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12/18/07

4:39 PM

Blogging the Costume Institute's ‘Blog.mode’ Exhibit

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's "blog.mode" exhibit opens today, and to give you a sneak peek, we sent our Fabiola Beracasa to check it out. Click above to watch as curator Andrew Bolton explains how hooker boots from the twenties influenced modern fashion and why the controversial "Incubus Necklace" was impounded by police the first time it was shown to the public.

blog.mode: Addressing Fashion [Video Archives]

Update: You may be wondering, as we were, why the Costume Institute exhibition is actually called "blog.mode: addressing fashion." It's because the exhibit is interactive, and you can write about your reactions and inspirations at a "blog bar" in the museum. Mmm. Blog Bar. Sounds unhealthy and delicious.

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Show and Talk

10/16/07

4:33 PM

The Fab Life: Manhattan Vintage Clothing Show

New York fashion correspondent (and socialite extraordinaire) Fabiola Beracasa knows vintage. So we sent her along to the Manhattan Vintage Clothing and Textile Show to look at what's available and dole out some advice. "There's something sexy about plaid on a girl," Fab explains, checking out a cowboy shirt. Watch the video to see why you should shop for linens at antique shops and how to tell the difference between Chanel Couture and Chanel Boutique (it's easier than you think!).

The Fab Life: Vintage Clothing Show [Fashion Video Archives]

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Show and Talk

9/21/07

4:45 PM

Footage From London Fashion Week

Last week's mix of shows, parties, models, and high-heel-induced blisters may have left you in a haze — and in massive fashion withdrawal. Luckily, our pals across the pond put on their own Fashion Week, with freakier clothes, wilder makeup, and, let's face it — a lot more fun. Couldn't get your passport in order? Check out our runway videos and interviews with the designers, from stately Paul Smith to monochromatic Sinha Stanic (where a stampede nearly caused a real fashion emergency). What was Christopher Kane (see above) thinking with the chiffon and snakeskin combo? Did Eley Kishimoto drop acid and take a trip down Strawberry Fields? Watch the videos to find out. And check out slideshows of all the London collections.

Videos: The London Collections [Archive]

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Show and Talk

8/20/07

2:18 PM

There She Is, Your Overdressed Pet

The imprecisely named Pet Fashion Week was held in New York over the weekend — perhaps two days to a human is like seven days to a dog? — and New York's Elizabeth Cline was there for the big pet fashion show Saturday night. What was the scene like backstage? About what you'd expect. Take a look; it'll make your Monday.

Backstage: Pet Fashion Week [NYM]

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Show and Talk

8/17/07

1:42 PM

Saks Loads Up on Logos at New Shoe Department

The shoe department is open for business.Photo: Getty Images

The new shoe department at Saks opened this morning, and, much as we'd love to gush about it, we can't. Don't get us wrong: It's nice. It's very nice, and it's a major upgrade from the well-to-do-suburban-mom-attempting-to-be-fashionable selection the store formerly offered. But we're shoe addicts, and we were expecting more. The floor was buzzing with camera crews, waiters were serving breakfast munchies, and salespeople were announcing every two seconds how proud they were of the new space. They had the patent-leather Miu Miu spectators for sale, and the two-tone Pradas with the curved heel. They even had our knee-high Chloé boots, with the gold zipper going up the calf. But what they also had was way too many logos for our taste: Gucci, Chanel, and Dior; sneakers, loafers, and ballet flats.

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Show and Talk

8/16/07

8:39 AM

It's Evan Rachel Wood at a ‘New York’ Fashion Shoot

New York's fall fashion issue is out next week, and its theme is edge. Who better to embody the concept than actress Evan Rachel Wood? Not only does she appear soaked in blood in her boyfriend Marilyn Manson's videos, she's also starring this September as a naïf turned radical in Across the Universe, Julie Taymor's trippy take on the songs of the Beatles. How did Wood practice for the shoot? "I've been watching a lot of America's Next Top Model and taking notes," she told New York fashion director Harriet Mays Powell. Watch the video for a sneak peek and more on Wood's personal style.

Photo Shoot: Fall 2007 Fashion Issue [NYM]

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Show and Talk

7/31/07

2:00 PM

Video: Inside Proenza Schouler's Dark Resort Collection

At Proenza Schouler's studio recently, New York's fashion director Harriet Mays Powell found designers Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough with a dark resort collection. "We're just really attracted to dark colors," McCollough said. "We like tons of grays." A new metallic tank top displayed the duo's high-low aesthetic. "We're inspired by the idea of mid-century couture," Hernandez said. "Mixing that sensibility with the reality that we're kids from the nineties and it’s a dressed-down generation." See three new Proenza garments and hear more from the designers by watching the video.

Fashion Video Archives [NYM]

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Show and Talk

7/31/07

1:18 PM

CFDA Welcomes New Members, Prepares for the Tents

Herman, Von Furstenberg, and the new CFDA members last night.Photo: Patrick McMullan

As New York's fashion designers count the days till Fashion Week, which starts this year on September 5, two days after Labor Day, battles for models and tent times are heating up. But at the Council of Fashion Designers of America's party for new members at Diane von Furstenberg's studio last night, no one would name — and only a few would acknowledge — the most diva-ish designers, who politick to cast and schedule most fiercely. "There are model problems sometimes," acknowledged Stan Herman, a board member and former president. "There are time-slot problems sometimes. There are moments that designers go, 'I can't show next to that person' or 'I won't show next to that person.' But not very many."

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Show and Talk

7/13/07

11:00 AM

Nicole Miller Likes to Show in the Early Evening

Miller at the Interview after-party.Photo: Getty Images

It's still early summertime, which makes even the most precocious among us think ahead only to this fall — except for fashion designers, who are all prepping their spring 2008 lines (which, natch, they'll show this fall). We bumped into Nicole Miller the other night, at the Soho Grand after the Interview screening, and she told us all about planning a new show — the science of picking dates and times, and the dreaded curse of model-hoarding.

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Show and Talk

7/11/07

10:01 AM

Anna Sui Opens Macy's Art Exhibit, Loves Psychedelia

Photo: Getty Images

The Herald Square Macy's — New York's great middlebrow shopping mecca — is now, perhaps surprisingly, the place where high fashion meets high art. The department store has installed pieces by contemporary artists like Misaki Kawai and Shannon Plumb in its windows, and at a Q&A session to launch the "Art Under Glass" exhibition, designer Anna Sui touted both the project as well as an upcoming retrospective of her work, which Macy’s will display during Fashion Week in September.

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