19 posts tagged "Catherine Malandrino"
Kirkwood’s U.S. Open, “The Patron Saint of Hipsters” Heads To Brooklyn, Cake Walking On The Runways in New Zealand, And More…
Nicholas Kirkwood is setting up shop in the States. The British footwear designer will open his first U.S. store in New York on Washington Street early next year. [WWD]
Taavo Somer (left), the man behind Freemans restaurant, Freemans Sporting Club, and the Rusty Knot, opens his highly anticipated Brooklyn restaurant, Isa, next week. What should we expect from “one of downtown’s most imitated tastemakers of the last decade?” For one thing, no deer heads, that’s for sure. [NYT]
We have a few days until New York fashion week begins, but New Zealanders got a head start with their very own fashion week. Here’s something you don’t normally see at a runway show: Auckland-based label Huffer closed with a patriotically dressed model popping out of a cake. Sweet! [Huffington Post]
Designer Catherine Malandrino has cancelled her New York fashion week presentation. Hurricane Irene is not to blame for this one-the designer’s rep says “the company is in a time of transition” and “we’ll be back in February.” [Page Six]
Match Point
This week marks the official start of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Tennis players continue to up their style game, and their outfitters—like Nike and Fila—are reciprocating. Nike players Maria Sharapova and Roger Federer are stepping out in bright red, pink, and blue—not your traditional whites. Fila’s players, like Svetlana Kuznetsova, are wearing the brand’s new capsule Pierliugi Collection. Named after Pierluigi Rolando, a former Fila lead designer, the collection is one of several they are rolling out in celebration of the company’s 100-year anniversary. Even if you aren’t actually playing in Flushing, no reason not to up your court style. Here, Style.com’s grand slam picks.
From top left to right: Lacoste + Catherine Malandrino pointelle polo dress, $450, www.lacoste.com; Fila 100-year jacket, $120, www.fila.com; Chanel racquet, price on request, available at select Chanel stores; Cortiglia Marina Bianco tennis tote, $465, www.cortiglia.com.
Malandrino’s Match Point
“Ooh la la, I was such a little girl that I can’t remember my first Lacoste piece,” Catherine Malandrino told Style.com last night, at the Mondrian Soho for a party celebrating her capsule range for the storied French brand. “It was probably a little white polo, but I have been growing up with Lacoste—my grandfather, my father, everyone, it’s really part of my family.” And maybe it was the family connection that helped her create a 12-piece collection for the label, one chic enough to bounce from the tennis court to a garden party. Malandrino (left, with Paper Magazine’s Mickey Boardman and Luigi Tadini) seems more fit for the latter, but admitted she’s game for sports as well. “I am a very active girl; I do winter skiing and all of this, but in a very effortless way and never trying too hard,” she said. It might be a little tricky to win a match wearing the maxi polo dress she had on, but she’d certainly look good trying.
FGI Catches A Few Rising Stars
“At one point in my career, I had $98, a mattress, and a floor,” Norma Kamali told us at the Fashion Group International’s 14th Annual Rising Star Awards luncheon, hosted by Condé Nast Digital editorial director Jamie Pallot. “There’s always going to be something that tests your ability, so get past it and then get over it.”
Kamali, the keynote speaker at the Cipriani 42nd Street event, offered similar words of wisdom to an audience that included Catherine Malandrino, Prabal Gurung, Eddie Borgo, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Maria Cornejo, and Lauren Bush, and rising stars Fabiola Arias and Bradley Scott Reisman (who tied for the womenswear award), and Loris Diran (who won for men’s). “To have this fabulous designer hand you the torch,” enthused Arias after Malandrino presented her with the trophy, “it’s just crazy.”
After a little carousing and a little networking—”I am leaving with a pocket full of business cards and a pocket full of promises,” Bergdorf Goodman’s Linda Fargo said—the designers, editors, and retailers reluctantly prepared to brave the snow and continue the workday. Well, most did. They may not have won the afternoon’s award, but the menswear nominees from Moods of Norway were still feeling celebratory. “We want to do Shirley Temple body shots and then go build a snowman,” designer Stefan Dahlkvist said. “Are you in?”
Macramé: Knotty Or Nice?
For most of us, macramé conjures up images of hemp-loving hippies, not the master of minimalism herself, Phoebe Philo. But Spring found the Celine designer channeling the festival set with woven vests and jackets. And she wasn’t alone. “Macramé is effortless,” said Catherine Malandrino, who knotted thin strips of leather into a linen T-shirt. Easy, yes, but not undone. At Gucci and Emilio Pucci, handiwork and magpie embellishments decorated bold evening looks for an effect that was far from folksy. And it doesn’t get any more fab than Roberto Cavalli‘s “Ultravixens of Glamazonia,” as we called them in our review.
Click here for a slideshow and let us know if you’re feeling knotty for Spring.