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September 2008 Fashion Week |
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September
2008 Fashion Week
Fashion Week madness
has taken over New York. The tents are
rising in Bryant Park for the invitation-only
IMG Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. And
all over the city, non-tent-showing
designers (either too big or too small
for the tents) are preparing their shows...(more)
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Abaete
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 7, 2008
Designer
Laura Poretzky fused femininity with color
blocking in a line which featured flirty
A-line dresses and the popular-for-spring
one shoulder look...(more)
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A Detacher
Altman Building
135 West 18th Street
September 8, 2008
A Detacher designer
Mona Kowalska presented a line of minimalistic
casual wear for Spring 2009...(more)
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Anna
Sui
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 10, 2008
Anna Sui is known
for her gorgeous style; Sui designs
fun, eccentric clothing for beautiful
young things...(more) |
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Akiko
Ogawa
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 7, 2008
Oh the wonders of
the Japanese designers - the youth,
the exuberance, they way they throw
the rules up to the sky and let them
float down through a Picasso-like prism...(more)
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Aurelia
Costerella
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 11, 2008
Australian
designer Aurelio Costarella unveiled “Chroma”
for Spring Summer 2009, his first show
at the Bryant Park tents...(more) |
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Badgley
Mischka
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 12, 2008
Badgley Mischka the
design team of Mark Badgley and James
Mischka, showed a Spring 2009 line that
was tailored for a woman who is obviously
going to have a marvelous time...(more) |
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Betsey
Johnson
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 9, 2008
Betsey
Johnson always puts on the best fashion
week show. The clothes are fun, the models
are fun...(more) |
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Brooklyn
Royalty Fashion Show
September 2008 Fashion Week
28 West 36th Street
September 7, 2008
Bob Bland has designed
an eco-friendly line of casual clothing
that will be just the thing to cloth
Brooklyn's hipsters and their fashion
loving fans...(more) |
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Carlos
Miele
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 10, 2008
Brazilian designer
Carlos Miele is envisioning a pretty
spring with lots of parties and lots
of chiffon party dresses...(more)
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Carolina
Herrera
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 8, 2008
The
Carolina Herrera Show is always one of
fashion week's most elegant. Herrera has
a scrumptious style...(more) |
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Cho
Cheng Fashion Show
September 2008 Fashion Week
New York Public Libary
September 10, 2008
Designer Cho Cheng’s
New York Library Fashion Show started
fashion week Wednesday off at a bright
and early 9:00 AM...(more) |
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Couture
Council's
Artistry in Fashion Award Luncheon
Honoring Isabel Toledo
Rainbow Room
September 3, 2008
The Couture Council
of FIT rang in Spring 2009 Fashion Week
with their third annual Artistry in
Fashion Award Luncheon. This year’s
honoree was fashion icon Isabel Toledo...(more) |
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Dennis
Basso
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 9, 2008
There may have been
anti-fur protestors shouting outside
the tents, but furrier Dennis Basso
was showing a fur-free Spring/Summer
line inside...(more)
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Diesel
Black Gold
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 8, 2008
Diesel Black Gold
went back to its roots for spring/summer
of 2009 and that would be their "southern"
roots. Miss Mississippis strode the
runway like it was a down home country
lane...(more) |
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Erin Fetherston
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 5, 2008
The
Erin Fetherston Spring 2009 collection
was the epitome of flawless beauty and
ethereal innocence. Entitled, “East
of the Sun and West of the Moon,”...(more)
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The Spring
2009 "Recession Collection"
of Esther Nash
Fashionistas
filled the tents for the Mercedes Benz
Fashion Week extravaganza with a vengeance
but this year one factor was evident on
the runaway: we are still in a recession...(more)
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Farah
Angsana Fashion Show
Style 360
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 9, 2008
For Spring 2009, Zurich
based designer Farah Angsana showed
what she does best, a line of superb
party dresses...(more)
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Geren
Ford Fashion Show
September 2008 Fashion Week
The Bowery Hotel
September 3, 2008
Geren Ford’s
Spring 2009 collection gave off an 80s
vibe with its colorful palette and big
hair, but the collection also had a
modern edge...(more) |
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Gottex
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 8, 2008
Gottex celebrated
their fiftieth anniversary on the runway
with a spring/summer line that again
showed the fashion world yet again why
Gottex is the world's premiere swimsuit
line...(more) |
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House
of Cassette
Style 360
Metropolitan Pavillion
125 West 18th Street
September 7, 2008
The House of Cassette’s
Style 360 Fashion Week debut was not
what one would expect from one of downtown
LA’s rising independent labels...(more) |
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Iodice
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 8, 2008
Designer
Vlademar Iodice mixed color blocking with
structure in his 2009 Spring collection.
