Having transplanted from the West to East last year, Miss Ovitz brings on a barrage of covet-worthy pieces for all the girls, regardless if they ride the Jjitney or PCH. Had the pleasure of meeting up with Kim to review her collection at Madison Boutique  in LA- and here are some top picks, ideal for any coast and Ovitz fan in between.  Now ladies, when rocking these looks- the only battle you will encounter are those street style photogs all up in your territory.

Designer round up, left to right:

Aquilano e Rimondi, Jil Sander, Alexandre Herchcovitch, Jason Wu, Paul Costelloe, Kimberly Ovitz

Want acidic sunflower in your closet? Check out these subtly singeing pieces.

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Deal for a Day:

 Kimberly Ovitz on Gilt tomorrow at 12pm EST. Love her, can’t wait to shop her minimalistic style, great for layering your favorite vests and jackets with this Fall.

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For an invite, email Lauren@diaryofafashionaddict.com

Price of admission: One Earth Pledge.

Goodie bag: A tree is planted in each attendee’s honor.

Let’s Tarantino the concert backwards for you:

Before bringing the house down with a Drops of Jupiter encore finale, Train’s vocal virtuoso Patrick Monahan walked singing through the crowd with a mic and a security guard, giving hugs and spreading love to Marry Me. Before that, he brought the audience to a hush as he sang a cappella, sans microphone, turning Webster Hall into a true theater. With Soul Sister came the involuntary sing along, and Meet Virginia struck a deep chord toward the start. In betwixt all of this, he called up eight young ladies up to be the Trainettes, making them rockstars for a moment.  Needless to say, their new single Save me, San Francisco drove the audience wild, like every one of their singles that get stuck in our heads indefinitely.

Opening for Train was the stunning Nikki Jean. Down in her core she is a songwriter with a nostalgic soul. Her new album took her around the country to write with some of the greatest living songwriters like Bob Dylan, Carole King, Burt Bacharach, Carly Simon and many others. What was gained is a young songstress now evolving with the wisdom of the legends of our time. There were notes of those greats in the atmosphere as she serenaded the audience on the ivory keys.

Right before Nikki Jean took the stage, the winners of the Origins Rocks Earth Month Green Artist Search Treetop Flyers haunted the audience with tickling guitar riffs and voices smooth as honey. Chaps from England have a way with music.

Before any of this went down, FashionIndie caught up with Train on the Green Carpet as they entered. We asked them, how do they take the green initiative upon themselves?

Pat Monahan: “We haven’t just woken up to hey, take care of the earth. And this isn’t, take care of the earth. The earth will win. It’s take care of the future children we want to have. Love your job and the other things will come. We love our job and it makes us want to be more helpful, and do events like this.“

Scott Underwood: “We’re reducing our footprint as a band. We used to use lots of bottles of water, and we’re trying to fully eliminate it. We’re trying to green our bus, but we’re not always there in there.”

Jimmy Stafford: “We did the John Mayer tour, and bands like us, come in requesting the venues to be green. We’re making those demands now, but it will become more common.

See who else was on the Green Carpet:

Kelli Tomashoff (L): Known from NYC Prep, she’s just released her single Gave Up On Love. She’s trying to be greener by using fewer water bottles, and her own shopping bags.

Dalal Bruchmann (R): This young musical phenom just dropped her new single Taste The Night and has written songs for wildlife charities to save the world.

Julissa Bermudez: Co-host on BET’s 106 & Park, she looked sizzling in Kimberly Ovitz.

Jane Lauder: Global President & General Manager of Origins has so many ways to be green, I don’t think it’s possible to name all of them here. She’s planting trees, recycling tons of used makeup containers, and continuing to ensure Origins is completely natural.

Jeff Miles: The night’s MC from 95.5 PLJ moved to NY from Dalla, TX, so for him going completely carless is a huge step in greening his life.

