The first presentation I attended during spring 2015 fashion week was this one by Kate Spade. We literally landed at LaGuardia, checked into The Empire and got dressed to head down to Chelsea for this amazing presentation. It was one I absolutely did not want to miss because it was the first time I had […]
The lobby And here was my home away from home just last week while I was at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York – none other than The Empire Hotel, directly across from Lincoln Center, where fashion week takes place. Located on the Upper West Side, the location of this hotel just can’t be beat. […]
As you know by now, I’ve been at NY Fashion Week! Normally I’d say it never gets old, but with a double ear infection the first day got a littttttle old (hey, I give it to you straight). I was in such pain until the next day, really, and then when I finally started to […]
By Kafi Drexel As Nanette Lepore’s fall show wrapped to its finale, well-known style writer Anne Bratskeir of Newsday commented to me that she feels like she’s watched the designer’s daughter grow up. I felt the same way. That’s because each season the #HandCraftedInNY designer brings her daughter Violet out for the final bow at […]
By Kafi Drexel Native New Yorker, Emily Saunders pulls on a cross between film noir and the graphic appeal of the 1980s for this year’s post-Labor Day looks for her Saunder collection. Global influence comes from 80s British miniseries “The Singing Detective” about a novelist who has hallucinogenic fantasies about being a wartime detective while […]
By Kafi Drexel I wouldn’t have been able to keep my mouth from watering if it weren’t for the pink champagne supplied to the masses lured in by Stacey Bendet’s Fall 2014 alice + olivia presentation. It was staged at the McKittrick Hotel, home to the immersive theatrical production of Sleep No More. It was […]
By Kafi Drexel When you’re setting a runway show under the tents of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, every piece paraded down the catwalk should make the crowd “ooh” and “ahhh” louder than what preceded it. That’s exactly what happened at the Noon by Noor Fall 2014 showing. (And squeal, I managed to sit just a couple […]
By Kafi Drexel I value Tracy Reese enormously and I admire the true imprint she’s made in fashion. Her feminine frocks and retro use of fabrics influenced a whole crop of designers and boutiques worldwide. When you pop into fashion mom-and-pops like Min-K in NoLita you can still see the influence. It’s all about […]
By Kafi Drexel I recently had a chance to attend the 2014 Humana Challenge at the PGA West Golf Club & Resort in La Quinta, CA just a few miles from Palm Springs. It’s certainly a place that reminds you God is the most gifted artist and the rest of us are truly just impressionists. The […]
By Kafi Drexel Ruffian designers Brian Wolk and Claude Morais say for fall 2014 (now known as the season Derek Jeter retires as a Yankee, sad face) they “explored monastic opulence, tailored volume, and sober religious silhouettes — with lavish sumptuousness.” Anyone who doesn’t think religion goes with fabulous has never been inside of a […]
