New York Fashion Week Schedule S/S 06 September 8-16

[kimair]

from fashionweekdaily regarding the marc jacobs show:

Marc Jacobs’ show is starting one hour earlier this year (8pm instead of 9pm on Sept. 12), allegedly per Anna Wintour’s request after last season’s record wait time…

 

[jegg]

Willow headed for Big Apple
August 10, 2005


Melbourne fashion designer Kit Willow has been selected to showcase her One Thread range during New York Fashion Week next month.

Willow's clothing range will show at New York's Bryant Park during the week-long fashion festival, joining nine other up and coming designers and some of the industry's biggest names.

"This is a big honour and has made it possible for the label financially to show at one of the world's major fashion weeks," Willow said today.

Willow's participation has been sponsored by American company UPS after an intensive application process.

Finalists were determined by executives from 7th on Sixth, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Parsons School of Design, Fashion Group International and American Vogue.

"We think this will be an extraordinary launch pad and kick off for these designers," 7th on Sixth executive director Fern Mallis said.

"It fulfils one of the important missions of Olympus Fashion Week, which is to present the broadest range of talent from the leading established designers through to providing a platform for the newest talent."

Willow will showcase the One Thread range in an individual catwalk showing, with the designer describing the collection as "very organic, contemporary tribal and feminine".


http://www.smh.com.au/news/fashion/willow-headed-for-big-apple/2005/08/09/1123353311931.html

Kit Willow: Australian Fashion week 2005 (below a link to some photos)
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/2005/05/04/1115092564719.html

 

[Meg]

doesn't Doo Ri already show during NYFW? I loved her f/w stuff.

Anyway, glad to see more names are getting out there....though some of them like Willow I find are too mass market to really be worthy of being on the runway....to me, it's in the same sort of stream as La Petite Salope or Juicy.

 

[jegg]

DOO.RI's only shown outside the tents-past seasons

 

[liberty33r1b]

great info, interesting!

 

[KhaoticKharma]

Sure, Beyonce is no designer, neither are Jennifer Lopez and Gwen Stefani, but let's face it- celebrity is in and fashion isn't. When these singers and actors put on fashion shows, it puts fashion in the press. Vouge has made that quite clear with all the celebs on the covers, and Marc Jacobs is thisclose to putting stars on the runway, not just in campaigns. If anything should tell us that fashion is dying a terrible death, it should be that people aren't even doing couture shows anymore, because they cannot afford to put so much money in an industry thats not giving them their money back, much less profit. No one in my class knows who Gemma Ward and Daria Webowy are, versus Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Simpson.

If these celebs can draw attention to fashion in any way shape or form, I'm pleased. Because you better belive that a 15 year old in the midwest might not know who Dries Van Noten is, but if she sees J. Lo plastered on the inside of a $400 button down, she might just consider saving her allowance.

 

[faust]

Because you better belive that a 15 year old in the midwest might not know who Dries Van Noten is, but if she sees J. Lo plastered on the inside of a $400 button down, she might just consider saving her allowance.

Let them stay in the midwest then.

 

[kimair]

from fwd...oh goodness

Never one to be press shy or anything less than ostentatious, Kimora Lee Simmons will mark a milestone when she presents her spring Baby Phat collection in New York on September 10 at 9pm. Her show will take place at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, making her the first designer to stage a fashion show at the legendary space.

“Not only are we making fashion history, but this way everyone invited will be able to get in and, more importantly, get a seat,” noted BJ Coleman, the PR director for Baby Phat. “There will be no standing.” The approximate 3,000 seat capacity venue will hopefully fit the bill this time around, and do away with the drama many editors—including a very public André Leon Talley—experienced at Sky Studios last season when they could not get in. Coleman went on to say that having the show at Radio City was the right synergy, as Kimora was inspired by Hollywood glamour for her spring collection. “This event really represents all that is glamorous,” he noted. “It’s meant to have a real red carpet feel.”

As part of a special promotion leading up to the fashion show, Baby Phat will be staging a special incentive program at its Prince Street store in Soho, whereby a certain number of consumers—to be decided by Baby Phat—will be offered the opportunity to attend the fashion show with each $250 or more retail purchase.

 

[metal-on-metal]

So not looking forward to this fashion week. More like a chore and a bore than anything else. This is the most dismal NY calendar I've ever seen.

 

[Acid]

Let them stay in the midwest then.

LMAO! faust you are terrible

love it

 

[Scott]

^I concur,Faust

 

[Lena]

most ridiculous fashion week schedule ever..

most of the shows belong to mass production companies, this is not a fashion week, its a trade fair on catwalk

 

[Mr-Dale]

^ Exactly! And that Kimora thing sounds scary

Pitty that NY fashion week is slowly but surely changing into a commercial joke where 'singer/songwriters' rule the scepter. Thank God there's Paris fashion week...

 

[liberty33r1b]

god, gwen stefani closing ny fashion week - what a shock. hope the organizers come to their senses again and kick her out, this always cheap-looking girl.......
nyc fashion week is really becoming too commercial, too soon, i mean, where will this lead to?

 

[Lena]

to a hyped tradefair on catwalk liberty
there is no artistic interesting in this event whatsoever
all talented NYorkers should better try to start concidering showing to Paris or London next season, this schedule is ridiculous

 

[liberty33r1b]

^good idea, lena!!! it would instantely give them all more credibility and appreciation for their hard work.

 

[Mr-Dale]

^ Very much, yes. I say they should go to London. London need some spicing up and any new talented designers should bring that in. Two birds with one stone, I tell ya.

 

[Scott]

Great assesment,Lena! It really has become a big banal trade event.

Dunno about London though. London is also known for quite alot of organisational problems and sometimes a bit narrow in their support structure. And most the buyers and press people are in Paris anyway...so alot of Londoners are actually forced to bring their collections to Paris to present in showrooms for buyers.

 

[Edwards4Gucci]

I look to Milan and Paris for REAL FASHION. New York, London or Tokyo do not define or own fashion and its legacy.. the real houses are based in Continetial Europe. Its sad, sad times for this industry when Gwen Stefani closes Olympus FW.

 

[Oria]

who wants to anymore? its really sad because there are truly some designers who deserve to be seen, but it's too many that don't. i feel really sad about what has happened to ny fashion week.