Fashion shows are so last season, or at least that’s what the higher-ups at Halston seem to think. Instead of a traditional runway presentation, the recently re-launched label debuted its Fall 09 collection in cyberspace. Directed by the always-edgy music video guru Nez Khammel (who recently worked on Lily Allen’s “The Fear” video), the film [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Zero + Maria Cornejo Spring 2009
March 24, 2009 – 7:54 am
Maria Cornejo’s bright new Bleeker Street store and atelier is a charming slice of old New York. But there is a certain something that outshines the lead-framed windows and clean architectural design. What is this lovely distraction? It’s the Zero + Maria Cornejo Spring 09 collection, of course. An avant-garde interpretation of smart spring essentials, [...]
Market Publique
March 23, 2009 – 7:46 am
There’s something about the slightly gritty, nostalgic feel of polyester that seems impossible to replicate online, but Market Publique has done it. A Brooklyn baby like Dossier, the online, auction-based vintage marketplace has been explained as the eBay of vintage clothing but deserves more of a descriptor. Launched this past month, the site collates vintage [...]
Beauty and Body Lotion
March 23, 2009 – 5:21 am
It’s been a while since the desire for supple skin involved squeezing a sea cucumber or milling shea nuts and garden snails. Today, there is a bevy of mousses, butters and milks on offer, but only a select few provide that unique post-spa feeling of serenity and wholeness. To start off with, Jo Malone Orange [...]
Lorick Fall 2009
March 19, 2009 – 8:54 am
High drama and high waists. Lace gloves for tea and white gloves for murder. Lorick’s Fall 2009 print campaign is a trip to Hitchcock Lady Land, where Abigail Lorick (the line’s designer and the ghost designer for Eleanor Waldorf on “Gossip Girl”) combined the prim elegance and horror of “Vertigo” with French New Wave filtered [...]
