Storm Irene: Ali Stephens

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Conexion Francesa.

Coco Rocha

The French Revue de Modes is back for the season with a fresh set of favorite girls on its collectible covers.

Maryna Linchuk

Coco Rocha, Ali Stephens, Karmen Pedaru, Lakshmi Menon, Maryna Linchuk, Tanya Dziahileva, Kinee Diouf, Rachel Rutt, Constance Jablonski, Dree Hemingway, Melodie Dagaul and Nika Lauraitis each gets a collectible cover by Thierry LeGoues and this season’s black and white theme is especially chic. and

Constance Jablonski

Who has your favorite cover?

Ali Stephens

Nika Lauraitis

Lakshmi Menon

karmen Pedaru

Rachel Rutt

Melodie Dagault

Kinee Diouf

Tanya Dziahileva

Dree Hemingway

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Badgley Mischka Spring 2010 RTW.

Kendra Spears

Mark Badgley and James Mischka channeled the tropical glamour of mid-fifties Cuba for Spring. The pair sourced their visuals by digging through old photos of friends' parents snapped during Havana's heyday. (The friends, incidentally, were in Palm Beach—the perfect locale to wear these clothes today.)

Maria Kashleva

Badgley and Mischka mostly worked a formula of clean, breezy fabrics with a well-measured dose of embellishment. By day, that would mean a lovely bell-sleeve white jersey dress, totally plain but for the vibrant coral bib necklace; and for evening, a fluttery black silk halter gown, casually belted and worn with a chunky crystal cuff.

Ali Stephens

Jewelry was important here, seen in big, sparkly costume tangles of chains and found objects. It's far from a fresh idea, but it brought a welcome off-kilter twist to the designers' straightforward elegance.

Arlenis Sosa

As their notes explained, this old-school island set also wore Parisian couture, and there was certainly a touch of Rue Cambon in all the black and white, and evidence of atelier hours in beadwork and the hundreds of tiny white petals embroidered on a ball skirt.

Heloise Guerin

The first two terrific daywear looks in salt-and-pepper silk tweed were also a nod to the same. The graphic palette far outshone the shots of color in lipstick red and highlighter pink: The latter is a hue that's become a clichéd way to add runway excitement, but that's a minor quibble for a mostly solid collection.