I've perfected 60wpm typing speed on Crackberry which means I'm able to blog en route to JFK airport, watching Manhattan get smaller and smaller. It's been a bit of a draining week and if you see me around London, I'll be sporting some fetching black shadows around my eyes.
So the deets have coming through in large spurts but in all honesty what with me reverting back to the shitty digicam for the week, the number of pics have been greatly reduced and thus have to be grouped this way.
My second season in New York has culminated with two things really...a newfound appreciation for simplicity and my belief that finally PRs get the whole blogging thang (judging by blogger turnout at fashion week - met so many that I've lost count)...at least in New York, Paris is a whole different kettle of fish...
Julian Louie basically nailed a minute selection of ice cream shades that I'm completely enamoured with on the condition that if I should wear such an outfit, I have a matching ice cream cone to accessorize...I love the fabric fringing he's done too...
I'm wondering what metal Rad Hourani has used in these leggings...
I have some interesting Fannie Schiavoni news coming up that sort of seamlessly continues on from this chain dress that I'm wearing that she made for me... photography by Steven Chu
Cool tailoresses Alex & Eli presented their collection and interpreted Studio 54 as a 90s cut-out thang...
Ruffles ruffles ruffles....and interesting flats... I will take that predictable lemming position and happily take it fully onboard...
Continuing my predictable lemming thing, obviously Rodarte blew me away.... and even more so when I went backstage to glimpse at the destroyed-made-beautiful fabrics... burn burn burn I say! Makes my bra-burning antics look lame and tame...
Sure these pics are everywhere but yup, Tavi was acting as spokesperson for Rodarte for Target's line not out until December but she got her hands on some of it...cream lace and navy netting and a reminder of Rodarte's pretty pretty days...
The Nicholas Kirkwood for Rodarte shoes that got obscured a bit by all the smoke pumping out in the show...
Man Shoe Envy is the worse. Made even more worse by the fact that Phil from Streetpeeper picked these cute boating shoes up from mercibeaucoup in Tokyo...
So in a weird turn of events, I ended up at Alexander Wang's studio for an interview with the Wang Man himself and checked out his now expansive T line which err...includes bottoms too... sort of defeats the object of the name but anyhow it's grey jersey galore so I'm not complaining...
That corseted sweater has swayed opinions a little but I'm sort of loving it from the back...
I knew it was niggling at me when I saw them at the show but finally I found out that these wooly/angora-esque shortsleeved sweaters with attached chiffon shirting WAS inspired by an outfit of Cher's in Clueless... you know when she fails her driving test and boo hoo hoos?
Peter Som's collection was a charmer and quite literally...charmed me with this gigantic multi-object necklace...
Pamela Love did a really brilliant presentation with different tents set up for different aspects of her jewellery line...
Gotta love the violin horsehair bracelet...
I also love her collaboration with Black Sheep and Prodigal Sons too... a sort of armour breastplate piece and a bone harness...
It's my ultimate superhero outfit should I decide to drastically change careers... courtesy of Alexandre Herchcovitch...
I guess this would be the accompanying superhero dress when I get power upgrades...
Me and set designer Anne Koch stood feet to feet as I admired her cheapie Broadway pearly pumps and stripy socks...
Jolibe finally decided to present this season and it was all crystallized (another Swarovski jobbie...) but I was fascinated by the embroidery that made this sort of relief effect on dresses...
Another predictable stunner from Proenza Schouler... I don't mean to lust after the biggies but there you go... fluros, plastic fringing and complex wedges...
(All pics that look half-decent are most certainly not mine but they're by Mark Reay for Dazed Digital)
