With this collection, Marlon joins the likes of Colombian designer Miguel Caballero, in designing fashionable concealed body armor.
Tony’s new embrace of trim silhouettes, void of last years occasionally untamed colors and patterns, presents a more mature touch that we hope to see more often.
The delicate sheer and jeweled details in each of Kati Stern’s Fall 2010 gowns are camera ready for the bright lights of the Golden Globe and Academy Award red carpets. Beautiful floor sweeping pieces with peeks of skin – low cut backs, exposed shoulders – added the feminine touch. It is apparent that Stern’s modus operandi is outfitting a woman’s body for elegance.
Johnny Wu, as it turned out, is a master pattern maker who helps a lot of emerging and established designers bring their rough ideas to life, and he does it right in the middle of Manhattan, as one of the many small businesses still holding on in shadow of what was once New York’s largest industry, the garment business.
story by Charles Beckwith
photos by Boris Marberg and Wolfgang Wöhrle
This is why we’re out here. This show is why modaCYCLE exists. Here is a storyteller showing a collision of fantasy, reality, and optimism. The wisdom and intelligence and style were all there in this show. … Continue Reading
story by Charles Beckwith
photos by Boris Marberg and Wolfgang Wöhrle
Ravarino, Italy-based C.P. Company showed their line of menswear at Milan Moda Uomo. … Continue Reading
story by Boris Marberg and Charles Beckwith
photos by Boris Marberg
Maurizio Modica and Pierfrancesco Gigliotti’s Frankie Morello menswear show at Via Palermo (their usual spot) was a great “spettacolo.” The theme was vampires and football (world championship soccer). … Continue Reading
story by Boris Marberg
photos by Boris Marberg and Wolfgang Wöhrle
Carlo Pignatelli Outside is the outerwear line produced by one of the world’s great designers of men’s formalwear.
This show opened Milan Moda Uomo and went right for the jugular on a classic winter image. My first impression was that this was deeply influenced by the idea of a Russian winter presented in the film Doctor Zhivago, and reflects winter in the time of the revolution against the Tsarist autocracy. In fact, the music played at the beginning of the show was the overture from that classic motion picture, an odd yet harmonious blend of subtle military themes with folk music. … Continue Reading
photos by Boris Marberg
text by Charles Beckwith
Ennio Capasa sent trim and boss looks down the runway at his CoSTUME NATIONAL show this past weekend at Milan Moda Uomo, the main Italian menswear fashion week where looks for Fall 2010/Winter 2011 are presented.
Check out the brown leather shirt worn over a black turtleneck and under a dark sport coat in the last shot. Looks great, but it is wearable? … Continue Reading
video by Alexander Palacios
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin starts next week with the Fall 2010 collections. Here is a recap video made by one of our photographers, compiled from his coverage of the Spring-Summer 2010 collections. … Continue Reading
story by Boris Marberg and Charles Beckwith
photos by Boris Marberg and Alexander Palacios
Several decades ago, Berlin was one of the most important fashion capitals in Europe. That hasn’t been the case for a while now, but in the last few years Berlin has gotten some of its mojo back, with the fashion week events established by IMG and their naming rights sponsor Mercedes-Benz in 2008, and built onto by others since then in the form of trade shows and other kinds of complimentary events. The impact of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin has been very positive for the city and designers in the region, continuously growing with each new season. This season there will be roughly 30 collections presented in the Bebelplatz tents. Most people involved seem to agree that IMG has done a very good job. … Continue Reading
story by Faith Bowman
photos by Adrianna Favero
Timo Weiland began 2009 with a successful line of neckwear and wallets. By fall, duo Alan Eckstein and Timo Weiland had dreamed up and designed a breakout RTW collection, featured in WWD in September. The cover image, their silk chiffon tank top paired with cummerbund inspired silk charmeuse and chiffon skirt, epitomized the funky uptown/downtown vibe of the line and let the world know that they had arrived, with this debut at the 22nd Street non-profit Manhattan artspace X Initiative sealing the deal. … Continue Reading
story by Faith Bowman
photos by Charles Beckwith
Shortly after New York Fashion Week, Harlem’s Fashion Row geared up to present collections by emerging designers at a fine arts venue in Harlem called The Gatehouse. Operated by a collective dedicated to promoting Harlem’s enduring influence and contribution to the fashion world, Fashion Row featured four lines, including one by recent Project Runway alum Epperson. … Continue Reading
story by Faith Bowman
photos by Adrianna Favero
