It could have been raining outside, but there have been heaps of powdery fresh snow at the runway at Moncler Gamme Rouge. That picture-perfect winter wonderland was inspired by a scene from Visconti’s The Witches, wherein a fabulously dressed diva played by 1960s screen siren Silvana Mangano, arrives in St. Moritz. Indeed the troop of handsome [...]
November 26, 2011
“I just got my American citizenship,” exclaimed Chilean designer Maria Cornejo backstage before her fall runway show. “And it got me thinking, what’s my identity?” It’s an unexpected start line for a designer as established as Cornejo and with a faithful core following that permits and encourages her to continue along an identical trajectory from [...]
November 20, 2011
Phillip Lim’s overarching infatuation with women’s over-stimulated modern-day lives, which he adroitly addressed for pre-fall with superhero undertones, didn’t become a one-season-only tribute. From within a dimly lit warehouse inside Highline Stages on Monday, where a smoke machine sent clouds swirling skyward, Lim transported onlookers back to that neo-noir comic-book underworld. But because the clouds [...]
November 20, 2011
Vera Wang recently moved her showroom from the hustle and bustle of recent York’s Garment District to an airy space overlooking Madison Square Park. Geographically speaking, the brand new location is barely ten blocks south of her old stomping grounds, but in lots of ways the neighborhoods are worlds apart. “It makes me feel like [...]
November 16, 2011