Archive for February, 2010

Isaac Mizrahi Fall 2010 Runway Show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City. With Amber Lee Ettinger. Live music by The Bad Plus.

Russell Simmons takes a moment to deliver a serious message to fashion designers to look into fur alternatives when creating their collections. He did so while being interviewed by Amber Lee Ettinger backstage at the Isaac Mizrahi Fall 2010 fashion show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

Michael Kors Fall 2010 Runway Show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City.

Irina Shabayeva’s show was amazing, one of the best of Fashion Week so far.  Her abundant talent was on display as she took inspiration from birds and feathers and created new animal prints.  Cats have been done, she says, here’s another animal print for you!  Her clothes made a statement while still being wearable; a rare feat these days.  (Okay, a few dresses where way over the top, yes, but it was a fashion show after all.)  Irina’s blending of fur, feather, and leather worked well in creating a very distinctive line.  No wonder she’s a winner of Project Runway.

Her show featured a runway display, followed up by “casual” modeling where each look was presented by having the models stand on the runway giving long looks at the designs.  A very nice touch we thought, it certainly added to the evening’s impact.  It was both a runway show and a presentation all in one.  All fashion shows should be this way, in our opinion.

Overheard backstage was that one of the models was a no-show, so another model was pressed to show a few additional looks.  Kudos to the model who had to do double duty.  But perhaps the tardy model made it at the last second, because the show went off without a hitch from where we stood.

Thanks Irina and your whole staff for delighting us properly!

Amber Lee Ettinger attends the La Perla presentation as part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City.  La Pela shows off its latest lingerie styles; haute stuff!  Amber speaks with Susie Biszantz, CEO of La Perla for North America and with Michael Pierce of Hourglass Cosmetics.

The ninth edition of Fashion Week by Berns proudly hosted a full schedule over three days in Stockholm, Sweden.  Seventeen designers broke their A/W 2010-11 collections, among them Acne, Carin Wester, Cheap Monday, Hope, Whyred, Filippa K and Dagmar.

“Sweden and Swedish fashion is unique. We want Fashion Week by Berns to be synonymous with offering something special and Swedish and joining all of our Swedish brands in the same programme is the best way to highlight the existing creative spirit”, says Ann Ringstrand, designer and founder of Hope.