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RAD by Rad Hourani – Fall 2011

Hourani’s Fall 2011 collection plays with the option of enabling one to shape their own world on their body. Known for extending beyond traditional limits, he pushes them to create new barrier breaking ideas. His clothing offers another way to look at fashion and how it is worn. This season offers even more shapes and a bit more looseness, through still impeccable and interesting cuts.

story by Dana Varon
phots by Ned & Aya Rosen

Rad Hourani is rad. He considers himself an artist, not just of one craft, but of many, which is evident not only in his clothing designs but his photos, videos, exhibits and other projects. His entity is clearly a multi-sensory experience of sight, touch, sound and smell. Often experimenting with gender, shapes, and form in his designs, he has stated, “I like the idea of a world where we can live and shape ourselves, only by observing, each on our own.” Continue reading “RAD by Rad Hourani – Fall 2011”

Zang Toi – Fall 2011

New York audiences rarely clap during runway events, let alone “ooh” and “ah,” but those sounds could be heard repeatedly throughout Zang Toi’s Fall 2011 show, starting with the first look down the runway, a floor-length Loro Piana wool cape with fox collar, topping bootleg pants and a cashmere and silk ribbed turtleneck – all in shades of camel. That was one of 33 mostly monotone combinations in nude, camel, charcoal and black, a few sparked with emerald. Toi collared some daywear pieces with mink or fox and embellished some eveningwear with beads and crystals. All – even the three menswear ensembles — emanated glamour and elegance, adjectives which Toi calls his signature look.

story by Kari Jensen
photos by Freda Henry

Gemma Redux Photo Editorial

Jewelry designer Rachel Dooley is a delightful puzzle. At once a quick witted and wickedly funny woman and a serious, thoughtful artist.

photos by Adrianna Favero
fashion styling by Seth Friedermann
hair styling by Staci Freeman
makeup artist Gill Aldrin
model Laura G from Commence Quest

Jewelry designer Rachel Dooley is a delightful puzzle. At once a quick witted and wickedly funny woman and a serious, thoughtful artist. Her jewelry fills a wide range of human expression. Quirky and humorous, elegant, complex, pointedly straight forward, all of these descriptions fit. The whole history of jewelery is a muse for Rachel, her life in New York City is another, her perception another. It is in the interplay of all of her passions that her work is born. She’ll always downplay herself and her craft but make no mistake Rachel Dooley is a serious talent. She has a fine eye for fine things. have a look. Continue reading “Gemma Redux Photo Editorial”

Carlos Miele – Fall 2011

A runway full of gorgeous gowns and sexy separates. Mr. Miele works a design concept as well as any designer in fashion today.

story by Seth Friedermann
photos by Freda Henry

What’s the winter like in Rio? Some fashion designers from tropical climes often have a difficult time understanding a fall-winter wardrobe. The technical demands of garments for Boston Common in late January must seem very alien at first to a son of a sun drenched country like Brazil. However, Carlos Miele has been showing internationally for ten years and lives in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City, so he now completely comprehends the way to keep a brittle Battery Park breeze from getting in the way of the joy of wearing his his glamorous gowns. And Mr. Miele does understand that most of his red carpet stunners are only out of the limo for a few seconds before they glide into an A-list party while a wall of flashes fire in any event. To be sure there were nods to the inhospitable nature of a serious winter in his fall 2011 collection, but overall it was classic Carlos Miele, as a runway full of gorgeous gowns and sexy separates. Continue reading “Carlos Miele – Fall 2011”

Logan Neitzel – Designer Dossier

Photo editorials are usually styled by, well, stylists. However, we at modaCYCLE like to see what the designers would do if they styled a shoot themselves. We call this a Designer Dossier.

story by Seth Friedermann
photos by Adrianna Favero
fashion styling by Logan Neitzel
makeup by Marni Giannotti
hair by Annabell Lausch
model is Flynn Kelly from Fusion Models

Photo editorials are usually styled by, well, stylists. We at modaCYCLE like to see what the designers would do if they styled a shoot themselves. We call this a Designer Dossier. Continue reading “Logan Neitzel – Designer Dossier”