The inspiration was a combination of the
mysteries of Atlantis crossed with both
cosmopolitan socialites and a day at the
beach...(more)
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Luca Luca
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 8, 2008
Raul
Melgoza, the newly appointed creative
director of Luca Luca...(more)
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Malan
Breton
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 11, 2008
Malan Breton epitomizes
glamour and for this year's spring line
Malan has stated that he was inspired
by the Five Elements...(more) |
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Michael
Volbracht
September 2008 Fashion Week
The Wally Findlay Gallery
124 East 57th Street
New York, NY 10022
September 16, 2008
Michael Volbracht
launched his new line at the Wally Findlay
Gallery on September 16, 2008. This
was Volbracht's first fashion show since
he worked as creative director of Bill
Blass in 2007...(more)
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Patricia
Field and
David Dalrymple Fashion Show
The Edison Ballroom
240 West 47th Street
September 6, 2008
Patricia
Field with the help of fellow designer
David Dalrymple put on one hell-of-a-show
during Spring 2009 Fashion Week...(more) |
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Patricia
Field and
David Dalrymple Fashion Show
Atmosphere
The Edison Ballroom
240 West 47th Street
September 6, 2008
The
stage set and the audience at the Patricia
Field Show were as campy and fun as the
show. The stage was filled with 1960's
style kitchy tableaus...(more)
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Rebecca
Taylor
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 11, 2008
Rebecca
Taylor's spring will be cool and fun.
The collection is full of rich-hippie-looking
cottons that are light and flirty...(more)
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Tony
Cohen
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 8, 2008
Well, my goodness!
Tony Cohen has certainly designed a
line for the woman who does not want
to see herself coming down the street...(more) |
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Tracy
Reese
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 6, 2008
I wish that Tracy
Reese had been designing in the late
80s, the years my mother was dressing
me in the cheesy floral-print dresses
that made me look like a miniature version
of the Queen Mum...(more) |
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Venexiana
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 5, 2008
Katie Stern has seen
the future and it is a party, a posh
party. Stern's line for spring is a
sherbety floral extravaganza, perfectly
suited for all of modern-day Cinderella’s
balls...(more) |
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Zac
Posen
Mercedes Benz Spring 2009
Fashion Week
The Tents at Bryant Park
September 11, 2008
Zac Posen presented
a cohesive line for Spring of 2009.
Using mostly a palate of pale lavenders,
soft cream and yellow, the clothes followed
the rich hippie trend shown throughout
this fashion week...(more)
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Zang
Toi's Benefit for
The Livestrong Foundation at
Restaurant Daniel
60 East 65th Street, New York
September 11, 2008
Designer Zang Toi
is an ardent supporter of Lance Armstrong’s
Livestrong Foundation and the Livestrong
Challenge...(more) |
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Zang Toi's
Luncheon for
The Real Housewives
of New York City
Zang Toi's Atelier
57th Street
September 4, 2008
At
the very start of Spring 2009 Fashion
Week, designer Zang Toi hosted a luncheon
for Bethenny Frankel and Jill Zarin of
The Real Housewives of New York City...(more)
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Tent
(And a Few Other Places)
People
September 2008 Fashion Week
One of the most fashionable
aspects of Fashion Week are the clothes
and looks sported by the people in the
tents and other fashion venues. Not
the models walking down the runway...(more) |
