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1 By Drew Grant 1/24 9:22am

self improvement

The final look

Menace to Society: Wannabe It Girl Gets a Style Makeover

I’ve always been a great lover of fashion. I own a range of ball gowns and multicolor high tops, which can be pressed into duty as day or evening wear. I have at least four pairs of jeans, a few from recognized labels. (Well, someone would probably recognize them.) I even went to Bloomingdale's last year after watching that Oprah episode and found out my bra size. It turned out I was wearing 36B when I was actually...larger than that. Double-letter larger. I don’t even own a mirror; that’s how confident I am of my look.

Admittedly, my sense of style is somewhat singular. I'm creative, funky. I pair pieces that the “fashion world,” as it’s called, would label a "Don't"—but then I'll wear them for weeks at a time. Who says a $200 black cocktail dress can't be worn with a lumpy blue grandma sweater, some purple Uggs, and a cape? Who says that maroon doesn't go with red? People with mirrors, I bet.

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1 By Guelda Voien 11/16/11 12:06pm

The Lease Beat

Tokyo tunes into 530 Seventh Avenue.

Tokyo Fashion House Comes to Seventh

Onward Kashiyama! said all involved parties last Thursday, as the Japanese fashion house by that name renewed its lease at 530 Seventh Avenue for three years.

Tokyo-based Onward Kashiyama distributes a number of men’s and women’s apparel lines, including preppy men’s clothier J. Press. The Connecticut-born retailer is perhaps best known for selling sweaters emblazoned with the logo of Skull and Bones, Yale University’s most notorious fraternal organization. Onward also owns top ballet shoe makers Chacott and Freed of London, and designs custom clothes for brands such as Calvin Klein and Sonia Rykiel.

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By Laura Kusisto 5/11/11 7:41pm

lease beat

Famed Calvin Klein Photog Workin’ It on Hudson Street

Bruce Weber, the world-renowned fashion photographer, whose ads for Calvin Klein and Abercrombie & Fitch, famously feature everything but, has snapped up some new Hudson Street digs. 

Mr. Weber and long-time partner and agent Nan Bush will take 11,152 square feet for 10 years on the 10th floor of 205 Hudson Street. "He's an internationally known Read More

By Chloe Malle 5/05/10 2:27am

‘No Spanx Tonight’: Glamour Moms Gisele, Kate, Stella Suck in for Vogue’s Big Gala

Arriving at Vogue’s annual Costume Institute gala at the Met (theme: “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity”), editor Anna Wintour emerged from a chauffered black SUV wearing a dove-gray gown covered in a Chanel silver-sequined jacket. It was the ultimate boyfriend blazer.

She was accompanied by her daughter, Bee Shaffer, in floor-length, ivory Balenciaga covered with Read More

By Michael Miller 10:44pm

Something Is Getting Between Him and His Calvins

Size matters. But if you don’t have it, just trick people into thinking you do with a little cleverly constructed fabric. That’s the promise of the new Body by Calvin Klein Jeans—retail price, $79.50—with their “body-defining fit for an enhanced profile.” With some padded-fly trickery, Body Jeans presumably gives guys the optical illusion of more Read More

By Irina Aleksander 9/18/09 3:31pm

Evalicious! Slick Looks at Calvin Klein

The VIP row at the Calvin Klein show on Thursday, Sept. 17 included actresses Kerry Washington, Rose Byrne, Thandie Newton and the brand's current poster girl, Eva Mendes.

Designer Francisco Costa sent out his models looking like futuristic newborns: wet hair in minimalist ponytails, bodies glistening with baby oil. They wore neutral-colored dresses in high-textured fabrics Read More

By Joe Pompeo 2/16/09 3:59pm

Calvin Klein’s Triumphant Return to New York

There we were, lurking the front row about 20 minutes before the start of the Calvin Klein men’s show at CK Inc.’s West 39th Street headquarters on Sunday afternoon, when a storm of flashbulbs signaled what appeared to be the arrival of the first A-List celebrity. Um, is that Kurt Cobain?! the Daily Transom wondered Read More

By Caroline Bankoff 9/08/08 5:30pm

Fashion Week Hangers-On Make Birthday Wishes at Calvin’s 40th

Last night’s Calvin Klein 40th Anniversary party was held in a John Pawson-designed, temporary structure on 10th Avenue and 30th Street built specifically for the event.

Adjacent to the space—fittingly, it seemed to be constructed from the same building material used to turn Manhattan living rooms into second bedrooms—was the new Highline Park, which guests Read More