Mark your calendars. On September 10, the first night of Spring 2010 Fashion Week, stores across the five boroughs of New York (and around the world) will stay open until 11 p.m. and lure customers with designer, model, and celebrity appearances; fashion shows; and other unique happenings. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans for the citywide [...]

Carolina Herrera wore a black silk cloque organza blouse with an ivory silk faille skirt of her own design to ABT’s spring gala, which she sponsored, but anyone who pays attention knows that she’s usually found in a white shirt, the crisper the better. We recently spotted her in one of her signature button-downs, monogrammed [...]

Michelle Obama wore Azzedine Alaïa to ABT’s Spring Gala last night, where she joined Carolina Herrera, Caroline Kennedy, Blaine Trump, and Renée Zellweger as an honorary chair. When we asked balletgoers about their favorite First Lady fashion moments, only Bryant Gumbel came up blank: “If I did know, it’s probably something I shouldn’t say,” he [...]

One of the perks of my job is participating in Thesis Week at Parsons. It’s amazing not only to see the students’ creativity—but also their own getups. Yesterday, a panel of industry “judges” including Carolina Herrera, Vogue’s Meredith Melling Burke, and John Bartlett gathered to see about a dozen collections (out of about 170). [...]

Carolina Herrera, Peter Som, Olivia Chantecaille, and 600 other dinner guests did their part for New York fashion last night, at a Fashion Institute of Technology benefit at Cipriani honoring Saks CEO Stephen Sadove. Acknowledging that the industry keeps 175,000 or so of his constituents employed, Mayor Bloomberg presented the award and at least one [...]

Coco Rocha knows how to work a runway—who could forget when she jigged out at the opening of a Jean Paul Gaultier show a few seasons ago? But on Monday, starting at Carolina Herrera, we noticed the currently carrot-topped stunner not backstage at the shows but sitting front-row. At Thakoon she revealed her front-row status [...]

We were trying to avoid the Valentine/Valentina allusions; but—cross
our heart—Kohle Yohannan’s new glossy tome from Rizzoli on the Russian émigré designer (and lover of Greta Garbo) is a great gift for lovers of fashion—and not only on the 14th of February. The book accompanies a retrospective at the Museum of the City of New York, [...]

For most brides, “something borrowed, something blue” is akin to a religious commandment. But Brides magazine is turning the usual wedding color scheme on its head with its Something Pink initiative, which supports research on breast cancer. The bridal bible asked 21 designers to create custom gowns in a rose-colored theme, with proceeds going to [...]

Fashion Week notes from the socialite and designer

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