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Fashion Week SS08: Abaeté
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 spring’s collection, full of slim cut dresses with colorful edging and flouncy fabric fleurs, toed the line between ladylike and playful. As for the beautifully sexy 40’s-style one-piece bathing suits that showed Poretzky’s Brazilian side – cheeky, indeed.
Below, the scene before the show.
The bathing suit – and the whole show – on Style.com.
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Fashion Week FS07: Vera Wang
The Vera Wang show is almost a
Fashion Week prerequisite because a) it wasn’t so long ago that she won CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year, and b) she still has a hold on the whole couture bridal thing. If you live in NYC and have engaged friends with a yen for fabulous dresses, or you are one yourself, you are most likely already familar with Vera Wang. The last time I was at her shop, a bride was getting the final fittings on a $60K custom-made Vera Wang gown. Yes folks, that’s $60K for one dress the bride will wear once. Which translates to: Vera Wang will be around for the long haul.
Here’s who came to the show.
Sadly, darlings, this is it for me for Fashion Week FS07.
- As for the fashion future, I am shorting:
- leggings worn with high heels (never a good look to start with, even more horrible now)
- leggings with flats…?
- silver handbags, except for the most expensive and difficult to replicate (mainly because I fear a plague of street vendor imitations)
- all black
- leopard
- flats (though summer will have its way with us in that regard)Long on:
- pale gold bags (because they’re harder to imitate)
- silver shoes
- leggings with ankle boots
- hot pink
- weird colors
- bright white
- platform wedges
- drab
- shiny black textural things
But right now I am feeling especially long on bikinis and poolside lounge chairs, and I have a pressing appointment in Marathon Key. Until next time…
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Fashion Week FS07: Catherine Malandrino
An arty downtown crowd showed up at the Catherine Malandrino show; Birkin bags were scarce.
Catherine Malandrino is truly the fashion person’s designer. Never afraid of the outré, she designs clothes that are safe to wear at even the most vicious industry party. All you need is daring, and she’ll supply the effortless chic.
Lynn Yaeger, below
the show
Catherine Malandrino
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Fashion Week FS07: Bill Blass
Who is the Bill Blass customer? It’s a question that has burdened the label in the past, but this season’s collection attracted a nice crowd. For fall ’07, a mix of socialites of all ages showed up, plus some familiar faces in the fashion pack.
There was something for everyone at the show. The Bill Blass stalwarts got their suits, which were swingy and modern, and the younger set got party dresses that were – are you sitting down? – drop dead sexy. Yes, that’s right: “Bill Blass” and “sexy,” in the same sentence.
Glenda Bailey of Harper’s Bazaar, above
Joe Zee of Elle, above
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Fashion Week FS07: Oscar de la Renta
The ultimate fashion power crowd descended upon the Oscar de la Renta show yesterday. There was fur, fur everywhere on this particularly frigid New York day, though none of it seemed to be flying, even in the middle of Fashion Week.
Oh yes: and lest you ever feel lazy for wearing the same thing two days in a row, even the editor of French Vogue has been spied sporting the same very fabulous coat twice. Now that’s confidence. And chic.
Carson Kressley
Barbara Walters
Meredith Melling Burke
Piper Perabo
Grace Coddington
Jamee Gregory
Olivia Chantecaille
Audrey Gruss
Rachel Zoe
Elizabeth and Judy Peabody
Bob Morris
Carine Roitfeld
Alex Kuczynski, center
Anna Wintour and bodyguard
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Fashion Week February 07: DVF
Wrap yourself in black patent leather and grab a silver handbag: Fashion Week is back! Diane von Furstenberg fans arrived wearing blindingly bright white (like Glenda Bailey with monogrammed Goyard bag), big fur hats (Andre Leon Talley), and high-waisted coats with poufy skirts (Carine Roitfeld).
Glenda Bailey and bag
Carine Roitfeld
Andre Leon Talley
Joe Zee
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Fashion Week SS07: Doo.Ri
And…scene! That’s it for fashion week. Wrapping it up was Doo Ri Chung, the Korean-born American designer, who won the Parson’s Designer of the Year award in 1995 and many accolades since. The beautiful collection she showed on Friday was a fitting way to end the week. Check it and others out on Style.com, of course.
Despite these Asian inroads into fashion, the Times reported Thursday that the editors of Vogue Nippon don’t even get invited to some of the major shows. Can someone please give the publicists responsible a map? And perhaps a company earnings report…
Fashion Week SS07: Badgley Mischka
Umbrellas were the most popular accessory at the Badgley Mischka show, held on a rainy day in Bryant Park.
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Fashion Week SS07: Behnaz Serafpour
A young and/or influential crowd showed up for Behnaz Serafpour’s show, held at Exit Art on 10th Avenue.
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Fashion Week SS07: Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta is the Wizard of Oz of New York fashion: so powerful and talented that you half expect another, regular guy to appear from behind the curtain and tell you it’s all an illusion. But in this case, the wizard is truly a wizard, and the magic he makes each season with his effortlessly feminine, sublime clothes is real. Here’s who came to see the show.
P.S. The S&M-esque black patent platform sandal you see repeatedly – on Carine Roitfeld, editor of French Vogue, and another show-goer – is by Marc Jacobs and seems to be the shoe of the moment.
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Fashion Week SS07: Diane Von Furstenberg
Few designers can claim their clothes are instantly recognizable. Diane Von Furstenberg never needed to emblazon her designs with logos, however, to establish her distinctive style. A crush of people, many of them women in DVF dresses, wrap and otherwise, wait for standing room at the Bryant Park show or breeze past, invitations in hand.
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Fashion Week SS07: Tracy Reese
I always assumed Tracy Reese was a WASP, because her colorful designs verge toward the extreme side of preppy. Turns out she’s a fabulous black designer, which should make us WASP-ish types gain a new appreciation for those wild prints and colors we love so well. They owe a lot more to African, Indian, Carribean, and black American culture than they do to Palm Beach.
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Fashion Week SS07: Balenciaga
Editors, customers, and investors arrive at one of the first fashion week shows, Balenciaga, held at Barneys New York, where the doormen are always stylish.
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