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Posted Jul. 16, 2008,
Men's Trends SS09: Prada
By Mack Dugan
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I still find it amazing that such an incredibly successful mega-brand such as Prada still manages to push the design envelope on such a consistent basis. New Prada collections sometimes initially rub me the wrong way and I warm to them over the season, the way with so many good collections. But that was not the case with this collection, which I liked immediately.
Made up of basic staple items in classic fall colors, the strength of this collection was in the new proportions and the way it was put together. The long layered T-shirts/tunics worn with short shorts (new wardrobe staple) look great in a modern-peasant sort of way, and the cropped tops and sweaters put a fey slant on an otherwise masculine collection. The loose tops that float above the waistbands of the trousers are sort of naive and little-boyish and the thick rubber bands surrounding the black dress shoes are makeshift industrial -- but it's the effortless blending of all this that makes it interesting and fresh.
The outerwear, which looks amazing hitched back on straps to reveal bare chests looks so unusual on guys, but I like this relaxed minimalism and it’s a nice change after years of tight little hipster suits. This is one of my favorite shows of the season, check out my top five looks (plus a shoe).
Posted Jul. 7, 2008,
Julia Frakes Takes on Paris Fashion Week: Jean Paul Gaultier
By Julia Frakes
Tanya D. may have opened the show with an equestrian nod to Gaultier's most recent Hermès RTW collection, but the Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture show soon took a turn for the neon.
Prior to unleashing a flurry of models from their "cages" -- be it a hand-knitted, velvet-covered, embroidered, beaded, "whale-boned," feathered, latticed, laméed, leather-harnessed, crystallized, or snake-skinned birdcage of a construction -- Gaultier insisted that his "models are birds of paradise."
"They can remove the cages and fly," Gaultier assured Hilary Alexander. Harkening back to his archives, this is infallibly the first of JPG's haute couture collections -- since his atelier's daring made-to-order establishment in 1996 -- that so directly references his erstwhile prêt-à-porter career from the early 1980's.
Posted Jun. 25, 2008,
Resort Retort: Fitted Suits
By Mack Dugan
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We are delighted to introduce to you the newest member of the PAPERMAG blog family, Mack Dugan, a veritable expert on all things fashion-related (he himself is a designer), who will be regularly blogging about what's hip and happening and striking his fancy in the fashion world. Without further ado, his first installment of a series he's calling Resort Retort.
The fairly new phenomenon that is "resort," brings a mid-season collection to consumers between the fall-winter and spring-summer collections. The resort shows land around May and June in an unscheduled heap, and are generally presented in New York regardless of where a designer regularly shows (a testament to the insatiable consumer that is America?). The clothes appear in store in October and November providing shoppers with bits to buy for their tropical midwinter holidays, Christmas/new year parties and possibly a peek into designers' first thoughts for their spring collections. The collections tend to be more commercial with little to none of the theatrics that we love in our twice yearly main collections. What you see in a resort collection is what will be in stores, none of that "we only made it for the show" baloney.
So here is a Mack Dugan rundown of my "hits" for Resort '08. There are some unmentionable over-commercial collections (why bother?) and some that are just not in my realm whatsoever (this is resort though my eyes, so like it or lump it!) Here we go.
First off, we have The Fitted Suits: These makes navigating a Christmas party crowd a cinch and there is nothing newer than dumping the party dress in lieu of a tight tight tight little suit. For a more beachy look just throw your jacket over your bathing suit, or your full-body competitive swimming catsuit, available in acid tones from McQueen.
Posted Apr. 15, 2008,
The Life and Times of Fabian Basabe: "I'm Starting a Band!"
By Fabian Basabe
It is your typical Sunday night in Los Angeles, and I just finished watching Kubrick’s The Shining, which somehow inspired me to write you. I was wondering if everybody says that The Shining is a masterpiece because they mean it or out of pressure… I secretly think it gets kind of boring from time to time, but I keep it to myself because I tried to say what I really thought in public out loud a couple of times and I thought I was going to get stoned, and I don’t do drugs, if you know what I mean. To balance things out, I am watching Gladiator now and they are beating the shit out of each other -- and that’s what I call a movie!
Anyway, before I go on narrating some of the latest LA events, I would like to address a Page Six posting about my wife and I, ducking out of a PAPER event hosted by Lindsey Lohan at the Sunset Marquis, because they were not serving booze. I would like to say that that is ABSOLUTELY TRUE. And I would also like to say that when I was saying my goodbyes to my beloved PAPER editors and crew, I read despair and thirst in their eyes as well. You know she's sober now, so none else can drink either. I only hope they won’t stop serving booze at Villa or Teddy’s when she goes, otherwise it would be dry night every night.
Moving on.
