Crashing Fashion: My Look Behind the Poses and Paparazzi of Fashion Week
Talia Kaufman
Issue date: 5/5/09 Section: Fashion
Every trend, from the Couture Houses to K-Mart begins at Fashion Week. Fashion Week is a weeklong media event in which designers parade their newest collections for the press and society's elite. One of the four prominent fashion weeks around the word, Mercedes-Benz is New York City's way of foreshadowing everything that will be hot in about in two seasons. This year, despite economic times frightening enough to put the rest of us on model's diets, the industry's week of show-and-tell still shone in all of its couture glory.
Spring Fashion Week is a celebration of everything exclusive. However, arguably more prestigious than actually hosting a fashion week show is being invited to one. Celebtauntes and socialites throughout the decades have battled nose job to nose job for those coveted seats along the runway. The ultra-exclusive guest lists are essentially a who's who list in society that include people who come to check out the parties, those interested in people watching, and press in addition to the apparel.
This year, during its week's span, Fashion Week hosted countless celebrities, socialites, media moguls and myself. Many of you perhaps are asking yourselves why I am on such an exclusive guest list or maybe even wondering who exactly I am. That is most likely because my section here at The Observer is hidden in its modest spot in the back each issue, but I assure you that Stern has some VIP pull, being considered to be among the most elite Orthodox institutions by the fashion industry.
My very first show was Mario Moya. (For a review of the show and More about Mario see Super Mario and Spotlight on Mario Moya: The Man Behind The Brand)
As this was Mario's line's launch, it was an intimate show for his impressive debut; meaning that there were fewer names on the guest list than backbones protruding as the models exited the runway.
Sitting front row, I had an up-close view of the infamous fashion week models. And found that they are so much more than underfed over-glamorized women who are apparently under the oppression that 80's cocaine chic is still chic. They are literally freaks of nature who better represent a deathly-ill avant-garde Amazon Woman that the average attractive female.
Spring Fashion Week is a celebration of everything exclusive. However, arguably more prestigious than actually hosting a fashion week show is being invited to one. Celebtauntes and socialites throughout the decades have battled nose job to nose job for those coveted seats along the runway. The ultra-exclusive guest lists are essentially a who's who list in society that include people who come to check out the parties, those interested in people watching, and press in addition to the apparel.
This year, during its week's span, Fashion Week hosted countless celebrities, socialites, media moguls and myself. Many of you perhaps are asking yourselves why I am on such an exclusive guest list or maybe even wondering who exactly I am. That is most likely because my section here at The Observer is hidden in its modest spot in the back each issue, but I assure you that Stern has some VIP pull, being considered to be among the most elite Orthodox institutions by the fashion industry.
My very first show was Mario Moya. (For a review of the show and More about Mario see Super Mario and Spotlight on Mario Moya: The Man Behind The Brand)
As this was Mario's line's launch, it was an intimate show for his impressive debut; meaning that there were fewer names on the guest list than backbones protruding as the models exited the runway.
Sitting front row, I had an up-close view of the infamous fashion week models. And found that they are so much more than underfed over-glamorized women who are apparently under the oppression that 80's cocaine chic is still chic. They are literally freaks of nature who better represent a deathly-ill avant-garde Amazon Woman that the average attractive female.
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Elissa Fine
posted 5/05/09 @ 6:05 PM EST
This was SO much fun to read- full of life, humor and insight!
Really a great article.
Tanya
posted 5/28/09 @ 12:10 PM EST
Mario Moya...I'm thrilled to followed Mario Moya's career-I lust after his collection-especially the leather jackets and corsets. I just opened WWD last week and saw his face. (Continued…)
New York Movers
posted 6/04/09 @ 2:37 PM EST
Great article, it sounds like you got an amazing opportunity to go to this super exclusive event.
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