Saturday, February 21, 2009

Fall 2009 Collection[[Feb.13-20 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York City]]

FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 13, 2009
10 AM
THE HEART TRUTH'S RED DRESS COLLECTION 2009 Tent
11 AM
YIGAL AZROUËL Promenade
1 PM
DUCKIE BROWN Salon
2 PM
CHARLOTTE RONSON Promenade
3 PM
BCBGMAXAZRIA Tent
6 PM
NICOLE MILLER Salon
7 PM
THISDAY/ARISE MAGAZINE: AFRICAN FASHION COLLECTIVE 2009 Promenade
8 PM
ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY Tent
9 PM
VENEXIANA Salon


SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 14, 2009
10 AM
LACOSTE Tent
11 AM
GEORGES CHAKRA Promenade
1 PM
ANDY & DEBB Salon
2 PM
ADAM Promenade
3 PM
BARBIE™ RUNWAY SHOW Tent
6 PM
VERRIER Salon
7 PM
MONARCHY COLLECTION Promenade


SUNDAY
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
10 AM
LELA ROSE Salon
11 AM
MARA HOFFMAN / NICHOLAS K / SERGIO DAVILA Promenade
Noon
WALTER 265 W. 37th Street, 5th Fl
1 PM
DKNY 711 Greenwich Street
2 PM
HERVÉ LÉGER BY MAX AZRIA Promenade
3 PM
THUY Salon
3 PM
CALVIN KLEIN MEN’S COLLECTION 205 W. 39th Street
4 PM
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG Tent
5 PM
Y-3 Pier 40, West Street at W. Houston Street
6 PM
AKIKO OGAWA. Salon
7 PM
ERIN FETHERSTON Promenade
8 PM
MISS SIXTY Tent
9 PM
E.Y. WADA Salon


MONDAY
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
9 AM
FARAH ANGSANA Salon
10 AM
CAROLINA HERRERA Tent
11 AM
CARLOS MIELE Promenade
Noon
JILL STUART New York Public Library, Astor Hall, 5th Ave. Entrance
1 PM
TRACY REESE Salon
2 PM
DONNA KARAN NEW YORK 711 Greenwich Street
4 PM
YEOHLEE 225 W. 35th Street, 16th Floor
5 PM
TONY COHEN Salon
5 PM
Z ZEGNA Pier 90, 711 12th Avenue
6 PM
TEREXOV Promenade
7 PM
WILLIAM RAST Tent




TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 17, 2009
9 AM
CYNTHIA STEFFE Salon
10 AM
BADGLEY MISCHKA Tent
11 AM
MATTHEW WILLIAMSON Promenade
1 PM
PAMELLA ROLAND Salon
2 PM
DIESEL BLACK GOLD Tent
3 PM
DENNIS BASSO Promenade
5 PM
CHOCHENG Salon
6 PM
MAX AZRIA Tent
7 PM
TIBI Promenade
8 PM
DOMENICO VACCA Salon
9 PM
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ Tent


WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
9 AM
J. MENDEL Salon
10 AM
NANETTE LEPORE Promenade
11 AM
MICHAEL KORS Tent
Noon
RICHARD CHAI Salon
2 PM
1909 VICTORINOX Celeste Bartos, 42nd St and 5th Ave
3 PM
3.1 PHILLIP LIM Tent
4 PM
ALEXANDRE HERCHCOVITCH Salon
6 PM
MILLY BY MICHELLE SMITH Promenade
7 PM
ANNA SUI Tent
8 PM
MACKAGE Salon


THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 19, 2009
10 AM
TOMMY HILFIGER Tent
11 AM
BRIAN REYES Promenade
1 PM
REBECCA TAYLOR Salon
3 PM
PORTS 1961 Promenade
4 PM
CALVIN KLEIN WOMEN’S COLLECTION 205 W. 39th Street
4 PM
LEIFSDOTTIR 209 W. 38th St, 7th Fl
5 PM
CALVIN KLEIN WOMEN’S COLLECTION 205 W. 39th Street
5 PM
LEIFSDOTTIR 209 W 38th St, 7th Fl
6 PM
CHRISTIAN SIRIANO Salon
7 PM
CUSTO BARCELONA Promenade
8 PM
ZAC POSEN Tent


FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
9 AM
PROJECT RUNWAY Tent
10 AM
RALPH LAUREN 275 Hudson Street
11 AM
RALPH LAUREN 275 Hudson Street
Noon
TADASHI SHOJI Salon
2 PM
CHADO RALPH RUCCI Tent

Trend Sighter:[[Really Enjoying This Sight]]

Models at (left to right) Tim Hamilton, Richard Chai, and William Rast were sent down the runway in long layering pieces shown beneath shorter jackets. One word to the wise (or perhaps the brave): Just as you should leave your jacket's bottom buttons open, same goes for your thigh-length cardigan's.

