Lyn Devon Designs My Dream Wardrobe” y 11 mas |
- Lyn Devon Designs My Dream Wardrobe
- Video: Prabal Gurung’s Fashion Week Prep
- Love is Blind. We are Not. Has Been?
- Intentional Indecision at Bensoni
- Fashion’s Night Out: The Madness That is About to Ensue
- Menswear Review: Billy Reid and Gilded Age
- Gossip: Britney Spears is Rumored to be Performing at Don Hill’s Tonight
- How I’m Making It: Timo Weiland
- Summer Chills at Nomia
- Ask Chris Benz: Where Will You Be on Fashion’s Night Out?
- Be a Square with Rachel Comey
- Fashion News Roundup: W‘s October Cover, Tim and Anna’s Beef and the Fashion Ventures of Two Reality Stars
| Lyn Devon Designs My Dream Wardrobe Posted: 11 Sep 2010 06:30 AM PDT
This season you’ll find a long, lime green, nearly sheer shirt dress with…a drawstring waist. Or a three piece suit in…pique cotton. This, to me, is how I want to dress everyday. Devon’s windowpane dress trench, or the windowpane blouse and shorts, are dream pieces. There’s also a gorgeous button down blouse with black pearls individually sewn on all over–Devon’s take on polka dots. “I wanted to play with the idea of being a lady, so we used things like pearls and bows–but I didn’t want it to be too precious,” says Devon. The pussy bow, for instance, shows up in a sleeveless a-line dress–made from avocado-colored leather, natch. Of course, she paired it all with the perfect shoe: patent leather Louboutin oxfords. No towering heels for Devon’s girl. (Another reason why I love her.) When I ask her if she’d like to create her own shoes someday, she says yes–if the right backer came along. Devon has the potential to become a major name in the next generation’s fashion cannon, so I hope she finds that backer soon. (Oh, and I must give a shout-out to Ulla, the model who tries on dresses all day at Devon’s appointments with editors and buyers. Because she’s just lovely!)                
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| Video: Prabal Gurung’s Fashion Week Prep Posted: 11 Sep 2010 05:30 AM PDT
Fashion darling Prabal Gurung is showing today, and he recently spoke with sponsor Swarovski in the midst of fashion week prep. Enjoy! And good luck, Prabal!
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| Love is Blind. We are Not. Has Been? Posted: 11 Sep 2010 05:00 AM PDT
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| Intentional Indecision at Bensoni Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:00 PM PDT
But sometimes the vision is niche, and sometimes it's not. At yesterday's Bensoni presentation, the pamphlet attempted to pinpoint the inspiration behind designers Sonia Yoon and Benjamin Channing Clyburn's collection, but perhaps raised more questions than it answered. A paradox of "grounded and restless, traditional and iconoclastic, serene and daring, elegant and slight disheveled, sensible and spontaneous" it read. Really, what else is there? Trying to merge all those adjectives into one aesthetic meant, of course,that the presentation jumped all over the place—but in a good way. In only twenty looks, the collection bounced from neons to neutrals and pleated volume to sleek silhouettes, while tossing as many glances at the seventies as it did towards the future. Even the individual looks declared dichotomies: floating, tiered chiffon rendered in acidic neons, and my personal favorite, a simple blue print shift with a white pleated column attached to the front as if it didn't belong—again, in a good way. The collection was for the girl who likes to not make up her mind, who doesn't want to corner her night's outfit (much less her closet) into one recognizable style. While young designers are often pushed to establish a clear voice as if a necessary rite of passage, Bensoni's team showed that some collections are multifaceted—just like the girls that wear them–and need not have just one voice and one mood. Phew.
