Max Azria Would Like To See You In Color-Blocked Caftans This Fall

Max Azria seems to be feeling pretty '70s for fall, at least in his BCBG Max Azria collection (the first to walk of the three brands he presents at New York Fashion Week, the others being Hervé Leger by Max Azria and Max Azria). There were fluid, flared trousers, coats in camel and leather, and floaty caftans.
BCBG Spring 2012: Coloring Inside Of The Lines
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week has begun! At the BCBG show held today in New York City, bold color punctuated strong black lines on soft, sheer, flowy dresses. Apparently next spring will be all about bare shoulders, plunging necklines, vivid hues and touches of folkloric patterns. Fresh, contemporary, bold, but decidedly…
BCBG's Fall Collection Was That 70s Show
And we're off! If you will, imagine a really chic 70s grad student who spends her Saturday night worshiping at the altar of Nicks, and you'll have a good picture of the slant of today's BCBG show in the Big Apple.
Competing Isabella Blow Biographers Attack Each Other
- Detmar Blow and Tom Sykes are trading jibes with Lauren Goldstein Crowe over their dueling Isabella Blow biographies, both of which hit U.S. bookstore stores this week. Everyone is sniping at everyone over the email, sometimes in ALLCAPS!!!
Beth Ditto Designs Again; Faith Hill Wants A Clothing Line
- Beth Ditto is designing another Evans collection. Last time the singer held fast to the 80s, with sometimes mixed results, but the range that will hit stores in September counts everything from Victoriana to "Noughties body-con" as an influence. [Telegraph]
Paulina Hates Your Boob Job; Oprah Buys Stock In J. Crew
- Paulina Porizkova says news of Kate Hudson's breast augmentation "headed straight to my heart...The availability and ease of transforming our bodies is completely losing our identities and uniqueness. No one ages anymore, no one has imperfections of any kind anymore:
Fewer Models Of Color Work New York's Fashion Runways
After tracking diversity on the runways for several seasons, we took off last September because we thought the fashion industry was finally coming to its senses. Models of color were getting booked! How disappointing, then, to tally this season's numbers.
BCBG: For The Sea Goddess In You
BCBG's Max Azria hails from the coastal country of Tunisia, and there was a Mediterranean, oceany-vibe in his Spring 2010 collection, shown today at NYC's Bryant Park. Green, blue and foamy white fabrics drip from models in a gallery, ahead.
BCBG Bends, Shapes Olympian Nastia Liukin
- Nastia Liukin's long-awaited and appropriately bendy BCBG ad is the business! [Popcrunch]
This Fall, We'll All Be Flappers On Acid In French Boarding Schools
New York Fashion Week kicked off on Friday at the tents in Bryant Park, and in the ensuing three days, plenty of big-name designers have given us their vision of what women can look forward to, sartorially that is, once winter passes, summer swelters, and the chill sets in again. Designers as disparate as Diane von…
ELLE Nutjob Anne Slowey Soon To Be A TV Star
- Remember the news about the new reality show in which Tyra Banks pits a group of young women against one another to compete for a job at a fashion magazine? Well, it looks like the ladymag in question is ELLE and creative director Joe Zee and fashion news director/calorie restrictor Anne Slowey are going to be…
Kate Winslet Thinks Repping Lancome Is No Big Thing
- Lancome spokeswoman Kate Winslet managing to sound annoying while dissing the celebrity product endorsement business: "I remember five or six years ago, it was really a big deal to be the face of a campaign or a spokesperson for a particular brand name. Now, it just doesn't seem to matter so much." [WWD, sub req'd]
BCBG: For Girls Who Like Their Dresses "Blonde"
BCBG is a $1 billion mall chain that sells almost nothing more expensive than $500 started by a man who openly claims American women are more fashionable than French ones even as it insists on observing wholly un-American return policies, so why its second-ever runway show was such a Colossal Event mystified me…
Breaking Fashion Week News: Ralph Lauren Holds Himself In High Regard

- Tomorrow is Fashion Week, and to get your bile a-flowing we have excerpted the inimitable Ralph Lauren: "What is wonderful is that I have had success doing what I love and what I believed in. I didn't sell out; I didn't wine and dine anybody. I just learned how to kiss on both cheeks. I'm proud that it worked. I…
