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//DDD// Emerson: Jackie Fraser Swan, Fall Winter 2012


Written By: Gordon West, Contributing Fashion Editor
Photos By: Gordon West @itakemycamera
With VV Brown’s apropos L.O.V.E. thundering from the speakers, (it was St. Valentine’s evening after all), Jackie Fraser-Swan unveiled Emerson’s Fall Winter 2012 collection at Lincoln Center last night. The collection lies somewhere between the flirtatious naiveté of an ingénue and the self-assured seduction of a gothic pin-up. Amidst wool, lace, leather, chiffon and floral print silks, a healthy—and unexpected—helping of neoprene could be spotted, most notably on a pair of black sailor pants. Rooted primarily in black, splashes of color were added in notes of violet, plum, eggplant and an outrageous lime.

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//DDD// Norisol Ferrari, Fall 2012


Written By: Gordon West, Contributing Fashion Editor
Photos By: Gordon West @itakemycamera
There’s nothing like walking through a Lincoln Center presentation of in-your-face glamour at 8:30 in the morning to perk you up. Bathed in a subtle, boudoir red glow and soundtracked with lusty Goldfrapp and legendary vintage love songs (think: a sexy, sexy version of My Funny Valentine), Norisol Ferrari presented her Fall 2012 collection, labeling it the “seductive power of glamour.”

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To My Valentine: A Love Note to Books, Movies & Music

For My Valentine, Bobby Crace. Written by Maya Contreras, Editor-in-Chief, The DDD Books are everywhere in our house. They are of course on our three bookshelves (which currently out numbers our furniture, the books have more places to sit then Bobby and I do). They’re on our bathroom floor, on our couch, on top of the refrigerator, and on our window ceils. Bobby always has at least two in his backpack and I always have one for the subway or several on my iPad.

Our books are very different. Non-fiction is my necessity and Bobby is almost strictly fiction. Maya Angelou’s Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now sits snuggly between John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces and Philip Roth’s Portney’s Complaint. Bell Hooks’ All About Love: New Visions stares defiantly at Charles Bukowski’s Ham on Ray and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. James Joyce’s Finnegins Wake looks loving from the shelf knowing he will be read again and again by Bobby for the hundreth time.

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//DDD//Carolina Herrera Fall Winter 2012



Written By: Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor
Photos By: Casey Vange for www.figphoto.net
On a roll from last September’s amazing bird prints and youth infusion, Carolina Herrera launched her Fall Winter 2012 collection with a bang. The trendy chic combo of indigo and black looked fresh and layered with cool additions such as sheared lamb, ostrich feathers and crystal embellishments making the first few runs Gossip Girl ready (stylists be prepared).

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//DDD// Falguni and Shane Peacock Fall Winter 2012


Written By: Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor
Photos By: Casey Vange for www.figphoto.net
It was all about performance worthy clothes at Falguni and Shane Peacock and even more fitting that they were showing the same day as the Grammy’s. Gowns only worthy of a stage were the mainstay in their Fall Winter 2012 collection.

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//DDD// Timo Weiland Fall Winter 2012


Written By: Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor
Photos By: Casey Vange for www.figphoto.net
Looking towards “Orbital Romance” the early period of new wave nostalgia in NYC where alternative and hip-hop artists lived in harmony, banded together on St. Marks Place to create magic. This was a world where artist used to create unique original thoughts and really had the ability to be true artists. “They stargazed and became enamored with outer space” said designers Timo Weiland and Alan Eckstein.

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//DDD// Rachel Roy Fall Winter 2012



Written By: Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor
On a sunny day in Manhattan, it is easy to remember how important color is in the winter. After show upon show of muted wintery grey’s green’s and burgundy’s Rachel Roy’s Fall Winter 2012 presentation was a welcome surprise.

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//DDD//Thom Browne Fall Winter 2012


Written By: Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor
Photos By: Marta Traskevych for www.figphoto.net
Fashion loves a spectacle. Rare in New York, so thank God for Thom Browne. We walked into a room on the third floor of the New York Public Library. There were coffins with glass tops lined up on the floor with flickering candles beside them. Within the coffins were grey suited bodies whose heads and feet were covered in sheer silk chiffon.

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//DDD//Behnaz Sarafpour Fall Winter 2012



Written by Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor
Photography by Marta Traskevych for www.figphoto.net Driven by the idea of fashion x-rays Behnaz Sarafpour gave us little details such as silver boning seen outside of the dress, transparent petticoat skirt, pockets obviously fixed on the outside of a jacket and sheer lace. Menswear inspired pieces in couture wool with key-hole cut outs (a growing New York trend) balanced out the metallic dipped presentation that was the Fall Winter 2012 collection.

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//DDD// Diane von Furstenburg Fall Winter 2012



Written by Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor
Photography by Billy Rood for www.figphoto.net
Diane von Furstenburg herself is chic polished and glamorous yet seductive so it is no surprise that her Fall Winter 2012 collection was titled “Rendezvous” and from the smoke filled set down to the eye hidden sunnies DVF took us on a surrealistic journey into the psyche of a woman.

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