By default, we always tend to look towards other fashion cities for style referencing. I went through a Stockholm phase for while. I was enamored by the offbeat silhouettes that had been unlike anything I had seen on New York City sidewalks, at the time. And I’m still very much in love with Italian style, [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve gotten excited about shoes. It used to be a special experience for me, finding the perfect pair of shoes that’ll last me at least past one season. But now a days there’s so much over-saturation of trends and ostentatious labels that its hard to look past what’s the shoe [...]
If you really think about it, social media is like the key in the lock for fashion people. We are innately visual, often boastful, and surely competitive. We enjoy sharing things that we buy, love and find with our friends, colleagues and associates. But when engaging and producing content for social media platforms and networks, [...]
To say that I love Lula Magazine would be quite the understatement. Every six months I flock to my favorite newsstand on Broadway and 63rd to pick up the little book of fashion heaven. I was over the moon when I opened issue 13 to find Terese Pagh at Marilyn pictured in the “Old Flame” [...]
On the eve of the first unofficial day of New York fashion week, friends Chrissy Rhee and Linh Thi Do of Eleven Objects hosted a dinner and SS12 collection preview at Congee Village that set the tone for the rest of the NYFW festivities to follow. The newly famed accessory label invited their favorite editors [...]
All Images Courtesy of ADEEN Lower East Side native, Rembrandt Duran, is a staple in Downtown, off-the-cuff, youth culture – giving style inspiration to peers and tastemakers alike. This week he debuted his Saturday collection from his emerging accessory label Adeen. Starting off his first collection of pins and hats in plush and acrylic, he [...]
Images Courtesy of SANS Lika Volkova’s design strength lies in blurring the lines between art and fashion with her label, SANS. The voluminous shapes and progressive construction of Lika’s pieces allow the imagination to wander to far away places. She has a strong vision that is seen through her past collections and in this video [...]
Image of “Rückenfigur”, 2009 by Glenn Ligon via Read Muse March, a month of madness for some traveling to Paris for Fashion Week and Austin, Texas for SXSW. Although, should you be staying stateside this month, doesn’t mean there aren’t things to do, hear, see and fawn over. From Armory Arts week, exhibit openings, sold-out [...]
It’s amazing what a little California sun can do for a gal. Jenny Reyes, the designer behind the whimsical label Geronimo out of LA, has all the makings to be that go to designer for sweet, vintage-influenced swimwear and ready to wear. The delicate pieces that embrace all things feminine have a lasting, charming effect, [...]
Last week, I hopped across Canal to preview Exposure’s Spring Summer 2011 collections. From Frank Tell, Graeme Armour, Amy Winehouse for Fred Perry, the collections were solid. Yet, there were a handful of new collections that had that crisp ability to wow. Bailey of Hollywood Spring Summer 2011 Images Courtesy of Bailey of Hollywood Fine [...]