Gingham check at Christopher Kane. White eyelet, Swiss dot, and jagged swaths of suede at Altuzarra. Crochet at Alberta Ferretti, peasant dresses at YSL, clog heels and hay underfoot at Chanel. After several seasons of urban warrior looks, fashion is teasing out a more bucolic mood for Spring ‘10. Add the desert-inspired looks from brands [...]

Indie fashion magazines might not be making buckets and buckets of money from advertising in this recession, but they sure are familiar with buckets of ice and Champagne. This week has seen swanky fêtes for Purple magazine, Another Magazine, V Magazine, and Pop, each of them decadent in different ways. So there was a certain [...]

On any given Friday night, the corner of 14th Street and Ninth Avenue is going to be a traffic morass. But if the gridlock seemed a little heavier than usual last night, it probably had something to do with all the cabs stopping in front of Abe & Arthur’s, the joint that’s taken over the [...]

For reasons we mostly cannot elaborate, the Erin Wasson x RVCA extravaganza at the Bryant Park tents tomorrow night promises to be memorable. There’s a band playing, but we can’t say which one. An out-of-the-box A-list celeb is due to attend, but we can’t say who. And there’s going to be a gigantic film projection—and [...]

The stereotype: The athleticism of the fashion person goes not much further than the lifting of a Nina Ricci Fall 2009 platform or the mad dash of a Party Pentathlon to make good on five RSVPs in a single night. (Ed. note: Neither are mean feats.) In reality, however, we have some true sportswomen and [...]

The weather in New York this spring has been—to say the least—perplexing. The heat arrives overnight and departs in a flash, leaving behind rain and a biting chill. I’ve been caught out underdressed or overdressed repeatedly. My coats have gone in and out of storage three times. I mention all this because I want to [...]

Another day, another fashion dilemma. Over the past week, I have murdered several pairs of my jeans, trying to create the perfect pair of cutoffs. These were not jeans in my regular wardrobe rotation—I’m talking fat jeans, ill-advised thrift store purchase jeans, boot-cut jeans in a dark rinse that I attempted, to the permanent disgrace [...]

Designer Andreas Melbostad will go to bed happy tonight. Models Erin Wasson and Natasha Poly and fashion plates Vanessa Traina and Lauren Santo Domingo all chose body-con Phi looks for their walks up the Met’s steps.

Photo: Sherly Rabbani and Josephine Solimene

Attention, SoCal Style Filers: Erin Wasson is having a garage sale tomorrow at her boyfriend’s Venice Beach store Rogue Status. The designing model-muse is ridding herself of nearly a decade of fashion, including pieces from Balenciaga, Givenchy, Burberry, and Chanel and a sizable cache of Marc Jacobs (perhaps even the Spring 2002 look pictured here) [...]

Fashion week notes from the designing model and girl-about-town.
 
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