What is it about fashion and classical music this season? First the streetwise optical line Illesteva showed its new collection on a full string section [http://www.style.com/stylefile/2011/02/fall-accessories-set-to-drums-or-strings/], and now the young designer Frank Tell is getting in on the action, too. (He is showing at Lincoln Center, home to some of New York’s finest classical venues.) [...]

Pamela Love’s presentation last night was a feast for the ears, as well as the eyes. As she had last season, Love recruited pal Hisham Bharoocha to pound out a psychedelic drumbeat, live; this time, Bharoocha’s drumming made for a particularly fitting accompaniment to the new jewelry Love showed. Forgoing last season’s exploration of dimension [...]

For any budding fashion line, finding funding is nothing short of a godsend. “It was the best Christmas gift,” Mara Hoffman raved about being selected for the W Hotels’ Fashion Next program. “I found out in December right before everybody headed off for the holidays.” Along with fellow colleagues Tess Giberson, Mandy Coon, Frank Tell, [...]

Fashion insiders have been whispering the name Raphael Young to each other for a few seasons now. No wonder—the Seoul-born, Paris-based shoe designer, who worked at Yves Saint Laurent prior to launching his eponymous label two years ago, creates elegant, futuristic footwear that inspires cultlike devotion. French devotees—and lucky international editors—can get their fill when [...]

Frank Tell may have only turned 23 yesterday, but the young designer had wisdom to spare. “I worked all day and I actually can’t stay out that late because I’m working on my pre-fall collection,” the Scorpio designer said at Macao last night. Aside from making the rest of us reassess what exactly we were [...]

As we all know, the key trend of 2009 is shopping your closet. And designer Frank Tell has taken that to heart: For Resort, he’s repurposed several patterns from collections past, extending the seams on his tailored dresses and adding volume to the shoulders to make them come alive for a new season. “You know, [...]

As anyone who’s caught an episode of the Showtime series can attest, the Tudors were England’s sauciest dynasty. That said, designers who look to the six wives of Henry VIII and/or the Elizabethan era of English history for inspiration don’t generally seize on religious warfare as a motif. Frank Tell is an exception: As he [...]

“I guess it’s like an Academy Award for models, but a life-size one,” said Coco Rocha last night at the Rootstein Gallery, standing beside a mannequin made in her exact likeness, complete with her newly unveiled red hair. The Canadian catwalk queen is the latest fashion figure to be immortalized by the iconic mannequin maker. [...]

What do you get when you put together Veruschka, Louise Bourgeois’ “Cells,” and Siouxsie and the Banshees? Paillettes, according to Frank Tell. The designer has traded in the silver ball appliqués of his Polly Magoo-inspired Fall collection for embellishment with a bit more swing this season, the better to make his runway debut. “I felt [...]