The Rundown: fashion briefs
Erika Wilkins
Spectrum Editor
The perfect anti-theft system: Nike Air Max 95
Nike re-released, Nike Air Max 95. The shoe boast “maximum” impact cushioning, carbon rubber outsole for enhanced durability and most impressively personal ID customization. On the Nike website you can design the panels, soles, and laces and even tamp your name on the side of the Air Max 95. To own a show unlike any other, you’ll have to shell out $160. You can decide if it’s worth it.
Gucci Group plans to continue Alexander McQueen’s Label
Gucci Group the financier behind Yves Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney and of course Gucci announced in a conference, Wednesday, that they would continue the late Alexander McQueen’s label. After the designer’s recent suicide the industry has been a buzz with worries that the label would disappear, and curiosity as to who, if anyone will be able to continue. Time will tell.
iPhone Owners: Dolce and Gabbana want you
On February 23, Italian design house Dolce and Gabbana will be livestreaming their Milan fashion show on the iPhone. The designers, who’ve been broadcasting their show, via their website since 2005, have naturally progressed to the “in vogue” technology. For those of you, who don’t own an iPhone, you can still view the show live at 9 a.m. EST on their website or Facebook page.
Playing catch up
No one – apart from Anna Wintour- tells the fashion industry when or how to operate. It has notoriously moved on its own slow-paced schedule of once-monthly magazines and four-hour late fashion shows. Fashion’s finest have always operated on a more than leisurely gait. As of late, however it seems the fashion industry has finally issued itself into the 21st century. Embracing the ever-growing trend of fast fashion, New York designer darlings, Porenza Schouler, Cynthia Rowley and Henry Holland, immediately released parts of their collection in the days after their Fashion Week shows to savvy shoppers. All the while, style.com launched Fashion Feed – a revolutionary braking news source for the fashion industry.
NY Fashion Week recap: velvet crush
It seems not even New York designers are impervious to the vampire-craze that’s swept the nation. They took a cue from Dracula’s velvet covered bat-cave and draped models in the luscious, heavy fabric from neck to foot. Whether you view it as tacky or succulent, prepare to see it in every store from Barney’s to Forever 21, this coming winter.
Brit Craze
The insanity has begun! London Fashion Week, the week famed for outrageous shows and flamboyant fashion is now in movement. Even without the presence of Alexander McQueen, the show goes on. Topshop Unique and Sass & Bide have debuted their shows, with more extravagance on its way.
