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ISAAC MIZRAHI Fashion Show Photos / Runway Collection Spring / Summer 2011 "IM Xerox" Collection Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week >> READ: Isaac Mizrahi Runway Review Click on each picture for an enlarged view. All Photos: Isacc Mizrahi

New York Fashion Week Highlight: All the prints were oversize but still so delicate and evoking the callings of Art Nouveau, any true girl will love to wear them. More from New York Fashion Week...A pure and refreshing tone was set with Nanette Lepore's Fall 2011 collection of airy pieces, complimented with chunky knits, tweeds and leather.There was a streak of black leather and delicate dark prints, otherwise the palette was warm creams, champagne tones, soft greys and some punches of sea foam blue. You would have thought it was Spring if it weren't for the sweaters and outerwear! >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews The khaki utility trench was a key outerwear piece, with tonal color blocking

New York Fashion Week Highlight: Lively & wearable- you couldn't have more sweet fun dressing up! Anna Sui has a great ability to always channel a 60's hippie vibe along with a 60's rock vibe and a bit of country thrown in for the good girls. Her Fall 2011 collection didn't disappoint in any of these areas and continues to stay strong in the bold, bright prints, wacky accessories - the cat hat - and a high element of girliness. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews The palette is bold, but with muted colors that when placed on top of one another give us the bright prints. >> SHOP: Anna Sui at ShopBop There was a constant rotation of style so if that psychedelic butterfly

New York Fashion Week Highlight: Fashion is nonsense and should be fun and exercised with creativity and joy. Betsey gets that right year after year. If you can see a fashion show, this is hands down the one to get into. Betsey Johnson is a performance piece, not just fashion. And not just the Fall 2011 collection, but every single one of 'em. The music is revved, the models are dancing down the runway, the crowd is excited and let's not forget Betsey's infamous cartwheel finale! Now onto the clothing portion. But wait, first the super radical hair and shoes. The platinum ombre sprayed on the black hair with precise black lace stencil - radical. The open toe, super stiletto

New York Fashion Week Highlight: If you don't want to cross trends, Gwen Stefani makes sure there's at least there's a little something for every city treading girl Gwen Stefani is going to give Betsey Johnson a run for her money as far as fashion performances go. Because the Fall 2011 collection, which was the final show for Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week, was a production of music, video, choreography and themed clothing. A huge video screen hung at the end of the runway showing video appropriate for each of the six mini collections; beginning with an army/combat capsule, a Rasta/jamaican capsule, a Brit punk capsule, the Japanamation capsule, a mod 60's capsule, and ending with a perfectly posh Gwen capsule. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews That's a

New York Fashion Week Highlight: Every look was jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and every look conveyed the essence of the luxe jet-setter lifestyle to which he caters in complete perfection. It's borderline impossible to ever say that a Michael Kors collection isn't just stunning. After seeing this Fall 2011 collection it is actually impossible. Because every look was jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and every look conveyed the essence of the luxe jet-setter lifestyle to which he caters in complete perfection. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews As always, his color palette is built strictly on solids and with the exception of the bold red that came down the runway in a few looks, it was a very warm and soothing range of color

The Jewelry of Van Cleef and Arpels, Timeless Iconic Design on Display

Must See:“Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels” at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Brad Boles and I popped by the Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition preview and I cannot encourage you enough to pay a visit to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum if you are in NYC! The timeless design and breathtaking quality of the jewels presented is one of the most magical events that you don't want to miss. Here's what Brad says... -- S.H. For more then century, the remarkable history of Van Cleef & Arpels has been intertwined with the lives of many of the greatest personalities of our time. Each has enhanced the other and set the stage for the display of some

Fashion Week Gossip- Oscar de Renta’s Global Revolution draws on the Silk Road, Tinsley Mortimer at Robert Verdi’s Luxe Laboratory and…

... The Genius Collection from Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig's Marchesa was truly overflowing with drama as a sure bet for the Red Carpet! Brad Boles is still terrorizing the town in fabulousness with his Blackberry... I'm sure that I love Oscar de la Renta as much as Sarah Jessica Parker does! He has drawn inspiration throughout the years from Morocco, India, and Paris in the 1920's. The fall 2011 Oscar de la Renta collection is every bit as glamorous as his previous iconic collections. Between the embellished jackets of gold bullion and sequined gowns, my source the "Debutante It Girl," was front row at the show and kept me (and you) in the loop via her cryptic texts. Oscar

Model Carmen Kass Shares Some Fashion Tips While Designer Reet Aus Takes Eco Chic To A New Level

Retail Remedy: A fashion collection that self-recyles adds a new spin on being fashionably green Everyday we hear recycle, recycle and more recycle. And now, Estonian designer Reet Aus had made it her fashion statement. With the help of her well-known supermodel friend Carmen Kass, Reet presented her collection last Friday at Beyond 7, at the retail launch of edgy fashion showroom Showroom Seven last Friday in New York's Meatpacking area. The Reet Aus collection is made entirely of the recycled materials. Designer Reet Aus But, here's the spin that makes this collection really edgy and intriquing... We are promised that the designer will not create a new collection every two weeks. However, the collections she creates uses organic materials

In the Realm of the Fashion Senses

Retail Remedy: New shop to focus on foreign & lesser known trendy designers A REALM is a dominion of a monarch or other sovereign ruler. It is also happen to be the name of the new high fashion boutique that just opened in the heart of New York's SOHO at 98 Greene Street by Randi Jacobson. Blake Lively at the Realm boutique opening The idea of the boutique came to Randi after being unable to get access to less known trendy designers that dwell outside of US. Jacobson decided to represent them in New York and establish her own REALM where she rules fashion. The store is spacious and eclectic. Last week there was an official opening fit to a

Halloween Dog Costumes Are As Wild, Wooly, And Fantastic As Ever

20th Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade put the woof in wild! You know that there is nothing we love more around here than a good dog costume and a fab parade and contest to show them off. It's that time of year again when New Yorkers put their best bark on and go a little experimental and zany in the name of their best friend. >> Try some ready made Pet Costumes This weekend, the 20th Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in support of the First Run dog park in the East Village has its share of (un)usual suspects to steal the show all in the name of fun. The Master of Ceremonies was "Snooki," see her below.

Printemps Paris Store Windows Love New York, Mr. Brainwash Style

Retail Remedy: While we are obsessing about Paris Fashion Week, Primtemps is in LOVE with New York! The grass is always greener on the other side of a trans-Atlantic flight... Here I am living in Paris and fending off questions about the Paris Fashion Week and the Parisain department store Printemps loves New York, my former hometown. Go figure. While Paris is overflowing with some of the most styled out fashion peeps in the world and celebrating French Chic like nobody's business, Printemps is celebrating the Big Apple with these clever window displays. Michael Kors and Campbell's Soup Spray Paint Fifteen iconic New york designers including Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Diane Von Furstenberg, Alexander Wang, Ralph Lauren, Proenza Schueller and

Marc Jacobs Spring 2011 Runway Review: Reflections of Marc Jacobs, Rodarte, Jason Wu, Donna Karan spring summer 2011 Naveed Hussain has been taking a breathe and pondering New York Fashion Week- not as piece by piece but by show, to see what stood out above the NYFW fray and complexities of the week. -- S.H. We've been doing a lot of whining at the pace and scale of fashion in this day and age of globalism and an unsteady economy. Fashion today has become a world-wide beast, it's everywhere, and isn't that a good thing? Shouldn't this mean we are all sitting at home with a closet full of the best we can buy? Okay well, that is possible, but

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Isaac Mizrahi

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