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund after taking a year off. "I ...
The scent of cut grass—squares of which had been laid out on the floor of a Chelsea gallery space—signaled that it was back to nature for Kate Spade New York. "We wanted to celebrate those moments when it's time to put down the phone," said chief creative officer Deborah Lloyd at the presentation. In the ...
When last we encountered Tess Giberson, at an appointment for Resort, she was talking about a book she'd stumbled on, a survey of Palm Springs pools. This season, Giberson was referring to the book again—except this time she'd raised her gaze from those pools and taken in the larger "water environments" that denizens of Palm ...
Earlier this summer, Tanya Taylor was announced as one of this year's CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists. With all eyes on the emerging designer this season, "there's definitely a pressure to refine your point of view," she said backstage before her show. But worries aside, Taylor has maintained incredible poise and a clear vision from the ...
As Nicky Zimmermann noted backstage before her Spring show, some clothes you can "read" well enough hanging on a rack. These were not those clothes. Movement was paramount to Zimmermann's pieces this season (her fourth since she started showing in New York), and delicate shapes reigned. They came in printed silks and wisteria- and peach-colored ...
Jason Wu made headlines today with the news that he's sold a majority stake in his brand to the investment firm InterLuxe. Next up: a flagship and an expanded accessories range. Perhaps with an eye to his first store, his Spring collection played it restrained and safe. Remember the Kaws-designed graffiti print of a few ...
"I'm really into cleaning," Sally LaPointe mentioned backstage before her show, in a manner that felt more like a confession than a statement. "I was cleaning this morning, actually. I love throwing things away." In the spirit of de-cluttering, LaPointe said she took a "less is more" approach to Spring. "It's more focused," she said. "I'm ...
There's so much spectacle surrounding a Rebecca Minkoff fashion show that sometimes it's easy to forget about the clothes themselves. This season, each guest was greeted with a pair of 3-D glasses, which they were instructed to put on for the final five looks. As the lights went down and indie Brooklyn band Little Daylight ...
The source material wasn't the issue at this latest outing from Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs. The designers were working from a rich inspiration—Cleopatra—and their palette was a punchy combination of neutrals, petrol blue, pink, and marigold. There were some looks with zip, like flapped knit dresses and pencil-shaped ones in mixed up black-and-white stripes. ...
Trina Turk is one optimistic lady, and her collection is just as aggressively happy. While the bright colors and cheerful prints may sometimes be out of sync with the dominant trends in New York, you can bet there will always be a customer who lives for 80 degree days, a bit of sand between her ...
OK, let's just get it out of the way. Yes, Rihanna made an appearance at Adam Selman's Spring '15 show. Yes, she arrived after it ended. And yes, she was wearing a flirty white baby-doll dress from the new collection. For anyone who managed to miss the sartorial shocker of the year, Adam Selman was the ...
Talk about intimate gatherings. This season, Adam Lippes hosted his Spring presentation at his beautiful Greenwich Village apartment overlooking Washington Square Park. The welcoming setting spotlighted the deeply personal approach Lippes has taken toward his namesake label since relaunching it nearly two years ago. As guests could see, Lippes is an avid interior decorator, and ...
"It's softer dressing," Jill Stuart said of Spring 2015, which took the washed-out 1970s vibe of her Resort collection and ran with it. Silhouettes were long and slightly A-line, like a midi-length wrap dress in sand-colored suede, or a below-the-knee box-pleat skirt in a lightweight nubby tweed. There was a lot of kimono-like wrapping at ...
Sydney-based Dion Lee may show in New York, but he still prefers to look homeward for inspiration. This season, his key reference was the Australian artist Jeffrey Smart, known for, as Lee described them today, his "industrial roadside landscapes." What appealed to Lee about Smart's work, he went on to say, was the way it ...
PRABAL GURUNG once again plundered his native Nepal for his spring/summer 2015 collection – only this time instead of hulking and bulking up with scarf and wrap layers, he went for a more undressed approach with sassy slashes, slits and keyhole flashes of flesh. Sporty in silhouette with racer-back vest styles and little flirty skirts, ...
Sometimes in fashion, especially during the collections, pretty gets a bad rap. It's not forward or new or, for lack of a better word, cool. But you know what? It's pretty. And girls, women—sometimes we like to look pretty. And that's exactly how people described Rebecca Taylor's collection afterward, when they swarmed front-row guest Rashida ...
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