Designer Daily: 10A Suspender Trousers Company

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

The name 10A Suspender Trousers Company is quite literal, like antiquated tailoring shops of eras past. What started as a small tailor workshop called AAAAAAAAAA™ between Daria Dazzan and Matteo Cibic, making 10 one-of-a-kind suspender trousers per month, two years later has become a full collection in a range of fabrics and sizes under the full name. With Daria’s experience under Veronique Branquinho and Hussein Chalayan, and Matteo’s expertise in product and art design, the men’s brand is concisely crisp and extremely well made.

Hussein Chalayan Goes Gums-Deep in his Models

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Hussein Chalayan is one of the last great showmen left in fashion — now that McQueen is dead, Galliano is fired and Marc Jacobs is stolen. Over the past seventeen years of his career, the Cyprus-born designer has done his part to shake up the fashion industry and challenge people’s views of fashion and art.  How can one forget his groundbreaking spring 2007 presentation with its tiny little robots that allowed six dresses to cycle through 100 years of sartorial history? For his spring 2012 collection, Chalayan utilized micro-mechanisms again, but they served a completely different purpose this time.

Top 11 Classiest Fashion Schools in the World

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

Welcome to our month of Fashion Education. To start you off in the right direction, let’s examine your choice of design university, or more importantly, the fashion schools of choice. Certain alma maters produce an exceptional level of talent, consistently. Let us see where you stand, and who stands out as your alumni and professors. (Note: we are only looking at schools that speak English. Paris has burned.)

10 Exhibits to See Now That Savage Beauty Has Closed

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

A noticeable cloud has fallen over Manhattan. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, the critically-acclaimed and commercially record-breaking retrospective on the late designer, hath closed. What to do?! Where to go?! Why go on?! But before you stab yourself in the face with an armadillo heel, check out these five fashion-related museum exhibits in and around New York. Sure, it may not fill the McQueen-sized hole in your heart, but at least you’ll have the memories of the Met. Unless you missed the exhibit, in which case just end your misery now.

Hussein Chalayan Goes on Display

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Cyprus-born designer Hussein Chalayan gets his first major retrospective at Les Arts Décoratifs, opening Tuesday in Paris.

MUSE OF THE WORLD: LVMH Not Taking Back Galliano…Conde Nast September Issues to Double as Coke Mirrors…Michael Kors’ Walks Down the Gay Marriage Aisle

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

- Bernard Arnault whipped out the .38 and shot down rumors — sparked by Cathy Horyn, no less — that John Galliano would return to LVMH. [NYT]

RED CARPET REPORT CARD: The Good, the Bad & the Gaga at the CFDA Awards

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

The CFDA Awards red carpet fell somewhere in between Grammy gauche and Oscar opulence. I thought there would be more formal, black-tie, floor-grazing-gown business à la the Met Ball, but some people showed up in jeans while there was enough leg on display to put KFC out of business. But the fashion grab bag of last night’s red carpet provided a few hits, a ton of misses and then of course there was the Gaga factor.

The 10 Greatest Fashion Shows of the Past 10 Years

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

The fashion show has evolved from its earliest incarnations in the salons of department stores into the opulent, theatrical, exorbitant circuses they are now. Over the past ten years, especially, the fashion show has become a multi-media juggernaut, as crucial to a designer’s collections as the collection itself.

Along with its commercial peak, fashion shows have also reached their creative peaks – moving, visceral, dramatic productions that have elevated them into an art form. Alexander McQueen emerged as the true master of the genre, blending the disparate elements of entertainment and ideology while creating beautiful works of clothing that could stand on their own without the hype and hoopla with which he was so famously associated.

Below is a list of the 10 fashion shows that stand as the greatest achievements of the last decade, based on their technicality and theatricality, their influence on fashion and of course, the clothes themselves.