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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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//DDD// Jill Stuart Fall Winter 2012

Written by Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor Photography by Casey Vange for www.figphoto.net Jill Stuart kept things youthful and feminine but added a whisper of sex appeal this season. Not so girlie and sweet, a plethora of little black dresses with flesh exposing patches of tulle or lace were the meat of the collection. Floral patterns were darker this time and some slightly surrealistic tulip shapes popped up amongst what looked to be thistle patterns whizzing past.

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//DDD//Custo Barcelona Fall Winter 2012

Written by Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor Photography by Casey Vange for www.figphoto.net In a collection titled Rawvision Fall Winter 2012 Custo Dalmau was surprisingly less descriptive about his theme than usual. With a simple statement that “this collection is an homage to Visionaries and the pioneers of creativity” it was his most retailable collection yet starting with the textured outerwear, all the way down to the combat boot sandals.

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//DDD// VPL by Victoria Bartlett Fall Winter 2012

Written by Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor Photography by Marta Traskevych for www.figphoto.net Entitled “Manipulate” the VPL Fall Winter 2012 collection was all about the body’s geography and its opposing forces from transparent and opaque, to masculine and feminine and beyond. Designer Victoria Bartlett’s inspiration came from Michael Clark’s transgressive choreography of Mmm: the tension between abandon and control, shadow and reflection, fluidity and gravity’s pull.

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//DDD//Geoffrey Mac, Fall Winter 2012

Written by Gordon West, Contributing Fashion Editor Photography by Gordon West @itakemycamera If you’re a sleek and slightly tarty space-age housewife needing some structural statement pieces, Geoffrey Mac fully delivers the response to your dilemma with his sexy and slightly sci-fi Fall Winter 2012 collection. Select jackets, skirts, and dresses were accentuated with exaggerated shoulders that would make Joan Collins gasp with envy, and architecturally jutting hips that, with the right body and the right walk, swayed hypnotically. Mac’s choice of colors veered away from wines, navys and violets that everyone has been stressing this season and instead showcased turquoise just shy of teal, red, yellow, oatmeal and black.

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//DDD// Daniella Kallmeyer, Fall 2012

Written by Gordon West, Contributing Fashion Editor Photos by Gordon West @itakemycamera Last evening in the Highline Loft in Chelsea amidst gin cocktails and indie pop, Daniella Kallmeyer revealed her Fall 2012 collection of easy glamour. Wrought with simple shapes, lines and silhouettes, the collection felt approachable, available and, for the most part, translatable to any wardrobe. The exceptions to this translatability were a pant, blouse, skirt and turtleneck boasting a blue oil slick pattern.

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Raquel Welch: Cinematic GoddessWritten by Gordon West, Contributing Fashion Editor Photo by Gordon West @itakemycamera Not all fashionable events during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week involve runways, models and a pit of photographers. Sometimes they involve decades of photos and a glamorous, timeless, iconic legend. This weekend I had the good fortune of being asked to attend and shoot such an event—a photo exhibit and cocktail reception for Raquel Welch at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Frida and Roy Furman Gallery. For five days the Film Society of Lincoln Center has presented a retrospective of Welch’s films from the wonderfully bizarre Myra Breckinridge to the film (and fur bikini) that started it all, One Million Years B.C. At the reception and her several Q&As for the last several days, Welch reinforced her ideal as an alluring, lasting, genetically gifted, artistically talented, jaw-dropping beauty and legend. At 71, Welch likes to call herself a Mama Duck, one able to offer advice for the younger generation when it comes to managing the glittering, potentially destructive machine that is Hollywood. One look at her clad in the curve-hugging leopard print dress she wore to her reception won’t have you calling her a Mama Duck so much as a Hot Mama with an eager flock of following fans.

Raquel Welch: Cinematic Goddess
Written by Gordon West, Contributing Fashion Editor
Photo by Gordon West @itakemycamera

Not all fashionable events during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week involve runways, models and a pit of photographers. Sometimes they involve decades of photos and a glamorous, timeless, iconic legend. This weekend I had the good fortune of being asked to attend and shoot such an event—a photo exhibit and cocktail reception for Raquel Welch at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Frida and Roy Furman Gallery.

For five days the Film Society of Lincoln Center has presented a retrospective of Welch’s films from the wonderfully bizarre Myra Breckinridge to the film (and fur bikini) that started it all, One Million Years B.C. At the reception and her several Q&As for the last several days, Welch reinforced her ideal as an alluring, lasting, genetically gifted, artistically talented, jaw-dropping beauty and legend.

At 71, Welch likes to call herself a Mama Duck, one able to offer advice for the younger generation when it comes to managing the glittering, potentially destructive machine that is Hollywood. One look at her clad in the curve-hugging leopard print dress she wore to her reception won’t have you calling her a Mama Duck so much as a Hot Mama with an eager flock of following fans.

//DDD//Odilon Fall Winter 2012

Written by Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor Photography by Lauren Cohen Clean, minimal but with the perfect amount of repetitive print Stacey Clark’s Odilon Fall Winter 2012 presentation lived up to its “One to Watch from WWD”. Inspired by David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, specifically Laura Palmer in the Black Lodge, a zig zag pattern took over the High Line Room in the Standard Hotel. Miniskirts and maxi dresses, black, white, lavender, and even a red sweater with the embroidery “the owls are not what they seem.” In between patterns were gorgeous separates and some gowns that only a sculpture could create, not too close to the body, not too linear.

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//DDD// Herve Leger Fall Winter 2012

Written by Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor Photography by Billy Rood for www.figphoto.net This is not your mother’s horse and bridle. Herve Leger’s equestrian theme for Fall Winter 2011 went more towards restraints.. Of the bondage variety. It was gorgeous. For a brand that prides themselves on a celebrity stamp of approval and the body conscious sex appeal that makes them a vixen’s first choice in party attire, Max Azria, creative director went a bit outside of the box and it worked beautifully.

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//DDD// Simon Spurr Fall Winter 2012

Written by Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor Photography by Marta Traskevych for www.figphoto.net Simon Spurr knows the delicate balance between proper British tailoring, fly off the rack separates, and trend driven pieces that have a sense of humor. Menswear, in particular suiting, used to be a staunchy world where there were little options. After working everywhere from YSL to Calvin Klein, Spurr continues, season upon season, to turn out something new, that can still hang in the likes of a luxury department store.

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