SON JUNG WAN – NEW YORK – SPRING / SUMMER 2013 FASHION SHOW Texture and silhouettes were the focus of Son Jung Wan’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection, with an equal eye paid to more elegant and ethereal materials and shapes. Embellished tweeds and carful craft work were everywhere to be found in a distinctly line that…
SOOJIN-LEE – NEW YORK – SPRING / SUMMER 2013 FASHION SHOW Soojin-Lee is a London based designer who used New York Fashion Week to launch her Byzantine art inspired Spring/Summer 2013 collection. Gold motifs, dramatic draping, and a more colorful extension of gothic imagery, the line highlighted the artistic potential of clashing patterns and bold…
Along with geometric shapes, the natural elements proved to be the other singular constant found throughout NYFW 2013. Sunhee’s Spring/Summer 2013 line proved no different, with water infusion prints that fronted the entire collection, inspiring a flowing silhouette and fabrics that did more draping than tight hugging. The line had a good mix of youthful…
SUNO – NEW YORK – SPRING / SUMMER 2013 FASHION SHOW Suno has made a name for itself as a label with an eclectic and unique vision, stitching together what seems like a blend of vintage one-of-a-kind pieces with a much more modern-minded mixing of prints. Their 2013 line does more of what Erin Beatty…
TADASHI SHOJI – NEW YORK – SPRING / SUMMER 2013 FASHION SHOW Japanese designer Tadashi Shoji has dressed everyone from Florence Welsh, Fan Bingbing and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer, always focusing on unique fabrics and vibrant colors, finding the right balance between the visual and the tangible. His 2013 collection kept on theme, with stunning…
Tia Cibani made her first solo debut this year after the designer left Ports 1961 in 2010. Her hotly anticipated line proved to be worth the wait. Inspired largely by a nautical theme, Cibani really paired down her line with a clean color palette: strong navy looks; whimsical peaches and yellows. The models looked perfectly…
TIMO WEILAND – NEW YORK – SPRING / SUMMER 2013 FASHION SHOW Timo Weiland found the perfect blend of youth and adult with his Spring/Summer 2013 line, harkening back to familiar fashion inspirations: 1980s/1990s; hip hop; minimalist nightwear. The menswear went the casual and clean route, largely featuring well-fitting garments that made the womenswear standout…
VENEXIANA – NEW YORK – SPRING / SUMMER 2013 FASHION SHOW Designer Kati Stern (with her Louise Brooks bob and Sedgewick-thick eyeliner) proved that when it comes to Venexiana’s Spring/Summer 2013 line, sometimes fashion is just as much about sustainable style as it is about progressive design. Stern’s line had its eye on a spectrum…
VIVIENNE TAM – NEW YORK – SPRING / SUMMER 2013 FASHION SHOW Vivienne Tam’s love of Chinese cosmology fit the larger themes NYFW was seeing most, which was a return to geometry, most specifically circular design. The five elements played the largest roll in the designer’s Spring/Summer line, with lace, broderie and crochet patchwork, and…
YEOHLEE – NEW YORK – SPRING / SUMMER 2013 FASHION SHOW Yeohlee Teng’s collection of women’s garments are focused on geometry and silhouette more than anything else, and the unique shape and fabric make it a fashion week line unlike any other. Teng has stated that architect Andrew Geller’s Pearlrtoh House in the Hamptons served…
YIGAL AZROUEL – NEW YORK – SPRING / SUMMER 2013 FASHION SHOW Yigal Azrouel has become known for his equal interest in both reshaping classic menswear and refocusing the future of womenswear, and his 2013 line continued this brave step forward with geometrically unique cuts and dark tones that granted the line a unique seriousness.…
CORRADO DE BIASE – PARIS F/W 2012 BACKSTAGE Corrado de Biase’s third Ready-to-Wear collection mixed 20s modernism with 70s London style embodying Biase’s philosophy that, “fashion is an imaginary place for impossible meetings of people, styles and eras across time and space.” The collection consisted of classic British looks, given an update in fabric and proportion.…
