Though much of the action during New York Fashion Week takes place downtown, Fivestory, Claire Distenfeld’s multi-floor shopping experience on the Upper East Side, is a guaranteed way to get the fashion-focused to venture above 14th Street. The campaign is part of a $15 million suite of initiatives kicked off in February and meant to support a fashion industry that employs more than 183,000 New Yorkers.
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Presented by Lisa Perry, who looked to one of her favorites, the American installation artist Robert Irwin, as her inspiration for the spring collection. The web portal’s own fashion show Wednesday night was a good example of this, with a diverse array of models in all shapes, heights, ages, sizes and genders walking down the runway.
Other designers I’m eager to see: Yigal Azrouel, who I’ve been an enormous fan of for years, for his ability to cut and drape clothes for women’s shapes like no other; and GenArt – an organization that has been finding and helping to launch new and up-and-coming fashion talent for 20 years. This fabric is no stranger to the fashion world as various designers have incorporated it-or something like it-into everything from haute couture to ready to wear.
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There’s also the potential for some kind of undeniable magic to happen at these shows, and that’s why I love to go. This has some pros and cons. I could be at the shows, seeing all the backstage madness and watching how the show is actually pulled together, but this just wasn’t doing it for me.
New York Fashion Week is all about exposing new designers and fashion trends, but one company will put the spotlight on something far more important this season: child trafficking.
Givenchy is giving out almost 1,000 tickets for ordinary people who sign up online in an attempt to broaden its appeal beyond the narrow corridors of fashionista power.
While there was an androgynous bent to the collection, he downplayed its significance: “At this point, I’ve sort of dealt with gender issues within my perspective and I just feel like it’s part of the DNA of the family of the brand”.
“This is a funkier collection”, she said.
“I’ve never been, so I wanted it to be my dream and fantasy of what it would be like through my idea of this woman traveling to Morocco”, Siriano said Saturday in a backstage interview before the show. For the designers, they have one chance to impress a buyer.
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“She’s been around the world and back”, Chow said. Almost a decade ago, in the baby years of my career as an editor, the feelings brought on by the bi-yearly flurry were easy to identify – simple, even. There was the tiny thrill when, as a lowly fashion assistant just out of FIT, my boss handed me her unwanted invites with a dismissive shrug. I’d get turned away at the door?
