February
2008 Fashion Week
Written by
Wendy R. Williams
Photographed by the New York Cool Photographers
Opposite
Photo:
L.A.M.B. Fashion Show
September 2007
Photo Credit Eli Ceballos
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Fashion Week madness
has taken over New York. The tents have risen in
Bryant Park for the invitation-only IMG Mercedes
Benz Fashion Week. All over the city, non-tent-showing
designers (either too big or too small for the tents)
are preparing their shows. And all around the world,
magazine editors and store buyers have packed their
bags and left for New York, where they will be dazzled
once again by the exuberance and talent of the New
York fashion world.
New York Cool will
be there for it all. We have a team of five writers
and photographers covering Fashion Week this February
with photographers flying in from Barcelona, San
Francisco and Miami.
Last September we
covered sixty-four
shows and are planning on covering that many
yet again. And since the
clothes shown at Fashion Week are always at least
six months "early" (in February, we see
the clothes for Fall 2008), here are some highlights/recap
of the Spring/Summer 2008 collections we covered
saw last September (the clothes you will be wearing
as soon as we all defrost) with links to our coverage
of the show under each photograph. .
One
of the joys of Fashion Week is seeing the evening
gowns in collections like those shown by designers
Jason Wu, Katie Stern, Marc Bouwer and Farah Angsana.
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Venexiana
September 2007
Photo Credit Eli Ceballos
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Venexiana
September 2007
Photo Credit Eli Ceballos
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Marc
Bouwer Show
September 2007
Photo Credit Katherin
Wermke
Farah
Angsana Show
September 2007
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
And then there was non-tent designer
Rabia Yelcin who showed at the St. Regis Hotel.
Ms. Yelcin is from Turkey; she is an observant Muslim
who wears a head scarf. Ms. Yelcin also designed
a stunning and sensual collection.
Rabia
Yalcin Couture Fashion Show
September 2007
Photo Credit James Bluck
One
of the most fun parts of Fashion Week is seeing
the "jeans" designers strut their stuff.
See these photos from the Custo Barcelona and Miss
Sixty Shows.
Custo
Barcelona Show
September 2007
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
Miss
Sixty Fashion Show
September 2007
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
Miss
Sixty Show
September 2007
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
Then there was
the whacked-out exuberance of the Alice + Olivia
Show, the deconstructed tee-shirted-party-dresses
of English designers Poltock & Walsh, the
look-at-me sexiness of Angel Devil and the other-worldly
talent of the graduate students of San Francisco's
Academy of Art.
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Angel
Devil
September 2007
Photo Credit Yosra El-Essawy
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Angel
Devil
September 2007
Photo Credit Yosra El-Essawy
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September 2007
Fashion Week was also treated to multi-talented
Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B line and to the incredible
fun of the always-hot-and-forever-young Betsey
Johnson Show.
And last September,
established designers like Nicole Miller, Michael
Kors, Carolina Herrera, Reem Acra and Tracy
Reese continued to demonstrate the talent that
established their "establishments."
And no Fashion
Week would be complete without the Malan Breton
Show. Malan has now been showing at Fashion
Week for two years (ever since his run on
Project Runway) and in February 2008,
he will show in the tents for the very first
time. Bravo and kisses to Malan!
Another New
York Cool favorite designer, Zang Toi, held
a fashion-show-at-a-party last September.
Zang will be back showing in the tents in
February.
Zang
Toi Puckers Up
September 2007
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
Here is Zang
kissing one of his models at the party.
And last but not least are the
hot men's wear designers like Duckie Brown,
John Varvatos, Carlos Campos and newcomer
Unruly Heir. Men may feel rightfully left
out of fashion week, but we at New York Cool
try to remember that you are half the population
and cover the shows accordingly.
Duckie
Brown Show
Septembember 2007
Photo Credit Eli Ceballos
Unruly
Heir Show
September 2007
Photo Credit Mary Blanco
See you in the tents!
Wendy
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