Trend Sighter:

At Robert Geller, Nice Collective, and Rag & Bone (left to right), models were sent down the runway trammeled in straps and harnesses. Hey, a little bit of sartorial restraint never hurt anyone.

Trend Sighter:


On the runways this season, Yigal Azrouël, Libertine, and Robert Geller (left to right) made the case against sleeves. Technically speaking, so did Thom Browne (not pictured), who showed a supersized version of his rugby-striped scarf wreathed around a suit to create an improvised capelet.

Michael Bastian Fall'09 Mens Collection















"I give you my love more precious than money." Walt Whitman's words, intoned at the opening of Michael Bastian's presentation, were a reminder that here we've got one designer who operates outside the box. Never mind the box; he gave us his love woven heart-shaped into the palm of a fingerless cashmere mitt. Bastian is a puzzle. He designs sportswear that is in the classic all-American vein, but he weights it with a strange, deeply personal yearning. For love? Well, that kind of makes sense, given this season's road trip: classic Kerouac infused with the ambiguities of the movie My Own Private Idaho.And if it isn't love, it's nostalgia that fuels Bastian's vision. He was talking about the hold that early nineties grunge had over him. It was all over the clothes: layer upon layer of stuff that you could imagine a creative indigent extracting from his local Salvation Army—a denim vest topping a plissé-front shirt, a pinstripe suit over a sweater with a cheesy raccoon motif. There were literally hundreds of elements that composed the overall mood of the presentation (which made it a much more accurate mirror of Bastian's collection than last season's skimpy show). But let the designer speak for himself: "Exit 26: Olive plaid Chesterfield top coat; Olympic blue fleece full-zip sweater with thumb holes; navy/white tattersall check button-down shirt; Olympic blue wide-wale corduroy pants; natural raccoon scarf; super narrow leather d-ring belt; gray corduroy trucker cap with wing patch." In the face of such a comprehensive reconstruction of a private vision, judgment is practically powerless. "Guys have to connect emotionally to buy stuff," Bastian said after the show. And if that suggested that he believed he was making such a connection, his instincts were right on the nose.

William Rast Fall'09 Mens Collection













Justin Timberlake always dreamed of the perfect denim, but he says he needed Johan and Marcella Lindeberg to make the dream come true. "Together, we're an emerging rock band," he said in the showroom the day after the third William Rast collection was launched in New York. It was all about denim—and denim's best friend, black leather, fringed and studded in classic biker style. There was a fashion element in a leather jacket that was extended, almost safari-style, and acid wash looked new-ish again, at least to Rast's young fit model, who'd not seen it before. The Lindebergs' sensibility is fundamentally all about goth leanness, which they managed to combine with JT's Tennessee boy-ness in the layering: an elongated tank under a long flannel shirt with a tailored jacket on top. But they should honestly take the collection in the direction that JT, newly anointed one of America's most stylish men by GQ, seems most drawn to. Elvis meets Sinatra, biker culture mixed with Rat Pack. An evening jacket in a sheeny lacquered herringbone hinted at the kind of alluring oddities such a union would produce.
-[[Tim Blanks]]


Diesel Black Gold Fall'09 Mens Collection














"Diesel Black Gold Goes Kind Of Blue," said the liner notes, and the preshow soundtrack sounded a little like Miles Davis' band tuning up. Then, quotes from Casablanca ("of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world…") and The Shining ("you're the best damn bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Oregon!") were added to the mix. If the point of that curious combo was to make the audience yearn for a drink, well, then, mission accomplished. And the clothes? Diesel knows how to destroy a garment, and Renzo Rosso's washing and dyeing facilities worked overtime on the Black Gold Fall offering. Despite the occasional exception—an elongated, beaded black waistcoat over an even longer double-breasted black cardigan, for instance—the through line was worked-over workwear, fruitful territory for a brand that, at its core, is about jeans. So there were side-striped conductor's pants worn with suspenders and thirties-era work shirts with oversized buttons that were worn, weathered, and stained. And an oil- and rust-stained union suit looked like it actually came from a union shop. On a more retro tip, bowler hats topped many of the looks, and boots were festooned with white spats. But the Last Minute Orchestra was on hand to keep things from getting too mired in the past, with jazzed-up versions of songs like "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Those (along with the leather pants) reminded us where Diesel's heart really is.
-[[ Josh Peskowitz]]

