Rachel Rachel Roy Debuts at Macy's

Just in time for back-to-school shopping - and for fashionistas getting their wardrobes ready for fashion week - Rachel Roy and Jones Apparel Group launched Rachel Rachel Roy, a diffusion collection designed exclusively for Macy’s.

“Rachel Rachel Roy is the younger sister of the Rachel Roy collection,” said Rachel Roy via email “She is worldly, educated, and modern.”

The first round of the Fall 2009 collection - new pieces will be introduced in stores on a monthly basis - is playful, with artistic prints like the sassy brushstroke a-line dress or pixel print silk blouse. A short wrap “24 Hour” dress with draped pockets makes a good case as a new basic, a cool-meets-comfort piece that would works for day or night.

Roy’s jackets, on the other hand, are anything but basic, like a quilted brushstroke swing coat with oversized snaps and the smart, soft cape-like cropped jacket with delicate dangling metal chains. Chains also adorn a white tee to function like built-in jewelry, though the Rachel Rachel Roy jewelry collection also features very affordable stand-alone statement pieces.

“I was inspired by the incredible, strong, forward thinking girls that surround me everyday,” said Roy.

The line will retail from $59 to $299 for sportswear, $79 to $199 for footwear, $40 to $195 for jewelry and $69 to $109 for handbags.

“I have always known I wanted to create an affordable yet fashion forward line, as I believe in good clothing at a good price,” said Roy.

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Fashion Front-and-Center at "My One and Only" Premiere

What brings fashion designers running? If you're in New York City on a hot summer night, it is Renee Zellweger, who stars in the new film "My One and Only." The premiere of that Fifties-era comedy drew a who's who of well-known couturiers on Tuesday, Aug. 18.

Donna Karan greeted the super-slim Zellweger, who wore a sleek black one-shouldered cocktail dress, and Rachel Roy wasn't far behind. And the designing duo of Mark Badgley and James Mischka spiffed up the red carpet themselves, as they joined producer-actor George Hamilton at for the glittery premiere.

"My One and Only" follows Hamilton's real-life family odyssey, as his single mother loaded her sons into the car and headed west, looking to recruit one of her old boyfriends into the role of stepfather to her kids. It's a story with a happy ending, as Hamilton explained to reporters earlier in the day.

"The madness of my family, which was extraordinary, and the wonderful lessons that my mother taught me about life gave me the ability to withstand fifty two years of Hollywood," he laughed. "I've never had any addictions. Maybe a little to the sun, but bottom the line is that I live a very healthy life."

Hamilton brought his girlfriend, Dr. Barbara Strum, while Zellweger hit the premiere solo. The duo greeted the other stars of their new film, including Logan Lerman, Mark Rendall, Robin Weigert, and Holly Palmer, as well as famous faces including Bethenny Frankel, Emily Senko, Veronica Taylor, Zach Grenier, and artist LeRoy Neiman, who at 88 still sports his signature crazy mustache.


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Sachin and Babi for Ankasa: Sequins and Shine

Husband and wife designers Sachin and Babi have just finished their first full year rotation of fashion collections with their ready-to-wear line, yet their experience in the fashion industry is much further extended. The duo has taken their skills and expertise in embroidery and home decor and sophisticatedly segued into the women's wear scene.

"Our dream when we started off was to have our own collection," said Sachin Ahluwalia who met his wife and "most severe critic" at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, where they studied. After graduating, the couple began developing their brand and specialty, where embroidery was the focal point of all their designs. Working with designers such as Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera and Derek Lam, Sachin explained, was a sub-schooling for him and Babi.

"Obviously, whatever we learned in FIT was education but I think in terms of stylization and in terms of aesthetic sense much has been adopted from these great men and woman that we've worked with," said Sachin in an interview in his New York studio on Monday, June 29.

Sachin explained that by manufacturing everything in-house, he and Babi can ensure quality and finish are in tune with their vision. With more than 200 people on staff, the embroidering, sewing, and fabric dying is all done in Mumbai, India, where Sachin originates. No outside contracting translates into approachable prices for wearers, without sacrificing luxury, according to Sachin.

