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Top Designers Skipping Runway Shows

At the just-concluded New York Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2018 we saw many top designers giving the Week a miss. There were plenty of noteworthy absentees: Yeezy, Rag & Bone, Lacoste, Rodarte, Proenza Schouler, Thom Browne, Tommy Hilfiger, Monique Lhuillier, and Joseph Altuzarra. While we know some of them are going to show in  Paris and London, […]

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JOURNEY FROM ‘BEINGS’ TO SELF-OBSESSED NARCISSISTS

At the New York Fashion Week when supermodel Bella Hadid stumbled on the ramp at Michael Kors show, the fashionistas sat by and watched and captured the moment on their smartphones. Bella calmly laughed off the tumble and got back up on her five-inch heels to finish the walk. Still, it’s difficult not to reflect […]

PRABAL GURUNG is New York’s ‘IT’ Designer

I think Prabal Gurung’s spring 2012 collection was his best so far. The clothes were nuanced, more subtle than his usual bold solid-colour and this time around Gurung took more risks. He worked with a print maker to cover his lilac colored collection in pixelated (though we have seen Pratap using pixelated technique almost a year back) […]