Following six packed days of shows, surprise celebrity cameos, and the world’s most cutting-edge designers transforming city landmarks into whimsical backdrops for their latest work, another New York Fashion Week is now in the books. There was hardly a dull moment: Lindsay Lohan popped into Christian Siriano to watch siblings Ali and Cody Lohan walk…
I Need A Hero - The Untitled Magazine - Photography by Lenox Fontaine. Brianna wears a dress by USEUNUSED, a necklace by BEA VALDES, bangles by LES PETITS JOUERS, and shoes by CHLOE GOSSELIN. Left page: Julia wears a dress by HERVE LEGER, a metal harness by LADY GREY, an ear cuff by CHRIS HABANA, and…
The Costume Institute: China: Through the Looking Glass The Metropolitan Museum of Art May 7th, 2015 –August 16th, 2015 Exhibition Locations: Chinese Galleries and Anna Wintour Costume Center The Costume Institute Gala, held on Monday night, April 5, marked the opening of the Costume Institute's new exhibit. This year's theme looked to the East, as the…
VIVIENNE TAM - NEW YORK - AUTUMN/WINTER 2015 VIDEO INTERVIEW Vivienne Tam's Autumn/Winter 2015 collection is an urban romantic take on chinoiserie, the European concept of China. With intricate designs that blend European style with rich imagery from the East, such as lush renderings of birds, pagodas, boats and bamboos, the presentation melted the two worlds to…
BACKSTAGE INTERVIEW WITH DESIGNER VIVIENNE TAM BY INDIRA CESARINE Vivienne Tam presented her Spring 2015 collection on September 7, 2014 in the Theatre at Lincoln Center. Inspired by the decorative treasures of the Ming and Qing dynasties housed in the Forbidden Palace, such as pictorial porcelains depicting otherworldly landscapes and scenes from nature, the collection…
This past weekend, on the evening of July 26th, 2014, The Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation celebrated its 21st annual summer benefit–One Thousand Nights and One Night: Sleepless Nights of Sheherazade–at The Watermill Center. The event was a massive success with the Foundation raising a record setting $2.2 million dollars to support the Center's International Summer Arts Program and the year-round…
Yue-Sai Kan and her China Beauty Charity Fund held its inaugural gala China Fashion Night at the Pierre Hotel. The gala benefited a scholarship at FIT to enable emerging talent from China to study at FIT and also honored Chinese fashion pioneer, Vivienne Tam with an award presented by Petra Nemcova, as well as introduced…
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…
VIVIENNE TAM - NY F/W 2011 FASHION SHOW - VIDEO BY XXXX MAGAZINE Chinese opera inspired Vivienne Tam's newest collection for fall 2011. The elegantly cut coats that opened the show were the true highlights of the collection as their structured shoulders delicately pulled from the architectural shapes of a Chinese opera house. - Fashion week coverage…
