Shoewawa (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Back in February, I said of the shoes worn during Rodarte's New York Fashion Week shoe that they had "Louboutin-esque" red soles, and, um, that would be because they were actually by Christian
Styledash (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Filed under: Designers Unlike Paris, New York Fashion Week isn't known for its spectacular couture extravaganzas or avant-garde designers (except for Marc Jacobs, of course). So you can imagine all of the "Oohs" and "Aahs" surrounding the garments from American label Rodarte, which is known for its whimsical and unreal designs: Their Fall '08 collection was inspired by bloody Japanese slasher flicks...
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Rodarte earned a nomination for the Swarovski Award for womenswear in this year's CFDA awards. It's no mystery why: Their Japanese-horror-film-inspired fall collection was one of the most celebrated this past Fashion Week. So we sent New York magazine's fashion director, Harriet Mays Powell, to their studio with a video camera to chat with the design team behind the label, Kate and Laura Mulleavy....
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
In truth, this Fashion Week looked like about as diverse -- or homogeneous -- as many before it. But if ever there should have been more people of color on the runway, the time was now.
Clutch Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
"What happened to all the black people on the runway?" asked model Tyson Beckford, who…
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Few of Fashion Week’s most anticipated shows are held at Bryant Park’s tents (Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, Rodarte, and Thom Browne, for example, are all off-site), and last night's Zac Posen show made clear the reasons. Security guards demanded invitations or credentials at the entrance, despite the fact that the Daily Transom had breezed through all week with neither. “There are a few shows that...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
THE NEW/OLD GAP: "We took the great Gap classics and made them relevant. We got the cool back in," said designer Patrick Robinson, the Gap's new executive vice president of design, who worked the crowd at Monday's presentation. Indeed, groovy washed-leather jackets and vests, cute drop-waist dresses, cozy waffle-weave sweaters seemed new yet familiar. Yeah! - the Gap is back.
No Good for Me (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Perhaps it's because we've got a possible female presidential candidate on the collective brain, but there's a streak of "grown up" conservatism going on in the New York collections this season, what with lots of separates, suits both skirt and...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
As fashion week continues, a look at the collections of Benjamin Cho, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Narciso Rodriguez, Rodarte and Thom Browne.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
As fashion week continues, a look at the collections of Benjamin Cho, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Narciso Rodriguez, Rodarte and Thom Browne.
The Fashion Police (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Now, we could have told Rodarte that this would happen if they tried to pair those tights with shoes with spikes all over them! Now see what's happened - ripped tights! OK, so we jest: these tights aren't so much ripped as they are, um, cobwebby, and they're supposed to...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Photo credit: Jon Gurinsky Aveda is taking some of the designers participating in the Fall/Winter 2008 Fashion Week in New York City under its green wing. Rodarte, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Rag and Bone, Thakoon, and Edun , with the help of the 100 percent wind-powered skincare and cosmetics company, have committed to taking the following steps: 1. Replace bottled water with New York City tap water, which...
Catwalk Queen (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Click image to enlarge. Coco Rocha taking a break from her catwalk duties and Karen Elson pops in to say hello at the Rodarte show...
Shoe Blog (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Phew. Beginning yesterday with the Peter Som ankle-strap pumps, the lovely shoes have begun to pour down the runways in New York. There’s more of that ankle-strap pump look, and it looks pretty clear that we’ll be seeing plenty of that come fall. Badgley Mischka and Narciso Rodriguez offered ladylike versions of this look. The Mulleavy [...]
Fabsugar (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
If someone were to costume design a sci-fi ballerina flick, the result might be something like Rodarte's Fall 2008 collection. Tattered loosely-knit fishnets, super studded gloves and Louboutin heels, and Degas-inspired tutus: they were all there. The sisters Mulleavy have come a long way in a few seasons, and this time around presented a spectacle of ghostly alien girls decked out in everything from...
