Carmen Marc Valvo Fall 2008: The Not So Innocent 1960s
NEW YORK, Feb 15, 2008 / FW/ — Inspired by the 1960 movie BUtterfield 8 starring Elizabeth Taylor, Carmen Marc Valvo sent a very intimate collection that’s predominantly eveningwear with a few dresses that are best worn for afternoon tea. Bustier dresses and lingerie-inspired frocks, there is strength and vulnerability in the silhouettes, very much like Carmen...
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] [View with PicLens] ...
Verrier Fall 2008: Faberge Bohemian
Verrier Fall 2008 NEW YORK, Feb 9, 2008 / FW/ — The opulence of Imperial Russia meets the simplicity of peasant dress in Verrier’s Autumn/Winter 2008 Collection. Taking visual cues from the esteemed jeweler to the Russian court, Peter Fabergé, the collection is delicate and embellished with a contrasting bohemian edge extracted from nineteenth-century Russian...
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...
Anna Sui Fall 2008
Anna Sui Fall 2008 NEW YORK, Feb 7, 2008 / FW/ — Selected photos from the Anna Sui runway show. Photos courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Related Post: New York Fashion Week Fall 2008 #gallery-4 { margin: auto; } #gallery-4 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-4 img { border:...
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...
