Never one for the drab or dreary, designer Mara Hoffman treated fashion insiders to a performance by a Mariachi band as they circled their way around The Box at Lincoln Center on Friday, September 9th, ogling at the Mexican-inspired designs comprising her exuberant, free-spirited, and deliciously sexy Spring 2012 collection.
Sheer caftans with plunging necklines and kaleidoscopic prints with flashes of coral worthy of an Albuquerque sunset.
When the sun’s rays feel positively oppressive, the temperature is higher than an industrial-sized oven in an El Azizia kitchen, and your skin develops a bronzed sheen, it’s officially time to drape yourself in white blouses, slacks, shorts, and dresses, adding a laid-back feel to your ensemble and keeping you cool via a color that reflects light, rather than absorbing it, hence providing some relief from the summer scorch.
It took us a while to put this bad boy together, but we hope you’ll agree that it was worth the wait!
To paraphrase Katy Parry, make like a firework and let your colors burst this Fourth of July weekend with festive apparel, footwear, jewelry, home accents and entertaining details that show more patriotic pride than Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA album cover.
The late Dutch painter Piet Mondrian would smile in tacit approval as he observed the prominent color-blocking trend in Spring/Summer 2011 fashion, reveling in the way designers have nodded to the principles of composition and color that he expounded as one of the main proponents of the De Stijl art movement.
Every time I look at the playful pieces in Pretty Little Thing’s new Full Speed Ahead collection, I hear the hip-hop-flavored merengue beat of Proyecto Uno’s “El Tiburón” in my head, and my hips start to sway almost instinctively.
Jay-Z may have been on a “Run This Town” trip last year, but his leading lady, Beyoncé, has set her sights on a much larger target: the world.
Last week, I chronicled my day of shopping at The Shops at Columbus Circle as part of Time Warner Center’s “Fashion Blogger Forecast” campaign.