For their Sachin and Babi for Ankasa Resort 2010 collection that debuted earlier this month in New York, the couple successfully fused their experiences both in and out of the classroom, with their textile talent honed from their home store, as well as a brush of Indian influence, evident in draping and color selections that hint at the indigenous sari. Fabric manipulation and embroidery crossed with sequins and shine strike the perfect cord for the season, making every outfit transferable from day to night.

Sachin and Babi for Ankasa, as Sachin said, take pride in their customers feeling good in their pieces and appreciating them for their value. "It's not having to save sequined shorts or a silver lame tunic for an occasion, but being able to wear it that day," said Sachin. "It's a designer look, and a designer name at a contemporary price."


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Tulips & Pansies: The Headdress Affair - A Night of Flowers and Fashion to be Remembered

If you hadn't yet become savvy to the fact that pollen season has begun in New York City, then the "Tulips & Pansies: The Headdress Affair" fashion show fundraiser thrown by Village Care New York on Thursday, May 14, was a true spring awakening, merging fashion and flowers for a good cause.

Fashion designers and florists, 17 duos in total, teamed up for the eighth annual VCNY event where there was more coming down the catwalk to look at than just a pretty dress. Each florist worked with a clothing designer to come up with an extravagantly decorative headpiece that models adorned, complementing the runway look. Lilies, orchids, poppies, roses and even palm leaves all served in the cast of foliage that stood high atop the models' crowns.

The event was hosted by James Aguiar from Full Frontal Fashion and Style Network and featured apparel designers including Tory Burch, Pamella Rowland, Ralph Rucci and Cynthia Steffe.

Winning accreditation from the judges for most entertaining design was Sara Jordan of Sara Claire and Esther, who paired fishnet stockings to her Bordeaux colored, man-tailored cropped jacket highlighting this season's special vintage embellishment - lace. "Lots of feathers," said Amy Wolk of Fleurs as she made final preparations backstage before the show, which proved to be essential to her winning top hat design that completed the cabaret inspired ensemble.

The headdresses, each with their own themes, styles and inspirations, were floral masterpieces in height and length, some towering over four feet high and others spanning the same in width. Creativity was in full bloom with designs that included a fantasy bird's nest with eggs, a Greco-Roman Cleopatra hair style, a floppy "over the top" brim hat made of roses, and a Napoleon hat.

Fashion entrepreneur and founder of public relations firm People's Revolution, Kelly Cutrone chaired the event for Village Care New York along with Jack Curry. "This is the only place that helps people with HIV when they have no where else to go," said Cutrone. Having lived in the West Village area of Manhattan, she reaffirmed her loyalty to the cause, as well as her old neighborhood, shrugging her shoulders and saying, "What can I say. I'm a downtown girl."

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Paulina Porizkova say she was fired by 'Top Model'

Paulina Porizkova got a pink slip from "America's Next Top Model." That's what the model-actress said Tuesday night on CBS' "The Late Late Show," dropping this bombshell to host Craig Ferguson: "Do you know why I'm in Los Angeles, besides seeing you? ... Because I'm looking for a job. Because I was fired by `America's Next Top Model' on my birthday."

Porizkova, who turned 44 on April 9, joined the judges' panel of the popular model-scouting series last year. Wednesday night's 12th season finale on the CW network marks her final appearance.

According to Porizkova, the firing happened over the phone.

"Just to be fair here, the reason I was told I was fired was because ... it seemed that `America's Next Top Model' had gotten too fat and they needed to cut some fat — and the fat was me," she explained to Ferguson.

Porizkova judged the crop of `Top Model' wannabes alongside fashion insiders J. Alexander, Nigel Barker and the show's creator and host, Tyra Banks.

Show representatives Jeff Tobler and Chelsea Hettrick declined to comment beyond confirming Porizkova's departure. The supermodel's publicist, Meghan Prophet, did not return a phone call regarding Tuesday's announcement.

Porizkova joked that her "gigantic huge ego" might have contributed to her untimely reality-show elimination. That prompted Ferguson to ponder whether there was rivalry between her and Banks.

Getting serious, she added: "I really believe that they just felt like they didn't need me, which, of course, they don't."


