Shirl In The City: Donna Karan Collection

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring 2015: Summerized Rundown

Richard Chai

Kai

Dominik

Abiah

Tonya Taylor

Mona Kid

LaCoste

Andreas

Venexiana

Elena

Donna Karan Collection

Kendal Jenner

I didn't dress her but I think she is a decent model despite the naysayers. The word going around during fashion week was that she was being bullied by some of the other models because they thought she got shows because of her name. Jealous much?

I wasn't assigned to dress this model, but ended up helping her because the DK staff dress one of the other models I was assigned.

Ophelie

Stephanie

The DK staff thought the dress was too complicated for me to figure to how to put on this models so they dressed her themselves. I love how fashion folk exaggerate things in their heightened state of hysteria during fashion week. This dress was not that complicated to put on the model, but I don't argue, it's pointless.

Vera Wang

Julia B

Waleska

Jenny Packham

Frida

Guilliana

CBS Fashion Rocks

I was feeling to lazy to really hunt down pictures for this show and it was mostly about the famous people who were performing: Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, Justin Beiber, Kiss... I wasn't all that interested in showing them since we didn't work with any of them, but Super Model of the world Naomi Campbell was backstage with her "people" to change for her appearance on the show and she took a few moments to take pictures with all of us dressers. Someone took a group shot, but once again I didn't feel like looking for it and I was cut out anyway so...

All the above are blurry pictures I tried to take of Naomi Campbell at the Fashion Rocks show backstage. Why in the hell does my cellphone camera not want to work for those crucial shots?! That's Audrey Smaltz in the third and fourth picture next to Naomi.

Abiah, who remembered me from last September when we did the Gap presentaion. That was the first time I had met him. He's becoming a much in demand male model.

My first time at Barclays was for this show.

Michael Kors

Karmen

Boss Women

Suvi

From Inside The Tents

The girls skirts had led lights.

Blurry cellphone picture of a dude in a robe

This girls shoes were interesting. I couldn't get a better close up of them. I should have used my other camera instead of my cellphone.

I found out that she is a shoe designer, hence, the cool shoes. Up close it was very diy. All you need is a plain pair of booties, some feathers, lace and a glue gun!

So pathetic! I sat in the tent for literally eight hours between shows and I didn't fint too many people interesting enough to take more pictures. I must be jaded.

They weren't giving away much this season, unfortunately.

Champagne gummie bears from the E!Entertainment lounge.

A card from Papyrus

My model, Ophelie(far right), from DK Collection had a picture in one of the Dailey fashion periodicals.

In Tribute

I wanted to add Oscar De La Renta here since I didn't post about his death last Monday. He was such a gentleman, always calm and collected backstage. We hadn't worked for him in the past five years but, it was special the times we did work for him. Bless his soul, he will be missed.

July 22, 1932 - October 20, 2014

This was the last show I worked for Oscar in the spring of 2008. I wasn't during fashion week and it was at the Armory on the east side, 60th street or something like that. It was also my first time working with Jourdan Dunn.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Mercedes-Benz New York Fahion Week Fall 2014/15: Donna Karan Collection

This was Donna Karan's the Thirtieth Anniversary of her company! And The Ground Crew has worked with ehr form the very begining. I went to Parsons School of Design because I read that Donna Karan had went there, she dropped out when she got a job with Anne Klein, but still... I did my internship with Donna Karan. I wnated to stay on, but at that time(1997) her company was having money problems, so no go.

Anyway, this fashion show was way downtown on Wall Street on a bitterly cold night. I thought this collection was what I've come to recognize as Donna Karan...mostly black, great coats and jackets, the cut-outs in the tops, the draped skirts, the draped burn-out velvet dresses...

My model, Elodia in her first look.

I's so buy this coat! My first rally good winter coat was a camel colored Donna Karan wool and cashmere I bought while I was working at Bergdorf Goodman and going to school. I still have it almost twenty years later! It needs a new lining though. I plan to add a new funky lining eveutally.