Many have tried to capture the intrinsic olfactory beauty of the rose blossom, but few have been as successful as Stella McCartney, who struck gold with her STELLA Eau de Parfum.
Between the incessant Seattle-like rain, the New Hampshire-esque snowstorms that have shut down the public transportation system in cities like Philadelphia, and the bone-chilling cold everywhere from Chicago to New York City, this winter has seemed particularly bitter and positively endless.
Ever tried a product and wondered how on Earth no one came up with this before?
In a sea of conformity and bottom line-driven designs, you can always count on Alexandre Herchcovitch to restore a sense of adventurousness and unbridled creativity to the runway.
Aside from the runway shows, one of the best things to pop up at the Bryant Park tents this year during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (Feb.11th through Feb.
Going into the backstage area for the Tracy Reese Fall 2010 show, which was held on Monday, February 15th at New York City’s Bryant Park, I knew to expect ultra feminine makeup and hair looks — but, since that’s quite a broad spectrum, I was curious to see exactly how that girlish charm would be manifested.
When I left the Carlos Miele Fall 2010 show at Bryant Park, I felt so grateful to be a woman, to have those soft curves and that innate feminine grace and sensuality, all of Miele manages to celebrate in his garments.
Dark eyes and nude lips have been ruling the runway for Fall 2010, though there have been various iterations of this combination.
For Fall 2010, it seems like many designers are toying with traditional gender definitions via their apparel, with feminine garments styled in a more masculine, tougher, stronger manner.
It’s the theatricality of fashion shows, the performance art element woven into each presentation, that always lures me in, enticing me to look closer — it’s what makes my eyes twinkle with excitement, and what stamps a show into my memory bank (or, in the case, of those more lackluster shows, allows them to ebb away into oblivion hours after the finale walk).
