Everything You Need to Know about Fashion Week from A to Z Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Alfred1/26Alfred
The must-have app to take care of your life—from picking up your dry cleaning to stocking your refrigerator and cleaning your house—while you go about living it.
Photo: Gianni Pucci/Indigitalimages.com2/26Big moves
Photographed by Norman Jean Roy, Vogue, November 20143/26Collaborations
Fall 2015 looks to be a big season for teaming up, either with artists or fellow designers: Alexis Bittar will present its fall 2015 collectsion featuring an auction of artworks by Natasha Law, Juliette Losq, Cordy Ryman, and Mickalene Thomas; the Lapo Elkann–owned sunglasses line Italia Independent is having a kick-off party replete with a live painting exhibition by Bradley Theodore in New York; Madina Visconti is collaborating with Del Toro shoes (complete with celebratory party in Milan); and CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist Gigi Burris will be designing hats for **Diane von Furstenberg’**s show.
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Courtesy of Miu Miu4/26Director’s cut
Miu Miu delivers the latest chapter of its Women’s Tales project in New York on February 18 with a film directed by Cannes favorite Alice Rohrwacher, starring her sister Alba.
Photo: Courtesy of Le Kilt5/26Edinburghian influence
Le Kilt designer Samantha McCoach comes by her fixation on the traditional garment honestly: Her grandmother made them on the Scottish capital’s Royal Mile. When Samantha started sporting kilts in London, friends came clamoring, and her brand, named for an eighties club on London’s Greek street, was born. McCoach is throwing her first on-schedule presentation at L'Escargot on Greek Street this season, and it’s worth noting that everything, from the socks to the tam-o'-shanters, is made in Scotland. (The designer, too.)
Photographed by Steven Meisel, Vogue, October 20046/26Fur as fur
The word from London is that the traditional mink coat (as worn by conventional ladies circa the forties to eighties) is back. If you fancy some of that, London's specialist vintage fur shop on Kensington Church Street is full of them at knockdown prices.
Charles Jourdan, Guy Bourdin, 1979; Photo: © Guy Bourdin Estate/Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery7/26Guy Bourdin
The “Image Maker” exhibit at Somerset House will be a place of pilgrimage during shows—take a break from the runways and come out crazed for seventies and eighties Charles Jourdin heels, photographed by fashion's legendary shoe fetishist.
Photo: Courtesy of Happy Ending / @happyending_nyc8/26Happy Ending
New York’s newest late-night spot for the après-après-party, now serving food until 2:00 a.m..
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From a wider screen (that offers an arguably better-than-front-row seat to the shows) to a camera that’s sharper than most toted by fashion bloggers, iPhone’s latest offering is the true must-have accessory for Fashion Week.
From left: Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, pajama set, printed silk crepe, c. 1970, France, Museum Purchase; Halston, pajama set, printed crepe de Chine, c. 1976, USA, Gift of Ms. Gayle Osman; Photo: Courtesy of The Museum of FIT10/26Juxtapose the work of two masters
Yves Saint Laurent and Halston share a marquee at FIT’s new exhibition, celebrating the two designers who defined the sexy and glamorous side of the (still very au courant) seventies. An inspiring stop between shows.
On view February 6–April 18; fitnyc.edu
Shantavia Beale II, Kehinde Wiley, 2012; Photo: © Kehinde Wiley/Jason Wyche/Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum11/26Kehinde Wiley’s retrospective
“A New Republic” opens at the Brooklyn Museum immediately after the close of New York Fashion Week, for those needing an escape.
On view February 20–May 24, 2015, brooklynmuseum.org
Photo: Francois Durand/Getty Images12/26London calling
Photographed by Steven Meisel, Vogue, March 200613/26Marta
Photo: (from left) Photographed by Annamarieke Van Drimmelen, Vogue, May 2011; AP images; Photographed by Pascal Chevallier, Vogue, September 201114/26New blood
Céline alum Johnny Coca at Mulberry, **Alessandro Michele’**s grand arrival at Gucci, Massimo Nicosia at Pringle, Peter Copping at Oscar de la Renta, Guillaume Henri at Nina Ricci, Anthony Vaccarello at Versus, Julie de Libran at Sonia Rykiel, Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski at Hermès, the recently appointed Natasa Cagalj at Ports, and Lorenzo Serafini at the helm of Philosophy by Alberta Ferretti; and fashion’s round of musical chairs continues its merry carousel! We can’t wait to see the results.
