Marie-Christiane Marek : A True Passion for Fashion
Marie-Christiane Marek at New York Fashion Week NEW YORK, Sept 16, 2005 – Some days at a Fashion Week are just full of good surprises! Just before the exquisite Chado Ralph Rucci show started in the evening, we were sitting, together with Julien Fournié, chatting during the usual waiting before the start of any fashion show, wondering what interesting thoughts we could...
My Fair Zang Toi
Happines Selon Zang Toi – A Portrait by Julien Fournié NEW YORK, Sep 15, 2005/ FW/ – Being invited for lunch by a prominent designer of the New York fashion scene is an honor, even for two Parisian veterans, especially when this is the first time you meet this Malaysian-native 38 year old who really made it in Manhattan and who has been now for some years the...
Seine and Nile on the Hudson River
Ideal Party ! Illustration by Julien Fournié NEW YORK, Sep 14, 2005/ FW/ – Getting ready and scheduling the evening at a fashion week can become difficult if not carefully planned.Conscious of the tight schedule ahead of us tonight, I had called our hotel concierge in the morning to reserve a town car with a driver for the evening. This kind of luxury can help when...
Celebrities System Versus Star System
NEW YORK, Sep 13, 2005 / FW/ – We have started our day with the surprisingly extraordinary, pleasantly elegant, creatively refined Bill Blass collection for Spring 2006 by Michael Vollbracht.The press kit read: “Here’s to Roger Vadim and his beautiful wives. Here’s to 1964 and Bardot, Deneuve and Ms. Fonda.” The first three names made me think that Michael...
Beret, Baguette, Couture and French Cancan
Betsey Johnson at the end of her runway show as seen by Julien Fournié NEW YORK, Sep 12, 2005/ FW/ — Betsey Johnson might just not have wanted too many real French people in the audience for the collection she showed this afternoon. Although Julien Fournié and myself secretly admired her from afar, we were very disappointed! Ready to forgive her and her PR for...
Sponsors… for Better and for Best
Best Sponsors at New York Fashion Week NEW YORK, Sep 11, 2005 / FW/ — Sponsors are everywhere in New York City for the Fashion Week. To a European eye, this is an entirely new concept. Paris-based designers’ houses have tended to think and also promote that a good fashion show, because it should promote its own brand, its own luxury brand, should never get it all...
Drawn by Numbers
Patricia Field bag launch party NEW YORK, Sep 10, 2005/ FW/ — Numbers and figures say a lot. In the fashion industry, they are often used to talk about money, profits, investments etc.They also can be very significantly used to express bluntly a reality that words can hardly grasp as quickly. Here are some of the numbers that can account for our second day of attendance...
How Do You Show Fashion at a Fashion Show?
Gottex Spring 2006 Runway Show NEW YORK, Sep 9, 2005 – Living my first day as an attendee of New York Fashion Week is some initiation which, because I am familiar with European-based fashion circles, raises new questions about how you are supposed to show and sell the fashion pieces you create on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Talking about organization, professionalism...
New Girls in New York
New on the Runway in New York PARIS, Sep 6 2005/ FW/ — Fashion Week opening this week in New York will reveal new faces. The few girls listed below are in Manhattan, partly already booked, partly making the rounds. But, although they should walk the runway in New York for the first time, they have good reference in the fashion industry (for editorials or campaigns),...
Questions, Only Questions
Jean Paul Cauvin caught with questions between Paris and New York City - Illustration by Julien Fournié PARIS, Sep 3, 2005″ /FW/ — Some only five days before taking off to New York City, I have so many questions. Some are easy to answer if you find the right information at the right time ; some will get an answer only after Fashion Week; some will remain unanswered...
