September
2008 Fashion Week
Written by
Wendy R. Williams
Photographed by the New York Cool Photographers
Opposite
Photo:
Carolina Herrera Fashion Show
February 2008
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
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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. 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 San Francisco
and Miami.
Isabel and Ruben Toledo
Fashion Week will
be rung in by the Couture Council's Awards Luncheon
at the Rainbow Room on September 3, 2008. This year's
award recipient is Isabel Toledo. Here is a quote
from their press release: "Presenting this
award will be André Leon Tally, American
editor-at-large for Vogue, and Simon Doonan, creative
director for Barneys New York, will emcee the event.
Once again, FIT’s glamorous annual gala luncheon,
hosted by its founding Couture Council chairs Liz
Peek, Yaz Hernandez, and Sarah Wolfe, will kick
off fashion week in New York. Attending the award
luncheon will be members of [FIT1]the artistic committee
including Diane Von Furstenberg, Narciso Rodriguez,
Patricia Field, and Ralph Rucci, as well. The Couture
Council is a [FIT4]membership group of fashion enthusiasts
that helps support the exhibitions and programs
of The Museum at FIT. For information on the Couture
Council, call 212-217-4532 or e-mail Couturecouncil@fitnyc.edu."
Also, on Friday night
at 9PM, Fashion Rocks will rock CBS
TV. Here is a quote from their press release:
"This star-studded concert, honoring the extraordinary
relationship between fashion and music, will kick
off New York's Fall Fashion Week at Radio City Music
Hall. Look for some of music's most glamorous trendsetters
to perform, including Aerosmith, Alicia Keys, Avril
Lavigne, Carrie Underwood, Fall Out Boy, Fergie,
Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Lopez, Ludacris, Martina
McBride, Santana and Usher. OBO, an international
fashion production company, will produce the fashion
segments that appear throughout the concert. OBO
most recently produced the 2007 Victoria's Secret
Fashion Show, as well as shows for Zegna, Marchesa,
Tommy Hilfiger, Chloé and Behnaz Sarafpour."
Last February we covered sixty-two
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 September, we see
the clothes for Spring 2008), here are some highlights/recap
of the Fall 2008 collections we covered saw last
February (the clothes you will be wearing this fall)
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
Carolina Herrera, Carmen Marc Valvo and Zang Toi.
Zang
Toi Show
February 2008
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
The
there are the amazing "jeans" designers
strutting their stuff. See these photos from the
Diesel, Custo Barcelona and Miss Sixty Shows.
Diesel
Fashion Show
February 2008
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
Custo
Barcelona Show
February 2008
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
Miss
Sixty Fashion Show
February 2008
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
Miss
Sixty Fashion Show
February 2008
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
Also catching the
eye of descerning fashionistas were the modern and
deconstructed looks of designers like Abaete, Carlos
Miele and Akiko Ogawa.
Then there was
the whacked-out exuberance of the Alice + Olivia
Show, the Indian print joy of Anna Sui and the
other-worldly talent of the graduate students
of San Francisco's Academy of Art.
Alice
+ Olivia
February 2008
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
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Anna
Sui
February 2008
Photo Credit Cindy Ord
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Anna
Sui
February 2008
Photo Credit Cindy Ord
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February 2008
Fashion Week was also treated to draggy fun
of David and Phillippe Blonde and the always-hot-and-forever-young
Betsey Johnson Show.
And established
designers like Bill Blass, Rebecca Taylor, 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 showed in the tents for the first time
and we can wait to see his second tent foray
in September 2008.
And last but not least are the
hot men's wear designers like Duckie Brown,
Gilded Age and Perry Ellis. 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
February 2008
Photo Credit Al McCotter
Gilded
Age Presentation
February 2008
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke
See you in the tents!
Wendy
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