Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring ’13: Tadashi Shoji Travels Down The Modern Silk Road To Lacetown

  Summary: Tadashi Shoji took us on a virtual journey along the Modern Silk Road where East meets West. Using his travels as inspiration, his Spring  2013 collection we started in Venice where the blue embroidered-lace sheath dress paid tribute to a Venetian tablecloth the designer found. Yet even as Tadashi moved on to Kazakhstan …

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New York Fashion Week Spring ’13: Kimberly Ovitz’s Raw Appeal and Creative Layering

      Summary: Many times, the sight of a dirt-smothered runway is an indication that the collection you’re about to view will be along the lines of “tribal-inspired.” That’s not the case for Kimberly Orvitz’s Spring 2013 collection though! Orvitz was inspired by “Almagul Menlibayeva’s thought-provoking belief that you can create your own mythology.” Her collection …

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