Sachin + Babi – Fall 2011

The husband and wife design duo, Sachin + Babi Ahluwalia, combined a fascination for vintage Harley Davidson motorbikes with a desire for luxe fabrics and leather accents for their Fall 2011 collection. Renowned for their textural and innovative ready to wear, accessories, and ethnic inspired home- furnishings, they elegantly created a dynamic tension with a gritty twist.

story by Carmella Bella McDonald
photos by Freda Henry

Timo Weiland – Fall 2011

The Timo Weiland fall 2011 collection was an impressive step forward for the label’s designers Timo Weiland and Alan Eckstein. The cuts, details, and fabric treatments spoke to an increasing maturity and level of sophistication.

story by Seth Friedermann
photos by Adrianna Favero

One of the great joys of being privileged to go to fashion shows season after season is the opportunity to watch talented designers grow as artists, to see them pare away what is superfluous or unnecessary and to grow stronger and stronger in their signature touches and their overall artistic self expression. The Timo Weiland fall 2011 collection was an impressive step forward for the label’s designers Timo Weiland and Alan Eckstein. The cuts, details, and fabric treatments spoke to an increasing maturity and level of sophistication. Continue reading “Timo Weiland – Fall 2011”

Toni Fransesc – Fall 2011

There are girls and then there are women. Toni Fransesc proved once again, with his Fall 2011 collection, that he dresses the later and not the former.

story by Seth Friedermann
photos by Freda Henry

There are girls and then there are women. Toni Fransesc proved once again, with his Fall 2011 collection, that he dresses the later and not the former. His clothes are imaginative and yet restrained, bold and yet any of his pieces fit easily into a real woman’s everyday wardrobe. Continue reading “Toni Fransesc – Fall 2011”

Elise Øverland – Fall 2011

The clothes were madly colorful and bright. In a way, they could look kind of theatrical, but she managed to keep them very elegant and wearable. She chose to use textiles like silk, fur, feathers, and plastic, and the clothes were all very innovatively-designed and well-tailored. One piece that stood out was a grassy coat with shiny plasticky wings on the waist, well-fit and nicely-structured. Another chic look was a bright orange silk dress, which was also in one of the figure skaters. There was also this ostrich-looking feather skirt that would certainly keep the skater warm and happy even in this icy ice rink.

story by Kerry Kong
photos by Adrianna Favero

Fashion + ice = Elise Øverland’s fall 2011. Her show has always been fun and entertaining, and, this time, she took a step further by taking her creativity to the ice rink at the Standard Hotel. This show was not like any other fashion show this season. It was a fashion performance – an igloo as the backdrop, her models stood still in heels on the ice rink while figure skaters from the Ice Theater of New York skated around and in-between them in her designs. Continue reading “Elise Øverland – Fall 2011”

Billy Reid – Fall 2011

This is just what you get when you take a Southern gentleman and transport him into New York City.

story by Dana Varon
photos by Aeric Meredith Goujon

This is just what you get when you take a Southern gentleman and transport him into New York City. Not only is Billy Reid a transplant, but so is everything in his downtown store’s digs. So, it seems just right that he also constructed everything on his set for his Fall 2011 show. Feeling like you are in an old Southern home, models traipsed around dark wood benched tables and treaded on warm wood floors. Above hung an old weathered painting of your great grandpa who was a colonel or something but amongst it is the cleanest, crispest line. The fresh-faced boys were right at home with their more grown up school kid navy blazers, cords and cabled turtlenecks. Caramel tan cowboy leather jackets look well worn and winsome wingtip loafers walk by. Washed navy selvedge chinos cuffed at the ankle bring back the pants in a cuter way. For the girls Mr. Reid wanted the classic men tailored pieces to be more romantic, with French seams and floating fabrics. Double silk georgette oversized blouses, and un-dyed velvet dinner jackets are more ladylike and luxe.

Continue reading “Billy Reid – Fall 2011”