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Stella McCartney Explains Why She Doesn’t Use Leather in PETA Video

Jasmin Malik Chua — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:49 +0000

It’s widely known that Stella McCartney doesn’t use fur in her collections. Less touted, perhaps, is the vegan designer’s rejection of leather. In a new video from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, timed to coincide with New York Fashion Week, McCartney explains why she shed the use of animal skins. Leather isn’t a by-product of the meat industry, she says, but an important co-product that contributes directly to the ills of factory farming. But although PETA planned to run a truncated version of the PSA on taxi screens across Manhattan, fashion’s tastemakers will not, in fact, be schooled by McCartney between shows.

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Will Online-Only Fashion Shows Replace Runways at Fashion Week?

Brit Liggett — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:00:07 +0000

KCD wants to revolutionize the runway, and you can watch it all unfold on your laptop or iPad. The public-relations powerhouse, which manages high-end labels such as Gucci, Versace, Alexander McQueen, Alexander Wang, Chanel, and Diane von Furstenberg, announced Monday that it will produce a number of fashion shows in a purely digital format. Coming on the heels of a recent show date “crisis”—a result of Milan pushing back the dates for its September shows—KCD is pitching the invitation-only Internet platform as an alternative to the increasingly crowded schedules that pull editors and store buyers in multiple, often opposing, directions. (Cue the usual gripes about aching feet.) Set to launch during New York Fashion Week, Digital Fashion Shows will debut with Prabal Gurung’s inaugural ICB collection on February 15, although his signature label will appear more conventionally on the catwalk.

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6 Hot Trends at New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012

Jasmin Malik Chua — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:00:35 +0000

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Watch Leanne Marshall’s Spring/Summer 2012 Runway Show at New York Fashion Week

Ecouterre — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:00:02 +0000

No matter how talented the photographer, stills can never do a runway show justice—they’re meant to be experienced, swinging steps, insouciant expressions and all. Nowhere is this more evident than Leanne Marshall’s Spring/Summer 2012 presentation at New York Fashion Week. The Season 5 Project Runway winner delivered a technicolor explosion of frocks that, in a word, rocked. Get up close and personal with the eco-chic collection from our front-row POV and listen in as Marshall spills some of her green design secrets.

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Originally published Sept. 21, 2011.

Justin Gignac’s “Waste Cubes” Illustrate NY Fashion Week’s Trashy Side

Kestrel Jenkins — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:00:11 +0000

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11 Hot Green Designers at New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012

Jasmin Malik Chua — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:00:17 +0000

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EDUN Launches “Pioneers” Project to Showcase Men of Style, Substance (Including TOMS’s Blake Mycoskie!) at New York Fashion Week

Jasmin Malik Chua — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:00:07 +0000

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Suzanne Rae Returns to Simpler Times With Her Spring 2012 Line at New York Fashion Week

Kestrel Jenkins — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:00:39 +0000

Photos by Amanda Coen for Ecouterre

Earthquakes, nuclear meltdowns, stock-market crashes; is it any wonder that Suzanne Rae yearns for simpler times? Showcasing her Spring/Summer 2012 collection at New York Fashion Week on Monday, the Brooklyn designer delivered a convergence of bikinis, playsuits, and fluttery gowns—constructed from organic cotton, recycled hemp, raw silk, and even raffia—on a platform that was more boardwalk than runway. Her nostalgia for the past was apparent: Paired with tai-chi flats and Tumbleweeds sunglasses made in San Diego from remnant woods, Rae’s beachy, laid-back looks ushered a rare moment of calm amidst the tumult.

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(Sustainable) Fashion’s Night Out Puts an Eco-Chic Twist on Consumption

Yuka Yoneda — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:00:23 +0000

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Chris Benz’s Spring 2012 Line Brings ’60s Psychedelia to New York Fashion Week

Yuka Yoneda — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:00:19 +0000

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Imagine for a moment, if you will, that the Stepford Wives hired the Merry Pranksters from the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as their personal stylists. The result would bear more than a passing resemblance to Chris Benz’s Spring/Summer 2012, which debuted at Lincoln Center during New York Fashion Week on Monday. With their gently teased Elizabeth Taylor hair, boxy shoulder pads, and psychedelic ’60s-inspired threads, Benz’s beauties were a screwball combo of Jackie O. meets Karen O. We also spotted some of Benz’s celebrity fans rally their support for the flamingo-haired Prince of Color, one of the few designers who manufactures almost exclusively in the United States.

