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First-Ever Plus-Size Show Hits N.Y.C. Fashion Week!
Sep 16th
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People Magazine’s Thailan Pham reports: ‘It wasn’t all stick-thin models ruling the runways during New York Fashion Week, as curvy stars like Nikki Blonsky, Gabourey Sidibe and model Emme sat front row yesterday to take in the first-ever plus-size show during fashion’s most high-drama week. “This is a milestone in the plus-size community. We’ve never had anything like this,” Blonsky said at the OneStopPlus.com presentation on Wednesday. “To be in New York City Fashion Week, which I think is the biggest fashion week in the world, to be here is just a huge thing for us.” And plus-size model Emme, couldn’t have agreed more: “You have to join forces to make a statement and to be part of a revolution. It’s monumental in its reach,” Emme told PEOPLE, adding, “I think the big statement that’s going to be made with this fashion show is not only going to be made within the full-figured community but I think it’s going to talk to the bottom line of design houses, designers, and business people involved in fashion,” she said. “Why don’t we make clothes above a size 12? Why don’t we load heavier in sizes 14, 16, and 18 in stores? Just change More >
New York Fashion Week’s garden variety: Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan & Barbara Tfank
Sep 14th
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LA Time’s correspondent Booth Moore reports on the NYC Fashion Week experience:
Maybe it’s the grow-your-own food movement, the popularity of farmers markets, or simply the fact that these are spring collections, but botany is sprouting up as a theme all over the runways.
Carolina Herrera took colors, prints and floral appliques from 18th century botanical plates for her collection, which included a gown hand-painted with the image of a flower, along with its name and species.
For her Garden of Eden-themed collection, Monique Lhuillier worked with cherry blossom print taffeta, draping it into a pleated A-line cocktail dress and a ball gown. (Also spotted: “sage green,” “mint floral” and “poppy” organza.)
At Donna Karan, shoes were decorated with leather leaves and gauzy long slip dresses were “saffron-stained” and “tamarind-distressed.” A rough-textured, jute-colored nubuck jacket was reminiscent of a seed sack.
Jenny Packham, who is fast becoming a favorite of the red carpet set for her lovely gowns — many of which have sleeves, for those who care about that sort of thing — tapped wallpaper specialists de Gournay to design the moody, hand painted florals for her finale gowns, one in a silk crepe de chine with a beaded tulle shoulder.
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New York Fashion Week: Marc Jacobs’ ’70s show
Sep 14th
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The LA Times’ Boothe Moore breaks down the Marc Jacobs show @ NY Fashion Week:
At Marc Jacobs’ spring/summer show, the look was unmistakably Jodi Foster from the 1976 film “Taxi Driver.”
Which is not to say that the models looked like preteen prostitutes exactly — but that they looked like bright lights in the dark city.
Hearkening back to the 1970s, these are clothes for strutting your stuff and looking like you’re living large even if you’re not — long, floaty halter dresses in geometric prints; slinky, one-shoulder striped jersey gowns; puffy sleeve blouses worn with even puffier long skirts cinched with leather sashes and finished off with overgrown corsages; zigzag patterned metallic knits and enormous straw hats with the rims turned back.
Suiting was a focus, but it was glam suiting, such as a cropped butterscotch satin jacket and matching short-shorts, a sorbet pink satin pants suit with flared trousers, or an over-sized blazer embroidered with bands of silver and gold sequins, worn atop fluid cream silk crepe trousers.
It might not have been the most thought-provoking Marc Jacobs collection, but it was exuberant, from the pink, purple, black and gold color palette to the glitter-dusted platform sandals. Top it off with great-looking structured, flap-front handbags, More >
Marc Jacobs joins the E-Commerce Industry
Jul 13th
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According to Instyle.com, Marcjacobs.com has all the bells and whistles as one would expect from a leading fashion designer’s site—including livestream videos, gorgeous photos, news, and gossip—but it’s been missing one obvious thing: Online shopping! Like many high-end retailers, Marc Jacobs has been slow to the e-commerce trend, but he has finally announced plans to sell clothes on his site, starting in September. Robert Duffy, the President and Vice Chairman of Marc Jacobs, even hinted that there will be exclusive duds on the relaunched site. “I want to give people a reason to go there,” he told The New York Times. Read more here….
A New Era for The Alexander McQueen Brand
Jun 29th
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Sarah Burton, is the new creative director of Alexander McQueen whose promotion to the position was announced in May. At the time she said: “The creation of modern beautifully crafted clothes was at the heart of Lee’s vision. I intend to stay true to his legacy.”
Sarah, 35, has worked for McQueen since even before she graduated from St Martins and the designer is slowly exercising her control over the brand she has made her life’s work so far. This first collection represents the beginning of a new era for the McQueen brand. Looking at the eight looks she has created for Resort Spring 11 the McQueen signatures are so strong, it serves to remind even more that he is no longer here himself. There looks to be a solid future for this brand.
Jourdan Dunn Back In Front of the Camera for Vogue & i-D
Jun 29th
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Jourdan Dunn is the 19 year old high fashion model, who has graced the catwalk may times for such high fashion designers like Marc Jacobs & Polo Ralph Lauren, and was the first black model to walk a Prada runway in over a decade. However Dunn had recently taken a hiatus since giving birth to her first child last December amidst much controversy. However, save for a couple of times since giving birth last December, but she’s generally shied away from the camera, until now. It seems that she’s ready to start logging time on sets again: earlier this month, she was reportedly photographed for a September 2010 Vogue story that will also feature Stella Tennant and Liya Kebede, and today she was on set shooting a beauty story for i-D’s Fall 2010 issue (left).
Meet The New Girl on the Block: Ajak
Jun 18th
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Ajak is the newest gorgeous high-fashion model to hit the runways as of late. The Sudanese beauty has been taking the fashion world by storm in 2010. Ajak became the first black model to walk for Chloe in more than nine seasons. She began her career modeling for smaller NYC designers like Brian Reyes, Dennis Basso, Sophie Theallet, and eventually snagged a spot with Bennetton’s spring campaign, shot by photographer Josh Olins, which became her big break.During her second stab at Fashion Week, she was confirmed at Isaac Mizrahi and Marc by Marc Jacobs, which led to a surprisingly successful run in Paris, walking for Jean Paul Gaultier, Lanvin, Maison Martin Margiela, and Givenchy, among others. At this rate, Ajak might just channel the career of her role model and fellow Sudanese supermodel Alek Wek. Congratulations Ajak!
Gisele Returns To The Catwalk!
Jun 15th
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It has only been about six months since she gave birth, but that didn’t stop Gisele Bundchen from wowing the crowds on the catwalk recently.
The supermodel took to the runway as part of Sao Paulo Fashion Week in her native Brazil and as we’re sure you’ll agree, she looked as stunning as ever!
Modeling for the label Colcci, which she has worked with before, the 29-year-old donned a series of gorgeous outfits, many of which included semi-transparent sections of patterned, voile-like material.
According to Brazilian newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo, Gisele said: “I was very nervous. But I am very happy, everything went right.” Read more…