Lovefest

1. Free drinks. Every liquor company and their alcoholic grandmother jumps at the chance to booze up the myriad parties offered during the week. It’s so easy to get hammered with only a few singles in your pocket —  for the obliging bartender who  basically holds the fate of your night in their clammy little hands. A tip goes a long way…that’s what she said.

2. Networking. As “fashion people,” we some times get to feeling like carnie folk — those weird kids everyone looks at with a mix of puzzlement and disdain. So it’s inspiring to meet other freaks and weirdos who are as unafraid of a statement headpiece and are also unabashedly fabulous. That and you never know from where or whom your next job opportunity may come.

3. So close and yet so far. Any one can buy a magazine and see the latest campaigns or editorials, but being able to see a designer’s collection relatively up close and personal is an unmatched experience. It gives the whole fashion thing a realness, a tangibility, that is impossible to gain from a few glossy pages.

4. Chance encounters. I saw Anna Wintour for the first time ever. It’s always been a badly kept secret of mine to see the Queen — so many of my friends have and I felt left out of the loop. Then on my way to Kimberly Ovitz‘s presentation, there she was — just a few feet from me. Cross one thing off my bucket list. Hopefully  next season I’ll get to lunch with André Leon Talley and get high with Tavi.

5. Dressing up in your love. Each day is your own personal fashion show. Laboring over the right look is given extra weight with the slew of bloggers, photogs and paparazzi hunkered down outside Lincoln Center ready to snap your photo if you catch their fancy. When going to work, you…better….werq.

Haterade

1. Poseurs. There are people who love fashion and are content with standing in the back of a fashion show — they’re just happy to be there. Seeing a fashion show in person may be a dream come true or seeing  a particular show may be a source of inspiration. Then there are those people who just want to be seen. Which is fine…but take your shitshow to the after party and give the rest of us some space.

2. Standing in lines.  There’s a lot of entitlement on both sides of the velvet rope. I, personally, don’t do lines unless they’re presented to me on a clean, flat surface with pre-rolled Franklin. But I’m a nobody — a fabulous nobody, yes — and will stand if and only if I must. Which gets me to…

3. Attitude at the door. This is where the entitlement crosses lines. I’m sure doormen get their share of attitude from purported somebodies and to even the score they turn it right back onto unsuspecting nobodies, like myself. But a party is a party, a show is a show, it’s not life or death. Would it be too much to ask for a little courtesy? Oh, right, it would, because we’re in New York. Nevermind.

4. Transportation. Between being stuck in traffic while cabbing it from X to Z, or being stuck underground in the subway between A and D, there’s no winning when it comes to getting around the city during Fashion Week. Bitches be stealing your cabs, cab drivers openly ignore you and the subway system shuts down at the mere whisper of a storm. Some times it’s best to strap up those Giuseppe Zanottis and just hoof it.

5. The bathrooms at Lincoln Center. Maybe we are carnie folk after all since the bathrooms at Lincoln Center are basically Porta-Potties with a curtain thrown over the door. Try keeping your Prada from touching the floor while between shows.

The contents of someone’s bag tells a lot about them. And here at FashionIndie, our bags can’t keep their goddamn mouths shut.

Sam – Louis Vuitton backpack

My favorite moment was about 4 hours into our Blogger Break Room when we had like 80 people simultaneously getting spa services, drinking champagne, being fabulous and magically nothing went wrong!

