September 16, 2013
by Julia DiNardo
Footwear is one of my absolute favorite fashion-related objects, and I certainly possess more than I can handle! I couldn’t help but be drawn to the footwear choices worn during NYFW by show goers, makeup, hair, and nail artists as well as the publicists and press backstage, and last, but not least, the models themselves, both their own shoes that they wore into the venue, and had to don for the fashion shows or presentations. See the slideshow above for some of my most favorite footwear finds, and they are in order by:
1) show goers; feet are mainly on a grey carpet
2) footwear found backstage is on a darker, almost black carpet
3) the footwear from the spring 2014 collections are staged on everything else
Which pair is your favorite?
September 9, 2013
by fashion pulse contributor
*This feature is part of the Sorrelli for Fashion Pulse Daily Exclusive New York Fashion Week Runway Coverage.
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: Katya Leonovich
The Color Palette: Multi-Colored Prints, Grey, Lavender, Pink, Beige
The Collection’s Best Look: The Katya Leonovich collection featured several high end fabrication elements including taffeta, chiffon, crinkled linen, silk, patchwork and leather. Each piece offered unique ruffles and draping that gave the pieces a deconstructed, yet elegant feel. The standout was a hand-printed chiffon tunic with crinkled linen pants, while the show closed with an olive green leather patchwork dress that had the movement of lightness while feeling ethereal.
September 7, 2013
by fashion pulse contributor
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The Show: Duckie Brown Spring 2014
The Theme: Fruit Cart Vendors & a Gender Bending Play on Proportion
The Color Palette: White, navy, and khaki
Signature Look of the Collection: Steven Cox and Daniel Silver’s latest collection for Duckie Brown subverted the notions of gender roles in a sartorial context, as the lyrics “dress like a boy, talk like a girl” quite appropriately boomed through the space to a techno-tribal beat
Smock-like shirts were layered over pants, tailored micro-shorts peeked out from under long overcoats and apron-like tops. A strong play with proportion added to the designers’ dialogue on gender and fashion, as shorts grazed the models’ thighs, sleeves of jackets and blazers were shortened, and as it was revealed eventually, what seemed to be shorts were actually skirts, slit up the front and back. While each piece presented was a characteristic staple of a man’s wardrobe, Cox and Daniel crafted them in lace-like materials.
As the collection unfolded, there was also a shift from strict tailoring- connoting traditional expectations of masculinity- to a more relaxed silhouette as the clinical white cottons of the first looks were replaced with burlap and linen.
-Lucas Dawson
