We wrote about oxygen drops earlier this week, but it seems those little babies are just the beginning of the fashion world’s fixation with O2. Backstage at Victoria Bartlett’s Fall VPL show, Style.com’s camera crew caught up with the designer and her friend, the facialist Eileen Harcourt, who was beautifying the already quite beautiful teenage [...]

“It’s sacrilege!” exclaimed Victoria Bartlett of the jewelry Josh Hickey created for her Picasso-inspired VPL show out of parts of old books. Bartlett might have been shocked, but she was also mighty
pleased with the necklaces Hickey constructed out of old copies of Molière and clock parts that models wore at her packed show today. “I [...]

“I prefer not to think of it as an escape system. For me, a parachute is more of a liberation device,” says Victoria Bartlett as she demonstrates the parachute back of one of her Spring ‘09 VPL dresses—and no, the parachute attachment doesn’t actually work, though it looks like it might, and Bartlett is in [...]

We’ve noticed a lot of great statement jewelry on the runways this week: wrist-consuming cuffs at Rosa Chá; Koi Suwannagate ’s huge crystal butterfly that could have been mistaken for a Judith Leiber clutch; and the primary-colored, Native American-inspired finery at Ports 1961 by U.K. designer Lina Peterson. If you missed these, or if you [...]