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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Swimwear Markets: Floating New Ideas
August 30, 2009 – 10:01 pm
Resourceful efforts aim to boost swim markets.
Fashion Scoops: Topshop’s Dance Off… Oliver Twist…
August 30, 2009 – 10:01 pm
Retailer to collaborate with Freddy, the Italian dance and fitness wear label, to produce a collection of fitness wear.
LaVelle Olexa’s Mentoring Program
August 30, 2009 – 10:01 pm
Industry alum admits it was tough leaving Lord & Taylor five months ago after marking her 20th year there.
Novel Notions: New Jewelry Designers
August 30, 2009 – 10:01 pm
Thirties chinoiserie, Philippine blossoms and flea market finds are a few of the whimsical inspirations of three new fine jewelry designers.
Let the Games Begin
August 30, 2009 – 10:00 pm
New York and L.A.’s style sets hit Tokyo on Saturday night to celebrate the new Opening Ceremony store in the fashion mecca of Shibuya. And despite their none-too-shabby shopping credentials, they were duly impressed. “I think this is probably the most incredible store I have ever been to,” cooed Kirsten Dunst, as co-owner Humberto Leon gave her a personal tour.
The Tokyo flagship—the third in Leon and his partner Carol Lim’s OC family—is a dizzying eight-floor fashion wonderland based on OC’s shop-in-shop concept, with themed floors heightening the sensory overload. “City of the Future” features Nom de Guerre, Proenza Schouler, and Alexander Wang, who was guiltily taking in the spectacle: “Fashion week is in a week and I am partying in Tokyo?” Other floors include “Office Space,” featuring Erin Wasson x RVCA, and “Welcome Home,” which houses the Japan-only Opening Celebration collection. The Row designers Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen wandered around in kawaii rabbit and mouse ears after adding autographs to a few of their pieces.
Later, it was on to Ebisu’s LiquidRoom, where the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas played a live set of tunes from his new solo album Phrazes for the Young. By evening’s end, the locals were suffering from celebrity overdose: Jason Schwartzman, Sean Lennon, and mom Yoko Ono partied along with local notables like actress Rinko Kikuchi, K-1 fighter Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto, model Yu Yamada, and hairstylist Yuya Nara. “The energy in Tokyo is just insane,” said Leon. “It’s magnificent.” On Saturday night, he was right.
—Tiffany Godoy
The Song Must Go On
August 30, 2009 – 10:00 pm
Rufus Wainwright and the good people at the Watermill Center weren’t going to let a little thing like Tropical Storm Danny get in the way of their Last Song of Summer. With buckets of rain pounding Southampton all day Saturday, the benefit concert was moved to the field house of the Ross School, forcing the likes of Anjelica Huston, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jay McInerney onto Brooks Brothers beach towels tossed over gym mats. “Who invited Danny, anyway?” Wainwright teased from the stage, where he was joined by mother Kate McGarrigle, sister Martha Wainwright, and, for a few special numbers, Norah Jones.
Just as they were about to launch into what Wainwright called “an uptempo song about a cowboy with syphilis,” a few warm rays poked through the clouds and bounced on the gym’s hardwood floors. “The sun always comes out when we play together,” he said. The entire audience was beaming when the Wainwright sibs accompanied Jones for a performance of her Grammy-winning hit “Don’t Know Why.” “They gave us lemons, so we made lemonade,” said benefit co-chair Lisa Anastos. “Actually, we did one better: We made martinis!”
—Derek Blasberg
Behind the Scenes: Testing M.A.C. Makeup for Fashion Week
August 30, 2009 – 9:37 pm
It takes weeks for M.A.C. Cosmetics to prepare for Fashion Week. The company signed on to paint faces at 86 shows, which means the M.A.C. pro beauty team must create hundreds of beauty combinations and face charts to pitch at designer meetings before any makeup artist pulls out a single lipstick backstage. M.A.C. will unveil its new collections on the spring runways, and each new color or formula needs to be individually tested by Gordon Espinet, vice president of makeup artistry, and Nadine Luke, director of makeup artistry. We caught up with the beauty gurus on testing day to see how their process works. “We fuss with it and decide what we want to use backstage, and what will eventually go out to the consumer,” says Espinet, noting that the products won’t be available to consumers until March. Together they physically mangle products — crushing eye shadow, slicing lipstick, smudging blush, and if they’re inspired, mixing new formulas. “This is the play time. We need to play with the colors, and see what we’re working with. I’m looking for something to jump out at me. I’m looking for something to speak to me,” says Luke. “It’s like studying for the exam. If it’s not done, you’re screwed. Because you won’t have what it takes to get it done backstage,” she continues. “We put so much on that by the end of the day we end up leaving looking like drag queens.”
Click ahead for a preview of M.A.C.’s spring collections, and see Gordon and Nadine test the products to find out which ones they want to take backstage at New York Fashion Week.
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Filed Under: beauty, beauty marks, fashion week preview spring 2010, gordon espinet, mac cosmetics, makeup, nadine luke