Dozens of A-list stars turned out Monday night at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate two visionary artists of the fashion industry.
The Annual Costume Institute Gala is one of New York City’s best-dressed red carpet events. The event is known as the “Oscars of the East.”
“It’s another illustration of what makes this city so exciting,” actress Sarah Jessica Parker said. “In large part due to Anna Wintour.”
Wintour, the co-chair and Vogue magazine editor-in-chief, played host to a crowd draped in masterpieces. “I always say you can look at a great fashion photograph and you can tell just as much as what’s going on in the world as a CBS news program,” Wintour said. “I mean, fashion is history, fashion is culture, fashion reflects the times, and that’s really what the Costume Institute sets out to do.”
The red carpet.
For the last few months, anyone paying attention has heard all about Jessica Simpson’s maternity wardrobe, baby shower, pregnancy fitness routine, etc. Now she’s on her way back to regular clothes. Simpson gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday. I wonder if the next step might involve a wedding to fiance Eric Johnson? Which would require a trousseau, of course! That’s the happy couple pictured above, at an event last November.
Jessica Simpson.
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Montreal Fashion Week is bidding adieu to its old stomping grounds for a brand new home.
The next edition of the semi-annual fashion showcase will be held Sept. 4-7 at Arsenal, a complex dedicated to contemporary art.
The 3,800-square-metre industrial boatyard from the turn of the century currently houses an exhibition hall dedicated to private collections and includes a main hall featuring about 1,860 square metres of unobstructed space.
Tavan and Mitto.
Wellington Fashion Week’s first high-fashion group show went off with a bang this evening in the beautiful Old Museum Great Hall. With a sell-out crowd, hundreds delighted in the SS12/13 and current collections of Taylor Boutique, moochi, Trelise Cooper, Ashley Fogel, Hermione Flynn, Lucy McIntosh, Mardle and Nouveau.
The action commenced backstage with cameras and film crew weaving through long limbed models, as Hair Director Michael Beel for Wella, and make-up director Olivia Wild, worked their magic capture the essence of high-fashion and edgy femininity.
Trelise Cooper.
If there was any colour you didn’t know existed, you’d have found it on the ramp of Fashion Pakistan Week’s day three; well almost any colour. From the simple whites to the brightest reds and blues, the stunning array of colours on display even managed to camouflage the flaws, including the nearly one-and-a-half hours of delay!
Shamaeel Ansari’s collection, which went on the ramp first, was focused on the colours of nature — greens, reds, blacks, browns, oranges and whites of course. Kimono style kurtas, short flared bordered tops and wraps lent a rather boho-chic effect to the entire collection. While it wasn’t exactly the most outstanding collection, clever layering of textures and fabrics did quite a the trick of making it passable.
Actress Meera.
Now that’s one way to make a memorable fashion statement and avoid becoming one of the celebrities who got slimed … what would the point be?
At least night’s Kids’ Choice Awards, Katy Perry showed off a few inches of her midriff in a neon green ensemble with matching peep toe heels …
… and a sports bra-like top dripping in slime.
Katy Perry.
New Jersey Conservation Foundation is holding a benefit.
Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it.
Each week, we’ll tell you about one great idea to give you a much deserved break, and make your life a little easier, maybe a whole lot easier.
The Mansion.
NBC’s new reality competition Fashion Star got off to a slow start last Tuesday, but producers say they’re still heartened by the fact that the show’s winning designs have been selling well online. The retailers involved — including Macy’s, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue — say they’re selling out of many of the show’s winning designs. “Sales of Fashion Star merchandise exceeded expectations,” says Macy’s spokesperson Holly Thomas.
Fashion Star centers on a group of aspiring designers who are mentored by Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and famed designer John Varvatos; supermodel Elle Macpherson is host. Buyers from Macy’s, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue serve as judges and decide whether to buy and market any of the contestants’ clothes. Because the show was pre-taped, the winning clothing items immediately go on sale at the retailers’ websites after the show.
"Fashion Star".
“Fashion Star” is the shrewdest hour of TV.
Combining the public’s appetite for fashion competition shows with the desire for instant gratification, the NBC series, premiering Tuesday, allows viewers to buy clothes the night they are on TV.
Granted, QVC caught on ages ago that viewers will buy what’s on TV, but “Fashion Star” is different. H&M, Macy’s and Saks Fifth Avenue all have buyers on the show.
Once buyers bid on items, that clothing is available online by the end of the show. The next day it can be bought in the store. The show was shot in July to allow enough time to make the clothes.
"Fashion Star".
Equestrian styles dominated two major collections on day six of Paris fashion week, with horse-riding vestments — some comfortably elegant, some constrictingly racy — the motif explored by Hermes and Givenchy.
The gaucho or Argentine cowboy inspired a cool and confident mix of clothes at the Hermes show, set in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in the heart of Paris’ Saint Germain area. The location seemed to have rubbed off on the collection, with a graceful Left Bank chic softening the edge of ponchos, chaps and coats held like matador’s capes.
Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci, meanwhile, turned on the horsepower for a pulse-quickening show complete with retro variations on jodphurs, riding jackets and racing boots.
In other collections, French designer Alexis Mabille revamped the school-girl bow ribbon, and Akris channelled the square silhouette — one of the defining looks this season.
Monday’s ready-to-wear shows include Chloe and Yves Saint Laurent.