If I said that I didn’t want at least half the pieces coming out of the Mainaim show from Russia’s Fall fashion week you could label me a liar. With such detailed and inventive uses of fabric and color, it’s hard not to label the designer a rising star. My only wish is to literally [...]

Central St. Martins student designer Chailie Ho, may be on to something. She’s created a line of clothing simply by using one item over and over again. While she hasn’t thought of a name for it, we’re officially dubbing it the converted dresstopskirt. It’s not the technical name for it and we’re still putting it [...]

There’s this endless stream of necessary conciousness coming from Look Online’s editor in chief Marilyn Kirschner and her commentary on what is chic and modern (two overused buzzwords) in the industry right now. Kirschner’s commentary was prophetic in nature as many of her “predictions” prior to New York’s fall 2007 fashion week panned out to [...]

Papierdoll Magazine updates today featuring an interview with twin designers Lucky and Sarada Ravindra of Queue. Former professional tennis players turned designers, they speak on a variety of issues including the evolution of their line from Spring 2007 to Fall 2007 (we’ll publish photos tomorrow), the transition from living in Miami to moving to New [...]

I opened up my New York Times this morning online and found an interesting story that hits home in a way. The story was on the world of bloggers, blogging and the nastiness that dominates the blogging world in general. I can simply add my opinion through an anecdote. At fashion week in New York [...]

I was browsing through Madonna’s H&M line (can’t help but notice the ads are everywhere) and started thinking about something she and several other celebwear designers said recently. The “inspiration” for their lines came from looking at what they had in the closet and making tweaks here and there. Simply adding chiffon on one end, [...]

Looking back at this past September’s Spring 07 fashion week collections, I noticed an interesting trend. A few rebellious designers decided to remove pastellish happiness, fabric and “springy” colors from their lines and let the dark colors fall wherever they wanted. While nothing new, there was a trendshift of sorts. I singled out some notables [...]

While not completely familiar with Hedi Slimane’s Dior Homme works (minus the press mentions, standing ovations at shows and occasional flip through ads in Vogue), I can surmise from reading just about everywhere online in the past few days that this is a major occurence. I kind of want to ask why without seeming like [...]

India fashion week is another one of those “outside of the big 4” fashion weeks I meant to blog about the other day but am only getting to now. Looking at the photos coming out, it’s plain as day to see that there is a deep talent pool. We covered Manish Arora’s fashion show in [...]

I picked out two pieces from the complete Libertine for Target collection debuting this August that I could wrap my heart and mind around. Everything else is a hodge podge of Gap, Banana Republic, American Eagle, Aeropostale << yeah I went there, and previous Target Go Collections. Feeling a little uninspired right now.

While I’m fighting for the answer to the top pick in Trench for the spring season, Christopher Bailey’s already figured it out. This is from the Burberry Spring 2007 collection and this is my wallet getting thinner for the season.

<< Coach btw.

I’m slowly turning my eye to Sari Gueron. Maybe I’m playing catchup. Gueron first started her line with a small collection of dresses and is now extending it into accessories like the flats shown in detail above. Some stand outs from the Spring collection include her dress on the left of cotton/silk crinkle chiffon with [...]

Now see, this is exactly what Spring is about. Something flirty, girlish, and easy to dress with others. Alessandro Dell’Acqua has a varied Spring line that is half homage to Gianni Versace half jungle cat obsession (pick one, leopard, zebra, tiger). The above is one of the stronger pieces from his line. I say this [...]

No more Sarah Jessica Parker posts this week. But the memo has come down and photos of her line, Bitten, are finally hitting the interweb. What does it look like? Something out of the GapA small smattering of images folks:

While I wasn’t at Japan fashion week, it sounds like Penny Martin of ShowStudio fame had “fun” at the Ele Tra show. She writes and I quote:Those (Eastern European?) models were drowning in shift dresses and cropped jackets that looked grandmotherly, as opposed to chic or sporty.But what really got my attention was her photo [...]

I don’t question why he did it. I am thankful that he dropped the big knits with the logos and the rapperwear. I’m just wondering why I have to wait until the fall to experience it. It is that good.

In an interview with Times Online UK, Tommy Hilfiger describes his new line as:“more classic, refined, [...]

We’re hoping this student designer from Central St. Martins is the next big thing in fashion. Read our Interview.From the Chailie Ho Interview and snapshots photo story.

photography Josh Bilton

I was on Cathy Horyn’s On the Runway blog and read some of the comments and realized no matter where (who) you are you’re never immune to biting criticism. For example a commenter wrote on her blog (in response to her review of Rei Kawakubo’s Comme des Garcons show):In the March 3rd NYT fashion review [...]

Was it me or was A.L.T. talking a little too fast when interviewing everyone? I almost thought he was going to deck the interviewees everytime he thrust the microphone into their faces? His breakdowns of what the actors/actresses were wearing was spot on, when I actually caught what he said.The good thing about wearing dresses [...]

While not sure what to make of the Burberry Prorsum line this season (from seeing the photos and not being directly at the show), I can definitely say there’s a bit of intrigue. When I was younger (talking high school fashionista – I hate that word), Burberry was all I wanted to wear. It was [...]