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Mercedes
Benz Fashion Week
Mercedes Benz Fashion
Week will be billowing the tents in
Bryant Park (yes it is back in Bryant
Park after that little uproar last fall)
beginning February 2nd and running through
February 9th... (more) |
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Araks
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 4, 2007
On
February 4, 2007 Araks Yeramyan, “ARAKS”,
taught the world how to wear gray...(more)
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Atil Kutoglu
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 3, 2007
The
theme of Turkish designer Atil Kutoglu's
Fall 2007 collection was "Turquality,"
a melange of the words "quality",
"turquoise", and "tranquility"...(more)
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Aurelio Costerella
Bumble & Bumble
415 West 13th Street
There was a noticeable
Australian invasion for Fall 2007, but
Ray Costarella emerged with a collection
that crossed regional boundaries and
launched him onto fashion's international
stage
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Betsey Johnson
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 6, 2007
The
Betsey Johnson show is always one of the
coolest parties of Fashion Week. ..(more) |
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Kimora Lee Simmon’s
Baby Phat
Roseland Ballroom
February 2, 2007
The stars came out
on a cold rainy Friday night for Kimora
Lee Simmons and her fab Baby Phat line...(more) |
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Badgley
Mischka
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 8, 2007
Badgley Mischka makes glamourous evenings
gowns for the runways of life...(more) |
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BCBG Max Azria
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 2, 2007
BCBG
Max Azria Fall/Winter 2007 collection
combines romanticism with youthful, classic
ease-chic, adding on-the-go knit caps...(more)
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Buckler
The Showroom @ Bryant Park
February 3rd, 2007
Judging from the cheek
and wit of his signature menswear collection,
Andrew Buckler must be the life of every
VIP party. His Fall 2007 presentation,
Close Encounters, was “…
inspired by anatomical illustrations
and a clean, refined look”...(more) |
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Cabbeen
The Salon
February 3rd, 2007
I imagine that international
designers staging their first Bryant
Park show must feel as disoriented as
Dorothy upon arriving in Oz. Hoping
to take their place among fashion's
elite...(more) |
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Carlos Campos
February 3, 2007
Altman Building
This is a man’s
world, but it wouldn’t be anything
without a well-tailored herringbone
motorcycle jacket and a snappy pair
of skinny black trousers...(more)
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Costello Tagliapietra
The Tents at Bryant Park
Friday Feb 9, 2007
Judging by the front
row, one would think that Marc Jacobs
was hosting an encore show, but Brooklyn
duo Robert Tagliapietra and Jeffery
Costello have friends in high places...(more) |
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Chris
Han
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 3, 2007
One collection that should appear on
every debutante’s wish list this
fall will be designer Chris Han’s...(more) |
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Dragana Ognjenovic
February 7, 2007
The Tents Bryant Park
Dragana Ognjenovic
created her Fall 2007 line in a neutral
palate of blacks and creams. And unlike
many of the other Fall 2007 Mercedes
Fashion Week designers, who were seemingly
designing for a bumper crop of expectant
mothers...(more) |
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DDC
LAB
February 8, 2007
Nexus Showroom
DDC LAB can be counted on to consistently
put on one of Fashion Week's best shows...(more)
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Gen
Art presents “The New Garde”
The Waterfront (222 12th Avenue)
February 2nd, 2007
Since
2003, selection by Gen Art for their “Fresh
Faces” runway show has been any
aspiring fashion designer’s dream
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Gustavo Arango
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Altman Building
February 3, 2007
Trekking
from the cozy warmth of the Tents at Bryant
Park to the outer reaches of Chelsea can
be an unpleasent undertaking, but I was
happy to brave the cabs and the cold to
see the Fall 2007 collection of Gustavo
Arango...(more)
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The Heart Truth Red
Dress
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 2, 2007
The
last word I would use to describe our
American government is “stylish”,
but on Friday morning sponsor Laura Bush
and the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services put on a wildly successful
runway show...(more) |
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Heatherette
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 6, 2007
This year’s Heatherette Show
was an absolute riot. The show was repped
by Kelly Cutrone’s hip PR firm,
the People’s Revolution, and they
totally exceeded my expectations...(more)
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Jayson
Brunsdon
The Tents at
Bryant Park
Thursday Feb 8, 2007
Timing is everything,
and Australian designer Jayson Brunsdon
had the unfortunate distinction of showing
his debut NYC Fashion Week collection
after Zac Posen's stunning presentation..(more) |
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Jason Wu
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 6, 2007
When we asked Jason
Wu backstage to sum up his fall collection
in one word, he responded with “effortless.”
“This season is more of a Kate
Moss effortless cool...(more)
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John Varvatos
7 World Trade Center, 45th Floor
February 5th, 2007
Experiencing
the John Varvatos Fall 2007 fashion show
evoked a heady feeling, partially because
guests were escorted 45 stories above
ground level before being offered a variety
of fine Corzo tequilas up or on the rocks...(more) |
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Jordi
Scott
Arena - 135 W. 42nd Street
February 2, 2007
The 80's were back with a vengeance
at the Jordi Scott’s fashion show...(more) |
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Kai Kuhne
February 8, 2007
National Arts Club
Clearly
the worst show of the week, starting well
over an hour late prompting many guests
to flee to bigger and better events ...(more)
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Kai
Milla
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 5, 2007
When
Kai Milla was concocting her Fall 2007
line she must have been perched on a mountain
top overlooking a vast forest...(more) |
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LACOSTE
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 3, 2007
The
backdrop at Lacoste's Fall 2007 show was
a photographic landscape of the great
outdoors evoking 1970's Brittany, complete
with a yellow vintage Citroën...(more)
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The Lake & Stars
February 14, 2007
The Tribeca Grand Hotel
The
Lake & Stars show at the Tribeca Grand
was a fun cool way to get away from the
rush of fashion week...(more)
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Lela Rose
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 4, 2007
As
the bells rang a few blocks away at St.
