Darrell Hartman
Truly Vintage Lanvin, On Display In Paris
Fashion-minded visitors at the Biennale des Antiquaires, which opened to the public today in Paris and runs through September 23, tend to beeline to the haute joaillerie. Mere paces away from the Cartier booth, however, a Parisian gallery has put together something genuine fashion wonks might prefer: a re-creation of an installation that Jeanne Lanvin [...]
Carlos Campos Spring 2013
Label: Carlos CamposNeed to know: More than a lot of menswear designers, Carlos Campos is a constructer. He cuts his own patterns and describes himself as a “frustrated architect.” Collaborating with one of his idols, Santiago Calatrava, two years ago on a New York City Ballet production meant a lot to him; just how much [...]
Anna Dello Russo’s Rules Of Fashion
For the inimitable Anna Dello Russo, rules are everything and nothing. “I play with the rules to break the rules,” the globe-galloping Japanese Vogue editor told Style.com yesterday at Eloise at the Plaza. She was there to launch her new H&M accessories collection, an ornamental fantasia of curling reptile bracelets, dominatrix boots, and turquoise-and-gilt everything, [...]
Joseph Abboud Spring 2013
Label: Joseph Abboud (creative director Bernardo Rojo)Need to know: Rojo’s fourth collection is Drive meets Rebel Without a Cause, even if his easygoing and L.A.-inspired mavericks wouldn’t necessarily look out of place in Martha’s Vineyard. In a nod to fifties and eighties volumes, there’s extra breathing room in the pleated (but tapered) trousers and biker [...]
The Pheelgood Performance of the Year
Style.com contributing editor and party reporter Darrell Hartman circles the city and, occasionally, the globe in the line of duty. In a new column, he reports on the topics—whatever they may be at whatever given moment—that are stirring the social set. Earlier this summer, I became a doctor. Not any old doctor but Dr. Goodpheel, [...]