Author Archives: Lauren David Peden

Chronicles of NY Fasion Week – Fall 2011: Rodarte, Vera Wang, House of Waris and…

Juan Carlos Obando. Images and Text by Lauren David Peden. I’ve been covering New York Fashion Week for nearly a decade now—first for Fashion Wire Daily and now for Vogue.com UK, WWD.com and my blog, The Fashion Informer—so you would think I’d have things down to a science. In some ways I do: I never [...]

Dossier in Conversation with Shelly Steffee

Dossier Magazine: Shelly Steffee from lina plioplyte on Vimeo. Shelly Steffee may not be a household name, but among fashion cognoscenti she (and her designs) are held in the highest regard. Considered by many to be a designer’s designer (one who is more likely to be found in her mad scientist lab experimenting with latex [...]

Dossier in Conversation with George Esquivel

Although it seems as though George Esquivel just burst onto the scene last summer with his CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund nomination, the LA-based, self-taught shoe designer has been honing his craft for almost 20 years. The music-obsessed Esquivel got his start making one-of-a-kind shoes out of his garage for the likes of Pearl Jam, No Doubt, [...]