The term ‘sustainable fashion’ has for a long time conjured images of hemp t-shirts emblazoned with marijuana leaf motifs being worn by unwashed masses. That is about to change thanks partly to the efforts of Brooklyn-based designer and writer Eviana Hartman and her line Bodkin. The offices of the Horticultural Society of New York in [...]
Author Archives: Luke Blanch
Y-3 @ NY Fashion Week
February 19, 2009 – 5:47 pm
As the sun set and the temperature dropped, I headed to Pier 40 on the Hudson River for Adidas and Yohji Yamamoto’s Y-3 menswear/womenswear show. Although we entered the cavernous space on time, the show was delayed by almost an hour thanks to the front row media scrum that surrounded slack-jawed Fashion Week ‘It boy’ [...]
Matthew Ames @ NY Fashion Week
February 19, 2009 – 11:27 am
It was standing room only at the showroom of Fashionhaus overlooking Bryant Park for the Matthew Ames show. Attention in Ames was recently piqued by the Brooklyn-based designer’s selection as a recipient of the 2009 Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation award. Using a bold single color for some looks and only once mixing more than two [...]
Karen Walker @ NY Fashion Week
February 19, 2009 – 8:19 am
In the interest of ethical reporting, I should disclose that both Karen Walker and I are antipodean – she from New Zealand and I from Australia. It seems we’re also fans of seminal Australian indie rock band The Go-Betweens and their song ‘Karen’ which appeared as the soundtrack for the showing of her Autumn/Winter collection. [...]
Rachel Comey @ NY Fashion Week
February 15, 2009 – 9:49 am
As it hovered around freezing in Manhattan on Friday night, things were much warmer at Taxter and Spengemann’s new gallery space near Union Square for the unveiling of New York based designer Rachel Comey’s Fall / Winter 2009 collection. Upon entering the space, the crowd of buyers, press and unidentified fashion followers were greeted by a [...]
