Mandy Coon NEW YORK, February 16, 2012 By Alison Baenen Mandy Coon loves bats, so much so that she was delighted to find them in her hotel—a renovated Spanish colonial—on a recent vacation… Read More
Bill Blass NEW YORK, February 16, 2012 By Alison Baenen Gianvito Rossi designed the shoes for Bill Blass this season, and as the pointy, metal-tipped stilettos and to-the-knee boots came to life, Jeffrey… Read More
Stephen Burrows NEW YORK, February 16, 2012 By Alison Baenen “It’s all about a chevron,” Stephen Burrows said backstage before his show. Sometimes a chevron is just a chevron, but the designer imbued… Read More
Vivienne Tam NEW YORK, February 15, 2012 By Alison Baenen Shangri-La, the fictional utopia dreamed up by James Hilton in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, was the place Vivienne Tam’s world-traveler touched down… Read More
Ports 1961 NEW YORK, February 15, 2012 By Alison Baenen Backstage before the Ports 1961 show, Fiona Cibani distilled the season’s message: “Strong, but not aggressive.” Using simple, straightforward silhouettes and rich textures,… Read More
Lyn Devon NEW YORK, February 15, 2012 By Alison Baenen The Lyn Devon girl is in love. Spurred by her imagination of what New York was like in the fifties, Devon designed a… Read More
Douglas Hannant NEW YORK, February 15, 2012 By Alison Baenen Douglas Hannant titled his Fall collection Gentry and took as his muse Wallis Simpson, the couture-loving divorcée who married way, way up. Was… Read More
Diesel Black Gold NEW YORK, February 14, 2012 By Alison Baenen Sophia Kokosalaki stayed at home for Diesel Black Gold’s latest show (she’s expecting a baby), but over e-mail she said that the… Read More
Dennis Basso NEW YORK, February 14, 2012 By Alison Baenen With a blast of a whistle and the sound of wheels on a train track, we were off on the Orient-Express. For Fall… Read More