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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Summary: Joy Cioci took us to the seaside with a presentation of water reflections and sun – literally – on sand. Her models looked comfortable as they moved about and frolicked in the sand to roaring 20s tunes and modern rock and roll music. There was a lot practical mixed in what was unseeingly impractical …
