The trick to finding your favorite designer at the Council of Fashion Designers of America awards is to scan the room for their 6-foot-tall dates. On Monday, June 7, at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Gwyneth Paltrow's sleek blond ponytail bobbed near Michael Kors; Devon Aoki's dark mane meant Zac Posen was near; Read More
Big week for the fashion crowd!
On the eighth floor of Saks on Oct. 20, CFDA president Steven Kolb hosted a party for his organization’s American Fashion Cookbook, now in its second printing, though Mr. Kolb admitted: “If we were to do a recipe quiz with all the designers in the cookbook and asked them Read More
Tina Brown was up to her old tricks on Tuesday, Oct. 21, hosting a luncheon for 50 with hubby Harold Evans, honoring fashion dowager Donatella Versace, at the couple’s maisonette near the East River.
Model Christie Brinkley arrived promptly, wearing a pale gray pencil skirt and matching motorcycle jacket. “We just drove in from the Read More
Andre Leon Talley’s black Town Car was one of the first to pull up to the Fashion Institute of Technology Tuesday morning, July 28, for the 9 a.m. Town Hall meeting of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. The Vogue editor at large got out in a light gray suit with a small Louis Read More
Outside Alice Tully Hall on the evening of Tuesday, June 16, a large group of models was standing immobilized on a block of stairs. Inside, the Council of Fashion Designers of America were holding their annual awards.
The organizer’s president, designer Diane von Furstenberg, stood near the entrance in a white knee-length dress, snapping photos Read More
On Wednesday morning, May 6, Steven Kolb, executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, along with Project Runway judge Tim Gunn and the show's Season 5 winner Leanne Marshall, boarded a 6 a.m. train at Penn Station bound for Washington, D.C.
They had appointments lined up for the entire day to gain the support Read More
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Fashion designer Alice Roi has an expression-"Too Shoshanna "-meaning too frilly and
puerile. "It's like an empire dress," said Ms. Roi, who'll find out on June 14 whether she's won the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Perry Ellis Award for Womenswear (think Best New Artist Grammy). "' Woo-hoo ! I have a body like a Read MoreFashion Week: Outta Gas?
What do Detroit assembly lines have to do with Manhattan hemlines? Phil Guarascio's announcement on March 17 that he will retire as vice president of corporate advertising and marketing for General Motors Corporation has heightened Seventh Avenue scuttlebutt that the Council of Fashion Designers of America is in danger of losing its Read MoreThe Council of Fashion Designers of America and its assorted allies recently met, as is their wont, at the Concorde Lounge at the Air France terminal at Kennedy International Airport.
Held immediately prior to the fashion flock's takeoff for the fall collections beginning Feb. 21 in London, and continuing for the next two weeks in Milan Read More
