What's Happening Now: If you happen to be in New York, so is CoSTUME NATIONAL!

Seriously, what is better than cocktails and high Fashion?  Yes, you got it - nothing!

Now imagine - Cocktails, High Fashion, New York City and Saks Fifth Avenue.  

Tonight!  And if you happen to be in New York - you could attend a fabulous cocktail event!  The invitation is just a "click" away!

Magazines I Love: ROUGH Italia - Anything worth doing, is worth doing well

ROUGH Italia

I know I've been gone for a while but believe me when I tell you it was for a worthy cause.

ROUGH Italia has launched.

Fashion Video I Love: Aquinas - Directed by Marin Finerty

This is easily one my FAVORITE photo shoots!  Styling the models was a dream.  

These guys were so hot we had a crowd of screaming French girls who REFUSED to leave the set.  So we thought it might be funny to have the girls chase them.  And they happily obliged! 

Photos: Kevin Pineda & Niccolo Fano

 It's good exercise for the boys!  Right?  Haha!

Photos: Kevin Pineda & Niccolo Fano  

But you gotta check the video by Marin Finerty!

It is FABULOUS!

What's Happening Now: Coming Soon - Rough Italia

Rough Magazine

Rough Magazine
www.rough-online.com

Did someone mention Rough Italia? Tokyo James

Fashion Beau: Lunch for 25 (Elegant) Men!

I love love love the Sartorialist "Lunch for 25" videos.  Such elegant, beautiful, well dressed gentleman conversing on who knows what which I SOOOO want to know!

I love this!  Love it!  And in this third installment of the series we once again see familiar faces and NEW faces.  I like that there is a blend of backgrounds, styles, ages, races.   But it feels natural because they all come together in the name of Fashion so you almost don't notice the differences.  It is just 25 elegant men having dinner.  So wonderful.   Beautiful and engaging.

Don't you just LOVE men!  LOL!

And Sam is there!  :-)

Photos and Video
The Sartorialist

 Hahahaha!

The big questions is, how did he get those men to sing??  Awesome!

What's Happening Now: Sao Paulo Fashion Week S/S 2014

If you want to know where to pay YOUR Fashion attention.  I'll  tell you.  It is Sao Paulo Fashion Week.  Don't sleep on it.

Alexandre Herchcovitch
Spring/ Summer 2014

I've been interested in Brazilian fashion for a few years now.  It's Fresh and Sexy and Cool.  I always knew that a culture so comfortable with the beauty of the human body would create clothes expressly to celebrate it.  But not in the obvious way, there still needs to be Fashion and Design.  And the Alexandre Herchcovitch S/S 2014 collection is the perfect collection of Brazilian Fashion for the Fashion (elitist) world because Alexandre does something very well.  He blends the mode of fashion with the body beautiful of brazilian culture.  

And let me tell you how...

What's Happening Now: My Day as a Fashion Editor

As I made my way towards a Designer Showroom pull destination I caught a glimpse of my reflection in a store window and I thought "why am I dressed like I'm looking for Lenny Kravitz"?  Huge white fur with a FAT fur lapel, Leather pants, Jil Sander stomping boots, slick back hair and hot pink Aviators.  I was ON one.

Then I arrived to select clothes for the editorial for my Magazine and I stood before the Spring/ Summer 2013 Philipp Plein Runway collection, and I remembered, I'm pulling from the Church of Rock and Roll.  I gotta be dressed the part.  LOL!

Philipp Plein Campaign PhotoSpring/ Summer 2013 Collection
www.philipp-plein.com

And the Philipp Plein Runway sample options?  Oh man...

My New Obsession: Cheesy Fashion Films that Rock!

I've decided I want to make a Fashion Video just like this one!  You gotta see this!  
















It's Quentin Tarantino meets B-Movie meets High Fashion meets Campy/ Cheesy film.
Awful acting.  Great styling!

There is this "I'll shoot you in the head, but I can't forget my fabulous hat" kind of story line.  
It's so wrong that it's right!!
I LOVE IT!!

Spotlight On: Mary Katranzou F/W 2013 "Print or Not to Print"

Do what you love.

Mary Katranzou graduated from the esteemed Central St Martins School of Fashion.  Her graduating show in 2009 marked her entry into the Fashion World.  The show featured trompe l'oeil prints of oversized jewellery on jersey-bonded dresses!  

Her first full season out in the big world of Fashion was again based upon her fabulous prints.  And every season since Mary has managed to wow us with her prints.  They are her signature.
But for Spring/ Summer 2013 Mary created a furor with her money print collection that rocked the Fashion World and cemented her as one of the Fashion elite.  Her show is now the "in" show to see!

Then THIS Season for Fall/ Winter 2013 Mary decided - less color, less print.
Hmmm...  what happened?