Posts filed under “High Style”
NYFW House of Aama
Scene: Spring/Summer 2022 collection, titled “Salt Water” was set in a fictionalized Black resort community called Camp Aama referencing the Black community’s seafaring legacy and beach havens they fostered. Through clothing, the House of Aama set the scene in a vacation community similar to ones that flourished in the early 1900s in the US.“We really consider ourselves […]
NYFW Cynthia Rowley (part two)
Scene: Spring/Summer 2022, with a sunset Lady Liberty view from the tip of Manhattan’s Wagner Park. “I’m slightly Y2K-obsessed, but not too much,” designer Cynthia Rowley said following her playful and feminine show. Rowley combined her various categories — swim and surf, girly occasion and daywear, and sporty leisure layers into one collection that embodied […]
NYFW Cynthia Rowley (part one)
Scene: Cynthia Rowley’s guests wearing pastels, prints, patterns, and black. All dressed up with a feminine sensibility. Models in their own clothes getting ready for the outdoor runway for Spring/Summer 2022 at Robert F. Wagner Park, with Lady Liberty looking on across the water on September 10, 2021. The energy was joyful, optimistic and celebratory, […]
Halston Night
Scene: Halston campaign, one of four ads, this one was for his Night fragrance that ran in The New York Times in the early 80’s when I was fashion art director at Bloomingdale’s. Photographer Arthur Elgort, Models Joan Severance and Tony Spinelli both wearing Halston, Stylist Jill Glover (rip), Hair Stylist Lindy King (rip), Art […]
NYMD Mix
Scene: Several emerging fashion designers at New York Men’s Day during Fashion Week Fall 2020 at Location05 in Hudson Yards. NYMD is an initiative intended to help nurture up-and-coming talent. This platform sets the stage for the world to see. Some of these designers include womanswear. Starting with Mined on Denim, a men’s sustainable denim clothing line, ethically made in San Francisco. Ready to […]