As beauty, fashion, and design enthusiasts we often notice dialogue between building façades (skins),  and what we see swaying the runway. The parallels between the practice of fashion and architecture has in the past been seen in the works of popular fashion designers like Viktor and Rolf, Hussein Chalayan, and the collaborations between Zaha Hadid […]

The crayon-themed invite that Mary Katrantzou sent out should have been all the inclination one needed to know that she had something marvelous intended for her fall/winter 2012 presentation. She had mentioned this collection was inspired by everyday items from spoons, no.2 pencils, clocks, steel mesh grate, a red typewriter she had seen and even […]

“Marie Antoinette’s version of ruins,” said Rachel Feinstein of the elaborate set she created for her friend, Marc Jacobs to show his fall collection. Elaborate spindles of construction paper formed a broken castle, ruins, complete with make-believe fountain perched midway down the runway. Jacobs, one of the few left to not only create wonderful garments but […]