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WWD Postcard: Rafe Totengco
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Miller Time
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Pots O' Gold
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Designing for Dancing Stars
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Hints of Better Days Ahead for NYC Retail
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Mind Games With 'Idiot Savant'
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Rear Window with Illustrator Matteo Pericoli
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Testing the 'American Fashion Cookbook'
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Night Rider on Broadway
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Women and Changing the World
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October 2009 Archives
David Hasselhoff has always existed as an abstract to me; a pop culture
construct that lives more in reruns and forwarded YouTube links than real
life.
It was a bit of a shock to the system, then, to meet The Hoff, as he is known, Thursday night at the Bryant Park Grill.
It was a bit of a shock to the system, then, to meet The Hoff, as he is known, Thursday night at the Bryant Park Grill.
Posted in: Lifestyle
"Women don't have to hate men to get ahead," former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said.
And she should know.
"I used to want to be a journalist," said Albright, who was among a score of successful women who headlined the sixth annual Woman's Conference on Tuesday that drew about 15,000 people to the convention center in Long Beach, Calif. "But when I told my husband's boss what I planned to do, he said, 'Honey, you better find something else to do. So I did."
And she should know.
"I used to want to be a journalist," said Albright, who was among a score of successful women who headlined the sixth annual Woman's Conference on Tuesday that drew about 15,000 people to the convention center in Long Beach, Calif. "But when I told my husband's boss what I planned to do, he said, 'Honey, you better find something else to do. So I did."
Behind the scenes at the shoot.
COURTESY PHOTO
COURTESY PHOTO
Enter the WWD art department.
Two months ago, while all of Manhattan was in a frenzy over Fashion's Night Out, two artists at Intermix engaged in an art battle. While shoppers watched, the painters smothered mannequins in neon yellow, sky blue and gold lacquer. While it helped stir up excitement for the night itself, the demonstration was also being taped for the Web series "RADAR: Art Battles," which starts its second season today.
Posted in: Lifestyle
Emma Willis
Photo by Colin Thomas
Photo by Colin Thomas
With the recent spate of documentaries, designers young and old have been
getting plenty of face time these days. But as much as these
behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred portraits can prove revealing — and
entertaining — they can often be more about the director's perspective than
their subjects' voices. So I was especially excited to hear from them at the
Friends of the Costume Institute's season opening event "Young Americans:
Designers in Conversation."
Photo by Steve Eichner
Last night's Versace-sponsored Whitney Studio Party was no exception. After the likes of Alexa Chung, Chanel Iman and Nicole Trunfio had done their step and repeat due diligence, a packed cluster of photographers and press waited and waited and waited some more for Lindsay Lohan. As the time ticked by, I watched the press pit on the red carpet slowly empty out as reporters either gave up hope or moved around to stretch their legs. When Lohan finally showed up, around 10:40 p.m. for a 9 p.m. start time, the currently blonde-tressed actress cum fashion creative director was unusually loquacious.
WWD: Who are some of your favorite artists?
The latest delivery.
Lindsay Lohan and Estrella Archs backstage at Ungaro.
photo by Stephane Feugere
photo by Stephane Feugere
Having a bird's-eye view last Sunday as Lindsay Lohan prepared for her debut as Emanuel Ungaro's artistic adviser made for surreal viewing.
Exactly how much input did Lohan have with the collection?
An untitled Pedersen piece.
photo by Joseph Pluchino
photo by Joseph Pluchino
Her guests took instruction well, getting their hands on etched copper plates, intaglio-style prints and textured canvases, which were puckered by multiple gesso applications.
Posted in: Lifestyle
Marcus Samuelsson and Zac Posen.
We got to talking about the similarities between the food and fashion worlds -- how everything is rooted in the visual, why it's important to start with good ingredients and good fabrics and how both disciplines unify form and function.
Posted in: Lifestyle
Photo by Eric Hopper
The timing is perfect for me, who came of age in the Eighties, to recall that certain slice of East Village life as veteran designers like Marc Jacobs and relative newcomers such as Alexander Wang and Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler try to capture in their aesthetics the time and feeling in New York when Book of Love burst onto the scene.
Posted in: Lifestyle
Photo by Jacob Blickenstaff
It had been decades since the nearly forgotten performer had gigged in the New York area, but she showed the packed house at Southpaw in Brooklyn that some people never change. Whitney, once known as one of the loudest, hottest and rawest female voices of funk, still had all of her power. After singing alongside James Brown in the late Sixties, traveling as far as Vietnam and Africa with the notoriously difficult showman, Whitney was cast out of the limelight. For many years of her adult life, the vocalist worked as a secretary.
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