February 8, 2013
by Julia DiNardo
[Images via Style.com]
*This feature is part of Sorrelli for Fashion Pulse Daily Exclusive New York Fashion Week Runway Coverage
The Show: Kimberly Ovitz Fall 2013
The Theme: Futuristic Grunge
The Color Palette: Black, silver metallic, with colorful “hallucinatory” tie-dye prints
Best/Collection’s Signature Standout Look:
Look 19: A grunge take on a women’s skirt-suit, the matching blot print jacket and skirt were coupled with a textured black moto vest. Paired with futuristic snake-like pin curls, this look is representative of the Kimberly Ovitz Fall ’13 collection: innovative and otherworldly, a play between light and dark.
Look 4: A chic tie-dye print flowed beautifully with super sleek hair, black leather booties, and slithering accessories. The expertly-draped gown was paired with Kimberly Ovitz with SHAPEWAYS 3-D printed jewelry that snaked up the wrist and ear lobe. The overall look was inspired by microscopic views of scales, exoskeletons, and squid ink.
-Lily Oswald
September 8, 2012
by Julia DiNardo
The Show: Kimberly Ovitz Spring/Summer 2013 Runway Show
The Theme: Mythological Nomad
The Color Palette: Muted earth tones and subtle hues of eggshell, pale nude, ice, paper, dark nude, terracotta, thunder and optic white.
Best/Collection’s Signature Standout Look: While a neutral palette of beige, barefooted beauty walked down a rough clay runway at Hudson Rive Park’s Pier 57 for the Kimberly Ovitz show, there was nothing muted about the styling of this lineup. Billowing fabrics of silk, chiffon and jersey were expertly draped into fluid silhouettes and Ovitz’s designs celebrated a nomadic style with raw finishes and unexpected details. And not to go unnoticed, the silver metal cuffs around models arms, redefined the meaning of an arm party.
–Amanda Zeigler
*Sorrelli for Fashion Pulse Daily Exclusive New York Fashion Week Runway Coverage
February 17, 2011
by fashionpulse
Kimberly Ovitz was inspired by the architecture designed by Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil, which entails aspects of futurism and circularism, which can directly be interpreted through Ovitz’s latest collection. Circular cut-outs made in the back of the garments and in the front of the shoes (designed by Camilla Skovgaard) reverberated the theme of a futuristic world with the models decked out in primarily black, white and grey stretch performance fabrics standing tall, intimidating, and stoic around the circumference of a painted black circle laid on the floor of the Pace Gallery in Chelsea, with pops of fluorescent yellow in the slashes of paint placed on what could be seen of the models’ hair-and-net-covered faces, shoes, and tid-bits incorporated into the design.
RETNA Exhibition
On the evening of Thursday, February 10, 2011 Graffiti artist RETNA (Marquis Lewis) debuted in his first exhibition in America during nothing other than New York Fashion Week. The warehouse-style gallery was large and spacious enough, but the crowd was larger. Champagne-held hands flew and waived everywhere, threatening to spill it’s contents all over the metallic monochrome-themed canvases and 3-D installation that resembled various abstract combinations of the male and female gender signs painted on canvases and large wooden blocks set in the right-hand side of the middle of the space.
Buckler
Demanding the shut down of Grand St. between Greene & Mercer, Andrew Buckler required the attention of both the media and unknowing passer-bys. With a majority of grungy, deconstructed black and white pants, shirts, jackets, and combat boots, Buckler interposed pops of bright yellow via large headphones, a jacket, or tight-fitting pants. Grandly-sized backpacks with flaps wider than they were long added a flair of the quintessential “New York City wanderer” look, a posh vagabond that aimlessly roams the streets in New York City grunge-style. Well-fitted and draped shirts, a hooded pair of overalls, round-collared sweaters, encircling scarves, and tight-fitted jeans paired with a multi-strapped combat boots ran the gamut.
– Rose Lou
