Upcoming Los Angeles Fall 2008 Fashion Season Bubbling With Excitement
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios LOS ANGELES, Feb 21, 2008 / FW/ — With Milan Fashion Week underway and Paris kicking off on Sunday, it is hard to think of Los Angeles as a fashion city. Still, the City of Angels has its own strength. As Fern Mallis, SVP of IMG Fashion said, “Los Angeles is such an interesting city and its fashion scene is ever evolving.” Mercedes-Benz...
Zang Toi’s Discreet Luxury Equals Total Elegance
Zang Toi Fall 2008 NEW YORK, Feb 14, 2008 / FW/ — Black, red and white, Zang Toi’s Fall 2008 / Winter 2009 collection is a statement of discreet luxury, something that the New York-based designer had already perfected, yet raised it to another level this season. The result, a very elegant collection that is delicate and tactful. With talks of recession in Wall...
A Gaelic Ports 1961
Ports 1961 NEW YORK, Feb 13, 2008 / FW/ — Tia Cibani designing under the label Ports 1961 was inspired by Scotland for Fall 2008 sending a very wearable collection on the runway. Entitled ‘Lassair’, the collection featured mostly daywear from dresses to pant suits with wooden jewelry and handbags as accessories. Though not necessarily innovative, Cibani has some...
Jill Stuart Fall 2008
NEW YORK, Feb 9, 2008 / FW/ — Selected photos from the Jill Stuart Fall 2008 runway show at the New York Public Library during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2008 season. Photos courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week[Show as slideshow] 123►SHARETHIS.addEntry({...
The Empire State Strikes Back
Empire State Building NEW YORK, Feb 9, 2008 / FW/ — With the close of the New York Fall 2008 season yesterday, it is apparent that New York-based designers and those who chose to show at the Big Apple, have taken a united front against the economic downturn by presenting very tight and coherent collections that make women dream. After a not-so-stellar holiday selling...
Iodice’s Brazilian Invasion of the Big Apple
Iodice Fall 2008 NEW YORK, Feb 8, 2008 / FW/ — Historically presenting at Sao Paulo, Valdemar Iódice decided to take his show to New York and instantly became one of the Big Apple’s Brazilian darlings. (Watch out Alexandre Herchcovitch!) Iodice’s sleek graphic designs fit well in New York’s urban landscape that actually can go either uptown or downtown, plus the...
The Return of Angel Sanchez With the ‘Angel’
Angel Sanchez Fall 2008 NEW YORK, Feb 8, 2008 / FW/ — It was during the Fall 2001 season when Angel Sanchez was seen at Bryant Park last. That time, the Venezuelan designer was known to the world as the one who dressed up Miss World 1995 ((Jacqueline Aguilera) and Miss Universe 1996 (Alicia Machado) for their evening gown competitions. A lot had happened since then,...
Luca Luca: Missing Luca Orlandi
Luca Luca Fall 2008 NEW YORK, Feb 8, 2008 / FW/ — I know its unfair for Luca Luca’s new Creative Director Raul Melgoza, but it is really hard not to miss Luca Orlandi’s high energy shows that make one wish they could wear the clothes being paraded on the catwalk right at that moment. Because one thing that Orlandi is great at is making women feel beautiful and...
Alexandre Herchcovitch’s Graphical Color Wheel
Alexandre Herchcovitch Fall 2008 NEW YORK, Feb 7, 2008 / FW/ — With news last month that controlling interest on Alexandre Herchcovitch had been acquired by a big Sao Paulo firm, the Brazilian designer has a lot of reasons to celebrate, and that he did on the catwalk sending a very colorful collection with a purpose courtesy of the black silhouettes that opened the...
Miss Sixty Fall 2008: Techno-Psychedelic 1970s
Miss Sixty Fall 2008 NEW YORK, Feb 5, 2008 / FW / — A spectacular stage that looked like a set from Austin Powers and a spectacular front row that included Anne Hathaway, Chloe Sevigny and Ashley Olsen, it was retro 1970s ‘the Love Bug’ techno-psychedelic chic for Miss Sixty’s Fall 2008 collection. The moment you walk in the venue, the backdrop already hits you...
Rubin Singer: A Predisposition to Great Design
Rubin Singer on the runway Fall 2008 New York NEW YORK, Feb 4, 2008 / FW/ — Was it only a year ago when I first saw Rubin Singer? Since February 2007, he has produced three collections and I am one of the lucky ones to have seen a talented young designer from the very beginning. If there is a fashion royal line, Rubin Singer will be one of them. His grandfather was...
