Fashion Watch

New York Fashion Week - September 2007 - Part 2

If time and space were to align so that I had the budget, figure and occasion - i.e. in an alternate universe - I would be wearing the following next Spring/Summer (in no particular order):

Sari Gueron

Oscar de la Renta

Thakoon

3.1 Philip Lim

Marc Jacobs

Marc by Marc Jacobs

Donna Karan

L'Wren Scott

Vera Wang

Zac Posen

Peter Som

Proenza Schouler

Narciso Rodriguez

Monique Lhuillier

New York Fashion Week - September 2007 - Part 1

As you may have gathered from the relative silence around here, these days I don't have nearly as much time to trawl through the celebrity photos and designer look books as a used too. It's not for want of interest, simply from want of time. I've been busy. Shopping. And traveling a lot. And running a business.

But that doesn't mean I'm not eagerly hunting down the latest from New York Fashion Week. It just means I don't have time to post in such detail. My early trawls through the so far not entirely inspiring looks for Spring 2008 does have me thrilled about at least one thing though: the presence of many waists. Sack dresses begone!

New York Fashion Week - February 2007 - Part 5

Let’s Go Skiing on the Moon

Luca Luca

This Dead Animal is Ruining My Otherwise Attractive Outfit

Oscar de la Renta

Isaac Mizrahi

Proenza Schouler

Proenza Schouler

80s Formal

Luella Bartley

Diane Von Furstenberg

Marchesa

Coats, coats, beautiful coats

Ruffian

Thakoon

Badgley Mischka

Apparently there’s something pillowy going on Down Under that I wasn’t aware of

Sass & Bide

Toni Maticevski

Toni Maticevski

And to finish where we started, If I had a red carpet to walk I would wear this (the colour edition)

Monique Lhuillier

Zac Posen

Zac Posen

I would have had a category for silliest hat but they seemed to permeate every collection so we would have been here forever.

New York Fashion Week - February 2007 - Part 4

Simple, so often, wins the day

Sari Gueron

Narciso Rodriguez

Ruffian

Badgley Mischka

Calvin Klein

Vera Wang, whose dark collection pleased me more than others, and felt rather Prada-esque

Vera Wang

Maths class: for better or (mainly) worse, geometry is back

Betsey Johnson

Diane Von Furstenberg

Marc Jacobs

Philosophy de Alberta Ferretti

Vera Wang

Ugly Fur Contest

Tuleh

Caroline Herrera

Chaiken

Oscar de la Renta

Toni Maticevski

J Mendel

Inspiration: Cher

Matthew Williamson

New York Fashion Week - February 2007 - Part 3

I would (and could) wear this

Tuleh

Sari Gueron

Badgley Mischka

Zac Posen

Oh, for a life on the cocktail party circuit (and the legs) to allow me to wear this

Matthew Williamson

Diane Von Furstenberg

Monique Lhuillier

Rodarte

Temperley London

Proenza Schouler

Vera Wang

Eat my shorts - nope, they’re not going away

Matthew Williamson

Luella Bartley

Luca Luca

New York Fashion Week - February 2007 - Part 2

You may think that sack dresses work for everyone, but really they just make everyone look pregnant, meaning they are fabulous for pregnant women and no one else…

3.1 Phillip Lim

Reyes

Luca Luca

…but those are just sack dresses, these are SACK Dresses

Matthew Williamson

Alexandre Herchovitch

Max Azria

Brian Reyes

Brian Reyes

Rejected costume designs for Ice Castles 3

Isaac Mizrahi

Crap, high waisted pants are definitely back. My take on the place pants should sit is on the hips, not super low and not super high, just in between. And I refuse to move from that flattering position.

Matthew Williamson

Tuleh

New York Fashion Week - February 2007 - Part 1

As there are some horrors to come, let’s start with a positive category.

If I had a red carpet to walk, this is what I’d be wearing (the grey edition)

Naeem Khan

Naeem Khan

Oscar de la Renta

Carolina Herrera

J Mendel

From the diaphanous highs, to the lowest of lows.

Escort

Rock & Republic

Whore

Rock & Republic

Hooker

Rock & Republic

Ho

Rock & Republic

$5 Blow job halfway behind the dumpster from which the blow-er is “dressed”

Alexandre Herchovitch

There’s “Architectural” and then there’s Flying Buttresses

Rodarte

Toni Maticevski

United Bamboo

New York Fashion Week - Teaser

So here we are again, as Fashion Month begins in New York.

Regular readers may have noticed that I crashed out of my usual coverage method during the middle of the last Paris Fashion Week back in October and didn’t update for a couple of months afterwards. It wasn’t because I was all fashioned out, but more because instead of looking at photos of clothes in France, I went to France and bought clothes and took photos. Oh yes, and did a ton on work.

Since those heady days on the French Riviera – best purchase a tie between $20 leopard ballet flats and a swag of long-sleeved Ts at Petit Bateau – the work thing has not slowed down, but rather increased even further. Which means that my time for online fashion has diminished somewhat, even though I still have every desire to flip through the look books to know what positive and negative trends are going to finally make their way down here in 18 months or so. (And no, I still do not own any leggings. I more than used up my quote of leggings in the early 90s and therefore will not return to them in any circumstances.)

Therefore, based on the recent success of the categorising method of commenting on the big red carpets during awards season, this Fashion Month will be covered by category rather than daily by show. Which also means that I’ll be breaking with my previously self-imposed rule of only showing what I like, rather than what’s awful (unless it’s really, really awful).

Categories and coverage to follow shortly.

Paris Couture - January 2007

Can I have an “Oh Wow!” for Dior’s new couture collection?

So often it’s hard to find beauty under the theatricality of a John Galliano couture show, but here, even with the kabuki make-up and crazy platforms, there was nothing but beautiful. Some of my favourites:

As usual the other designers are for better or worse in another category all together, so I’ll deal with them separately.

Milan Fashion Week - September 2006 - Part 2

Gucci was certainly colourful, but it was when the collection was steered in a more subtle direction that it appealed most.

Substitute “animal” for “colourful” and the same could be said for the Alessandro Dell’Acqua collection.

Alberta Ferretti’s collection was exceptionally pretty.