Favorite Looks: Proenza Schouler Spring 2014

(photos: Giovanni Giannini) It’s very evident how West Coast midcentury furniture designers + Arte Povera, the Sixties art movement, influenced Proenza Schouler’s spring collection.  Both entrenched in simplicity + nature, the pieces throughout the collection had simple lines + silhouettes mixed with metallic accents.  There were crop tops for spring in slight variations including metallic […]

Favorite Looks: The Row Spring 2014

(photos: Giovanni Giannoni) For The Row‘s spring collection, designers Mary-Kate + Ashley Olsen dipped their toes in tailoring while diving in head first, into breezy + relaxed looks.  With a photo of Indians dressed in white during British Colonial rule, as their point of inspiration, the global references were not at all literal if not […]

Opening Ceremony’s Spring 2014 Collection Will Drive You To

(photos: John Aquino) When designers Carol Lim + Humberto Leon sought inspiration from elements of their youth for Opening Ceremony‘s Spring 2014 collection – NY street looks peppered with traditional Korean garments for Carol + the drag racing subculture for Humberto – the end result was full of cool ease with excitement, punches of color + interesting […]

For Spring 2014, Ostwald Helgason Doesn’t Want You To Be Ignored

(photos: Todd Matarazzo) Designers Susanne Ostwald + Ingvar Helgason took to celebrating spring as the season of rebirth with punches of color, pattern, texture + whimsy.  For their Ostwald Helgason Spring 2014 collection, they created a floral pattern (row 1, pic 1) + one with balloon animals (row 1, pic 2), which at times were in a […]