While there may not be enough press passes to go around, there certainly appears to be no shortage of blogs reporting on all the “news” coming from inside the tents at Bryant Park or, for that matter, any other fashion-related event. Depending on the blog, readers are receiving more gossip, celebrity sightings and play-by-play analysis than ever before, along with a great deal they probably never needed to know, such as Cathy Horyn pondering about how she didn’t have time to make it to the hairdresser before the Michael Kors show.
Here’s a look at some of the “best of” blog comments that have surfaced during the past week:
ON THE DESIGNERS:
Robin Givhan, The Washington Post; Feb. 4, on Douglas Hannant: “He must have gotten hold of some bad Kool-Aid because that is the only explanation for those shiny, heavy black tights he showed with everything from a day suit to a cocktail dress.”
Cathy Horyn, The New York Times; Feb. 5, on Thom Browne’s collection: “Between the shorts and the longer silhouette of stern, high-buttoned coats and midi skirts, you had a cross between a hobbit and Abraham Lincoln. I don’t know what to make of tent-shaped capes trimmed out in white fur. What I disliked most about the collection, though, was the air of virtue and sincerity. It wasn’t real. It was an exercise gone too far.”
ON PERSONAL STYLE:
Horyn, Feb. 7: “I was sitting this morning at Michael Kors’ show (luxe babes, chic glen plaid) and wondering about my hair. I’ve been wearing a black knit cap all week. I know what everyone’s thinking, ‘When is she going to take that stupid hat off?’ But it’s almost too late at this stage to take it off, and I don’t have time to get to the hairdressers. I was thinking I could get a wig.”
Givhan, Feb. 7: At Kors, “as [actress Rita Moreno and I] were chatting, she noticed that the label of the coat I had in my lap said, ‘Calvin Klein.’ She gave me a finger-wagging and a mock sigh of disapproval. I’m a newspaper gal. Who can afford Michael Kors? (The coat, by the way, was a Christmas gift from my parents and is not from the pricy Francisco Costa collection for Calvin Klein.) Someone had already interrogated Rita about her eyeglasses and noted that they were NOT Michael Kors. Such pressure!”
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ON FIGHTING THE SKINNY TREND:
Rachel Dodes, The Wall Street Journal; Feb. 8, on breakfast at Kate and Andy Spade’s presentation: “But it was the food in the men’s showroom that caused a stir: At the center of a large table in the room for Mr. Spade’s ‘Jack Spade’ label was a wooden bowl containing large hot-dog-shaped cookies with a big orange tag that stated, ‘Jack Cares.’ The cookies, which are being distributed today by Mr. Spade’s publicist as models enter the tents at Bryant Park, were ‘baked with extra love and care,’ the label read. ‘A portion of the proceeds given to skinny people everywhere.’ ‘I don’t know if I am for or against skinny, but I wanted to comment on all this,’ said Mr. Spade, who came up with the idea earlier this week and ordered 200 hot-dog and 200 hamburger-shaped cookies from the Internet. ‘I don’t know if [the models] are eating them, but they are definitely taking them,’ he said.”
ON CELEBRITY SPOTTING:
Givhan, Feb. 7: “I also believe Joan Jett was sitting across from me, but I can’t be sure. It was a very scary-looking, androgynous person dressed all in black except for a red scarf at the neck. This person was also wearing greenish eye shadow and had spiked black hair. Joan/John Jett never smiled or even changed expression. So it was impossible to get a sense of whether a smile or frown might offer an indication of gender.”
Givhan, Feb. 7: “Russell Simmons has been making the rounds at shows. I saw him at Marc Jacobs on Monday night and then again at Anna Sui. Now that he’s split from Kimora Lee, I can’t help but wonder if he’s checking out the runways in search of a new model/wife. Oooh, how catty was that?”
Fashionista.com; Feb. 7, on Paris Hilton stopping by the Heatherette show: “Sidekicks buzzed with the same news — Paris [Hilton] is coming; find an outfit! No wait, Paris is really sick with the flu, so sorry she can’t make it! Glitter spilled on MAC counters, assistants scattered to the exits.”
ON WANTING FASHION WEEK TO END:
Jennifer Schonborn, executive editor, elle.com, Feb. 8: “OK, the tiredness is starting to set in. I’m at my desk right now, gulping a green tea, trying to wake up. What is it about fashion week that is so exhausting? Much of the time, you feel like you’re just sitting in a cab in stalled traffic on the way to a show, or you’re sitting in the tent waiting for the show to start. Why is sitting making me so tired? Did the mere presence of Donald Trump at Michael Kors yesterday, cantaloupe-colored waterfall of hair drawing all eyeballs in the room to him, simply suck all the life out of my body?”