26-year-old Arielle de Pinto’s chainmail silver and vermeil jewelry has an otherworldly quality. Whether it’s the at-once-elegant-and-decayed cascading necklaces and gloves from her main line or the cleverly abstracted stainless silver figurine rings from her diffusion line, ADP, the Montreal-based designer’s jewelry transports one to another time and place; a time and place more mystical, [...]
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Chronicles of Paris Fashion Week – Fall 2011: Viktor & Rolf, Issye Miyaki, A.F. Vandevorst…
March 24, 2011 – 8:08 am
Images by Ellie Campagna …Costume National, Zadig & Voltaire and Vionett. Dai Fujiwara for Issey Miyake and Danish duo Viktor & Rolf have an acute ability to convey their concept on the runway. They push beyond hemlines and color palettes to transport us from the Tuileries tents and into the complicated, or sometimes crystal-clear, world [...]
Chronicles of Paris Fashion Week – Fall 2011: Zac Posen and Manish Arora
March 18, 2011 – 7:00 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
