The best way to deal with end-of-fashion-week-fatigue is to ignore it. And hit the bar. Happily, Alison Lewis’ Spring 2010 collection had plenty of Champagne—who doesn’t love a pre-cocktail-hour cocktail? Models in Lewis’ sweet printed dresses with a vintage feel and wear-anywhere potential lounged about, showing off subtle ruffle detailing on the back of one [...]

Wren designer Melissa Coker pulled together a pretty impressive team for her Spring ‘09 video installation Another 3 Women. Screened at the Wren presentation in midtown last night, the video, directed by Alia Raza, is a mash-up of scenes from Robert Altman’s 3 Women and the Woody Allen film Another Woman, and it stars returning [...]

In the old days, designers would spiral-bind a few photos together and call it a lookbook. Such simplicity, while touching, just doesn’t cut it anymore. On the rise: the short film-cum-lookbook, a trend that Melissa Coker of Wren is working for Spring ‘09. The L.A.-based designed asked her filmmaker friend Alia Raza to collaborate with [...]