Front row at Isaac Mizrahi's Fall 2010 Collection at the Bryant Park Tents.
Fashion Week has come and gone and there are Morning Afters all over town. The big money now is in maintenance and cleaning crews. My view of it all is from afar although I’ve been involved in the retail/garment industry in past lives and have a natural curiosity about its substance and prosperity.
This year was about transition. Not only is the fashion industry re-arranging its geography marketing wise, moving runways, etc., but more and more creative people are coming into the picture. Thirty years ago there were far less manufacturers competing as designer brands, and no more than ten or a half dozen, dominated.
Today, competition is fierce and highly entrepreneurial. Thirty years ago the garment industry was still local. The Fashion Weeks have embraced the international, keeping New York at the center. These are very important matters to the economic health and the cultural health of the city. Although from the POV on NYSD, it’s all about scrambling for the right seat, running from one place to the next, all of which was followed by the parties and parties and parties. It’s business as usual.
The following are only a tiny segment of the commercial euphoria that was the life last week in New York ...
Last Thursday night the Calvin Klein Collection had its Afterparty to celebrate the Men’s and Women’s Fall 2010 Collections at 15 Little West 12 Street. What I see when looking at these pictures is that the tenor of Calvin Klein’s creative sensibility, I mean Calvin, the man, was so distinct and refined that the aura remains long after he’d departed and the name has become a brand. These party pictures are the evidence.
Naomi Watts
Anna Lynne McCord
Becka Diamond
Carolyn Angel and David Alan Grier
Brett Fahlgren, Karen Duffy, and Sabine Heller
Brooklyn Decker
Dirk and Susan Standen
Anamaria Wilson, Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, and Sarah Cristobal
DJ Stretch Armstrong
Donal Brophy and Michael Carl
Kate Bosworth and Francisco Costa
Joey Jalleo and Graziano de Boni
Mr. Brainwash
Donovan Leitch and Kirsty Hume
Denise Zamarioni
Kristen McMenamy
Dustin Yellin and Craig McDean
Mark "Cobra Snake" Hunter and Neil "Whitesnake" Rasmus
Eric Villency and Sabine Heller
Eleanor Ylvisaker, Ferebee Bishop Taube, and Brett Weisman Heyman
Fred Howard and Doutzen Kroes
Jaclynn Jarrett and Dani Stahl
Kerry Washington
Linda Fargo
Leigh Lezark
Helena Christensen and Kristen McMenamy
David Zinczenko and Brian Boye
Jeanann Williams and Ben Watts
Melissa George and Fabiola Beracasa
Olivia Chantecaille
Richard Buckley
Ryan Phillippe
Madeline Weeks, Victor Glemaud, and Susanna Howe
Nicoletta Santoro and Max Vadukul
Sam Shaffer and Kathryn Neale Shaffer
Stella Tennant
Vasoula Barbagiannis
Yvonne Force Villareal
Also last Thursday, another highly creative sensibility, Isaac Mizrahi was back on the boards showing his Fall 2010 Collection at the Bryant Park Tents.
Yaya Dacosta
Models backstage ...
Lynn Yaeger
Isaac Mizrahi
Susan Fales Hill
Alexandra Lynn Rose and Jamee Gregory
Lauren Ezersky
Veronica Webb and Russell Simmons
Glenda Bailey
Hamish Bowles
Grace Coddington
Last Wednesday NANETTE LEPORE showed her Fall 2010 Collection on the Promenade of the Bryant Park Tents.
Abigail Breslin and Amy Astley
Kelly Osbourne
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
Fern Mallis and Nanette Lepore
Mickey Boardman, John Forte, and Sebastian Stubbe
John Slattery, Nanette Lepore, and Talia Balsam
Patrick McMullan and Robert Savage
Same day, PROENZA SCHOULER Fall 2010 Collection was shown at Mil.
Alexis Bryan Morgan
Amanda Brooks
Antonia Thompson and Robert Burke
Chloe Sevigny
Anna Wintour and Bee Shaffer
Alexis Thomas and Andre Leon Talley
Olivier Zahm and Terry Richardson
Cindy Weber Cleary, Ariel Foxman, and Hal Rubenstein
Selma Blair
Glenda Bailey and Mary-Kate Olsen
Lauren Santo Domingo
Nina Garcia
Simon Doonan
Tory Burch and Amanda Brooks
Jonathan Newhouse, Ingrid Sischy, and Sandra Brant
Victoria and Vanessa Traina
Also last Thursday Quicktake: Rodarte Opening cocktail party sponsored by Nordstrom and Vogue at the Cooper Hewitt Museum.
Laura Mulleavy, Kate Mulleavy, and Humberto Leon
Justin Theroux
Lizzie Tisch, Kim Gordon, and Caroline Baumann
Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch
Liya Kebede and Heidi Mount
Natalie Portman
Amy Fine Collins
Carlos Quirarte
Kirsten Dunst and Anna Wintour
Hedda Lettuce
Coralie Charriol Paul and Dori Cooperman
Cynthia Rowley
Filipa Fino
Helen Lee Schifter
Peter Nordstrom, Susan Plagemann, and Tom Florio
Stephanie Horton, Robert Verdi, and Anne Vincent
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Stefano Tonchi
Drew Elliott and Macky Dugan
Kyle with Liya Kebede
Mickey Boardman and Peter Davis
Anne Vincent and Melissa George
Michelle Gerber Klein
Meredith Melling Burke
Gadi Behar and Peter Luchsinger
Kristian Laliberte
Jess Rotter and Matt Worth
Ruth Caldewell and Trevor Rumberg
Stephanie La Cava
Tracey Ryans and Vivian Rosenthal
Melissa Berkelhammer
Also last Thursday, the classic Sabrina Fair chic of RALPH LAUREN’s Fall 2010 Collection at the Skylight Studios.
Andrew Lauren
Graydon Carter, Michael Roberts, and Amy Fine Colins
Ricky Lauren, Dylan Lauren, and Lauren Bush
Paul Cavaco
Anna Wintour
Virginia Smith, Amy Astley, and Candy Pratts-Price
Hal Rubenstein
Same day at the Bryant Park Tents, the All-American chic of TOMMY HILFIGER’s Fall 2010 Collection.
Tommy Hilfiger and Anna Wintour
Rosario Dawson and Hayden Panettiere
Ally Hilfiger and Shannon Rusbuldt
Penn Badgley, Hayden Panettiere, Ed Westwick, Rosario Dawson, Dee Ocleppo, and Tommy Hilfiger
Ed Westwick, Rosario Dawson, Dee Ocleppo, and Tommy Hilfiger
