New York Fashion Week

Corinne Day, whose frank, unadorned photos of a teenage Kate Moss in the early 1990s helped inaugurate a new era of gritty realism in fashion photography that came to be called “grunge,” died Friday. New York Times

Photographer sues fashion big-wig; claims he promised a job boost for sleeping with him. NY Daily News

Los Angeles will join New York, Paris, London, Madrid, Tokyo, Sydney, Beijing, New Delhi and others in “Fashion’s Night Out” on Sept. 10, from 6 to 10 p.m. more from Daily Breeze

The third season of The GreenShows Eco Fashion Week will run from September 12-14 alongside New York Fashion Week. The Green Shows will present ten designers that are committed to environmental and social responsibility. This event will be the only event exclusively focusing on environmental and fair trade responsibilities throughout New York Fashion Week. more from The Independent

A fashion show in Colombia featured 12000 condoms in a bid to promote safe sex and to raise awareness about the risks of HIV and AIDS. (Reuters)

‘Tis the season for checking our inbox with much enthusiasm to see what shows we’ll be attending and what new designer we’ll fall in love with this go-around. We’re feeling the infectious NYFW buzz that is radiating throughout the city.

It’s not the big names that tug at our calendars during Fashion Week. It’s the others. You know the ones. And if you don’t, you will soon. They’re the designers who are labeled by the industry as indie, up & coming, new, young, emerging and all the other synonyms of “not Calvin or Donna”. To us, they’re simply inspiring and we adore them season after season.

One new darling to catch the attention of the catwalk critics is Pamela Ptak. (we already have seats…yay!) Construction, construction, construction. A few others on our radar this season are Vena Cava (for some reason still in the “up & coming category”), Prabal Gurung, Alexander Berardi and Cushnie et Ochs.

Check back throughout NYFW to see our blurbs on all the “new ones” of NYFW. aka…the inspiring ones.

Cushnie et Ochs FW10

VenaCava FW10

Rodarte-show-Spring-2010--002The fashion crowd has had a bumpy ride lately. Stripped of the tents at Bryant Park, they’ve been forced to embrace Lincoln Center as their new venue.

Now technology has slowly wormed it’s way into show logistics. The same shows that have plugged along season after season are now being tempted by outside forces. The only changes expected were, of course the trends. Enter: apps, streaming and the multitude of fancy bits being brought to us via the interwebs.

Designers are slowly ebracing technology. A few designers are jumping onboard this season by streaming their shows live. This is causing a few eyebrows to raise with a flurry of gasps wondering “Is this the beginning of the end of Fashion Week?”

Fashion writer, Derek Blasberg, recently tweeted his despair, “With all these shows streaming live online (Marc, Calvin, Burberry, etc), I shed a tear for the ultimate end of fashion week. It’s coming.”

Our thoughts are that Fashion Week will never end. Change? Absolutely.

New York Fashion Week: 2/11 – 2/18
London Fashion Week: 2/19 – 2/24

Can’t make the shows? Catch these shows LIVE…
Calvin Klein (2/18 3pm EST) http://www.calvinkleininc.com/
Alexander Wang (2/13 5pm EST)
Rodarte (2/16 12pm EST)

LONDON FASHION WEEK
from ElleUK…
But it falls to London Fashion Week to push the digital phenomenon even further as it announces that all shows shown in the British Fashion Council tent at Somerset House from February 19th to Wednesday 24th will be streamed live. This means that you will have a front row seat to shows like Todd Lynn, Kinder Aggugini, Jaeger London and PPQ just by logging on to London Fashion Week’s official website. We’re almost tempted to ditch the heels, cobbles and cold and settle down at our desk to watch the shows too…!

There will also be exclusive films from Hussein Chalayan, Boudicca, Twenty8Twelve and Danielle Scutt.

The industry’s barriers of exclusivity are gradually being torn down, bringing the designer’s message to the masses. Enjoy the ride.

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