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Eva-Licious! Actress Topples Tray; Designers Weave Through Festive Week

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:54:43 -0400

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 to make it, I don’t think they would pass.” And himself? “I’m good at opening a tub of hummus...

Quail for the Beasties: Weber Wistful as Tina and Harry Fete Donatella

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:51:18 -0400

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 Hamptons right now, but it turns out everyone from out there is here!” she told the Transom. Outside on...

At CFDA Town Meeting, Wintour Proposes Discount by Committee; DVF: 'That’s Illegal!'

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:53:39 -0400

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 Vuitton man-purse and parked himself at a table by the entrance. He applied lotion to his hands and sent...

'It's a Family Affair,' Says DVF of Celeb-Clogged CFDAs

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:26:30 -0400

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 of arrivals, which included Ashley Olsen, Blake Lively, Claire Danes, Justin Timberlake and Anna Wintour in sunglasses, with a...

Tim Gunn Goes to Washington! Film is Protected, Why Not Fashion?

Fri, 08 May 2009 11:14:46 -0400

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 of lawmakers for the proposed Design Piracy Prohibition Act, introduced last month by New York Democrat Jerry Nadler, among...

Tempest in a Turban: How Tiny Moi Vexed André the Great

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:28:24 -0400

I felt like such a turd on the night of Monday, June 2. “Turd’” is a very underused word. At some point soon I will dedicate my life to restoring it to popular usage. In the meantime permit me to elaborate on the circumstances that occasioned this unpleasant feeling.

There I was at the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards at the New York Public Library thinking...

Alice Roi, the 25-Year-Old Designer, Is Thinking Girl's Anti-Shoshanna

Sun, 06 May 2001 20:00:00 -0400

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 stripper, what should I wear?' … Everybody gets mentally masturbatory, obsessed with their own aesthetic." Though they are both nightlife-loving, busty, 25-year-old Jewish brunettes...

Who Is Mayor Rudy Mincarelli in a New Thriller?

Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:00:00 -0500

Fashion 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 biggest sugar daddy. For three years now, General Motors has been the title sponsor of the C.F.D.A.'s twice-annual, Seventh...

The C.F.D.A. 'State of Fashion' Statement

Sun, 01 Mar 1998 19:00:00 -0500

The 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 and Paris, the meeting was convened to complete some business left undone at the C.F.D.A.'s 17th annual award ceremony,...