Images by Bradford Gregory. Text by Dana Varon.

Show: Organic by John Patrick
Date: September 7, 2011
Time: 10am
Venue: The Jane Hotel
Inspiration: Safari, adventurers, gussied-up women and photos of Lee Miller.
Music: DJ-spun hip-hop, including Tupac’s California Love, Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box and Smashing Pumpkins.
Show Notes: A neutral palette of camel, cream, white, olive and grey appeared as slouchy, wide-legged pants, safari shirts and fluid peasant dresses with rust accents. Models’ fresh faces came courtesy of Tata Harper facials and minimal makeup.
Favorite Look: Either the olive parachute dress, which was draped, tucked and almost bustled in the back, or the olive hooded cape worn with a classic white shirt and baggy stone jeans.
Quote: “Adventurer. Explorer. Provacateur” -Paul, Organic design assistant

Show: Mackage
Date: September 7, 2011
Time: 10:30am
Venue: The Hudson Hotel Garden
Inspiration: Soft, serene shades of dusk—the moment when daylight recedes and cool evening light infuses the city with tranquility and ’50s undertones.
Music: DJ Yo-C played low moody ambient tunes.
Favorite Look: A black hooded jumpsuit with front zipper and slim, tapered leg or a sand-colored short, full-skirted asymmetrical dress with fitted top.
Quote: “[It is] true to who we are with dramatic trademark tailoring, ’50s masculinity and mixing hard and soft textures.” –Designers Eran Elfassy and Elisa Dahan
Additional Notes: Leather accents appeared on key pieces, like on the collar of a boyfriend blazer or the cuffs of a distressed storm twill jacket. Black and white were interspersed with desert hues of dusty grey, nude and sand. Ethereal lightness was underscored by structured masculinity, with different textures giving lightness to leather and a stricter sharper form to satin and linen.

Tim Coppens

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Organic by John Patrick

Tim Coppens

Show: Tim Coppens
Date: September 7, 2011
Time: 6pm
Venue: 495 Broadway, 3rd Floor
Inspiration: French film Un Prophète, featuring Tahar Rahim playing a young French-Maghreb. Tahar’s mental toughness and street-smart intelligence, his struggle for survival and individualism is the underlying theme that intrigues Tim.
Show Notes: Tim imagines Tahar’s Arab origins with the central piece in his menswear collection being an antique Persian Farahan carpet with typical geometric patterns translated to all-over prints. This same unique carpet was mathematically cut and crafted into a varsity inspired jacket with leather sleeves. The typical tunic shirt with elasticated cuffs is used throughout as a layering element. The light lofty pants can either be worn loose or cuffed at the bottom.
Favorite Look: Artfully crafted vests and jackets constructed using aforementioned Persian Farahan carpet-inspired prints that were also reminiscent of traditional hand-dyed and woven Uzbek batik textiles.