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Macy’s Passport in San Francisco Goes Glamorama and Artrageous
Models, Grammy winners and ballet dancers took the Orpheum Theatre stage Friday evening for Macy’s Passport, the venerable fashion fundraiser that started in 1982 to raise money for AIDS education and services. Although the annual event’s foundation is fashion, it’s evolved into theater over the years and it didn’t seem so odd that for the [...]
New York Fashion Week: The Interesting Stuff That Sometimes Happens Off the Runway
The bad behavior exhibited by fashion groupies at the tents is legendarily tacky, pushy and entitled. With the move from chaotic Bryant Park to the more spacious and stately Lincoln Center along with the use of bar code technology has kept many gate crashers and suspicious types out of the shows. It’s made for a [...]
New York Fashion Week: Gwen Stefani’s L.A.M.B. Collection for Next Spring
Gwen Stefani, the musician known for her individualistic self-styling long before Lady Gaga took it up a notch, presented a tightly edited collection of about two dozen looked as if they could be from her closet but wearable enough to share with her friends. Her line, L.A.M.B., has her distinct personality but, like many celebs [...]
New York Fashion Week: An Anniversary Weekend For Reflection
A noticeably subdued mood envelopes New York this weekend and even the usual spectacle that’s Fashion Week has taken on the feel of sensible shoes. Down on flash and frivolity. It just seems a little wrong to celebrate a new sartorial season when there are reminders everywhere of what happened 10 years ago. I wasn’t [...]
New York Fashion Week: Academy of Art University Showcases Collections by Recent Grads
San Francisco’s Academy of Art University has the distinction of being the only fashion school to do runway shows at the “tents”–the official venue of Fashion Week in New York. Bryant Park for years and now Lincoln Center. Simon Ungless, the school’s fashion director, was a contemporary of Alexander McQueen as well as a friend. [...]
New York Fashion Week: Lindsay Lohan and Other “Celebrity” Sightings
Guessing who’s causing the commotion and camera flashes has gotten harder these days as the star power of fashion week’s front row has grown dimmer. So, celeb watchers have to be content with the Real Housewives or one of the small, blond interchangeable starlets on Beverly Hills 90201 or Gossip Girls or One Tree Hill. [...]
New York Fashion Week: Spring 2012 and Fashion’s Night Out
You just know the week’s off to a fine start when the first day of the spring collections ends with a sighting of Ben Bailey from “Cash Cab” being mobbed by fans who want a ride. Alas, he only gives rides–and money–to those who don’t know who he is when he asks questions in exchange [...]
Ready, set, go. Another Fashion Week Starts in New York
I may have missed Hurricane Irene by a couple of weeks, but it’s wet and windy in New York and the forecast for Fashion Week looks like rain for the next four or five days. Not quite fall and no longer summer. But, I’m here for spring. Starting Thursday, the Spring 2012 runway shows and [...]
Spring Before Fall Heading into New York Fashion Week
It finally feels like summer 2011 in the Bay Area, but for the fashion world, it’s Spring 2012. The runway shows of New York Fashion Week start just after Labor Day and the fashion flock will be considering warm-weather clothes for NEXT summer, even before THIS summer is done. For us Northern Californians, watching what [...]
Giambattista Valli is Macy’s Next Designer in Collaboration Series
Giambattista Valli, a favorite of Victoria Beckham, will be the fourth in Macy’s series of collaborations with top name designers. The Italian designer, whose dresses and gowns are favored by starlets as well as the quietly fashion-obsessed, brings some of his signature touches to the affordable collection. The Macy’s collection launches on Oct. 26 in [...]
