NYC Fashion Week Part II

Fashion Week NYC 2010 Part I

Milan Fashion Week Spring 2009: Versace vs. Gucci

Versace was lauded for its wearable and graceful Spring wear:

Gucci's Spring 2009 show however, was bashed as stale:

Gucci or Versace?

Fashion Then (circa 1980s) vs. Now (2010) : Contra's Ann Kirsten Kennis

Vogue (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/08/vampire-weekend-scandal-201008) has an interview with Ann Kirsten Kennis, the model on Vampire Weekend's 2010 album Contra.

As a professional model in the 1980s, Kennis looked like this:

In 2010 & Kennis now 53 years old, she is:

A sample of her fashion assignments in the 1980s:

Has the look of fashion changed much in 20 years?

The clothes: yes. The models: not so much...

Let's look at Odd Molly Ready-To-Wear Copenhagen Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2009:

and what about Swahili Fashion Week 2009?

Celebrity Fashion On & Off the Red Carpet

Shia LaBeouf:

Wool suit, $518, by Club Monaco, Shirt by Spurr. Tie by Band of Outsiders.

Downtime LaBeouf:

Michelle Obama in Peter Soronen:

The First Lady in J. Crew:

Kristen Stewart in Prabal Gurung Fall 2010 Longsleeve Lurex Black Dress:

                                               Stewart in LNA with Ray-Ban wayfarer sunglasses:

The wayfarer design has been enjoying a revival:

Ezra Koenig of indie band Vampire Weekend in generic (perhaps XL Record) wayfarers

&

Jude Law in Black Ray-Ban wayfarers

&

 

Kanye West in wayfarer type sunglasses with bling bling arms.