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| Fashion’s Night Out: The Madness That is About to Ensue Posted: 10 Sep 2010 03:35 PM PDT
Jealous? Don’t be – From now until 12:00 a.m., shoppers can visit two Volkswagen Style Express locations for a ride uptown or downtown in the all-new 2011 Jetta: 50th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues; and Greene Street between Spring and Prince Streets. If these end up running smoothly and often, it’s probably your best bet if you want to play ping pong at Barneys before getting a manicure at the Soho Chanel store. Otherwise, our advice is to stay in one part of the city. If you try to do to much, you’ll end up wasting a ton of time in transit, stressing out and missing things. So, in our final FNO party roundup (until next year), here are some of the main draws in six key neighborhoods that will either help you decide where to hang out or confuse and overwhelm you even more. God Speed. Of course there are all the major department stores and designer boutiques, which we’ve already mentioned. Also, Tiffany’s will be hosting a surprisingly hip bash featuring Mark Ronson on the 1′s and 2′s hosted by Estee Stanley, stylist to stars like Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. Estee will be dolling out styling tips and outfitting guests in Tiffany’s new Yellow Diamonds collection. Chelsea/Meatpacking DVF and Helmut Lang will be big draws here, as will Jeffrey with appearances by the likes of Jason Wu and Christina Ricci. West Village The Teen Vogue X ASOS block party will be sure to draw a young and happening crowd. It’s all happening on Bleecker & Perry and will feature a cute fashion show. Nolita/Soho If you’re a boy and/or you like ice cream, check out the Odin store on Lafayette & Broome for Brooklyn Brewery beer and limited edition Guerilla ice cream in collaboration with Shipley & Halmos. There’s also the Phillip Lim/Rag & Bone block party on Mercer and Little Cupcake Bake Shop is providing goodies for Only Hearts and Velita on Mott street.
The Bond & Bowery area will likely become hip block party, with events happening at Oak, The Smile, Billy Reid, Rogan, Eva New York and the Bowery Hotel. COACD and Male Model Madness are collaborating on an event at The Blind Barber on 10th street between A & B. There will be free cocktails and haircuts from 6-9, followed by an after party to celebrate the magazine MMM (Male Model Madness). The party will include a kissing booth and bachelor auction which will be auctioneered by Derek Blasberg. Brooklyn Bird’s three Brooklyn locations (Cobble Hill, Park Slope and Williamsburg) are all hosting worthy events tonight with lots of amazing food. Franklin Street will be the hub of Greenpoint’s Fashion’s Night Out, with events at In God We Trust, Hayden-Harnett, Old Hollywood, The Parlour and more. More on Fashion’s Night Out
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| Menswear Review: Billy Reid and Gilded Age Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:30 PM PDT
His Spring 2011 looks were presented on a stage with a series of antique doors (provided by an antique shop in Alabama), with a model standing on each side, and then rotating in a sartorial game of musical chairs (or was it doors). While the looks gave off the rugged charm of Faulkner-meets-Lou Reed, or Tom Wolfe-meets-Spike Jonze, the hospitality of Reid's uniquely sophisticated pieces can be absorbed just by looking at individual pieces: - Dark chocolate cordovan skinny belt with antique brass buckle - Bond street-destructed seersucker cut-offs - Handmade burnished bone cordova short-throat roper boot My favorite was his "married to the mob" ensemble (below), featuring a natural cotton/cashmere tennis sweater, a linen and cotton pleat trouser, and a washed black duck and twill tennis shoe, an example of Reid's coming collaboration with K-Swiss. Despite all the attention to the more dandy details—the quarter horse ascot, the lace pocket square, the wingtip loafer and the skinny ties—there is still something incredibly manly about this collection, something rough, and a little wild. Ralph Lauren's little polo players should keep an eye out for Reid's scrappy football heroes: Roll Tide! I wish I could say the same for Gilded age and what they have planned for Spring/Summer 2011. If Reid is J Crew with a twist, Gilded Age is J Crew with a swing and a miss. There's few terribly exciting piece here—faded "selvage" jeans that could have come right out of 2003, some disastrous Hawaiian, "vintage" print shirts and ties, as well as summer jackets that are summed up nicely with the word "lightweight." That isn't to say that Gilded Age doesn't have its bright spots. Their cashmere knits looked completely inviting and, along with some respectable chambrays and button-ups, featured less temerity than much of a collection where "the goal was to go…as far as it was possible to go." I left wishing that, like Billy Reid, they'd stayed a little closer to home.       