Since 2001, San Francisco-born designer Peter Som has been raising the bar for pretty, ladylike clothing with a youthful fair. His spring-summer 2010 collection again left little doubt that Som is a designer whose clothing flatters and defines the female form. Continuing with his love of saturated color and sumptuous fabrics, the collection sizzled for the eyes, igniting an immediate desire to shop. … Continue Reading
story and snapshot by Charles Beckwith
The evening of October 21st, I made the rare effort of journeying north of 23rd Street to attend a panel discussion hosted by Glamour Magazine at the 97th Street Y. Glamour editor in chief Cindi Leive served as moderator for the discussion, titled “The Future of Women’s Fashion,” and was joined on stage by veteran designer Isaac Mizrahi, new-ish designer Ashley Olsen, and Michelle Obama’s Pulitzer Prize-winning wardrobe stalker, Robin Givhan. … Continue Reading
interview by Alexander Palacios
photos by Boris Marberg and Alexander Palacios
Our team was in Zurich again recently for the Blickfang trade show, where new designers try to find their footing in the local and regional markets. A very solid new knitwear designer we’ve seen before several times, Christina Krämer, did a preview of her Fall/Winter 2010 collection during the fair. Alex was able to interview her backstage at the show. … Continue Reading
story by Rachel Francois
photos by Freda Henry
photo editing by Faith Bowman
Yohji Yamamoto’s fashionable athletic wear for Adidas’ Y-3 spring-summer 2010 collection opened with a musical tribute to Michael Jackson interlaced with national military hymns. Most of the collection was black and white punctuated by colorful seals and nationalist emblems. … Continue Reading
photos and interview by Charles Beckwith
photo editing by Faith Bowman
I recently had the opportunity to view the Spring 2010 Badgley Mischka Bride collection in the Badgley Mischka showroom during New York Bridal Market Week. After the show, I was able to ask designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka a few questions about their collection and recent shifts in the wedding fashion market. This show also included eight new bridal looks from their lower price point Mark & James line.
photos by Boris Marberg
Designer: Thakoon Panichgul
Astrological Sign: Libra
Hometown: Omaha, Nebraska
Labels: Thakoon and Thakoon Addition; designer for Hogan through fall 2009; guest-designed for both Target and Gap; Thakoon shoes are Giuseppe Zantotti for Thakoon
Web Site: www.thakoon.com
Thakoon Panichgul was recently nominated for the Swiss Textile Federation’s prestigious Stella Contemporary Fashion Award. He graciously responded to our correspondence interview prior to the awards show.
photos by Boris Marberg
Designers: Alexa Adams and Flora Gill
Astrological Sign (Alexa): Libra
Astrological Sign (Flora): Aquarius
Hometown (Alexa): Washington, D.C.
Hometown: (Flora): Alfred, NY
Label: OHNE TITEL
Web Site: www.ohnetitel.com
The Ohne Titel (translation: “untitled”) designers were recently nominated for the Swiss Textile Federation’s prestigious Stella Contemporary Fashion Award. They graciously responded to our correspondence interview prior to the awards show.
interview by Charles Beckwith
photos by Kevin Schowengerdt at Rush Wade Studios
If you saw the first episode of the most recent less-than-spectacular Project Runway season, you may have caught a glimpse of avant garde artist Ari Fish breaking the mold. Many fans of edgier fashion and conceptual art would have liked to have seen more of her in the series, but there appear to have been obtuse fashionistas blocking the driveway. As Ari does not seem to identify herself as a fashion designer, we have dispensed with our normal designer dossier questionnaire. … Continue Reading
story by Boris Marberg
photos by Boris Marberg and Alexander Palacios
Thursday November 12th, 2009 – the tenth annual Swiss Textiles Awards ceremony took place in Zurich. The event is produced by The Swiss Textile Federation, which is the leading trade association for textile producers in Switzerland, with about 200 companies counted in its membership. The finalists for the Stella Contemporary Fashion Award this year were Erdem, Alexis Mabille, Ohne Titel, Thakoon Panichgul, Peter Pilotto, and Alexander Wang. During the last ten years the award went through several conceptual changes, but it is now one of the most prestigious garment design awards in the world, as well as one of the most financially attractive competitions for rising star designers, with its 100.000€ (U.S. $150,000) prize. … Continue Reading
story by Michael Fragoso
photos by Sandy Ramirez
Thuy’s Spring 2010 collection is all about exposure and disclosure. … Continue Reading
story and photos by Sandy Ramirez
The first two lines of The Drifters’ On Broadway are perhaps the best description for Isaac Mizrahi’s Spring 2010 collection, shown recently in The Tent at Bryant Park during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York.
They say the lights are always bright on Broadway.
They say there’s always magic in the air.
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