Rebecca Minkoff mini wallet
Camera
Grey matte nail Polish
Keys
Gucci aviator sunglasses
Fashion GPS front row seat and after party drink tickets to L.A.M.B. and Ivana Helsinki
Taxi receipts
A fat pile of business cards
NYFW credential badge
Dollar bill from the VMAN Magazine party
Louise Manna body wrap jewelry
3 pens
Moleskine mini notebook
Liquid black eyeliner
Maybelline lipgloss from the Tents
Lotion
Vitamins

Amanda – Bag made from recycled plastic bottles from Love Brigade

- These are my favorite sunglasses of ALL TIME. I bought them at my favorite old lady consignment store like 6 years ago. The case is from Topshop.
- My wallet is full of maxed out credit cards and a $5 bill, so sad.
- I keep vitamins with me in case I start to feel under the weather during fashion week.
- There’s nothing worse than when a nail breaks, so obvi a nail file is necessary.
- iPod, headphones, self-explanatory.
- Notebook and pen for notes and doodles.
- My Canon EOS 20D camera – I’ve been snapping photos all over town.
- My many keys
- Deck of cards from the Malan Breton show yesterday.
- My everyday beauty essentials – hairbrush, makeup brushes, Make Up For Ever Powder, Sephora eye shadow palette, Smith’s Rosebud Salve, Burt’s Bees, Benefit Bad Gal Liner, MAC Satin Lipstick in Rebel, Sephora lip gloss and Maybelline Falsies mascara
- Hand sanitizer for public transportation horrors.
- The collection description sheet from the Son Jung Wan fall/winter 2011 show.
- Business cards from Fashion Week that must be filed away!

Lester – H&M tote

While typing up my list I realized I’m basically a woman. And am fine with that.

Sequined clutch — I don’t care for man wallets
Interview mag with Tom Ford
Nail polish remover — for the 2 bottles of nail polish I got from Blogger Break Room
Headphones
Hand sanitizer
Notebook
2 pens
Duane Reade Cold & Sinus Relief — I crawled over the fashion finish line with a fever and god knows what else
T-Mobile crap since I “lost” my phone and had to get a replacement
Carmex
Programs from various fashion shows, including Richie Rich and Kimberly Ovitz
Box o’ biz cards
Trial size deodorant, baby powder and lotion, should I spend yet another night on someone’s couch
Stain remover pen (LIFESAVER)
The Socializer under eye treatment
Orbit gum
The First Wives Club– one of my fave movies so I decided to check out the book
Body oils (red Egyptian musk and Sandalwood)
Lanvin perfume, Arpege
Lollipop from Cocktails and Couture
Press pass from Diesel
Cough and eye drops
Mirabella eyeliner lip and cheek ink and
Compact — I got so much free make-up even though I don’t wear any of it. Now I have a reason to start.
Gloves
Christian Siriano Payless pump Polaroid
Swiss Army knife should I ever need to cut a bitch

Jess – Faux fur bodybag from LF

1. My brand spankin’ new Macbook pro, that I would have died without. Frequented that AOL StyleList blogger’s haven with it on the regs.

2. Multiple sparkly Milani nail polish. I did my nails everywhere, painting over layers to change up the colors constantly. There was a rotating slew of colors that cycled through the bag this week.

3. Lipsticks: Illamasqua: The Box (rouge), YSL fucsia, Iman (Pat Field‘s) Jaguar

4. Business cards. Gave out about 75, received at least as many.
5. Several WWDs and Daily Front Rows. I do admit I love reading the Daily.
6. Tickets. Many. Some I’ve disposed of, some made it. Some standing, some seats. None actually with my name on it.
7. Various runs of show. Ones that have lingered in my bag: Timo Weiland, Anna Sui, Dennis Basso, Alexandre Herchcovitch.
8. ESSENTIAL: Blackberry. Can’t believe it took me this long to talk about it. Maybe because I’ve done so much damage on it that it actually just broke. Fashion Week broke my phone…. now…. iPhone?
9. Because that’s not an iPhone, that’s an iPod touch and it’s been keeping me cat walking myself from place to place.
10. Biggie camera. I spent 3 years, that’s 6 seasons in the PIT with this guy. Not this year. Now I just got to use it on celebs backstage, at presentations and the like.
11. WIRES. OMG. My bag was like a radio shack. Heaven forbid I should be without a charge.
12. Small purse. Vintage. Used it when I stashed the big lady mama at the after party coat checks.
13. Wallet. Duh.
14. Deck of cards? The last free gift to remain in this bag. They’re usually the first to go when I get home.
15. Voice recorder, which I ditched for my Blackberry video camera.
16. Pashmina – much lighter than a laptop case. I didn’t wear it, my MacBook did.
17. Vintage Korean flower cardi I wore yesterday. I took it off when the world got mild.
18. Urban Zen literature – got my reikis healed (?) in the AmEx Skybox. Still confused about the process, but I felt great after.
19. My handy dandy notebook. All of my show notes are in this little thing.
20. Napkin from Timo Weiland’s after party on which Paul Steiger (as in Walter‘s son) drew shoes for me. I’m going to the press sample sale today!

