12.16.12 Zac Posen Pre-Fall 2012
Zac Posen is the kind of designer who is pretty much guaranteed to have a retrospective at the Met in thirty or so years, and maybe another a few decades later. And it’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a decade since he, at 21 years old, first showed a collection….
1.23.12 Alexander McQueen Pre-Fall 2012
Despite reviews and fervent professions of love from writers, editors and customers, there was always a sort of museum hush around the collections designed by McQueen himself…
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1.19.12 Trend Report: Menswear F/W 2012
Poor Menswear Shows. Not only are they sandwiched between Pre-Fall and Fall runway shows in January, but they don’t even have a huge community of loyal, gushing bloggers posting OOTDs (outfits of the day) and runway looks…
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12.7.12 Runway to Retail
Knock offs are a less gentle name for how most of the mortal fashion world conducts business—runway shows dictate next year’s colors, silhouettes and patterns, and major fast fashion stores like H&M, Zara and Aldo copy what they choose. Though it sucks to see blatant counterfeits (ahem, Forever21, ahem ahem Canal Street), we’ve all bought and worn distilled versions of runway looks from large chain clothing stores. So since everyone’s already doing it, we might as well put in our requests from the Spring/Summer 2012 shows, no?