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| Gossip: Britney Spears is Rumored to be Performing at Don Hill’s Tonight Posted: 10 Sep 2010 01:57 PM PDT
By the time Brit hits the stage we’ll probably be asleep, but to all you early-twenty-something-hot-scenesters, it might be worth dropping by.
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| How I’m Making It: Timo Weiland Posted: 10 Sep 2010 01:00 PM PDT
Also an integral part of the team, Donna Kang, the only one with a technical fashion background, is behind the scenes helping to make beautiful things happen. Together, they are unstoppable. We sat down with them in their tiny garment district office/studio to try to figure out how they came together and made all this happen in such a short a mount of time. Timo: We met through our old businesses: a consulting business that I was doing and a manufacturing business that Alan was doing with Donna. Alan: I launched a luxury street wear company called Epic Firm and through that company I met Donna. I was at school and Donna was incredible and pretty much the best student to come out of FIT in a really long time. Then, when we were looking for a consultant for the company, I met Timo. Timo and I shared very similar views and we have a very similar taste level and we just decided it would be best to join forces. Timo had this great idea for neckwear from the start and my grandfather was a man who wore a lot of ascots, so we decided to put our ideas of neckwear together and I naturally thought Donna would be amazing for us as well, so we launched the line about two years ago. Timo: …and very quickly realized that accessories were not the end game for us. We definitely wanted to do clothes just because it was really hard to pair other people's clothes with it. We even went to the extent of having a shoot where a girl was topless and we realized that wasn't us either and we were like, there needs to be clothes and they need to be amazing clothes and everything needs to be flowing and just really impeccable. So, after the first season of accessories we moved right into ready to wear. Alan: We just found ourselves always saying things like, if we designed the shirt it would look like this and if we designed a suit it could look like this. There were always these what ifs during the design process in neckwear. It wasn't even a business model; it was just like we are doing clothing.
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| Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:00 PM PDT
Designer Yara Flinn’s collection was refreshingly icy in the best sense, like a half frozen lemonade in ninety degree heat. (Said heat, thankfully, took a hiatus for NYFW.) The unfettered nature of Flinn’s designs are a breath of fresh air in what can feel like an over-saturated, hyper-sensory streak of shows. The best looks were a taupe cross-neck dress with net overlay, a white tie front skirt with an asymmetrical black top, and a black dress with a blue ombré sash. A white and brown tie front skirt with white net underlay was also memorable, and left me wondering when it would be available in stores. Each ensemble has a unique sensibility that falls perfectly between fashion forward and wearable, allowing the pieces to easily integrate into almost any wardrobe. The only downside to Nomia’s refined presentation was the ambient beepy music that flooded the space, spun by two DJs working out of their own white polygon. It was nightclub meets bad Varèse impersonation. In the scope of most fashion week music, however, I think that’s still on the good side.                
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| Ask Chris Benz: Where Will You Be on Fashion’s Night Out? Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:00 PM PDT
What are you up to on Fashion’s Night Out this year? Truly, Your Stalker Dear Stalker, This year for Fashion’s Night Out I will be at Saks 5th Avenue. The Saks team has organized for me to host a sure to be hilarious evening of bingo with prizes, giveaways, and definitely a slew of fashion shenanigans! Chris will be back next week with more fashion and career advice. Got a question? Email him on askchrisbenz@fashionista.com.
