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Fashion Week wraps up in New York City

A winter storm left piles of snow and Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco stopped by Tommy Hilfiger's show, but the most dramatic thing about New York City this past week were Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week's first looks at fall 2013. Inside the walls of Lincoln...

Tags: Vivienne Tam, Auto Trends, Annapolis, Jill Stuart, Lela Rose

Don't be tardy for the party season

Baltimore's party season is off and running after getting its kickoff last night with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra gala, which many folks consider the unofficial start to the fall party season. The next three months may be the most intense time of...

Tags: Maritime (music group), Billy Joel, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Reisterstown Road, Bon Jovi (music group)

Getting the N.Y. Fashion Week look at home

In Baltimore, the best way to capture the vibe spotted at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is with a quick trip to a department store or high-end boutique. Both are generally stocked with a slew of garments from designers whose creations regularly appear on the...

Tags: Jessica Alba, Narciso Rodriguez, Vera Wang, Tibi, Halston

New York's Met Museum celebrates punk's influence on fashion

Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - With their black leather, studded jackets, ripped jeans, bondage trousers and messages of rebellion and anarchy, punks from the 1970s probably never envisioned that a major museum would be celebrating their influence on fashion 40...

Tags: Museums, John Galliano, The Happiest News!, Alexander McQueen, Versace

Halston Heritage opens first West Coast store at Beverly Center

Los Angeles Times Fashion Critic

Halston was America’s first celebrity designer, creator of Jackie O's famous pillbox hat and a hard-partying denizen of Studio 54. He was also one of the first fashion figures to license his name, an experiment that failed miserably at the time...

Tags: Sarah Jessica Parker, Celine, New York City, Halston, BCBG Max Azria

Ricki Lake's style evolution

Los Angeles Times

Ricki Lake jumps off the couch and struts across the expansive set of her new talk show in a pair of killer black YSL Trib Toos. "Divine taught me to walk in high heels," she says. "He said, 'Honey, I'm gonna show you how to walk in those things.' He...

Tags: Rachel Zoe, Howie Mandel, Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), John Waters, Apple iPhone

More fashion collaborations unveiled

A party in New York to toast the Maison Martin Margiela with H&M collaboration attracted A-listers such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Kanye West — and foreshadowed long lines Nov. 15 when the collection for men and women hits 230 H&M stores worldwide....

Tags: Fishing, Marchesa, New York City, Narciso Rodriguez Red and Black Ombre Dress, Hennes & Mauritz AB

Playing for keeps

Tribune Newspapers

A good editor knows what to excise, but a brilliant one knows what to preserve. This applies equally to manuscripts and closets, which is why Kim France has no use for edicts calling for an annual ditching of all clothing that hasn't been worn in an...

Tags: Real Estate, France

Golf clothes that look good on and off the green

Special to the Los Angeles Times

The modern guy's golfing gear shouldn't look like it was pilfered from dad's closet. Enter Sub70, a collection of colorful golf duds made for young guns (think Justin Timberlake) that also works when worn off the green. The line was hatched in England...

Tags: England, Alexander Wang, Clothing, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Clothing, Accessories, and Shoes

Fashion: Beyonce most beautiful. Zoe Saldana covers Latina Cosmo.

New York Fashion Week: Trends in women's wear

With mid-priced collections as upscale-looking and lavishly detailed as those on the New York runways for fall, who needs to pay top dollar for fashion? So much of the excitement during the New York Fashion Week shows that wrapped up on Thursday was...

Tags: Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander Wang, Entertainment Events, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Fashion Shows

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