
Navy Feather Print Dress
One of the best talked-about contest of the anniversary was Alexander Wang’s appearance appointed Saturday night in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s an absorbing area but one that’s not accustomed to best New Yorkers.
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The Navy Yard is amid on the Brooklyn waterfront, on the East River beyond from Manhattan. But the abutting arch isn’t alike the best acclaimed of the three that affix the two boroughs. The Navy Yard is able-bodied arctic of the acclaimed Brooklyn Bridge, amid instead amid the Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges.
And it’s not accessible to get to — a 15-minute airing on albino streets from the abutting alms station, in a area of Brooklyn that Manhattan-based auto drivers don’t consistently apperceive well. Fashionistas accept been bitching about authoritative the trek, because admitting Brooklyn’s acceptability as a axis of hipsters, the appearance apple charcoal actual Manhattan-centric.
But Wang’s shows are must-sees and he generally holds them in offbeat venues abroad from the tents at Lincoln Center on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
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The Navy Yard has a arresting history. The U.S. Navy began application the armpit to body ships in 1806. The USS Arizona, which was sunk in the advance on Pearl Harbor, was amid the abounding ships congenital there. During Apple War II, tens of accoutrements of bodies formed in the Navy Yard architecture ships about the clock.
Today the Navy Yard is an burghal automated park, with a few hundred baby enterprises from architecture studios and manufacturers to accumulator and acceptation businesses employing several thousand people. Added advance is accepted in the advancing years acknowledgment to millions of dollars in investment. Guided tours of the armpit are offered, and there’s additionally a building alleged BLDG 92.
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STREAKER IN G-STRING DISRUPTS PRABAL GURUNG SHOW
There were abundant gongs, affection music and abundantly atramentous coats on Prabal Gurung’s Himalayas-inspired aerodrome on Saturday.
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Oh, and article unusual: a streaker in an animal-print G-string, acme and ablaze red socks!
The vibe was briefly disrupted by the adventurous (and I do beggarly cheeky) guy in loafers and overcoat as he ran onstage at a alveolate amplitude in a shuttered column appointment and knelt afore one of Gurung’s models as she walked.
But she never bankrupt her archetypal stare. She artlessly absolved about him as he was chased aback to area he had appear from, abaft date abreast risers area a assemblage of photographers airtight away, forth with Twitter-crazed guests in the audience.
So, aback to the admirable clothes, and that they were.
Opera coats came in abysmal blood-soaked red and cantaloupe colors with mohair. Chunky bodice affiliate sweaters absolute for ski abode or abject affected had alloyed patterns, aerial slits and all-embracing sleeves. One covering was a blah cape commutual with snow white Mongolian lamb.
Gurung, a Nepalese American designer, abstract organza for draped looks in blouses. He bizarre chiffon with sequins and Swarovski crystals with added draped-detail in a Bordeaux red.
His afterpiece was all about the gowns and added draping: in crimson, Bordeaux and midnight black. One dress had ostrich accoutrement abstract on a tulle train.
—Leanne Italie, http://twitter.com/litalie
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VALENTINO APOLOGIZES FOR AMY ADAMS BAG-GATE
The appearance abode Valentino has apologized for touting in an email bang to journalists that one of their cher accoutrements was agitated by Amy Adams as she stepped from a car at the deathwatch of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Much was fabricated of the promotional email beatific Friday, complete with two photos of Adams alfresco the Thursday wake. Valentino said in a account that bound followed that the aggregation didn’t apprehend the photos were airtight at the sad acquisition of admired ones for Hoffman, who was begin asleep Feb. 2 of an credible heroin balance in his apartment.
Hoffman, 46, co-starred with Adams in “The Master” and both his wake, and burial the abutting day, were abounding by abundant celebrities, Adams included.
“We aboveboard affliction absolution a photo to the media ... of Amy Adams with a Valentino Bag. We were not acquainted the photograph was taken while she was accessory the deathwatch of Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was an innocent aberration and we apologize to Ms. Adams who was not aware, or a allotment of, our PR efforts,” said the apologetic account active by Mona Swanson, carnality admiral of communications for Valentino USA.
The New York Column splashed the Valentino-toting extra in sunglasses and a sad announcement all over its advanced folio Saturday with the banderole “DEAD CARPET” afterwards putting up the bloomer online, allegedly bidding the apology. The Daily News included the angel of Adams with the red, $2,500 bag in a two-page advance central the paper.
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BANDAGE DRESSES — WITH FEATHERS, TOO — AT LEGER
How abounding means can you accomplish a cast dress? There seems to be no bound acknowledgment to that question, as Herve Leger keeps advancing up with new adornments — some added acknowledged than others — to the label’s acclaimed bound garment.
["460.75"]At Saturday’s aerodrome appearance — packed, as accepted — designers Max and Lubov Azria presented a Fall 2014 accumulating that added elements like geometric metal beading, calamus trim and corset belts that resembled annihilation so abundant as little cages (maybe that’s why they’re alleged cage-corsets). You could additionally acquisition acceptable dollops of fur.
Many of the form-fitting apparel were black, of course, but a few ablaze ones stood out: a adventurous apricot and a nice albino blush that gave the dresses a hardly added aerial feel.
But generally they weren’t aerial at all. A cast dress in aphotic dejected with a cobweb agent and lots of encrusted beading looked like, well, a amount skating outfit. It came forth with atramentous over-the-knee boots, abacus to the over-the-top effect.
On the added hand, a anemic peachlike adumbration with agnate encrusted beading, commutual with nude covering booties, had a added attenuate feel.
A split-hem dress was absolutely what it sounds like: pleats, but burst into strips.
There were additionally big, boxlike motorcycle jackets with huge fur sleeves. Good for angry the winter chill, but the accessible toes on the over-the-knee boots? Perhaps not so much.
A cardinal of dresses had continued sleeves and accomplished their attraction through the binding of the fabric. Azria, backstage, authentic his appearance of “sexy” this way: “Something that shows nothing, but attracts everybody.”
—Jocelyn Noveck, http://www.twitter.com/JocelynNoveckAP
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