>> While Chanel Iman is firing off voice-over dispatches from Fashion Week, Coco Rocha has been busy taping her new video series, "Insider's Guide to Backstage," in between catwalks. There are six episodes total, and the first has just premiered, following Coco backstage at Matthew Williamson, where she enlightens us on such model wisdom as how to get away with stealing runway shoes you're not supposed to and how to hide from cameras you don't want to talk to.
New, New York, Talent: Joseph Altuzarra
Thu, 09/18/08 — 01:49:38 PM
>> He showed for the first time ever at New York Fashion Week — by appointment only — and already he's getting major buzz.
As Mickey Boardman at Paper put it, "The name all those in-the-know were dropping was Joseph Altuzarra. French Vogue . . . told Paper that Altuzarra, who worked previously at Proenza Schouler and Givenchy, is the one [to] watch from New York Fashion Week." Stores are vying for exclusives on his first collection — and he's got a lookbook model in Vanessa Traina, who chipped in her two cents: "The right magazines came to see his stuff, the right stores want to buy it—which means, personally, it’s been a pretty good week for the guy." And Julia Restoin-Roitfeld already wore one of his dresses to the Calvin Klein 40th Anniversary party last week.
But the part that really sticks with me is Vanessa Traina being in the lookbook — seems like Joseph is just where Alexander Wang was a couple of years ago, when he was just starting out and had Vanessa modeling in his lookbook.
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Thu, 09/18/08 — 12:54:23 PM
>> INSIDER WIRE —Those finely crafted straw boater hats Stephen Jones made for Marc Jacobs's Spring 2009 show? They were finely crafted by the sole of a boot: "We trod on them to get that flattened effect," Jones divulged. [WWD]
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Wed, 09/17/08 — 12:50:03 PM
>> THE MODELIZER —Iekeliene Stange had a stalker at New York Fashion Week: "After the 3.1 Phillip Lim show . . . [Iekeliene] was mobbed by sweaty paparazzi, Japanese tourists, and this older guy who had a Ziploc bag of photos of her with hand-drawn hearts around her. He was hyperventilating and giggling to himself calling her 'my angel.' Yikes!" [Refinery29]
New, New York, Talent: Julian Louie
Mon, 09/15/08 — 05:28:44 PM
>> Being known as a protege of Francisco Costa doesn't hurt — especially when you're showing your first-ever collection. Julian Louie's fifteen sculptural pieces reeled in the likes of Kate Lanphear and Hamish Bowles last week — and they left with glimmers in their eyes, mirroring those of the Swarovski crystals embedded on Julian's dresses. The bright colors, innovative fabrics (neoprene!), and cocoon shapes reminded me of something that would appear at London rather than New York Fashion Week — even a touch of Christopher Kane's first collection — but nevermind, I'm glad to have a talent like his stateside.
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