That is all that remains. I’m surprised I didn’t find at least 3 Frappacinos and a slew of Fijis, but I lightened my load as I went along.

Mac – Faux croc tote from 21Men

I used the camera to take amazing photos all over NYC this Fashion Week.The Coke Zero is used solely for caffeine purposes but Lord knows I dont need any empty calories. I have two pairs of sunglasses to switch up my eyewear but maintain my air of mystery. The Marc Jacobs ones were gifted to me by stylist Robert Verdi as was the Kenneth Cole cologne, Reaction (the scent is fresh and young).  Finally the latest copy of VMAN for the train and cab rides all over the city. And yes I still have the dollar that was in his mouth.

Coke Zero
Powerade
VMAN
Sony Camera
DOTS Wooden Bracelts
Forever 21 Sunglasses
Marc By Marc Jacobs aviators
Notebook
The Daily
Brush
Chapstick
Fashion Indie Vol 2 mixtape
Biz cards
Cash
Metrocard
Pens
Hand Sanitizer
Ray Ban glasses case

Josh – Laptop bag

At the Richie Rich show I heard several people say, “Oh my god! That Rod Stewart impersonator looks so convincing!” I later learned that person was the real Rod Stewart.

Olive Leaf Extract Pills
Vitamin C
Shades
Icebreaker mints
3 $15 iTunes gift cards
Apple wireless mouse
Apple ear buds
GQ magazine
3 Random pens
1 Show invitation
Notepad
Small USB dog that humps computer
Sony voice recorder

As I was approaching the Pace Gallery on the super west side of Manhattan, I saw some commotion — large men in black suits ushering out what appeared to be a very important someone. Then I saw the bob and my heart fell onto the sidewalk. She was gone before I could even respond to what had just happened, but I saw her. She turned and looked in my general direction. I saw Anna Wintour and I’m somehow still alive. I thought that would be the highlight of my day. I walked into the Pace Gallery and waited.

14 girls strutted out, their mouths slashed with neon yellow, their hair and half their face netted. They walked around the giant black circle that sits dead center of the gallery then stood in circular silence. After a few flashbulbs and a few shared glances mired in confusion, everyone began moving around the models — this was the show. By having the audience move of their own volition, the show was truly about the clothes. And to their credit, the models stood silently and still for an hour, though every ten minutes two would step out and rotate.

The clothes were like the presentation, simple but brilliant. Inspired by modernist architecture and her taste for adventure, Ovitz’s woman seemed to step out of a post-Apocalyptic Utopia. Possessing a beautiful severity, the looks came predominantly in grey, black or white, though neon yellow reappeared in various  forms — as in a black stretch jacquard dress with neon yellow embroidery — lending a hint of radioactivity.

Slouchy tops, draping, jersey pieces and column dresses are having a moment. I’ve seen them all crop up again and again over the last few days but Kimberly Ovitz has done it the best so far. Though those themes came off as very 90s at other shows, they were futuristic here: a sheer black column paired with a slouchy black cardigan was chicly dramatic; a grey, heavily draped cardigan gathered at the waist with grey and neon leggings created a beautiful silhouette; and several jersey pieces were embellished with graphic heat transfer prints.