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| Posted: 10 Sep 2010 11:30 AM PDT
Set to eastern inspired violins over mandatory DJ beats, Rachel Comey’s SS11 collection was a delight. Mixing patterns in signature Comey fashion, the look was as easy and summery as it gets, from white eyelet to Rachel’s quirky patterns like geometrics and watercolor plaids. Always a standout at a Rachel Comey show are the unexpected proportions. Loose, long pants mixed with flowing tops, and voluptuous skirts made the collection unique, though some of the cuts were quite normal for Comey. One look was a white dress with a ballooning skirt and an attached vest of sorts. The volume was stunning, and would look perfect on a summer day. The star of the show, however, were the square-heeled shoes that inspired envy in every editor and bystander in the audience. Coming in all variations from boot to pump to flat, they were a complete knockout.
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| Posted: 10 Sep 2010 10:30 AM PDT
Tim vs. Anna: The Saga continues. As you might have heard, Tim Gunn did not paint the most flattering portrait of Anna Wintour in his book Gunn’s Golden Rules, in which he tells the story of Anna being carried down several flights of stairs by bodyguards after a show. Anna, not surprisingly, was not happy with Tim’s comments and now I think Tim and Anna are in the fashion version of a rap war. Tim says, “More than 30 people must have seen it. I’m just the only one brave enough to tell the truth. Lord knows hell would freeze over if I came face to face with her here, but I probably wouldn’t be able to see past her handlers.” {NY Post} Willow S/S ’11: Kit Willow is pregnant with creativity and talent. And also literally pregnant with a baby, which is why she decided to present us with this gorgeous video to showcase her new collection in lieu of showing at fashion week. Enjoy. {Style.com} Jason Wu Nail Polish: Is nail polish the new perfume? Jason Wu is following in the footsteps of Chanel and Tom Ford by releasing a collection of nail colors for Fall with CND. The colors are amazing and at $47 for a set of 5, pretty reasonably priced. The set is limited edition, but there will probably be more where this came from if the line is successful. {WWD}
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“It’s my Beene Bag!” 
During Fashion Week, there's only one accessory carried by editors, stylists, and bloggers at every show: the informational pamphlet. It numbers the progression of looks, making it easy to follow along and circle favorites, and details the designer's inspiration behind the show. (After all, some collections warrant written word. Headbands + ripped denim = "Blair Waldorf does Coachella"? Oh, okay.)
We cannot believe Fashion’s Night Out is really here. Something like a thousand shopping events are actually happening. Tonight. And they all sound amazing and, in New York, whether they’re uptown or downtown, you probably want to go to all of them. While that is simply unrealistic, we are getting some help from Volkswagen, who are providing us with a fancy new 2011 Jetta to transport us and our shopping bags around what in a few short hours will be a total shitshow of a city.
What's a boy to do after taking home the GQ's 2010 Best New Menswear Designer award, and signing on to collaborate with a little label called Levi's to design workwear? If you're Louisiana-born, Alabama-based Billy Reid, you go back to doing what you do best: making all-American clothes imbibed with southern luxury, down home charm, and downtown hipness. There are soft, but refined cottons here (some blended with cashmere), boots, seersucker, and double-breasted suits. 
According to some well-placed sources, Brit Brit will be performing at Don Hill’s tonight. (Weirdly, there was a joke about this in The Daily, but we hear that it’s actually true.) The venue was recently acquired by Paul Sevigny, which means all the cool people now hang out there regularly. Again. (
I can't think of a more surreal experience than being in class at a fashion school, finding out your designs are on the cover of WWD, leaving class to go get a copy and coming back to your professor yelling at you. Exactly one year ago today, this happened to Alan Eckstein, one half of 
This season Nomia, one of the 
Dear Chris Benz,
Few things can make a girl happier than a 
The Newest New W: Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling cover October W, the mag’s second issue since Stefano Tonchi took the helm and it became the “new” W. We love Michelle and Ryan, but we’re kind of getting a flashback to Lars and the Real Girl, as Michelle Williams looks very much like a doll that Ryan is holding in this picture. {
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