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VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Costello Tagliapietra Spring 2012 Runway at New York Fashion Week

Brit Liggett — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:00:30 +0000

Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra had one thing in mind when they started designing their Spring/Summer 2012 collection and that was romance. With their ice-blue Grecian gowns and Georgia O’Keefe-inspired floral prints, we, for one, were wooed completely. Watch their new styles in action in our exclusive video above, and hear what the always stylish-in-plaid designers had to say about their perfectly draped creations.

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Suno Glams Its Spring/Summer 2012 Collection Up for New York Fashion Week

Kestrel Jenkins — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:00:08 +0000

Photos by Don Brodie for Ecouterre

Suno’s Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty have never shied from clashing, prismatic prints that almost appear etched in fabric. At their inaugural runway show at New York Fashion Week, however, the mood was noticeably more subdued, although the pared-back tack had an equally strong impact. For Spring/Summer 2012, Suno played up its trademark African-inspired patterns, which Osterweis and Beatty reduced to stark black-and-white line drawings. Enlivened with muted pops of buttercup, teal, and mustard, along with glints of metallic red, the overarching feel was one of elevated construction meets ethnic, with buttoned-up collars and unexpected back details to round out the ladylike silhouettes.

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Announcing the Winners of the Second Annual CFDA/Lexus Eco-Fashion Challenge

Jasmin Malik Chua — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:00:23 +0000

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Duro Olowu’s Spring 2012 Line Delivers Optimism Through Adversity at New York Fashion Week

Kestrel Jenkins — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:00:48 +0000

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EDUN Offers Africa With an Edge at Spring 2012 New York Fashion Week (Video)

Jasmin Malik Chua — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:00:14 +0000

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Mara Hoffman’s Spring 2012 Collection Brings the Tropics to New York Fashion Week

Kestrel Jenkins — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:00:42 +0000

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Leanne Marshall’s Spring 2012 Line Offers Girlish Sophistication at New York Fashion Week

Jasmin Malik Chua — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:00:01 +0000

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Costello Tagliapietra’s Spring 2012 Line Embraces Romance, AirDye Technology at New York Fashion Week

Jill Fehrenbacher — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:00:05 +0000

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Gretchen Jones is Guilty as Charged at New York Fashion Week Spring 2012

Jasmin Malik Chua — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:20:52 +0000

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John Patrick Organic’s Spring 2012 Line Finds Adventure at New York Fashion Week

Jill Fehrenbacher — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:00:10 +0000

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M. Patmos Gets Fresh for Spring/Summer 2012 at New York Fashion Week

Jasmin Malik Chua — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:00:11 +0000

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Tour de Fashion: Borrow a Designer-Customized Bike During New York Fashion Week

Jasmin Malik Chua — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:00:06 +0000

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Have a Sustainable Fashion’s Night Out at the Textile Arts Center on Sept. 8

Yuka Yoneda — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:00:39 +0000

As intoxicating as a global shopping spree sounds, we have to turn a gimlet eye to the rampant consumerism Fashion Night’s Out promotes. For the rest of us—those of us who don’t want to sit at home and mope, that is—(Sustainable) Fashion’s Night Out offers a planet-friendlier alternative. Hosted by EcoSalon, Of Rags, and the New York City Fair Trade Coalition at the Textile Arts Center in Manhattan, the event promises an evening of shopping, education, and revelry with an ethical point of view. Mingle with green designers and labels such as A.D.O. Clothing, Afia, Erin Considine, Feral Childe, Eliza Starbuck, Shabd, and more. Plus, it’s free and open to everyone. We’ll be there with bells on—won’t you join us?

Textile Arts Center
26 West 8th Street (between 5th and MacDougal Sts.)
New York, NY 10011

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Suzanne Rae’s Fall/Winter 2011 Collection is “Victorian Gone Grunge”

Amisha Ghadiali — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:00:05 +0000

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6 Green Designers at New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2011

Yuka Yoneda — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:30:48 +0000

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