Category Archives: American Fashion
Melody Ehsani Funky Jewelry 2012
Born and raised in Los Angeles in a traditional Persian family, like many of her cousins and friends she applied to go off to law school after college, but couldn’t stay there. She decided to break with culture and follow … Continue reading
Ralph Lauren Spring 2012 Collection
In 1974, not long after he founded his company, Ralph Lauren designed the costumes for The Great Gatsby. They launched a mini Jazz Age trend at the time and jump-started his career. Today, with Baz Luhrmann remaking the film—Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan … Continue reading
Calvin Klein Spring 2012 RTW Collection
After a week of in-your-face colors and dizzying prints, Francisco Costa served up a palette cleanser for Spring. Of course, the Calvin Klein womenswear creative director has never really gone in for over-the-top anything, so the collection’s subtle shades of … Continue reading
Calvin Klein Pre-Fall 2012 Collection
Francisco Costa has swapped Spring’s see-through slipdresses and delicate lingerie for sturdier stuff. Wool felt, to be precise. His pre-fall collection seemed to be an exercise in making the somewhat rigid and certainly thick material sensuous. It sounds like an … Continue reading
3.1 Phillip Lim Pre Fall Collection 2012
Phillip Lim dug into neo-noir comic books for pre-fall. The results were almost kitsch in the case of intarsia cashmere sweaters and oversize varsity jackets embroidered with block letters, but more often than not the collection was subtle and versatile—as befits a designer … Continue reading
3.1 Phillip Lim
“Classic with a sense of madness” is how New York designer Phillip Lim once described his work. His knack is for giving accessible, wearable clothes that little something extra: A khaki trench might get military epaulets, a silk blouse might … Continue reading
The silver-sandaled modern Goddess By Lyn Devon
There’s a sporty femininity to Lyn Devon’se spring 2012 collction. But it’s far from the rough-and-tumble boyish style of sporty we saw in seasons past. Devon’s girl skips in on silver-sandaled feet, as light footed yet inwardly strong as an Ancient Greek … Continue reading
Helmut Lang’s sporty asymmetry in NY Fashion Week
A collection that’s clean and athletic doesn’t usually lend itself to also being swept away in layers of asymmetrical draping. The two moods would seem contradictory. But not for Nicole and Michael Colovos at Helmut Lang, whose offering for spring 2012 was … Continue reading
Adjustable sensuality: Luca Luca Collection in NY Fashion Week S/S 2012
With the exception of, perhaps, one long teal-blue evening gown that was a bit too satiny for my taste, everything about Luca Luca’s spring 2012 collection had a feeling of absolute freshness. It was there in the crisp white dresses as much as in … Continue reading
DKNY collection in NY Fashion Week 2012
It didn’t take complex props or the expensive interior of a key city location for DKNY to perfectly convey the mood of their spring 2012 collection. All that was done by way of a sidewalk and a parked taxi; proof, … Continue reading
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