FashionIndie » Frank Tell http://fashionindie.com FashionIndie features all facets of fashion lifestyle. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:48:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mary Alice Stephenson on Real Women, Her Favorite Young Designers and the State of American Stylehttp://fashionindie.com/mary-alice-stephenson-interview/ http://fashionindie.com/mary-alice-stephenson-interview/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:17:18 +0000 Lester Brathwaite http://fashionindie.com/mary-alice-stephenson-interview LOOKBOOKS contributor Stacey Cunningham helms the regular feature, Kit & Kaboodle, taking a look at what makes stylists tick and keeps them sane. This week she profiled one of the busiest and most successful stylists in the industry, one Ms.  Mary Alice Stephenson:

Mary Alice Stephenson wears a lot of hats!  Her Facebook followers are in the five figures, she is a media go-to for her red carpet commentating and heart-filled fashion segments, a world renown stylist who has styled for icons such as Avedon, Hiro, Demarchelier, Lindbergh and Richardson as well as serving as a brand ambassador and spokesperson for many Fortune 500 brands.   Oh, and we can’t forget to mention how cool it is that she and Barbie are talking fashion in her “dream” closet for BarbieWow.com next week, while still making time to be the national fashion ambassador for the Make a Wish Foundation.  She gives her time and love for fashion to many charitable organizations all while being a single mom.  She’s our new hero and we think soon to be yours, too!

Mary Alice Stephenson on Real Women, Her Favorite Young Designers and the State of American Style

As a fashion consultant, you get to do something different every day- which days are you favorite?

Every day is different and I love it that way!  It’s such a mix — from red carpet commentating to consulting behind the scenes for Fortune 500 companies, to creative directing, to styling editorial shoots with top photographers. Each week it’s high fashion to mass fashion, it keeps me happy to be in both worlds!  I can reach so many real women all over the world via social media, my followers love that they can get a look into the real world of fashion and learn how they can apply that glamour to their lives in a realistic way.  One day I’m shooting for a European Vogue, doing a fashion segment for the Nate Berkus show or styling a supermodel for Estee Lauder and the next day I could be helping real women get their glam on in a mall in middle America!

Who are young designers that we should be looking to for the future of fashion?

I just had lunch with the talented designers of Cushnie et Ochs, I try to support as many up and coming designers as possible.  I know how tough this business can be and how much support they need to make it.   I love Flora and Alexa from Ohne Titel, Juan Carlos Obando, Joseph Altruzara, Christian Cota, Suno, Frank Tell….  There is so much talent out there right now.  I try to shoot their clothes, or get them on the red carpet as well as talk about their clothes in the media to help get their point of view out to mass America.  The American public needs to know there are more options than just the big brands that can afford to advertise.  It’s still a struggle, for example, there were a wide range of luxury brands seen on the Golden Globe red carpet but where were Erdem, Prabal Gurung, Thakoon, Alexander Wang, Proenza Schouler?  I was happy to see Givenchy, Nina Ricci and Jason Wu, though —  so that is some progress!

For the rest of the interview, click on over to LOOKBOOKS.com!

]]> http://fashionindie.com/mary-alice-stephenson-interview/feed/ 0 RUNWAY: Frank Tell Fall/Winter 2010http://fashionindie.com/runway-frank-tell-fallwinter-2010/ http://fashionindie.com/runway-frank-tell-fallwinter-2010/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:31:59 +0000 Marcus Holmlund http://fashionindie.com/?p=82173 RUNWAY: Frank Tell Fall/Winter 2010Looking to Frank’s pre-fall pieces and his most recent collection revealed on Friday evening, Tell has officially tapped into exactly what his good-looking-bad-girl demographic wants. He knows they desire wearable daily items that can easily be done up to become a showstopping outfit for the evening. As if he had a checklist for each collection, this season’s list included: Croc-stamped lambskins and suedes, funnel necked silhouettes accentuating the skinny, dangling buckles, perfectly placed grommets, and a slew of heftily wrangled knits. The mod-mindset he spoke of in his designer statement appeared in his palette of baby blues, tans and nudes, and an especially ashy slate gray. One of the highlights this season was undoubtedly Tell’s choice of male model Martin Cohn who walked second down the runway. Others included his Star Trek-inspired wedges courtesy of Raphael Young and jewelery picks by Pamela Love. Overall, the tribal-future fest was a perfect concoction of toned-down eccentricities fit for the downtown-via-uptown sets. Find more pics here.

LINK LOVE: Smoke & Mirrors
IMAGE: NYmag

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Another great jewelry collaboration that hit New York Fashion Week was that between Pamela Love and Zac Posen. (Love also worked with Yigal Azrouel and Frank Tell for the Fall 2009 season.)

The collection is a mix of tough and pretty: delicate braids and spike-sprouting leaves and flowers.

GALLERY: Pamela Love x Zac Posen.

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