Photo: (from left) Courtesy of Céline; Courtesy of Saint Laurent Paris15/26Old? Says who?
**Joan Didion’**s turn as Céline’s poster girl made the Internet implode. **Joni Mitchell’**s ad-page appearances for Saint Laurent made some serious sartorial waves. Follow that up with Julia Roberts for Givenchy, Iris Apfel for Alexis Bittar, Charlotte Rampling for NARS, and add in one supermodel-rejuvenating campaign for Barneys starring Christie Brinkley, Pat Cleveland, Stephanie Seymour, Brooke Shields, and Kirsten Owen, among others, and it all adds up to one very real sure-ain’t-nothing-like-a-real-grown-woman moment. (And keep your eyes open for even-more-super-than-ever runway appearances: When it comes to a supermodel, there’s nothing, after all, like the real thing.)
Photo: Courtesy of Polo Ralph Lauren16/26Polo Bar
Ralph Lauren’s clubby restaurant is fashion’s new favorite watering hole.
1 East Fifty-fifth Street, New York. Open daily for dinner from 5:00 p.m., reservations required; 212.207.8562
Photo: Getty Images17/26Queen’s favorite
Kate Moss may have once teased Christy Turlington about her penchant for twinsets, but the super's got nothing on the original: QE II. (That’d be Her Majesty to the rest of us.) Make like a conservative royal and head over to Pringle of Scotland, which is celebrating its two-hundredth anniversary this season with an event held at London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery alongside the runway show, tracing the brand’s history from 1815 Scotland to today.
Photographed by Jonathan Daniel Pryce18/26Rainbow
One part Valentino’s home run of a couture collectsion, one part childlike enthusiasm for a future not covered in ice and snow. Expect to see a lot of thick, colorful bands adorning fashion’s flock and runways alike.
Photo: Getty Images19/26Starry nights (and days)
The NBA All Star weekend (Feb 13–15) coincides with New York Fashion Week this season and ensures some front-row appearances by the vertically advantaged—as well as some welcome sporting influence at after-parties citywide. Watch out for Oklahoma City Thunder star Russell Westbrook (who is being feted by Barneys for his contributions to the world of sports and fashion this week) as well as fellow off-court fashion enthusiasts like LeBron James, who is producing the first ever NBA fashion show on February 14 at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom.
Photo: Nick Knight / Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Trunk Archive20/26Through the looking glass
The question in the back of everyone’s minds: Which designers will fulfill the Chinese-inspired dress code requirements (imperial red? China blue? Ming vase–patterned?) for this year’s Met Ball?
Photo: Courtesy of The Protagonist21/26Understated, elegant and now in person!
Cult favorite Protagonist is premiering in New York with an early presentation styled by Vanessa Traina Snow that's sure to be a runaway hit with any fashion insider (or those who hope to look like one).
Photo: Kim Weston Arnold/Indigitalimages.com22/26Vuitton’s GO-14 bag
We’re calling it now: Anticipate a hostile seeing-it-everywhere-but-everywhere takeover, It bag–style.
Photo: Courtesy of Finery London23/26Website on everyone’s lips
Finerylondon.co.uk. Chic, shockingly affordable, and very well designed, and now with a London pop-up “fitting room” for those showers in London requiring a wardrobe update. Load up on stylish essentials for fashion month and beyond.
The Finery Fitting Room, 35 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DD is open daily through February 23.
Photo: Courtesy of © Universal Pictures24/26X-rated, so to speak
Fifty Shades of Grey will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on February 11, for members of the fashion flock skipping out on the first leg of the shows. For those of us in New York, London, Milan, and Paris, the question remains: Will the S&M influence translate into any of the collectsions?
Photo: (from left) Courtesy of Le Petit Joueuers; Photographed by Jonathan Daniel Pryce25/26Yaz Bukey and Les Petit Joueurs
Two purveyors of the new must-have boxy fun and just-crazy-enough clutch, heavy on both style and personality. Never leave a bag behind.
Photo: Courtesy of Stefano Gabbana / @stefanogabbana26/26Zambia
**Stefano Gabbana’**s newly Insta-famous and intensely photogenic Bengal cat has all the makings of a new fashion favorite. Watch out, Choupette.