Marc By Marc Jacobs Fall'09 Mens Collection














After the blinding Marc Jacobs show last night, one could but hope that some of that insane, celebratory energy would spill over into his other collection. Soundtrack-wise, Marc stayed in the same era, but he replaced the raging eighties-style new wave with Roxanne Shante. The obvious sartorial equivalent would have been styles transmuted from Jamel Shabazz's hymn to hip-hop, Back in the Days, but there hasn't been anything obvious about Jacobs for years now. Sure, he showed high-tops and voluminous, side-zipped track pants, but the precise layering of the collection still felt more like his Mudd Club buds. And the models, with their quiffs and glasses, looked a bit like Hal Ludacer, Most Beautiful Boy at the Mudd (though I guess they could have passed for Morrissey, too). The layers ran thus: a long tank under a checked shirt under a cardigan under a jacket, with a rumpled silk tie and scarf as accessories. Any piece might have been freshly plucked from a vintage trawl. But even though the brickwork was classic—tweed, flannel, paisley, herringbone, velvet—the building felt all new. Though that's often the way with this collection, here it was so polished and confident that it played like one more supernova in Marc's ever-expanding universe.
-[[Tim Blanks]]

Helmut Lang Fall'09 Men Collection
















Libertine Fall'09 Men Collection
















Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Henrik Vibskov Spring/Summer 2009 Collection












Azita brings us a nice photoshoot of the new Henrik Vibskov Spring/Summer 2009 Collection. As usual the Danish designer offers some crazy colors and patterns in his collection, but overall the line has become a little more subtle and wearable, which we welcome. Once again the knitwear is our favorite, as it is completely different from other collections.



Acne Fall/Winter 2009 Collection

Acne chose a nice history setting for the presentation of their Fall/Winter 2009 Collection. Models presented the new line in the form of statues, standing elevated. You get a nice first look at what to expect from the Swedish brand later this year.

Louis Vuitton Autumn/Winter 2009

Louis Vuitton recently presented their Autumn/Winter 2009 Collection. The French brand continues to work with very modern cuts and silhouettes, while introducing some interesting new styles. Stand-out pieces in the new collection are for sure the soccer/hexagon monogram bag and the Kanye West designed footwear. We have always been fans of the Louis Vuitton jackets and those are once again looking good next season. We’re big fans of those oversized scarves. Get your hide on.

The Guardian: Make Your Own Paul Smith Shirt


Given the current economic climate, the notion of DIY has come to the forefront as many look to save a buck here and there. In a series of articles done together with British newspaper The Guardian, some of the fashion world’s well-known personalities offer directions to making some of their own marquee pieces. Although focusing on mainly women’s wear, Sir Paul Smith does break it down on how to make a dress shirt while other contributors include Martin Margiela, Jade Jagger, Vivienne Westwood and Alice Temperley.

Source: Refinery29

Phenomenon 2009 Spring/Summer February Releases

Never knowing what to expect when they drop new items, this latest release from Phenomenon further cements the brand into a genre of their own. The looks combine a slew of random inspiration with the inclusion of their anticipated hybrid garment. Amongst the collection are various pieces featuring all-over prints including moon print pieces, an acid wash/tie dye jacket and bow tie, fader hoody and basketball jersey/blazer mash-up. All are available via Choiceisyours.

Yves Saint Laurent USB Heart & Tote Bag Giveaway


Celebrating Valentines Day in style, Yves Saint Laurent look to giveaway looks of their Spring/Summer 2009 Manifesto Collection in a new, interactive method. The fashion house will be uploading the photoshoot by Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin onto a heart-shaped USB flashdrive. The hearts will be handed out in the streets of New York, Paris, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo alongside a Stefano Pilati designed tote bag to the first 2,000 people.