And if you don’t care for football . . . StyleWeek Providence starts today at 4pm with an accessory show, culminating next Saturday, January 28, with shows from Peach Carr and Ben Chmura, followed by a designer showcase and after-event soiree (complete schedule). All events will be held at the Biltmore in the Grand Ballroom […]
These poor people must be scrambling like crazy. Due to the weather StyleWeek has canceled all of Sunday’s runway shows and after-events. Go here for the amended schedule. Updates also at Facebook. The ProJo reports, Returning features include an accessory showcase (offering attendees the chance to purchase jewelry, bags, shoes and the like), pre-show cocktail
And another entry in the fashion documentary field. Joining Unzipped, Lagerfeld Confidential, Valentino: The Last Emperor, The September Issue, and Bill Cunningham New York is L’Amour Fou the story of the extravagant and decadent life of Yves Saint Laurent and his relationship with partner Pierre Bergé. (And this is the third doc about Saint Laurent.)
Many art museum supporters reject the modern trend toward “stunt” exhibitions which treat some aspect of popular culture as art, and some of these shows are truly atrocious. That superhero thing at the New York Met comes to mind. But I, for one, can’t wait to check out the new ‘Cocktail Culture’ show opening Friday
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What a great job this guy has! I can’t be the only person who has had that thought while perusing the weekly feature “On the Street” in the Sunday New York Times ‘Style & Fashion’ section. Of course, he invented the position for himself. Fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, now in his 80’s, still rides around
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It’s already under way, but StyleWeek runs through Saturday and there’s lots left to see. Pictured here is the work of designer Joseph Aaron Segal (MFA RISD) who will be showing at 6pm on Saturday night. Joseph currently teaches Industrial Knitting at RISD while working as a freelance knitwear designer and lead designer for his
New York, Paris, Milan. . . and today for the first time ever we have fashion week in Providence. Local designers will parade their collections down the runway in various downtown hotels. I am a little unclear as to what admission may or may not cost — some events are described as “invitation-only” — so
Tickets are still available for the RISD Collection (the annual fashion show that benefits the RISD scholarship fund) to be held next Saturday, May 22nd. The 7pm show is preceded by a 2pm preview open to the public. The annual event showcases the best work of more than 50 talented young designers in RISD’s Apparel
From Damian Ewens: This Thursday night, Firehouse13 founder and burgeoning fashion designer Nick Bauta, collaborates with Mike Rinaldi and Joan Wyand for a first time show of Nick’s wild new pieces. Think sexy industrial leather dominatrix, meets lace infusion with Olneyville punk knitting. Music by DJs Dave Allyn and Damian Ewens, aka Unkle Thirsty and
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Come view new works by Hilary Merzbacher, recent graduate of the RISD Illustration Department and the latest to be LAUNCHed. (You can meet Hilary at a reception on Friday August 28th.) LAUNCH at the Gail Cahalan Gallery has been designed exclusively to bridge RISD senior students and recent graduates with the local community as an
Tonight is the famous RISD Fashion Show at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium downtown. The work of RISD’s apparel design students always runs from traditional (read: I could totally see me in that) to high concept (read: who the hell would wear that?) with students modeling the clothes for each other. It’s always fun and the
Big event tonight from Queen of Hearts — FAM (a Fashion/Art/Music collaborative). Two fashion shows at 9pm and 11pm from local designer Karen L. Beebe. Music by Aarin Clemons, Made in Mexico, Rozzi Daime, Chachi Carvalho, Romen Rok. And an exhibition of art — Corey Grayhorse, Angel Quinonez, Andrew Moon Bain, Crystal Anne Carrier, Jung
“This is my Lily Ferguson… Moses Brown Class of ’05!” While studying photography at Parsons in New York City, my talented niece worked at Embassy Apparel designing boxer shorts and such (maybe I should say ‘menswear’). This photo, which recently showed up on PerezHilton, shows Jacko sporting sweatpants she designed for Ed Hardy. I’m mighty
Least hot look for a guy, ever. The New York Times reports that in a recent interview on MTV, Barack Obama (a man who knows a thing or two about style) dismissed ‘anti-baggy pants’ ordinances as a waste of time (agreed) but added, …brothers should pull up their pants… some people might not want to
This has been a 3-year fight by the Brown Student Labor Alliance and other activists: Brown just agreed to sign onto the Designated Suppliers Program, which needs to be in place in order to effectively fight sweatshops and provide a decent labor standard for those who make university apparel. Brown was actually an early leader
In January 2008, Providence becomes NELA’s Fetish City! The Fetish Fair Fleamarket™ has a new home, and it’s not just a hotel, not just a venue, but a whole city. From January 11th through 13th, 2008, the New England Leather Alliance will bring the biggest leather/fetish/BDSM event in New England to Providence, Rhode Island, where