Images by Ellie Campagna Zac Posen’s show began at 11 am at Le Palais de Tokyo or, rather, in a grand stone dungeon beneath Le Palais de Tokyo. And after catching my black six-inch YSL Mohawk heel on a set of deadly stairs, bouncing off a chain link fence and flying into a pool of [...]
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Chronicles of Paris Fashion Week – Fall 2011: Damir Doma and Dries Van Noten
March 16, 2011 – 7:23 am
Images by Samantha Casolari I always love the invites for the Paris shows. They’re somehow more refined, delicate and, well, Parisian than those of the other cities. New York’s are slick and chic. London’s are witty and wild (remember Giles Deacon’s court summons?). Milan’s are bold in a way that only Italians could make them. [...]
Chronicles of London Fashion Week – Fall 2011: Erdem, Burberry and Giles
February 27, 2011 – 8:56 pm
Giles. Images by Oskar Gyllenswärd. Spirits tend to get a bit low as Fashion Week wears on. So in order to dig myself out of a bottomless pit of exhaustion, I threw on an Ann Demeulemeester feather collar and vintage ’30s top hat before heading off to the trenches. My frivolous ensemble, coupled with a [...]
Chronicles of London Fashion Week – Fall 2011: Mary Katrantzou, Maria Francesca Pepe and Meadham Kirchhoff
February 27, 2011 – 9:41 am
There’s always a bittersweet pang that comes with the final day of Fashion Week. I know, I know… We still have Milan and Paris to come. But each city has its own special little fashion flavor, and while it may sound silly it’s always difficult to say adieu once the shows move on. This season, [...]
Chronicles of London Fashion Week: Jonathan Saunders, Acne, Topshop and Richard Nicoll
February 26, 2011 – 8:50 am
Backstage at Jonathan Saunders. Images by Lucy Carr-Ellison. Morning Bloody Marys and mimosas? I’m liking London Fashion Week more and more by the minute. Atop the twisting stairs of what a friend of mine noted looked like a deconstructed Banana Republic store, Acne started off the morning with an array of dashing young gentlemen, each [...]