Posted Feb. 6, 2008,
Jovovich-Hawk's New Male Spokesmodel? Meet Roman Marshall
By Mickey Boardman
Mr. Mickey ran into two of his favorite sexy ladies at the Prada party last night. Milla and Carmen from Jovovich Hawk! MM has been thrilled to bump into these two almost every day this week!!! Carmen was obsessed with our new best friend Roman Marshall who was sporting a sick look. Roman is a songwriter and style icon in the making. We danced like fools! Take a look after the jump to see who else we bumped into and to see just how bald Mr. Mickey really is! Shocking!!!
Posted Jan. 17, 2008,
Stefan Campbell Presents: Sergio Rossi’s Surreal Shoes
By Stefan Campbell
This is the moment for a true surreal shoe. And not a chunky-clunky warrior weapon shoe or Bjork’s swan dress (which I loved) in shoe form -- but a shoe that truly challenges and slightly tricks the eye, and doesn’t just renegotiate the portions of the leg. Marc Jacobs and Prada have stunners that would make great book ends, and Martin Margeila is the king of the concept shoe, but Sergio Rossi’s creations by their creative director Edmundo Castillo wins the gold medal this season. Mr. Castillo once pronounced "The shoe is like make-up for the feet" or something like that.
I first spotted these phantasmagorical shoes this past September during Milan Fashion Week. I find them conceptual and wearable -- the mark of good designer fashion to me. For example, his lace up oxfords -- which were not created with predictable Dorothy- click-your-heels-three-times sparkling ruby-red crystals -- are perfection in red mirrored leather ( he did them in copper for Narsico Rodriguez's collection for spring) and would have been ideal on the late Tina Chow. Known for her out of the box fashion choices, she would have rocked them with the darkest midnight blue men’s slouchy suit with no shirt, no jewelry whatsoever, alabaster skin, jet black hair and YSL red lipstick... and maybe blood red nail polish to drive the message home.
Posted Sep. 10, 2007,
Cuties of Fashion Week: Jacob Brown & Stevie
By Mickey Boardman
We're always on the lookout for cuties during Fashion Week. Okay, we're ALWAYS on the lookout for cuties and here are two: Jacob Brown of V Magazine and his hairhopper friend Stevie who's visiting from London. MM shot them at the Prada party and must admit that they're cute both individually and as a couple!
Posted Sep. 6, 2007,
Welcome to Schmashion Week!
By Kim Hastreiter
This Fashion Week is nuttier for me than any one I can remember in years. First of all, NOTHING makes me crazier than a taxi strike in New York City. I refuse to take subways and am too poor to get a car and driver for Fashion Week, and so with the insane fashion show schedule coinciding with an insane taxi strike compounded by my ridiculous schedule, I have had to edit severely. For God's sake, the fashion world wants us to travel from an 11 a.m. show on Sixth Avenue at 40th St. to a noon show on Grand and West Broadway to a 1 p.m. show on a pier at Tenth Avenue and 36th St. to a 2 p.m. show in a church on Ludlow Street to a 3 p.m. show back at the tents at 40th and Sixth Avenue. And with no taxis? I mean, GET REAL. It's a bit over the top.
Not to mention, my dearest friend, designer Ingo Maurer, is opening his show at the Cooper Hewitt on Monday night right at the same time as the Marc Jacobs show. Oy. I will go to Ingo's opening, scoot to Marc Jacobs at the Armory, scoot back to the Cooper Hewitt for a dinner after the opening and hope no one notices. PLUS, I will be multitasking fashion and art this Saturday, going to five shows PLUS squeezing THE FABULOUS ART PARADE which PAPER, CREATIVE TIME AND DEITCH PROJECTS sponsor at 4 p.m. on West Broadway in SoHo. DONT MISS IT! I will be driving the Heartschallenger ice cream truck so scream, "Hi!" if you're there. On top of that, I am preparing to learn to play the TRIANGLE (the musical instrument), because next week I'll be dingling a triangle in Los Angeles for three days at the Hollywood Bowl with my old friend's orchestra Pink Martini, who will be collaborating with Carol Channing (divine).
Posted Apr. 10, 2007,
The Shopping Bug: Spring Wedges & Summer Sandals
By Carol Lee
Although it doesn't feel anything close to balmy, technically it is spring and around this time of the year I always start thinking about shoes that you wear sans socks. I've been doing some research (that means eye-shopping and no actual buying) on spring fling shoes at Jeffrey, Miu Miu, Intermix (secretly every girl I know checks out Intermix) and online department stores.
The three big things I saw everywhere and by every designer for spring/summer are patent leather, peep toes and ankle straps. I'm really feeling the shiny leather look since everything I love ends up being patent. Peep toes I'm not too crazy about but they can work as both casual and dressy, and they give your toes some ventilation. But I really don't care for ankle straps. I think they are uncomfortable (like they're going to cut off your blood circulation any sec) and they are hard to pull off no matter how leggy you might be.