Color Rendering

Derek Lam and Jenna Lyons at Parsons

Watch this - it's excellent.

Tom Ford Documentary

The first designer I ever truly admired was Gianni Versace.
I have a treasure trove of old Fashion File/Fashion Television/Video Fashion and even some CNN Style w/ Elsa Klensch, but it's all on VHS. I will post it on Youtube one day.
Anyway, the second designer that really made me flip out was Tom Ford. Those Gucci girls were fierce!!!

The Fashion Fund Episode 1 - 3

Next week I will move The Fashion Fund Post to its own page. I will update the blog soon with some new posts. Not sure what I am going to do yet. Sound off in the comments if you have any suggestions!

take care RC

On Kanye West: So this is why we go to fashion school

Point Blank. I am sick of celebrity designers. The other day I hope Mr. Divo mic snatcher Kanye West brought the zenith and subsequent downfall of this trend.

His collection was a horrifying mess of stolen ideas, with a lack of focus, amateurishly displayed on professional models and shown at Paris freaking Fashion Week. Ladies and gentleman, this is everything you should not do.

Let me expand on this briefly. I have argued on several websites about this, and this morning I am reading a great article from Eric Wilson about this, view it here: Kanye West, Designer (Yawn) I think the storm gets brewed with someone with a not so great reputation, and infamous history of narcissism, decides to be the 1 billionth celebrity to start a fashion line. And then he feels the need to do his first show in Paris during the fashion week calender among the greats as if we should all expect him to start at the top. But just because you are at the top of another profession means you get to skip the leaning curve in this one. He climbed the to the top of the pedestal and was kicked off it so hard, he's still reeling.
From NY Times : His show was described by those who attended as, at best, a disappointment, and yet the rapper could be found almost everywhere during Paris Fashion Week defending himself. At a dinner party in Azzedine Alaïa’s kitchen on Sunday, Mr. West complained rather bitterly to those assembled that he meant for those sausage-casing dresses, the sagging trousers and the swimming jackets dripping with sparkles and strips of fuzzy bits to fit the way that they did, though everyone else seemed to read them as a failure in tailoring. At the Céline show, he engaged Joe Zee, the creative director of Elle, in a lengthy dialogue, loud enough for everyone around them to hear, in which he noted, as one example, that he did not very much appreciate the criticism of his decision to show fur for summer.
“All I said was congratulations,” Mr. Zee said afterward. “I wasn’t even there.”
Gotta love Joe and his pleasant shade throwing. In the fashion world the ONE THING you can't buy, is respect. The scattered weak applause says it all.

Classic Marc Jacobs Interview 1998

Talks about his experience at Parsons, getting his inspiration from the street, his infamous Perry Ellis Grunge Collection and his first collection for Louis Vuitton

Merry Xmas

Update

Hi guys. Due to reasons that were totally under my control *read* procrastination
I postponed my admission to F.I.T. for Spring 2011. In Jan/Feb I will be picking up the blog again with info on moving to NYC from Massachusetts, how I'm dealing with my classes and posting photos of my class projects. I also added my twitter address to my right if you have any questions or just want to hit me up about fashion in general, I would love to hear about your progress and such. Until then here's my insane Gaga vs. Madonna youtube playlist, enjoy.

Oh I wanna go!!! LET'S GO!!

F.I.T. BFA Show 2009