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VMAN party: Scandis storm NYC
May 27th 2010, Posted By colleen In DANSKWORLD
On Tuesday night at NYC’s Hudson Hotel, VMAN Magazine co-sponsored the launch of their Scandinavian issue with emissaries from Copenhagen Fashion Week. Indeed, the Danes were out in full effect: among them Camilla Stærk, Stine Goya, Henrik Vibskov, Bruuns Bazaar, Malene Birger, and the vivacious Anne Christine Persson of the Danish Fashion Institute.
As we all waited for the rumoured secret fashion show to start, I popped a Swedish Snus packet – an unexpected party gift – into my mouth and watched beautiful Scandinavian men dance together. The models stormed the stage at 11.30 pm, just as the Snus began to hit me. It was a diet version of a Copenhagen runway show: select garments from each of the aforementioned Danes, as well as Cheap Monday and Soulland, made appearances.
To end the night, David Boyd, Danish NYC transplant, performed with his hyperkinetic punk act, The New Politics. His stage antics – a complicated hybrid of cartwheels, break-dancing, and conniptions – were a riot. The Hives’ Howlin’ Pele should watch his two-toned heels; this dancing Dane makes his onstage Jaggerisms look tame.
www.vman.com / www.copenhagenfashionweek.com
Images courtesy of DANSK
Cody Ross, human hyperbole
May 19th 2010, Posted By colleen In Fashion Theory
In my years chronicling the flotsam of the post-Warholian NYC pop factory, I’ve seen musicians shoot up, artists hurl unspecified liquids at a wall (that I was resting against), and designers verbally scar interns for life. By 24, when I first met Priestess NYC designer Cody Ross at a ‘media event’, I already regarded myself as a shockproof media veteran, a hype-wearied culture vulture. But my cynicism was about to be abraded, my dimensions warped: in this half human cyclone, half sartorial satirist, I was about to make a new and utterly bizarre friend.
Among the joyless rank and file editor types double fisting cocktails, the sunny-haired Ross stood out like a cockatiel chaperoning pigeons. I instantly liked that he was my opposite; I noted his colours, his eighties action figure physique, his Crayola acid aesthetic with a mingling of curiosity and amusement. He was crazy, I decided. Obviously, I walked over to talk to him.
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www.priestessnyc.net / images courtesy of Priestess NYC
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February 17th 2010, Posted By colleen In Fashion Theory
Mind-blowingly beautiful decay at Gary Graham
As I hit New York Fashion Week’s halfway mark Sunday night at Milk Studios, it occurred to me that it had been a decent few days for autumn fashion – despite the snow, an immeasurable loss for the industry, and a few too many staid experiments in velvet. Most of the week’s key moments, fittingly, were delivered right where I was, at Milk Studios, unofficial home of left-field ideas for New York Fashion Week.
That weekend, Milk Studios set the scene for three powerful collections: Staerk, Graeme Armour and Gary Graham. Autumn/winter 2010 marked the return of Danish designer Camilla Staerk to the New York Fashion Week schedule, after a season off. She was back in stunning form, offering her faithful downtown sophisticates plenty of leather separates and wondrously twisty sheaths in her signature ‘liquid jersey’. This time, she injected her primarily all-black aesthetic with flashes of red, lending the usually slinky feel of her clothes a new empowerment. Staerk confirms that the collection interpreted the aesthetic legacy of The Newtons – a little Helmut, but particularly June.
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www.staerk.com / www.graemearmour.com / www.garygrahamnyc.com / images courtesy of DANSK and Graeme Armour
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