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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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A break today from the emerging designers to spotlight a few of our favorite big guns. Once we have a minute to download the photos from last night (four shows – so there is plenty to share) we’ll be bringing it all to ya!

So, the Rodarte sisters never let us down. LOVE.

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And then there is the Queen of the Cartwheel who needs no introduction…

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A bit more on the conservative tip, but who wouldn’t be compared to Rodarte & Ms. Betsey? Temperley London opted out of a runway show, showing in gallery style. Nicely done.

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photos: New York Mag

 Why is this necessary? Economically speaking, is fur consumption the only industry NOT tanking right now? I had no idea. Morally speaking, don’t get me started. There will be a follow up at the end of Fashion Week, listing a great number of the designers using fur in their Fall 09/10 collections.

Shame on you all!

 

 Cheers to Rodarte and Marc Jacobs for bringing us some sexy playful frocks for Fall. We’ve been huge fans of the sister team, Rodarte (tagged after their mother’s maiden name), from the beginning. As of last year, they were still living in their parent’s home in Cali while working their fingers to the bone. We love those stories (and their upcoming line).

and then there was Marc. Yay. Yay. Yay.
Our take…his set-of-64 Crayola box exploded in the design studio and *poof*…Fall 09/10. We love it. It’s not uncommon to receive mixed reviews when a designer veers from the brown/black/gray pallete for their Fall/Winter collection. The thing is, the general public will RARELY style these looks the way they are presented on the runway. In order to inject even a hint of color on the actual streets and into the stores, a designer needs to make a pretty excessive first impression that it’s okay to wear color this Fall. The MARC by Marc Jacobs bold presentation will most likely be interpreted by the end-consumer as, It’s okay to wear bright orange patterned tights with my all black ensemble.
However…we take a more literal translation and will be certain to pile on every bit of color we can get our hands on!!!

We also tip our adorned hat to you, Mr Jacobs, for cutting back on your annual Fashion Week extravaganzas in order to maintain your staffers’ jobs. (and I want those purple-knee-patched tights)