New York Fashion Week Spring ’13: Katie Gallagher's Forever Calm and Peaceful Styles
Summary: Rising fashion star Katie Gallagher made her Fashion Week debut with her Spring 2010 collection. Since then, she has been creating quite an exciting buzz with each new season. Her Spring-Summer 2013 collection, entitled “Everything Forever,” was “an ode to the remnants of our past, which are ingrained in us and ever present.” Gallagher …
New York Fashion Week Spring '13: Chris Benz Introduces Denim and Designs My Sartorial Patronus
Summary: If Miss Havishman wasn’t old and bitter, and if she wore a bit of color, I think she’d be pretty pleased with Chris Benz‘s SS ’13 collection. (Let there be no mistake: this is a compliment. Miss Havisham is a personal fashion icon.) If I had a sartorial patronus, it would be in the …
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring '13: Reem Acra's Heavenly Hellcats
Summary: One would never have thought, upon glimpsing the textured cut outs in the initial looks of the Reem Acra Spring/Summer ’13 show, that the laser cut marks were representative of tire tracks of all all things. This is Reem Acra! Conjurer of gowns for fairy princesses and red carpet sirens. Is she outfitting biker …
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring ’13: Farah Angsana's Graphic Nature
Summary: There’s no doubt that Farah Angsana likes to make a statement. It seems as if the designer wanted the word “goddess” to instantly come to mind while looking at her Spring/Summer 2013 ready-to-wear collection but looking at the collection as a whole, it seems more like the word should be “chaotic”. Playing with different …
New York Fashion Week Spring '13: Catherine Malandrino's Ornate Explosion of Detailing
Summary: Other than a black sequin body-con dress I picked up in a Chicago vintage store a few years back, I haven’t spent a lot of time with Catherine Malandrino‘s designs. So arriving at her presentation in the Meatpacking district today, I had no idea what I would be in for, other than that …
