New York Fashion Week

(Danica Lo / StyleBistro)Today in brilliant things we can't believe we (or the internet, at large) didn't think of first: Glamour's Cat Fashion Concept Store—which celebrated its grand opening last night in the Meatpacking District on the first night of New York Fashion Week hosting Glamour's Executive Fashion Director Anne Christensen, Eddie Borgo, and Maria Cornejo's "35 Under 35 in Fashion" party.Basically, the concept store is the best thing ever on earth—that is, if you love cats as much...Read Full Story

(Danica Lo / StyleBistro) The front row directly across from me at Alexander Wang's fall showEarly last week, we spotted British model Liberty Ross in New York. You may remember her not only from her spate of Vogue covers ten-plus-ish years ago, but also from that whole Kristen Stewart homewrecker scandal where the Snow White and the Huntsman star had an affair with Rupert Sanders, who was, at the time, Ross' husband and father of her two children (he's still the father of their two children...Read Full Story

(ImaxTree) DKNY fall 2013 at New York Fashion WeekMore than the silhouettes and the colors and the devil-may-care anything-goes look of the late-1980s and early-1990s, the thing we miss the most about that era in New York City is the energy. And that's precisely the feeling DKNY captured in its fall 2013 collection at New York Fashion Week: the spirit and energy during that ten-ish-year span of time when Donna Karan first become The Donna Karan.There were wild, animal-print on animal-print...Read Full Story

(ImaxTree)This week, we're asking people outside of the fashion industry to give us their takes on the New York runways. Way outside of the fashion industry. Religious leaders! Yesterday, Jesuit priest Rev. James Martin, S.J. shared his thoughts on some of NYFW's most questionable ensembles, and today, Pratt Institute's Religious Affairs Committee Chair Rabbi Simcha Weinstein, and his wife, Rebbetzin Ariella Weinstein, are sounding off on more head-scratching Fall 2013 looks. Let's get...Read Full Story

(Danica Lo / StyleBistro) Jason Wu fall 2013Every February and September, a lot of fuss is made (and a lot of fashionable feathers are ruffled) by the biannual who's-sat-where New York Fashion Week version of the Mean Girls cafeteria-style seating chart—i.e. the publicly-visible publicist-and-designer ranking of where you fall in the fashion industry food chain. Do you deserve a front-row seat or have you somehow slighted the PR agency or label and are shunted to standing (or even worse...Read Full Story

(ImaxTree)It's the last day of New York Fashion Week, but we couldn't let it end without checking in once again with Rev. James Martin, S.J., a Jesuit priest, and the official "Colbert Report Chaplain." Earlier this week, he sounded off on VPL's strategically placed fur ("It looks like PETA was only half successful."), and Moncler's mob of green coat-clad models ("A phalanx of Soviet ecologists."), and now he's back to offer up his take on looks from Rodarte, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Jeremy Scott...Read Full Story

(ImaxTree) Alexandre Herchcovitch fall 2013At first glance, if I had to peg the one main idea behind Brazilian designer Alexandre Herchcovitch's fall 2013 collection it would be this: Take Your Top Off. For the most part, Herchcovitch's fall pieces were voluminous, gleaming silk, lushly printed in graphic florals or stripes—and the models strode the runway in various states of undress... a fallen strap here, a bodice undone there, a partially removed shirt neatly tucked along the waistline...Read Full Story

(ImaxTree) Donna Karan fall 2013"I am a New York woman," Donna Karan writes in her fall 2013 show notes, "Embracing the world. Designing clothes that move day to night, Monday to Sunday in any city, every culture."Her latest collection, which she dubbed "Sensual, Soulful, Sculptural," is a master class in dark, fluid glamour—a new iteration of her iconic "Seven Easy Pieces" system of dressing. The fall show featured a series of jersey bodies and bases—"whether a bodysuit, dress, skirt...Read Full Story

(Photo by ImaxTree) We spy with our little eyes, a lot of fabulous fishtail braids.The crisscrossed fishtails at Christian Siriano's fall 2013 show were so gorgeous even the models were swooning over them — and, need we remind, they've had many an updo before. "Christian wanted to do Heidi braids, and I wouldn't let him have it," said Antoinette Beenders, Aveda's global style director. "I said, 'We can do better than that!'"Well, mission accomplished! Take a close-up look at the finished...Read Full Story

Carmen Electra poses up after checking out the Badgley Mischka show during New York Fashion Week. (Source: PacificCoastNews.com) New York is in the throes of its biannual fashion week this week—and you know what that means! The city is crawling with celebrities. In town? One gorgeous Carmen Electra—with honey-blonde hair and a figure to die for, the star has been popping up on the red carpet and in front rows at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York shows.This morning, we spotted her at...Read Full Story