Patrick’s Cathedral, a congregation
of fashion’s faithful convened at
Bryant Park on Sunday morning to see the
Fall/Winter collection of Lela Rose...(more) |
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Mac Millan
Fall 07 Collection
Feb 8, 2007
Lotus
London-based but
Scotland-born designer Jane McMillan had
"fashion in a nightclub show"
at downtown NYC super club Lotus...(more) |
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Malan Breton
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Arena
February 9, 2007
Malan
Breton (the Project Runway contestant
with the huge head of sculpted black hair
and the manic laugh) held his second Fashion
Week show...(more)
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Mal Sirrah
Mal Sirrah Showroom
28 West 36th Street
February 7, 2007
New
York Cool photographer Katherin Wermke
attended the Mal Sirrah Show on February
7, 2007...(more) |
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Mara
Hoffman
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February
2, 2007
Welcome to Mara Hoffman’s
Wonderland where skirts can be long or
little, necklines may soar or plunge,
and women can have whatever it is they
want...(more)
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Marc Bouwer
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 2, 2007
Fluid, loose and unstructured
are three words that come to mind when
looking at Mark Bouwer’s fall
2007 collection...(more) |
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Max Azria
Monday Feb 5, 2007
The Tents at Bryant Park
Max
Azria's signature collection followed
the Fall 2007 Fashion Week trend of showing
a line in neutral tones of grey, brown
and black...(more) |
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Morphine Generation
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 2, 2007
Morphine Generation’s
urbanite style embraces the fall season
with men’s and women’s cigarette
trousers, angora/cashmere turtlenecks...(more) |
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New York Couture Show
The Grand
February 8, 2007
At
New York Couture's official fashion week
party, I ran into everyone from flamboyant
FIT students, two aspiring actresses fresh
from reality TV, three stylish Brits,
and one girl from Colorado named Echo
who does not know who Barack Obama is...(more)
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Nicole Romano
Capitale - 130 Bowery
February 4, 2007
Known for the ornate
and dramatic style of her signature
line, Nicole Romano presented her Autumn/Winter
2007 collection at decadent Capitale...(more) |
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Pegah Anvarian
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 6, 2007
Hot, young, fun and
sexy: all these words describe Hollywood,
California designer Pegah Anvarian...(more)
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Proenza Schouler for
Target
Opening Ceremony -
35 Howard St.
February 1st, 2007
Proenza
Schouler's meteoric rise to fashion fame
is as much a result of their enterprising
business prowess as their collective design
talent...(more)
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Reem Acra
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Promenade @ Bryant Park
February 5, 2007
While
many designers evoked the bias cuts of
Vionnet or the geometric patterns of the
Art Deco movement this season, no one
was so overtly inspired by the 1920's
as Reem Acra...(more)
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Peter Som
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 7, 2007
The
infectious Spring 2007 collection of Peter
Som was a shining beacon in fashion last
fall. Delightfully well put together with
strong, consistent themes...(more) |
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Sass
& Bide
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
The Tents at Bryant
Park In yet another delightful runway
presentation for Fall 2007, Australian
design duo Sarah-Jane Clarke and Heidi
Middleton fulfilled the girlish fantasies
of grown-up women everywhere...(more) |
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Sue Stemp
Soho Grand Hotel
February 3, 2007
After witnessing how
much fun British designer Sue Stemp
had backstage during the show, I can
see why the audience for her Fall 2007
collection...(more)
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Temperly
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 6, 2007
Alice
Temperley has recreated the forties with
her Fall 2007 line of sophisticated dresses
and jackets...(more)
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Toni
Maticevski
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 3, 2007
Some people could
accuse Toni Maticevski of having a split-personality.
His Fall 2007 line balances on both
sides of extreme...(more) |
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Tracy Reese
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 4, 2007
Tracy Reese marched
into Fashion Week with a playful, whimsical,
vintage- looking line...(more) |
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Twinkle by Wenlan
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 4, 2007
Twinkle’s fall
collection is all about leisure and
freedom, as seen through a spectrum
of different colors, layering and disheveled
girliness...(more) |
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Viva Venexiana
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 3, 2007
What
does it mean to be fashion forward? Is
it having a closet avalanching with today’s
trends (a.k.a. next weeks big consignment
drop-offs) or is fashion forward defined
as wearing clothing...(more) |
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Y & Kei “Water
the Earth”
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 8, 2007
Backstage
at Y & Kei, designer Gene Kang made
the last rounds through garments, giving
quick clarifications to dressers before
the show...(more)
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Zang Toi
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
February 9, 2007
Paris walked the runway
at the Zang Toi show. The show started
when a leggy young model (sporting a
huge mop of hair and a cigarette in
her gloved hand)...(more) |
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Mercedes Benz Fashion
Week
The Tent People
One
of the coolest things about Mercedes Benz
Fashion Week is seeing the people in the
tents, not walking down the runway, but
the fashionistas waiting around to sit
in the audience...(more) |
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Bogosse Fashion Show
Nikki Midtown
January 22nd, 2007
Miami-based
designers Patrick and Fabrice Tardieu
could not have picked a better venue to
show their Autumn 2007 collection. Held
at the appropriately euro-tropical Nikki
Midtown...(more)
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