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Fashion Week SS08: Anne Klein

Posted on September 12, 2007 by admin
And on the seventh day, the fashion world wore jeans. It's a testament to Isabel Toledo's talent that so many heavy hitters came to the Anne Klein show on the last morning of a particularly...
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Fashion Week SS08: Marc Jacobs

Posted on September 12, 2007 by admin
Bad news: The Marc Jacobs show was going to be delayed by two hours, late by even Marc Jacobs standards. Publicity agents circulated through the hipper-than-thou crowd, suggesting that everyone go get something to eat,...
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Fashion Week SS08: Anne Klein

Posted on September 12, 2007 by admin
And on the seventh day, the fashion world wore jeans. It's a testament to Isabel Toledo's talent that so many heavy hitters showed up for Anne Klein, where she is now entering her second season,...
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Fashion Week SS08: Oscar de la Renta

Posted on September 11, 2007 by admin
Perhaps no other designer works with his customer in mind as much as Oscar de la Renta - not an abstract idea of "the customer," but the actual women who wear his clothes. Every season...
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Fashion Week SS08: Michael Kors

Posted on September 10, 2007 by admin
If so many spring collections have been "Deauville," Michael Kors' could be called The Swimmer, after the 1968 film starring Burt Lancaster. Preppy fashions abounded, from women's Lilly Pulitzer-esque pink and green prints to men's...
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Fashion Week SS08: Temperley London

Posted on September 9, 2007 by admin
The Temperley show drew a glamorous crowd of pretty young things. As for the show itself, gone were the lace and boho prints of yesteryear. The spring line, like Abaeté's, drew inspiration from Deauville and...
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Fashion Week SS08: Proenza Schouler

Posted on September 8, 2007 by admin
It would have been a straight man's dream, had there been more of them present: The doors to the Armory opened after the Proenza Schouler show last night, and hundreds of models and other beautiful...
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Fashion Week SS08: Yeohlee

Posted on September 7, 2007 by admin
Fashion week took a turn towards the avant garde at Yeohlee's show at the W Union Square yesterday. Gowns in gossamer shimmering white fabric conjured up ice queens, while the more structured looks grounded the...
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Fashion Week SS08: Badgley Mischka

Posted on September 7, 2007 by admin
This is a crowd that takes fashion seriously. Guests in the front row of the Badgley Mischka show, including Ivana Trump, assiduously took notes on every passing look, sometimes sneaking in a digital photo or...
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Fashion Week SS08: Abaeté

Posted on September 6, 2007 by admin
Laura Poretzky of Abaeté has endured some criticism for being a socialite designing for fellow socialites, but the Parsons-schooled designer attracted a variety of buyers, editors, fashionistas and fashionistos to yesterday's show at Bryant Park.This...
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Kuku Canteen

Posted on September 5, 2007 by admin
In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that I have a relationship with the restaurant featured in this review: The folks at Wawa Canteen prepare delicious food, and I eat it. Several...
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Ladies’ Mile

Posted on August 28, 2007 by admin
True confession: fashion-o-philes secretly like it when the weather turns cold, dark, and stormy in August, as it did last week. Why? It gives everyone a chance to break out new fall clothes.Colder temperatures afforded...
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Yushi

Posted on August 21, 2007 by admin
The sushi place in the World Financial Center wasn't always Yushi. It used to be Itsu, the sushi chain perhaps best known as the restaurant where the late Russian secret service agent Alexander Litvinenko was...
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Flip Flop Insurrection

Posted on August 16, 2007 by admin
The words "flip flop" can be incendiary, and not just when it comes to presidential candidates."I hate it when women in my office put on flip flops the minute they leave their desks," said a...
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What Not to Wear?

Posted on August 16, 2007 by admin
Perhaps no issue is more of a hot button in offices these days than that of summer corporate attire. "I'm almost glad summer is nearly over," writes Pamela Fiori in the editor's letter of September's...
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