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Style.com just released their trend report for Fall 2009, listing fall’s most important trends:
Biker Brigade
Boudoir Crossing
Forties and Fabulous
Party like it’s 1983
Ruche Hour
Smart Investments
Edited by Saynt
Erik Foss in front of his sticker wall at his bar Lit Lounge, New York. Photo Caroline Gaimari
Cassie Coane and Harley Viera-Newton DJing at Lit Lounge, New York. Photo Caroline Gaimari
Dree Hemingway and Mel Ottenberg at Lit Lounge, New York. Photo Caroline Gaimari
Charlotte Ronson and Chrissie Miller on 2nd Avenue, New York. Photo Caroline Gaimari
SOURCE: Purple Magazine
Edited by Kirby Marzec
It’s about time us ladies got some male reciprocation! These days, it seems as if more and more female designers have been creating men’s collections for their stock of designs. New York men’s designer Tim Hamilton recently reversed the one-way street and decided to design a small branch of women’s pieces, inspired by his ever fashionable mother. The petit collection is more than just Hamilton’s mens line, with tapered contours and room for boobs and hips. We can expect, as Style.com so nicely put it, “a small selection of looks that range from a Grecian gown that echoes the architectural lines of Josef Hoffman to sharp-shouldered jackets paired with jodhpur-esque pants.” There you have it ladies, something to look forward to in Fall 2009! Until then, we can just anticipate the samples which will be released at the end of February!
Thanks Style.com!
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Michael Kors, 1984
You have to love Michael Kors look from the mid-eighties. The then young designer had hair, non-melenoma prone skin, and even had eyebrows!!! Oh, what a season on Project Runway will do to you. He comments on his Big Break moment below and his major fashion mistake (as if the current spray-on tan look isn’t bad enough).
“There have been many, but I guess the first would be my first season getting windows at Bergdorf Goodman. I was physically on the street at two in the morning directing them as they put the mannequins in.”
“The worst thing I ever wore was legwarmers when I was in school. I not only wore them, I used to wear two or three pairs. Everything was some shade of dusty mauve and rose, what I call ‘ishy colors.’ At the time I was wearing a burgundy boot. Fortunately, there are no photographs.”
Source Style.com
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Style.com may have actually written something I care about. They just profiled the new clans of New York, who are joined together by their style, socialability, and tax bracket. Here’s our favorite of the bunch The (New) New Bohemians.
Core Members: Tara Subkoff, Arden Wohl, Leigh Lezark, Stella Schnabel, Waris Ahluwalia, Chiara Clemente, Leelee Sobieski
With their creative-class roots and Opening Ceremony duds, these free-spirit types are giving the anemic benefit circuit a badly needed shot in the arm. Find them anywhere “It” is at—from fancy galas (New Yorkers for Children, American Museum of Natural History) to the smoky back room at the Beatrice. Suggested conversation starters? Indie filmmaking, whatever patron saint Chloë Sevigny is up to now, headbands.
Clockwise from left: Lezark, Sobieski, Wohl, Subkoff, and Schnabel.
The (New) New Bohemians: Golden Couple
Waris Ahluwalia, the affable Sikh about town, and Chiara Clemente, the pretty daughter of famed painter Francesco, met through mutual friends (and then-couple) Tara Subkoff and Wes Anderson in 2003 when Ahluwalia was filming Anderson’s flick The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. Since then, “Wariara,” if you will, has become something of a New York anomaly: a society couple whose devotion doesn’t seem to end the moment the paparazzi leave. On their occasional nights in, they like to host cozy dinner parties, featuring his Indian table settings and her Italian menu. Awwww.
The (New) New Bohemians: Famous BFF
It was only a matter of time before the queen of boho chic fell in with this pack of well-heeled hiperati. Mary-Kate Olsen pals around with MisShapes hottie Leigh Lezark and is a regular at L.E.S. hot spots like Sweet Paradise. She’s also co-writing a book with sister Ashley and frequent Style.com contributor Derek Blasberg, which will include interviews with fashion and art-world heavyweights like Christian Louboutin and Terry Richardson. It’s a potentially cool project that could almost make us forget about that guest spot she did on 7th Heaven. Almost.
The (New) New Bohemians: End Quote
“We’re always looking for answers. Some people are looking for it in a socialite maybe. But you know, it just depresses me: Some girl named Peaches who lives in the Bronx…looks at this world and says, ‘Oh wow.’ And I would never want to give off something that is an illusion, because you hurt people that way. And they’re already struggling so much—the people.” —Arden Wohl to The New York Observer, 2007
You can check out more clans of New York (including New Kids on the Blog, referring to us blogging youth) on Style.com .
