new york fashion week

The Fashion Statement: Shop Like Europeans

At New York fashion week, you have access to throngs of fashion journalists, stylists, celebrity stylists and buyers. I was dying to ask these stylish people how they have navigated shopping in a downturn. Are they shopping? Are they cutting back? Have their buying habits changed?

Yes, yes and yes (except one self-proclaimed shopaholic who said if she allowed herself to buy one thing, she'd fall off the wagon).

Answers like this came back unanimously: "I used to buy cheap and volume and now I buy fewer things that are better quality and I take care of them."

Timeless pieces top people's lists for fall. A midnight wool coat. A pair of black pumps. The perfect white shirt. An LBD, of course. And all are planning to make these purchases from well-established designers.

There's little talk of wear-'em-once pieces like plaid trousers, It handbags or look-at-me shoes. If buying more of a statement piece, like the one pictured above from Tuleh (Spring, 2010), they'll wear it a million different ways. In other words, they're shopping like Europeans, not Americans.

"I'm focusing in on what I need and I need a black dress. " said Jennifer Lee Rosth, a fashion editor based in Austin, Texas. "I've been shopping my closet for two years. I was so glad that I had been an American before because I had 15 black dresses. But, now, I'll be more choosy."

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Marc Jacobs 1980s Fashion Show

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Filed under: Apparel

Ah, the 1980s, architectural hair sprayed into place, heavy eye makeup, neon bright clothes, sharp shoulders. All this and more was on display during Marc Jacobs's Fall '09 collection show on Monday during New York Fashion Week. The show brought back artsy 1980s Manhattan in looks made for clubbing.Jacobs, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Runway said the show was a tribute to "What New York used to be before it was gentrified and such a boring place to live – when artists could make a living here." Jacobs recently celebrated th graffiti stylings of Stephen Sprouse and this new line further cemented Jacobs current love affair with 1980s style.

Gallery: Marc Jacobs New York Fashion Show

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Models Fall For Herve Leger

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The fashion line Herve Leger designed by Max Azria, is famous for the diet-inducing bandage dresses but what was most dramatic about the Herve Leger New York Fashion Week show on Sunday was the toppling models. The Leger show was packed with the young and beautiful including Sophia Bush, Jessica Stroup, Michelle Trachtenberg and January Jones and a crowd which gasped not just over the form-fitting and sparkly thigh-bearing dresses but for two of the leggy models falling on the catwalk. We can't blame the lovely ladies, those sky-high heels combined with tight dresses that don't accommodate much leg range of motion make for a dramatic silhouette but are difficult to navigate.

Gallery: Herve Leger Show New York Fashion Week February 2009

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Scenes From The Barbie Fashion Show

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The 50th anniversary of the Barbie doll was celebrated today with a runway show at Bryant Park in New York City attended by young girls and all sorts of Barbie fans. The show included pink decor and designs from some top designers. Models were turned out Barbie-style with manes of high hair, heavy glossy make-up and four-inch pink heels. While, as the AFP reports, Barbie sales have fallen in recent years the doll still has a tremendous fan following. Rachel Roy, Betsey Johnson and Bob Mackie were among the designers showcased in the flouncy, sparkling show. Check out some highlights in the gallery below.

Gallery: Barbie Fashion Show

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NY Fashion Week To Leave Bryant Park

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It's the end of an era, no more fashion tents in Bryant Park. IMG Fashion, the organizers of New York's famous Fashion Week have said that as of 2010 the event will be held at Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center. The new location offers more room than the tents at Bryant Park and better parking but it is located further uptown nearly a mile away and much further from where some designers have their offices. Some say that the new location may cause even more designers to hold their seasonal shows elsewhere, a move that could further splinter the event which has been less centralized in recent years.

This season begins February 13 and will host around 70 shows. Shows have been held in Bryant Park since 1993 but recent years have been seen conflict over the use of the space. In 2006, the Bryant Park Corporation announced it would no longer allow the shows to happen in the park, because they were interfering with public use of the area but later relented. The events are fashion tourism bringing in hundreds of thousands of attendees and around $466 million in visitor spending each year, according to the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the NY Times reports that IMG pays $1 million to $1.5 million to use the space each season.

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Several Key Designers RSVP "No" to Fashion Week

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Add Monique Lhuillier (at the finale of her Spring '09 show, at right) and Naeem Khan to the list of prominent designers opting to skip out on New York fashion week this February.

Designers like Vera Wang, Betsey Johnson and Temperley bowed out before the New Year, perhaps sparking a welcome trend for up-and-comers hoping to save the significant expense of showing at Bryant Park, an expense that can easily surpass the six-figure mark.

Lhuillier and Khan, who share a publicist, indicate that an intimate presentation as opposed to a traditional runway show is an appealing alternative for buyers and press with Energizer bunny-like schedules come early February.

Instead of a blur down the catwalk, guests will have a couple of hours during which to examine the clothes, talk to the designers and maybe even finish a whole glass of champagne.

[via WSJ]

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The Classicist: At The Carlyle Hotel

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When Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week hits New York City this Friday, the hip downtown hotels will of course be flooded with fashionistas. The ones who value refinement and elegance over mere trendiness however will head to the Upper East Side's Carlyle Hotel, a luxurious landmark since it first opened in 1930 and one of our favorite places to stay in the world.

French Vogue editrix Carine Roitfeld recently declared that the Carlyle is her favorite hotel as well, and with the addition of a luxe new spa next month, with its "sleek palette of slate, charcoal and black complemented by finishes in nickel, chrome and glass and rich molding," others are sure to follow suit. Not that the Carlyle lacks for high-profile guests; since it opened nearly 80 years ago, the hotel has played host to an endless procession of movie stars, millionaires and high society.

The Art Deco masterpiece was the perfect setting for both stylish philanderer John F. Kennedy, who owned an apartment on the 34th floor, and legendary cabaret singer Bobby Short, who hung his top hat at the swank Café Carlyle for decades (Woody Allen has also been known to hoist a clarinet there on occasion).

Gallery: The Carlyle Hotel

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World's Most Expensive Living Artist Turns Jeans Designer

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Filed under: Apparel, Art

I never know quite what to make of artist Damien Hirst, is he a brilliant commentator on modern life or merely a shameless huckster? Hirst, who recently became the most expensive living artist, delights in controversy. Whether its exhibiting sharks and other animals in formaldehyde, creating a diamond-covered skull, or his many side businesses that include the sales of bracelets and art kits, Hirst is probably the heir to Andy Warhol in the realm of merging art and commerce. That comparison just got a bit more apt, Hirst is now going to be working with Levi-Strauss on a line of luxury jeans under the company's Warhol Factory X Levi's label. The collection will be launched in September during New York Fashion Week with the name Warhol Factory X Levi's X Damien Hirst. Items in the Warhol Factory X Levi collection generally sell for $190-$250 for jeans and $80-$300 for tops.

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