Archive for the ‘New York’ Category

Carson Kressley Hosts Kick-Off Celebration for the World’s Largest AIDS Fundraiser

NEW YORK, April 14, 2008 – AIDS Walk New York (AWNY) kicks into high gear Tuesday night with Carson Kressley, from Bravo TV’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Lifetime Television’s new hit, How To Look Good Naked. Kressley will emcee the Kick-Off Celebration that launches the final month-long, high-visibility campaign leading up to [...]

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Gilt Groupe To Feature Diane Von Furstenberg, Luca Luca, Amrita Singh and Alexis Bittar Sales This Week

NEW YORK, Mar 25, 2008 / FW/ — Gilt Groupe, a private club dedicated to providing its members with access to coveted fashion and luxury lifestyle brands at sample sale prices is featuring Diane Von Furstenberg, Luca Luca, Amrita Singh and Alexis Bittar Sales this week. Each Gilt Groupe sale (3x per week) is designer-specific [...]

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Underground NYC and Over Under Host Cost-Free Catwalks for Emerging Designers

NEW YORK, Mar 20, 2008 / FW/ — Today, March 20th, Underground NYC, the much talked about emerging designer marketplace and style venue in SoHo, will be kicking off its first installment of, Over Under, a monthly runway presentation, featuring the world’s most innovative designer collections.
Over Under provides an open venue for underground design pioneers [...]

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Twinkle by Wenlan Fall 2008: Where Sweaters Reign Supreme

NEW YORK, Feb 15, 2008 / FW/ — The moment Wenlan Chai debuted in New York, she became an instant rising star and destined to be garment district’s Queen of Knitwear. Her Fall 2008 collection presented last week at Bryant Park proved once again that when it comes to knitwear, Wenlan Chai is an artisan.
Opting [...]

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Monique Lhuillier’s Works of Art

NEW YORK, Feb 10, 2008 / FW/ — What is always amazing about Monique Lhuillier is her ability to take inspiration from something that is considered a classic, rework it and then come up with a look that is modern, contemporary and turns into an instant classic the moment it hits the runway.
For Fall 2008, [...]

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Vivienne Tam Celebrates Chinese New Year With Micky & Minnie

NEW YORK, Fe 9, 2008 / FW/ — Who would have thought that Mickey & Minnie will grace the runway? They did, via Vivienne Tam’s Fall 2008 collection wherein the New York-based designer created a capsule collection (9 pieces) and incorporated it to her runway show.
Officially, the year 4706 in the Chinese calendar began Feb [...]

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Luca Luca Fall 2008: Missing Luca Orlandi

NEW YORK, Feb 8, 2008 / FW/ — I know its unfair for Luca Luca’s new Creative Director Raoul Melgoza, but it is really hard not to miss Luca Orlandi’s high energy shows that make one wish they could wear the clothes being paraded on the catwalk right at that moment.
Because one thing that Orlandi [...]

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The Return of Angel Sanchez With the ‘Angel’

NEW YORK, Feb 8, 2008 / FW/ — It was during the Fall 2001 season when Angel Sanchez was seen at Bryant Park last. That time, the Venezuelan designer was known to the world as the one who dressed up Miss World 1995 (Jacqueline Aguilera) and Miss Universe 1996 (Alicia Machado) for their evening gown [...]

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Alexandre Herchcovitch’s Graphical Color Wheel

NEW YORK, Feb 7, 2008 / FW/ — With news last month that controlling interest on Alexandre Herchcovitch had been acquired by a big Sao Paulo firm, the Brazilian designer has a lot of reasons to celebrate, and that he did on the catwalk sending a very colorful collection with a purpose courtesy of the [...]

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G-Star Raw Fall 2008: Combining Fashion & Poetry

NEW YORK, Feb 7, 2008 / FW/ — With Dennis Hopper reading poetry as the finale of the show, G-Star made the runway a literary platform, a very refreshing uncommon use, considering all the political statements that had been made on the catwalk in the past and the present.
But, the poetry reading is not the [...]

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