The collection was more than just a presentation but an experience. I left the Pace Gallery feeling tired, because I haven’t not been tired in ages, but also inspired. This is what fashion is about for me. At its best it is wearable art, a testament to a designer’s talents and vision. So a gallery was the most appropriate place for Kimberly Ovitz. I’m convinced now that Anna had come down from on high to bestow her blessing.

ADAM

Re Collection

Elizabeth & James

VPL

Son of John

Robert Rodriguez

Robbi & Nikki

LNA

Mason by Michelle Mason

Helmut Lang

Haute Hippie

Kimberly Ovitz

Alexander Wang

Aiko

Free People

Black Halo

Kite & Butterfly

Halston Heritage

Kite & Butterfly

Elizabeth & James

Cecilia De Bucort

Tibi

Haute Hippie

Torn by Ronny Kobo

Alice & Olivia

Haute Hippie

Haute Hippie

Victorialand

Re Collection

(shopbop.com)

I’m on the lookout for two particular tops. The first, like the two Haute Hippie gold and Silver beaded tops and the second like the kimberly ovitz top…..I love the longer back. I do however, see a possible problem with the Haute Hippie style top right away.

Having an “ample bosom” (I am in no way bragging, as I would love to be semi-flat and have the freedom of going braless much of the summer!),it might prove a tedious task, as the top appears to be a fitted. That, being the case, I certainly wouldn’t want that “smashed” look that we sometimes see on people. I’ll just have to see how that goes.

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ADAM

Re Collection

Elizabeth & James

VPL

Son of John

Robert Rodriguez

Robbi & Nikki

LNA

Mason by Michelle Mason

Helmut Lang

Haute Hippie

Kimberly Ovitz

Alexander Wang

Aiko

Free People

Black Halo

Kite & Butterfly

Halston Heritage

Kite & Butterfly

Elizabeth & James

Cecilia De Bucort

Tibi

Haute Hippie

Torn by Ronny Kobo

Alice & Olivia

Haute Hippie

Haute Hippie

Victorialand

Re Collection

(shopbop.com)

I’m on the lookout for two particular tops. The first, like the two Haute Hippie gold and Silver beaded tops and the second like the kimberly ovitz top…..I love the longer back. I do however, see a possible problem with the Haute Hippie style top right away.

Having an “ample bosom” (I am in no way bragging, as I would love to be semi-flat and have the freedom of going braless much of the summer!),it might prove a tedious task, as the top appears to be a fitted. That, being the case, I certainly wouldn’t want that “smashed” look that we sometimes see on people. I’ll just have to see how that goes.

LINK LOVE:Tops that "Pack a Punch"

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Our friends at Williamson PR recently hooked Fashion Indie up with an up-close tour of their designers’ Spring 2010 collections, and as per usual, Kimberly Ovitz landed among my favorites. From metallic leather jackets to oversized loop knits and layered linens to lacy shirt dresses, Ovitz kept things casual but cool for Spring 2010. Having had a first hand look at all of these pieces, I assure you, Ovitz’s designs are of the utmost quality and detail. Definitely a collection you won’t want to miss out on in the Spring!

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Check out more from Kimberly Ovitz here!

With an overall simple aesthetic, the styling of Kimberly Ovitz’s Spring 2009 collection really brings her season looks together. I had the opportunity to get up close and personal with a few of Ovitz’s items last month, and I assure you, the quality makes up for the simplicity. The pieces are much like those you would see at Oak, some slouchy, some sleek, some intricately cut and some basic. I am loving the elegant cuffed, pocket bearing shorts, the double-breasted short suit and the versatile tie jacket dress. With layered accessories, the pieces can can easily act as the foundation for the perfect outfit. Oh, and just wait until you see Ovitz’s fall collection! I’ll post the photos once the press kit becomes available! 

GALLERY: Kimberly Ovitz Spring 2009 Collection

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