Study NY by Tara St. James‘ Fall/Winter 2010 collection has a hidden split personality. If it isn’t enough that most pieces can be worn two or three different ways, each look was also shot in two contrasting styles: A more conventional lookbook format by photographer Eric Reeves and a series of moody black-and-white images by Graeme Mitchell.
Jeff Garner, founder and designer of Prophetik
Men’s fashion typically takes a back seat to women’s due to the consumer demand of women’s ready-to-wear. The men’s retail business makes up 20 percent of the market, with eco-fashion constituting only 7 percent (5 percent of which is women’s.) This gives the justification of why companies tend not to focus on eco-menswear. Plus, there is a shortage of menswear designers out there in general.
Julia Roebuck is a British designer who creates eye-catching London street-chic pieces by recycling used or discarded garments from various sources. Roebuck’s got her mind set on more than just a design label; she’s marching her way to the top of the fashion food chain to figure out how to make the industry less wasteful.
Warm weather is soclose we can almost taste it! If you’ve been searching for the perfect Marilyn Monroe-sque ensemble (circa Some Like It Hot) for the imminent heat wave, we’d like to introduce you to Titania Inglis’s foxy little eco-jumper. Its sweetheart lines and organic fabrics, tailored to a T in New York City’s Garment District, have us longing for the sun. But it’s hardly the only piece in Inglis’s arsenal that’s frolic-friendly.
Adie and George never had the pleasure of each other’s acquaintance but that hasn’t stopped their granddaughters from playing retroactive matchmaker. Casey Larkin (Mr. Larkin) and Sasha Duerr (Permacouture Institute) bandied around several names for their collaborative knitwear collection before landing on the monikers of their biological forebears—perfectly apropos when you consider the heritage nature of the 100 percent West Coast line.
If there’s one thing that designer Dandi Maestre knows, it’s that you can’t tame nature, so why bother? The former graphic designer plunders Gaia’s backyard for treasures-in-the-rough and crafts them into oversized sartorial statements: shed antlers become an avant-garde necklace, reclaimed driftwood transforms into a chunky cuff, and dyed exotic nuts are carved into psychedelic rings.
Despite the best efforts of photographers, static pictures can never truly capture the rhythm, excitement, and theatrics-in-motion that make up a runway show. Which is why we snuck a video camera into the GreenShows at New York Fashion Week to bring you some of the best moments from the front row. Plus, we ambushed designers Samantha Pleet, Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart of Vaute Couture, Melissa Kirgan and Xing-Zhen Chung-Hilyard of Eko-Lab, …
Jennifer Wen Ma’s beautifully dappled charcoal prints at Ekovaruhuset’s New York Fashion Week show so mesmerized us that we simply had to find out more about the Emmy Award-winning artist and her work. Ma collaborated with Melissa Kirgan and Xing-Zhen Chung-Hilyard of Eko-Lab to create the smoke-hued pieces, which were painted freehand using water-based, low-impact inks. The result? A misty, atmospheric effect reminiscent of Chinese landscape paintings and Zen calligraphy.
Photo by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
New York Fashion Week and the 21st Winter Olympic Games may be jostling for the same real estate on your calendar, but they go together like, well, six-inch stilettos and bobsled racing. Not so, perhaps, for the Rodarte sisters, who have promising careers in activewear if they ever tire of being fashion’s darlings du jour. In a crossover event of epic proportions, Laura and Kate Mulleavy have designed a collection of custom knitwear for a New York Times Magazine photo essay featuring the likes of freestyle skier Emily Cook, snowboarder Shaun White, and figure skater Johnny Weir.
The Uniform Project’s Sheena Matheiken is splashing out for New York Fashion Week—or in her own words, “seven days of fierce”—in a big way. As under-the-tent hysteria shifts into full throttle, the sartorial chameleon has hooked up with seven New York-based ethical designers (Study NY, Bahar Shahpar, SANS, Scully, Helena Fredriksson, and Suno) to put their own twist on the little black dress she has worn for the past nine months.
