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november 09, 2009

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Designer update

The Season Of The Blog Star Continues

When I caught up with Wren designer Melissa Coker right before the New York shows, she was a bit worried about her impending lookbook shoot. The issue: Last Fall, she featured New York’s latest fashion obsession, Alexa Chung—a big fan of the collection—but how does one follow that up? Well, Coker’s Spring 2009 lookbook [...]

September 28, 2009  12:20 pm

Social intelligence

the internet with texture

When Matthew Siskin started designing Web sites for designer friends under the name designedmemory, it was a way to pay the rent so he could focus on his music career. That was back in 2002. Fast-forward six years and he’s responsible for some of the fashion industry’s most inspired online presences, including the Web sites [...]

October 10, 2008  12:13 pm

Designer update

wren in living color

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 [...]

September 12, 2008  5:01 pm

Designer update

samantha pleet’s second career: film

Fashion week is starting to feel like a film festival. Last Thursday, Tara Subkoff screened her Fame Fatale short, starring her new collection for Bebe; a day later, Scott Sternberg bowed his Band of Outsiders videos starring Kirsten Dunst; tonight, Melissa Coker of Wren will debut the Alia Raza-helmed Another 3 Women. Moving pictures are [...]

September 10, 2008  9:07 pm

Q&A

alia raza films wren’s lookbook

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 [...]

August 28, 2008  3:25 pm

Dept. of culture

la’s cages aux folles

Los Angeles is in the grip of a particularly chic strain of avian fever. Symptoms first appeared at Wren’s Fall 2008 collection preview, where models stood before grand yet delicate birdcage sketches. These same birdcages soon spread to the walls of Larchmont boutique Lux and Ladyboy Shoes’ Echo Park launch party. Their source? Amy Jo [...]

August 18, 2008  5:30 pm