scoop runway report
FROM LEFT: BRANDON SUN, ALEXANDER WANG, HELMUT LANG, VERA WANG, MICHAEL KORS, VFILES, THOM BROWNE
ALL THE RAGE BY PETER DAVIS
While leaving Oscar de la Renta’s 19th-floor atelier on
In his first show since leaving his post at Louis Vuitton,
than parading her greatest hits, the designer updated her
42nd Street, after the designer’s always-pretty Fashion
Marc Jacobs sent out clothes that Judy Jetson could wear
aesthetic with a collection she said was a tribute to New
Week show, I got trapped in a small, prewar elevator for
to a mod dance party. Always the showman, Jacobs hired
York, the city that made her a star. Karan’s color palette was
more than an hour. I was with 10 other passengers, including
set designer Stefan Beckman to build a surreal cloudscape
urban and modern; think black, gray, white and red. There
my old friend André Leon Talley, Niche Media’s Samantha
that floated overhead, creating the perfect mood for clothes
were great jackets, lots of sheer skirts and black, beaded
Yanks, The Wall Street Journal’s Meenal Mistry and the
in muted colors and dreamy, soft pastels. If Jacobs’ serene
embellishments that shimmered like New York City lights.
Telegraph’s Sophie de Rosee, who sneakily recorded the
sky made us feel fuzzy and mellow, the streaker sporting a
In addition to milestone birthdays, CFDA winners (and
whole incident and published the transcript online the next
plastic gold crown, a trench coat and some kind of leopard
SCENE cover stars), Public School debuted its first foray
day. (P.S.: Sophie, you called us “10 smug fashion editors,”
thong thing at Prabal Gurung jolted everyone awake.
into women's wear (Anna Wintour and daughter Bee Shaffer
but “10 way-too-snug fashion editors” is more accurate.) It
Running with the scandale, Gurung ordered dozens of gold
sat front row). Thom Browne took his girls to church replete
isn’t fun to be stuck in an elevator, especially when it means
crowns to dole out to guests of his after-party at Up & Down,
with incense and wood pews. ThreeASFOUR blasted into
missing Narciso Rodriguez’s show. But that quickly became
the week’s unofficial hot spot on West 14th Street.
outer space, and Joseph Altuzarra presented yet another
Diane von Furstenberg celebrated 40 years of her iconic
artsy collection of some of the most beautiful clothes of
a dark, windy elevator shaft toward a fireman’s flashlight,
wrap dress (an exhibit devoted to the frock, "The Journey
the season. Always a headline-stealer, Alexander Wang
literally the light at the end of the tunnel. The next morning,
of a Dress," is at the Wilshire May Company Building in
unveiled his urban military mods in—horrors!—Brooklyn.
the incident was recorded on Page Six, and I milked every
Los Angeles until April 1) with a spectacular show called,
Editors were in a tizzy, wondering how they would actually
sympathy text I received. “How did you survive? That is my
"Bohemian Wrapsody,” at Spring Studios. It featured
get to Wang’s show at Duggal Greenhouse, a new space in
absolute worst nightmare,” one pal grieved as though I had
D.V.F.’s signature prints, a live performance by St. Vincent
the Navy Yard. Hermès Birkin bags are certainly not suited
been locked in prison for years.
and a finale with gold glitter, cake and candles. Another
for the subway. But despite the trek to Brooklyn, it was all
Though Talley was as frustrated and freaked out as I was
Seventh Avenue living legend, Donna Karan, toasted three
worth it for Wang’s fabulous finale of heat-activated leather
in that miniscule hot box, he didn’t throw a diva fit or rage at
decades in business with a show way downtown on Wall
pieces that changed colors, from black to blue or yellow or
anyone. And soon we were back to focusing on what looks
Street that boasted front-row-ers Hugh Jackman, Katie
purple. And even if we had all gotten stuck in Brooklyn, it
were all the rage on the New York Fashion Week runways.
Holmes and DKNY face and style starlet Rita Ora. Rather
certainly is a lot roomier than Mr. de la Renta’s elevator.
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less worrisome than climbing out via the roof and through
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