Left to right: Designer Stacy Igel, a look from Boy Meets Girl's Fall 2010 collection
“I love putting my friends and colleagues together, for business or pleasure,” says Stacy Igel. “I’ve been building strong, honest mutually-beneficial relationships in fashion for years now,” she continues, “slowly gaining credibility and access. That’s the only way.”
Take it from Igel, she’s one who’s made these practices work to perfection. Over the last 15 years, she’s gone from student to designer, to the own
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Friends, bloggers, and combinations thereof gathered at the EVA New York boutique on Bowery as New York City-based designer May Kosaka presented her Georgia O’Keefe-inspired MOTHE Fall/Winter 2010 collection last night. If you listen closely, amid the din of chatty fashion followers sipping free Champagne, the designer shares with us the thought behind her current season, her favorite piece from the line, and offers advice to emerging designers. Readers, click play and enjoy.
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If you haven’t been reading this blog much or hitting your head against the door that is fashion production, let’s just say this once and for all; starting a fashion label is a long and expensive process with a wicked learning curve. Add a lack of adequate outlets to begin production and it becomes even more of a daunting task. In fact, the difference between the successful designers and never-weres can be traced to this stage in development. So, kids, imagine a democratic way
Welcome to another edition of Flea Bites, where we take you into the best flea markets around New York City and the independent designers, sellers, and tastemakers who keep them running. Today, we introduce you to designer Sara Keiser who caught our eye at The Market NYC on Mulberry Street with her deconstructed collection of colorful accessories and dresses, Box 185. Inspired by her love of “lopsidedness” and animals, with a touch influence from her hometown in South Dakota, she gabbed her bran
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With a recent ash burial for the late Alexander McQueen, the fashion world is obviously still in the grips of a great loss since the designer’s suicide last February. But, McQueen’s fashion legacy carried on this past weekend in a simple men’s collection at Milan Fashion Week under the direction of longtime McQueen assistant and now brand Creative Director, Sarah Burton. Yes—the late designer was known for his wacky and fantastical men’s collections, but somehow Burton’s u
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Happy summer! Today was the official start of summer, and the unofficial hottest day that ever was. It was also the day I continuedworking on illustrating the upcoming collection for Vena Cava in theirairy Soho studio.
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Designers; the countless hours of sketching, sewing, and restless nights, are only the beginning of the long road ahead. In order to survive in the ruthless fashion industry, your next, and perhaps
most difficult, challenge is getting your name out there. Not fun, right? But no worries. Though they may not have taught you how to tame the publicity beast in design school, we came across this
ever-so-helpful article from the Fashion Incubator offering advice on how to
Karlie Kloss Modeling Christian Dior Resort 2011 | Image via Flikr/yu chien 2000
No need to take a vacation to wear a piece from a designer resort collection. Gone are the days where the high-class jet setters and socialites hopping on a plane to St. Tropez are the only ones to sport the “cruise” collections, says The New York Times. The reality is, customers now want to shop and wear their clothes whenever and wherever they desire. According the article, a resort collection, also known as a “pre
Growing up between New York City and Mallorca, Spain, Daniela Jacobs has already created three seasons of her own collection, Allora, interned at CITYMagazine, Drella New York, and Refinery29. Currently working as a studio assistant/fashion intern for cult fave label Vena Cava while studying at Parsons, she’ll be offering regular reports from inside the VC studio, about the town, and wherever
her adventures in New York fashion take her
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