Top to bottom: Sujata Gazder, James de Colon, Calvin Tran, and Double Stitch Even if you’re not new to Chicago’s fashion week events this will be new to you. In it’s first year the Allure of Couture fashion show/reception will highlight Chicago’s unique, diverse fashion design community. On Sunday, October 14 at the Chase Promenade …
I could emphasize the floral elements of Stella McCartney’s spring ’08 collection but that would somehow be missing the point. While her colleagues in Milan and Paris (but especially Milan) were infatuated by the dramatic colors and flashy Mediterranean hues McCartney took a simpler but much more seasonal and savvy approach. Charming and hopeful her …
Come on, you couldn’t buy a better metaphor. You know, modern women as pirates out and conquering the world until they walk the plank and take the final plunge into marriage. Or maybe it was a commentary on all the fashion pirates out there– the Forever 21s and the other teen garbage galleries that rip …
If I had a fashion fairy godmother she would most likely end up being somewhat like Vivienne Westwood– you know, a little nuts in that well-meaning crazy cat lady kind of way. And this season at the Paris shows Ms. Westwood, whom I adore btw, doesn’t disappoint. Using a melage of fabrics, patterns and “personas” …
Maybe it’s the ’80s association with unfortunate designers logos and my current confusion with why people still adore Gucci bags, but was caught off guard by this collection: I just adore what Frida Giannini, Gucci’s artistic director, has done with her spring collection. Somewhere between La Dolce Vita and what almost appears to be a …
