Edited by Zosia Baroody
Yesterday evening, NYU’s Fashion Business Association held its annual student-run fashion show. This year’s show, Couture From Chaos, was based on a post-apocalyptic world. It featured the collections of seven student designers from FIT and NYU, and all proceeds went to (PRODUCT) RED who’s mission is to help fight AIDS in Africa. Click to see some of our favorite designs after the jump.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Burberry is the most popular girl in school. That is, if school was the world of luxury labels and popularity was measured in your number of Facebook friends…well, at least one of those holds true. The Brit brand has convinced 10 million people around the world to “Like” them — I’m still on the fence.
Edited by Amanda Gabriele
What happens when two freshman at NYU meet in Paris and share their love for fashion, culture and the City of Lights? Charlotte Beecham and Lisa George can tell the tale, as their friendship and appreciation for the same pleasures in life turned into a sophisticated line of scarves, Charlotte & Lisa. I caught up with the design duo to talk about holiday dressing, cold weather staples and their favorite fashion moments of 2011. Click for the Q&A and a chance to win a gorgeous hooded fur scarf from the brand.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
The CFDA has announced a new crop of designers for its second Fashion Incubator program.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
For the first time in its 200-year history, Brooks Brothers is offering a line of college-branded apparel to fifteen schools across the country in an effort to reach fans of college sports who allegedly make more money than fans of professional sports. Meanwhile, I fell asleep before I even finished writing that sentence.
Edited by Nicole Vardo
Behind the thrills of all the clothes and reviews, there are also all the Wintours, and Karlfelds with all the spunk and magic that make it all happen. And in today’s tech savvy generation, there is no excuse for any trendy girl to not follow the bible blogs of street style religiously, some more than others, and the first one on that list is Collegefashionista.com. That is why FashionIndie has the wicked exclusive into the mind of Amy Levin, Collegefashionista’s very own founder.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
- Seems like the reason behind Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver‘s separation might be the secret child Arnie fathered 10 years ago with a maid. Yep, that’ll do it. [Life]
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Two NYU grad students have taken the phrase wear your heart on your sleeve to a literal level. They’ve created sweatshirts that show the effects that air pollutants, like car exhaust and second hand smoke, have on our bodies via appliqued internal organs. Blue veins glow in the lung and heart when they are negatively affected. Well, that’d be a bombtastic shirt to wear to a black-light house party!
Edited by Rebecca Alexander
with Margarita Levieva (the actress she understudies)
The third and youngest Olsen (age 20), Elizabeth (Elizabeth and James was named after her and their older brother) is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut. She was recently an understudy for the Off-Broadway play Dust. Currently she is pursuing a BFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts at the Atlantic Theater Co.
I love Lizzie, she’s so cute, down to earth, and looks exactly like the twins, only has brown hair. She’s just as fashionable and very lucky to be able to borrow clothes from her two older siblings.
LINKAGE: ohnotheydidnt
Edited by Kirby Marzec
Merely blocks away from NYU’s Washington Square Campus, TopShop was the word of the week. Plans to skip early classes were made, TopShop catalogs were flagged with desired purchases and cameras were charged in hopes of capturing coke head Kate Moss in all her glory. A group of girls, TopShop gift-cards in hand, planned their shopping outfits while gabbing how great the London based apparel would be. Me? I sat back and laughed.
Avoiding the dirty downtown mess, I decided to take a peak at NY Magazine’s video tour, just to see if there was anything I truly missed out on. After minimal analysis and a few more laughs, these were my findings: TopShop isn’t new, it isn’t different, it isn’t high-end for less and it most certainly isn’t British. Topshop is an overpriced, poorly constructed, run-of-the-mill mix between H&M and Urban Outfitters. Everyone got their hopes high for nothing. Trust me, if I wanted a horrendous $250 “leather” jacket, I’d throw on a garbage bag and convince everyone I bought it at TopShop. Nobody would know the difference.
What saddens me is how naive some of these shoppers truly are. TopShop must have hired some decent psycho-analysts to assist in marketing, because people really believed they were getting unique, high quality items for less. Come Monday, I don’t think people are going to be too happy when half of the Chemistry lecture is wearing the same dress or when the zipper breaks on their Kate Moss jacket.
People need to realize that stores like this come to America for a reason…they’ve been AMERICANIZED and many American shoppers are oblivious to what they buy. Now, I’m not saying that I’ll never own anything from TopShop. What i’m saying is there’s nothing at this store worth wasting a whole day for, getting overly excited about or dropping mad cash on.
While all of New York looks like a clone of TopShop conformity, I’ll be rocking the $39 Diesel jumpsuit I snagged this weekend. Yeah, that’s right.
Thanks for the photo Pipeline!
