By Kafi Drexel Hopefully this is a sign that a long, long winter can finally give our coat closets a bit of a breather. Let’s clear the puffy coats and break out some leather! Andrew Marc X Richard Chai celebrated its Spring 2014 launch at Scoop NYC in Soho. Chai is a CFDA award-winning designer […]
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 […]
