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Think Pink, Lincoln Center Plaza
Maybe it’s just because of Reese Witherspoon’s wedding dress, but the color pink seems to be on the brain for a lot of fashionable people these days. If you buy nothing else this season, let it be a brightly colored bag like this one – though the gorgeous ring and bracelet aren’t too shabby either.
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Hamish Bowles at Oscar de la Renta
Bright color, one of the major trends for spring 2011, has always been in fashion for Vogue editor Hamish Bowles. Here’s how the look can play out beautifully in menswear.
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Tagged color, Fall 2011, fashion week, Hamish Bowles, men, New York, Oscar de la Renta, street chic, Vogue
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70s Jeans and Silk Button-Down, Outside Prabal Gurung
Here’s another example of ’70s jeans looking great in real life. Note how she keeps it from getting too hippie-dippy by wearing the jeans with a silk button-down blouse, tailored coat and structured bag. The loose topknot keeps it playful.
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Niko
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Though there are many kinds of sushi, there are essentially only three kinds of NYC sushi restaurant: the casual takeout joint, the trendy, sceney place where, oh yeah, there’s some raw fish there among the mango cocktails, and the reverential temple to sushi where diners speak in hushed tones against the backdrop of traditional koto music.
Which is too bad, because even if you’re serious about sushi, that doesn’t mean you necessary want to dine in a restaurant that’s deadly serious. Wouldn’t the sushi be just as good if they played, say, David Byrne and Adele on a kickass sound system instead of 19th-century Japanese music? This is where new Soho sushi restaurant Niko rolls the dice, combining the downtown atmosphere of Bond St. Sushi at its beautiful-people peak with the sushi expertise of Midtown’s Sushi Yasuda. (more…)
One Day Without Shoes
If you know TOMS shoes, the espadrilles that are popping up on fashionable feet everywhere, you probably know that for every pair sold, the company donates a pair to a child in need. To further raise awareness of the millions of children in developing nations who are at risk of infection and disease because they don’t have shoes, TOMS started an initiative of volunteer walks in cities all over the world, One Day Without Shoes. Yesterday in New York, several dozen people braved the chance of rain to strip off their shoes and walk on Pier 45 by the river. TOMS spokesmodel Anne V, above, led the way. (more…)
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Girl in Khakis, Williamsburg
This girl’s look was so cool I don’t even know where to begin. It’s just effortless. I especially liked the button-fly khakis.
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Tagged Brooklyn, khakis, New York, street chic, women
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Fox-Print Dress and Wide-Brimmed Hat, Outside Prabal Gurung
Another great interpretation of 70s redux. Love the floppy wide-brimmed hat, and the fox print on this dress is like something out of The Ice Storm. But topping the whole look off with fuchsia lipstick puts it firmly in spring 2011.
Addendum: The dress is Opening Ceremony X Deyrolle.
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Joanna Hillman at Donna Karan
Joanna Hillman looked particularly glamorous at the Donna Karan show in a long, silver sequined skirt by J.Crew. It works beautifully for daytime when paired with a black blazer.
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What Happens When (Version No. 3)
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This temporary pop-up restaurant by chef John Fraser is as much an interior design story as it is a food story. The challenge: create a themed restaurant that can be up and working in 24-48 hours. Make it easy to disassemble, because you’re going to have to do the whole thing over again in 30 days.
The results, by designer Elle Kunnos de Voss of the Metrics, are astonishingly clever, even revolutionary, because it’s like seeing the chef’s creative process in 3D. Though there are other seasonal restaurants with rotating decor, like Park Avenue Spring, What Happens When reveals what’s beneath the facade, not just through the windowed kitchen but in the architectural hashmarks painted on the walls and floor. Just as a chef starts with the building blocks of a meal – seasonal vegetables, various proteins – and keeps expanding on the riff, so the design starts with the designated number of tables, and builds up to the theme, but lets the hooks, staples and wiring show through. What Happens When has taken away the sleight of hand involved in creating a restaurant and shows us what’s going on underneath – and the view is fascinating. (more…)
Brad Goreski at DVF
Other news in blues: Some trend forecasters say that cerulean blue will be the color to wear this spring. (The Rag & Bone jeans in cobalt blue are pretty tempting.) Stylist Brad Goreski, who just got his own Bravo show, wore a bright blue Man Men-esque suit and tie at the Diane von Furstenberg show.
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Fish Tag
Sometimes it feels like there are two parallel New Yorks: the men’s New York, consisting of sports bars and barbecue joints, and the women’s New York, with its wine bars and California-light restaurants. Any guy walking into Fish Tag, the new Upper West Side seafood restaurant helmed by bad-boy chef Ryan Skeen, would find lots of single, attractive women with newly blown out hair, drinking white wine and sharing plates. But alas, all the guys seem to be next door at the grittier, meatier Sunburnt Cow. Boys: will they ever learn?
Which is too bad, because despite the inconsistencies at this new hot spot, there’s plenty to recommend Fish Tag to both genders. There are 10 craft beers on tap and even more by the bottle, rare bourbons and even more scotch. In addition to that smoked salmon, Fish Tag has a whole charcuterie board of meat, an impressive selection of cheese and a kick-ass burger.
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Navajo Cloak, Greene Street
It’s the end of March, and temperatures in New York are still below freezing. The only solution to this scenario may be to start dressing for fall 2011, when Navajo patterns like this one will still be very much in style. The American Southwest played a big part in collections by Isabel Marant and Filson (not to mention this spring’s Rodarte x Opening Ceremony collection), and it looks really fresh on the city streets.
Julia Frakes at Oscar de la Renta
Love the real life “Gossip Girl” style of Julia Frakes in a prep school blazer with a white cotton dress and tights at the Oscar de la Renta show. According to her tumblr blog Julia Bunny (formerly Bunny Bisous), the dress, tights, and shoes are Chloë Sevigny for Opening Ceremony, the blazer is Topshop with a vintage pin, the sunglasses are Karen Walker.
Here’s another photo of her in a great outfit at last season’s Oscar show.
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Bill Cunningham New York
If you see no other movie this spring, make sure you see this entertaining, funny and touching documentary on New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham, playing in many cities across the U.S. Without Mr. Cunningham, street style blogs like this one would not exist. And yes, kids, he was around long before the Sartorialist!
The film chronicles the master of the street style photography from his early career as a milliner through his years starting out in photography in the ’60s to the present day. His nomadic, ascetic daily existence consists of riding his bike to fashion shows and glamorous charity benefits, photographing gorgeous and expensive clothing, then going home to a teeny apartment above Carnegie Hall furnished with filing cabinets and a single cot. He has since moved to a more spacious apartment, and he’s on his 29th bike (the first 28 were stolen), but little else has changed in a life spent pursuing beauty though photography, for which he eventually won a Legion of Honour award in France.
True confession: I make an unintentional cameo in the film! It involves Anna Wintour and the Oscar de la Renta show. I took this photo of Cunningham at top at that same show. It has always been an honor to photograph alongside a true artist and a gentleman.
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Leigh Lezark at Olivier Theyskens’ Theory
Such a cool mix of high and street fashion. The tee says “Olivier,” the bag and sunglasses are Chanel.
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