Getting Ready for the Runway: Part 2
Today is model casting. You have to stare at fresh-faced, fat-free, teenagers while feeling exhausted and bloated. So I try to get dolled up and wear a cool dress and high heels.
Today is model casting. You have to stare at fresh-faced, fat-free, teenagers while feeling exhausted and bloated. So I try to get dolled up and wear a cool dress and high heels.
AP | SAMANTHA CRITCHELL | Posted 03.19.2009 | Style
*Scroll down for slideshow and poll* NEW YORK — Remember the '80s, when big hair and even bigger shoulders were the height of chic? The designe...
Liz Black | Posted 03.19.2009 | Style
Charlotte Ronson's Fall Winter 2009 collection reflected trends from the past (the 30's and 40's) that is now seemingly becoming our present.
Christy Ferer | Posted 03.19.2009 | Style
Just as the fashion in crowd has been mixing their Prada with their Target T's for some time now, J.Crew darling (and First Lady) Michelle Obama further ignited that trend and has set the tone for recession dressing.
Alex Geana | Posted 03.18.2009 | Style
There are many new concepts and designers trying to break through. Creative people are trying to figure out how to interpret the new world we're entering through clothes.
New York Times | Guy Trebay | Posted 03.17.2009 | Style
"Some casting sheets actually said 'No Blacks,"' the 19-year-old model Shawn Sutton was saying on Friday, backstage at the Duckie Brown show in the Br...
Nanette Lepore | Posted 03.14.2009 | Style
Pushing past the panic, there is a thread of beauty, a ray of hope, a bias dress in an opulent print, a whimsical mix of knits and extravagant jewels.
Liz Black | Posted 10.24.2008 | Style
Everywhere I turn these days I am accosted by another reality TV show veteran; whether from Project Runway, America's Next Top Model, or even The Hills.
Zandile Blay | Posted 10.17.2008 | Style
New York City had just wrapped up its Spring 2009 shows, but London was just now gearing up for its turn.
Kira Craft | Posted 10.16.2008 | Style
This season in the lobby of the Fashion Week tents, there was a booth tucked amidst the flashy sponsor offerings that had a serious message to share. ...
Kira Craft | Posted 10.15.2008 | Style
What was really refreshing about Donna Karan's show was that the event didn't have the feeling of everyone trying to be fabulous. There was none of that frenetic buzz of insecurity, of needing to be seen.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.15.2008 | Style
Some members of the fashion industry were patting themselves on the back last week with claims that there were more "curves and smiles" on the Fashion...
Joey Jalleo | Posted 10.14.2008 | Style
The end of Fashion Week is always bittersweet. It's like when you go out to the country for the weekend with friends, and you have fun with them, but by the second day you want to kill them and when you finally say goodbye to them on the third day, you sort of miss them.
AP | AMANDA KWAN | Posted 10.13.2008 | Style
***SPOILER ALERT!**** If you don't want to know which six Project Runway contestants become the finalists, turn back now. Scroll down for slideshow an...
TheFrisky.com | Claudia Crousillat | Posted 10.13.2008 | Living
The (oft over-used) term supermodel gets tossed around a lot. But whether or not these catwalk queens have been officially coined with that status, th...
Jezebel.com | Posted 10.13.2008 | Style
With all the hullaballoo going on in and around the tents this week, one starts to get less and less excited and more and more overwhelmed, exhausted,...
AP | SAMANTHA CRITCHELL | Posted 10.12.2008 | Style
NEW YORK — How does a seemingly unusual trend _ to wit, harem pants _ end up on almost every runway at New York Fashion Week? The spring previe...
Gawker | Posted 10.12.2008 | Style
No really, I checked with Jezebel editor Anna Holmes, seriously no one cares this year. I even checked with the anonymous comments left on New York Ti...
Vanessa Richmond | Posted 10.12.2008 | Green
Never in my wildest dreams could I ever imagine Anna Wintour wearing anything twice. Not even the same lipstick. Yet it happened. How could this be?
Zandile Blay | Posted 10.12.2008 | Style
I had confused the icy stares and warnings she doles out to Project Runway contestants on television with the reception she would give in person.
Reuters | Christine Kearney | Posted 10.12.2008 | Style
It's not trendy, it's "on trend," and if clothes are really good, they're "fierce" or "dope." Don't like the lingo of fashion? Whatever. Industry obs...
Amanda Christine Miller | Posted 10.11.2008 | Style
Getting into a fashion show at the tents at Bryant Park is not for the faint of heart. But the real VIPs flit right past the hoi polloi to a large door at the back of the tents. This is where the real action happens.
Joey Jalleo | Posted 10.11.2008 | Style
The Marc Jacobs show is always my "Wednesday" so to speak. It's the hump in the week where everything thereafter is a downhill trek.
WWD | Jessica Iredale | Posted 10.11.2008 | Style
Tuesday is traditionally an important day of the week in politics. Maybe that's why Lauren Bush, niece to George W. and granddaughter to George, cho...
Kira Craft | Posted 10.11.2008 | Style
Fashion Week is a social anthropologist's wet dream: as I wander through its offerings, I'm more fascinated by the people than the clothing. And upon ...
Nanette Lepore | Posted 03.19.2009 | Style