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Couturier Pierre Cardin returns home from hospital

Star French couturier Pierre Cardin, 86, was on Thursday released from a hospital in the Mediterranean city of Marseille after a 48-hour stay caused by high blood pressure, his press service said.

"His state of health was judged to be perfectly satisifactory by his doctors and he will be able in a few days to resume his professional activities," it said in a statement.

Cardin was flown by helicopter to Marseille on Tuesday from the southern village of Lacoste, where he each year organises a music and theatre festival in a castle he is restoring that was once owned by the Marquis de Sade.

He was last week also briefly hospitalised for a fracture of his shoulder-blade after falling on stairs.


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Jayson Brunsdon: Class With a Hint of Parisian Panache

It felt like Paris at Jayson Brunsdon's runway show at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week in Sydney Wednesday, April 29, when the simple and chic sophistication recalled the old days of haute couture when shows were mini social galas and not celebrity slugfests.

Full of understated poise, the collection was one of those stylish affairs where the pale colors, quietly graceful hair and makeup and classy carriage of the models all evoked one big word - ladylike. In an era when people turn up for shows in faded anthracite jeans, Brunsdon's collection was a bit nostalgic, but defiantly elegant.

There was a certain colonial comportment to this collection, where pleated georgette pool dresses, oyster-hued dresses, splendid boyish shantung shorts and leaf colored cocktails whispered grace, but never shouted glamour.

Brunsdon may not be the most innovative of designers, but he has plenty of class. He designed the collection and staged this show after undergoing many months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer last July. Brunsdon dedicated the collection to his mother Dorothy, and a drawing of his mother was on the cover of his invitation.

"It was a dark period in my life," said the designer, who embraced Dorothy on the catwalk, an elegant touch before a cheering audience that gave Brunsdon a loud and long applause.

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Romance Was Born: Australia Couture

Often the best tests of a fashion house's influence and possible longevity is the strength of its underlying concept, and using this yardstick one can only predict the rosiest of future's for Romance Was Born, which staged a simply sensational show in Sydney Thursday, April 30.

Staged in the light-bathed end of a great old wharf, the show was practically a hit before the first look appeared, thanks to the great stage set a potpourri of cane trunks, garden statues bedecked with chains of pearls, fine bone china tea sets, budgies, ships steering wheels, gardener's paraphernalia and a substantial wacky garden of potted flowers.

The opening was also perfectly judged, a sixties-like mini skirted white suit. The opener captured many of the breath-taking details of this impressive aesthetic statement - eyebrows remade with mini fans of pearls, platform shoes constructed with doilies and seashells. If this sounds absurdist, that's because it was, yet the sheer audacity of the images also made every look a wonderful one.

Curvy, sexy shantung suits in cobalt blues, saucy society hostess cocktail dresses - subverted by the body hugging shape - and bird of paradise slatternly countesses in fiery red frocks all looked great.

This was the closest collection outside of Western Europe to reach the technical heights of a Paris haute couture show. But what made it even more special was the way Romance Was Born's designers Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales made this Australia couture, by using lots of references to their own country and culture, whether it be colonial doilies, wrought iron filigrees, crochet squares or grandmother's pearls. That was clear from the show title: "Doilies and Pearls, Oysters and Shells."

Plunkett and Sales teamed up with local artists Patrick Doherty and Esme Timbery to produce colorfully naïve cartoonist prints on a great silk material composed of oysters and pearls.

"Our next plan? Opening boutiques in Melbourne, Sydney and Tokyo," said Sales, in between interviews with local TV crews.

Created in pastel hues of pale pink or faded blue, mint and lavender the collection deservedly won the duo prolonged applause as they took their bow after a memorable display of adventurous style and chic. It was a rare and unique moment when the meeting of imagery, aesthetics, eccentricity and beauty was so special that one felt privileged to be right at the center of the creative universe. Romance Was Born elicited one of those charming epiphanies.


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Camilla and Marc Kick Off Sydney Fashion Week

They love a double act in Australia, where the sister and brother combo of Camilla & Marc kicked off Sydney Fashion Week Monday, April 27, with a stylish romp that was a clever mix of commercial and cool.

