Fashion Week Recap
Our honorary darling friend Lesley Scott of Fashion Tribes has put an amazing recap of NYC Fashion Week together. Click Here to read complete NYFW 08 coverage.
Fall 2008 Fashion Week New York: List of the Top 10 Most…
1. Inspiring – Steinunn
Reflecting the raw beauty of her native Iceland, Steinunn’s intimate show featured stunning artisanal knits and cocoon’y shapes. Unfortunately, by showing at the beginning of Fashion Week, the other seven days paled in comparison and felt like they headed downhill artistically.
2. Disappointing – Marc Jacobs
An odd ode to pastel boxiness, made worse by following right on the heels of a stellar spring collection devoted to sheer layers and clothes that were thought-provoking (really! check this out). When he admitted to Style.com that he “really wasn’t very inspired this season,” he wasn’t kidding.
3. Successful Succession – Peter Som for Bill Blass
Inspired by lookbooks from the house dating back to 1969 and 1970, Bill Blass creative director Peter Som created covetable clothes for today’s Blass brigade of finicky fashionistas, snooty insiders, and glamourous power mavens alike.
4. Over-Anticipated – Halston
That eccentricity you just felt in the earth’s orbit? That would be the glittery fashion king of Studio 54 rolling in his grave at having his name attached to these lackluster Donna Karen’esque knits and stripped-down Calvin imitations. Harvey Weinstein’s magic touch apparently ends at the border of Tinseltown.
5. Girlie Makeup – Proenza Schouler
Yes the standard smoky/smudgy/stormy/greasy (adjective du jour) eye is sexy and sophisticated, but blue eyeshadow is fun! Dick Page opted for pearly grey layered with cobalt, creating a playful standout in a somber sea of grown-up smokiness.
