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London Fashion Week: Paul Smith Spring 2010
runway, Gallery, Designer, Splash · September 21, 2009 · 0 Comments
Paris: Paul Smith Men's Spring 2010
Gallery, Splash · June 30, 2009 · 2 Comments
Paris 6/28/09 Photos by Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/WireImage.com
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London Fashion Week: Paul Smith Womens Fall 2009
runway, Gallery, Designer · February 24, 2009 · 0 Comments
London 02/24/09. Photos by Tim Whitby/Getty Images & Mike Marsland/WireImage.
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Fashion in 50 Seconds 10/21with A|X Armani Exchange, Chin Choi, & Catherine Malandrino
feature · October 21, 2008 · 0 Comments
Nothing is cuter than a diffusion line thinking big and such is the charm of A|X Armani Exchange we almost can't begrudge their delusions of grandeur when it comes to designing their new logo. “We’re expanding aggressively globally and we wanted a strong logo that could be iconic — almost like a Nike swoosh,” said Tom Jarrold, A|X Armani Exchange’s senior vice president of global marketing and communications.
For spring Shin Choi is debuting a secondary line, Yarnie, named after a common nickname in Korea. The wholsale prices range from $39 to $98 while the main collection goes from $69 to $249.
Susie Lehr owner of the Susie Lehr Showroom was found dead in her showroom on Monday morning. She was 52. Details on the circumstances of death are as of yet unknown
We normally dislike celebrity fragrance endorsements but Yves Saint Laurent Parfums has announced that Vincent Cassel will be the face of an upcoming men’s fragrance and we rather like the choice. The star of gritty French drama “La Haine” is about as hip as they come so we don't complain. If only all companies were this forward thinking about their faces.
Yet another East mets West art collaboration is happening in fashion, Paul Smith has taken his love of art all the way to Japan, this weekend unveiling The Wood Show, an exhibition by British artist Richard Woods, at his Paul Smith SPACE shop in Tokyo.
Fop fashion is back. Back? We live in Williamsburg where it has never gone out of style.
Catherine Malandrino is opening a 6,000-square-foot-space in her hometown of Los Angeles to celebrate her 10th Anniversary. Meant to feel like home the boutique has four rooms, each featuring the designer’s personal items, such as movie posters and pieces of art.
British Style Genius: Productive Television
feature · October 8, 2008 · 0 Comments
If you're a fashion enthusiast and stick to shows like Project Runway and Gossip Girl when you happen to sit in front of the television, we're betting you'll be happy about a show airing just across the pond. British Style Genius, which aired in the UK last night, is a documentary show with interviews by some of fashion's most celebrated English designers. Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, and Paul Smith will all make appearances on the show as it attempts to examine Britain's most eponymous fashion looks. Episodes are broken down, for instance, by 'the high street' or 'the tailored look' and then the appropriate designers are called up to stage. So far we can't find the first episode online but we're guessing it's only a little while before it's available for Americans to watch. Check out the titles video, below.
Fashion In 50 Seconds 10/01/08 With Sonia Rykiel, Paul Smith, and Browns
feature · October 1, 2008 · 0 Comments
In our current economic situation, and considering that we're finishing off the Paris shows, it feel the right thing to pay attention to designers with decades of experience (and the economic ups and downs that go with that) under their belt. Sonia Rykiel spoke with WWD in an interview that went live this morning, where she talks about creative distribution in her company, now also headed by her daughter, Nathalie, and designer Gabrielle Greiss, as well as her beginnings as a designer forty years ago. Considering all we've been reading falls on these lines, it's a comfort to be given some perspective.
Oh dear, Paul Smith is opening an outlet in Williamsburg. Prepare yourself for editorial and conversational anecdotes about how "up and coming" is the neighborhood that is neither cutting edge nor undiscovered. That's not to say that we don't think the Williamsburg area isn't filled with talented, unique people, many of them important to the culture of fashion in New York, but we're not shocked at the arrival of the outlet. We've an APC outlet just down the road, OAK just up, and about a dozen bourge-y cafes in between. People shouldn't be shocked by this decision. We've seen Paul Smith outposts in the smallest, most desolate, European airports.
Suzy Menkes just celebrated twenty years as fashion editor at the International Herald Tribune, and there's a fashion designer-studded video to prove it. Menkes we saw quite a bit from London Fashion Week and while we pretended to do various purse-digging things we picked up quite a few sound bites from our favorite fashion writer. We can tell you for one that she wasn't very thrilled about going to Fashion Fringe (which everyone buzzed about all week) and that she uses a PC in the media lab among the rest of us lowly bloggers and photographers.
When we're going to just throw up our arms and stop reporting on this all together we do not know...for old times sake, there's a new collaboration hitting stores in London. Former creative director for Balmain and right hand man to Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, Giles Dufour, is launching a knitwear collab with Browns.
London Fashion Week: Paul Smith Spring 2009
runway, Gallery, Designer · September 16, 2008 · 0 Comments
London Fashion Week Spring Summer 2009, Photos by F. Shamim
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New York Versus London (So Far and Mostly)
February 13, 2008 · 0 Comments
So it seems our British friends have taken A/W 08 in an entirely different direction. That is, the fur and sparkle of New York's A/W 08, not to mention the deep plums and vibrant greens are virtually non-existent. London Fashion Week, thus far has been a little more Terminator, a little less Kindergarden Cop. Just take a peek at our photo galleries from Topshop Unique, Jacob Kimmie,
Krystof Strozyna, and Modernist Autumn, it's virtually another fashion world. All of these collections dominated by black and white, most with eruptions of red in the most brazen display (it's not worked in slowly, it's thrust into the collection and promptly removed). Sure, you could call upon Paul Smith from the Londoners, and
Camilla Staerk from the New Yorkers to argue that there is crossover. To which we'd say: "Despite some dandy-embellishments, Paul Smith is no different than Ralph Lauren, and Camilla Staerk is a newcomer. Those are bad examples.". So we win. And boy, do we love the fight. 
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