Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Well, it’s taken seven months, a few strong-worded letters, and more than a couple of threats, but New York’s Council of Fashion Designers of America, London’s British Fashion Council, Milan’s Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana and Paris’ Chambre Syndicale have finally come to a compromise over show dates through 2014.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Last week, Vice Magazine posed this furry question. Free Range Fur: Is it still murder if you trap it, skin it, and sew it yourself? Aside from my belief that it is more humane to raise an animal for slaughter than it is to take a free and happy one out of the forest, this week FashionIndie asks our own fur-centric question: Is it still murder if you earn your fur by bartering the written word that embodies Adrienne Landau‘s collection inspiration for her run-of-show pamphlet? What if the initial meeting were to happen entirely by chance, outside of Lincoln Center, whereupon I would as well wind up interviewing her on the subway en route back to our respective offices in the garment center? Could my conscious cope? I think the answer is pretty clear. And I’m wearing it now.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
These fashionably independent badasses turned it out to the tents yesterday. The new gard of indie stylists, magazine founders, students and young EICs are at werq layering on looks that shake up Lincoln Center.
Edited by Amanda Gabriele
Who wouldn’t want to slip into one of the pieces from Rachel Roy‘s Fall 2012 collection? Made for the women who wants to dress chic, sexy and ladylike all at the same time, Roy’s smartly elegant pieces are just the right temperature. Click to see the entire collection after the jump.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
We’ve had our rounds of snowfall this New York Fashion Week. Flurries have caught us on our guard on and off the runway. Our screens got fuzzy as we watched busy black and white patterns flurry past. Designers like Alexander Wang, Christian Siriano, Catherine Malandrino and others have already got the buzz, more are likely to follow suit.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
If you’re not at Lincoln Center this fine Sunday morning-after, you’re likely in your PJs, nursin’ a hangover. If you’re even luckier, you’re still in bed with your scorching hot lover, about to get up and slip into something silkier. Especially with Valentine’s Day creeping up on us, we realize the want and need to look sexy at home. Being at home with your man is the worst excuse to look schleppy – just after the excuse that you’re by yourself. Who are you dressing for? No matter who’s touching you, you deserve to feel silky smooth.
Which is why we want you to win this $500 bathrobe FREE!
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
On the second floor of MILK Studios (the oft preferred alternative to Lincoln Center), newlyweds Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapetra showed their Fall 2012 collection in a rush of coral reef-like prints and soothing colored draping. Having been together 17 years, their marriage didn’t change anything too drastically. In fact, the were in love before they went into business. In such happiness, they also give back to Mama Earth by using AirDye to color their fabrics; they don’t use water, which typically harbors toxins and releases them into water sources. Wich such positivity in their world, Jeffery’s watercolor paintings of chrysanthemums blossomed into a Costello Tagliapietra collection that delights.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Oprah may have hung up her television mic and camera-ready wig, but that doesn’t mean she’s given up the role of interviewer par excellence. Eschewing his sprawling Colorado ranch, legendary designer Ralph Lauren coaxed the big O out for a night at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tulley Hall to sit down and chat about…him to raise money for the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Mac and Lester are The Hardy Gays – FashionIndie’s Queen Detectives; stumbling about solving crimes of fashion with nothing but our wits and impeccably-styled outfits. During New York Fashion Week, a feeling of perplexity and disappointment at the Mercedez-Benz Tents turned out to be a mystery that needed our particular attention.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
The stars shone brightly over the McCartney family affair at Lincoln Center last night. Sir Paul McCartney premiered Ocean’s Kingdom, the first ballet of his own composing. His daughter, the fashion formidable Stella McCartney exquisitely costumed every ballerina in the production. From the red carpet poured in talent after beauty after me; Jon Bon Jovi, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alec Baldwin, Ralph Lauren, Candace Bushnell, the fabulous list goes on. Not only did we discover the sensational dresses that sauntered in on socialites and dancers, but the ballet was an emotional rush from all perspectives. See the fabulites, the costumes, and our close brush with Paul as he radiantly enters the building.
