Katharine K. Zarrella
Why any parents would permit their 7-year-old daughter to roam the streets of New York in fishnets and a mini tutu is beyond me. But that is precisely what I saw on New York’s Upper West Side this Halloween. In spite of Sandy’s wrath, trick-or-treaters...
He gave us the Motorcycle Bag, Darth Vader visors, and a bold new approach to the feminine form. But after 15 years at Balenciaga’s creative helm, Nicolas Ghesquière is leaving the historic house. WWD broke the story this morning, reporting that it was a...
“She’s a little bit crazy,” said eyewear designer Tracy Sedino of the Linda Farrow woman. Considering Sedino’s customer has, in the past, worn the brand’s Mickey Mouse glasses, cat-face shades, and a veritable peek-a-boo mask crafted to look like red-nailed...
This week, Newgen Men, the British Fashion Council and Topshop-sponsored young designer initiative that provides London-based menswear talents with mentorship, financial support, and a platform to showcase their collections, announced its list of recipients...
It’s no secret that, with its top-ranked fashion colleges and numerous young designer initiatives, London is home to many of the industry’s hottest emerging talents. But most up-and-comers don’t have the resources, or the funding, to get their work out into...
Fashion has always had a penchant for social and environmental causes. Just look at Dame Vivienne Westwood, who comments on global warming, human rights, and social injustice through her crusading designs. But it’s safe to say that “save the bees” is a new...
In recent years, a new generation of off-the-wall contemporary milliners has emerged in London and reinvigorated the English tradition that is eccentric headgear. Piers Atkinson has risen to the top of the pack. The go-to guy for all that is fantastic,...
By now, the shows for the spring 2013 season, which wrapped last week in Paris, seem like one big blur. There were loads of florals (like the painterly poppies in Dries van Noten’s stand-out girly-gone-grunge collection, and in Simone Rocha’s sweet but...
PARIS — There were lots of interesting elements in the ever-eccentric Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s spring collection — the techno jungle prints that grew into razor-sharp leaf pointed shoulders on jackets and dresses, the linen coat that featured a...
Olympia le Tan is all about the unconventional. The Paris-based designer made a name for herself via her line of quirky canvas and felt literary minaudieres — that is, clutches made to resemble classic novels, like Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the...
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April 08, 2013