These talented siblings were followed by two more twosomes - Bec & Bridge and Ginger & Smart - but of the three, Camilla & Marc were the most accomplished, and most in synch with contemporary global trends.

Staged before a great looking trompe l'oeil couture house backdrop on a hipster casting of young and veteran models, this collection had plenty of easy to understand clothes, whether artfully ripped white jeans, semi-abstract animal prints singlet tops and gold chain belts.

Camilla Freeman-Topper and Marc Freeman went for a layered look in this spring 2010 show, but since their fabrics were so floaty and craftily aged the effect was light and comprehensible. At least one member of the family is no slouch at tailoring; some deftly made glove leather mini bomber jackets were the very epitome of beautifully hung fashion.

They also showed natty knobby toed and spike-heeled platforms, and some great mesh tops, although their micro striped dresses and trousers suits were in a formulaic beach wind-breaker stripe, they were still flattering.

The collection was ultimately a bit too derivative, and looked familiar to anyone familiar with recent collections by the Paris house of Balmain, the single most influential label in high fashion this past season. Designs included 80's broad and peaked shoulders, glitzy use of sequins, angle zips and one shoulder dresses.

Moreover, while the clothes did seem ultimately finely adapted to an insouciant moment on a balmy summer's day, they did not seem terribly Australian. However, the bedraggled, bedroom hair, scant use of make-up and high dress length is something of a compliment, and will find an international audience for Camilla & Marc.

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Gap Launches 1969 Premium Denim

The latest Gap product to get an upgrade from Patrick Robinson, executive vice president of design, is denim, with a new premium collection, “1969,” which will debut for Fall 2009.

Gap gave a sneak peek of the new additions to their denim roster at a press preview in New York on Monday, April 20, with a line-up of diverse styles and washes for both men and women, from skinny to straight and the new “boyfriend” jean for women, to re-designed boot cuts for both, from light to dark rinses and all shades in between.

“Gap’s about a lot of options,” said Robinson. “Every fit has a person behind it, from curvy to long and lean. You find out who you are and get the jean to fit it.”

Robinson spent a year and a half with the Gap denim design team to redo everything from the fit and the wash to come up with a collection of denim under $60 that rivals premium brands that retail for $150 to $500.

“I’m using our size as my advantage to get the price down,” said Robinson, who said that Gap developed proprietary fabrics and sewing techniques with their extensive worldwide network of mills and factories so that their product would be unique, and also cost less to produce.

Robinson said they brought in all the people who run the floors of the factories around the world - where the production happens - to meet with Gap’s technical team over the course of a week so that they could show them the exact construction specifications.

“There’s an internal meticulousness,” said Robinson. “Everything from how they sit, how they hug the back and lift up the behind to how to make a knee on a boot leg cut fall straight down and not twist.”

The key task for Robinson for the women’s collection was to make the fit “sexy” where it counts the most - namely, in the rear and the thigh - and for men, to make sure the jean “fits like a dream, with an aesthetic that’s cool.”

“It’s about dressing America,” said Robinson. “You may only like one style and your friend may only like another. There’s something for everyone.”

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Crispin and Basilio Fall 2009 at Revolve Clothing

Fashion is an emotional purchase, and in this economy, designer Donny Barrios wants women to fall in love with his designs.

Barrios debuted his Fall 2009 collection for his Crispin & Basilio line April 8 at the Revolve Clothing boutique in Los Angeles—and love was certainly in the air. A dress layered in faux ostrich feathers, a silk mini-dress in an acid-wash print and a lightweight trench coat with biker jacket styling were crowd favorites. Zippers toughened up jackets and silky dresses.

“I wanted to create a sense of sexiness and confidence,” Barrios said. “My focus was to step a little out of my own comfort zone—with the acid-wash, for example, that isn’t necessarily my style, but it works for the collection in this context—and create pieces that make women feel sexy and powerful. I think that’s important right now.”

True to his background in menswear and tailoring, Barrios offered crisp staples, including shrunken jackets, floor-length maxi-dresses, fitted party dresses and his own take on the drop-crotch pant.

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