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, [...]
Author Archives: Katharine Zarrella
Chronicles of London Fashion Week – Fall 2011: Mary Katrantzou, Maria Francesca Pepe and Meadham Kirchhoff
February 27, 2011 – 9:41 am
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 [...]
Chronicles of London Fashion Week – Fall 2011: Danielle Scutt, Henry Holland and Central Saint Martins
February 22, 2011 – 4:55 pm
Backstage at Danielle Scutt. Images by Lucy Carr-Ellison. “Are you going to a funeral? A fashion funeral,” mocked a cheeky photographer at the Danielle Scutt show. I had apparently still not registered the “no black” memo. But it was no matter, because Scutt’s neon-infused Fall collection had enough hue for the entire audience—or at least [...]
Chronicles of London Fashion Week – Fall 2011: Saloni, Felder Felder, Bora Aksu and PPQ
February 21, 2011 – 10:02 am
Saloni. Images by Lucy Carr-Ellison Mops of pink hair. Technicolor fur. Decked-out transvestites. And a Sherlock Holmes hat. These were the looks that confronted me the very first day of my very first London Fashion Week. In lieu of the black and neutral palette NYFW so often offers, there was a pair of purple-printed tights, [...]
In Conversation with Valerie Steele
November 10, 2010 – 5:42 am
Images by Samantha Casolari Dr. Valerie Steele has redefined “geek-chic.” Boasting a PHD from Yale, the current Director and Curator-in-Chief of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) favors an intellectual approach to style, rather than an editorial one. Walking into her office during a jam-packed New York Fashion Week, Steele plays up [...]
