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So I had a very big week! I launched my Skin Care line called RAW ESSENTIALS at the wonderful LeLa Rose Fashion show for BEAUTY.com. It was a big launch and it was during a big week for NYC. Fashion week is not easy. It is the week where all the designers show their lines. They show the clothing that they have been working on for next year’s fashions. We in the fashion industry are two seasons ahead of what you see in the stores. This week, we were showing the Fashion for Fall 2010.
I was very surprised seeing this year’s offerings for Fall 2010. Surprised because the clothes are beautiful but they looked like they were meant for SPRING and not fall. There was a lot of silk, short sleeves, sandals, and cotton. Beautiful clothes and wonderful styles with soothing colors, but nowhere did I see heavy wool, any coats, or my personal favorite, BOOTS! I even introduced myself in one video as being at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week for SPRING 2011 and not Fall 2010. How silly, but I looked at the clothes and I got confused about which season it was that they were showing. I guess I am just not up on the fashion of the times! Fashion dictates it own seasons. See for yourself. Here is the finale of the Fabulous Lela Rose show:
There were only very NORMAL looking clothes being shown too. I mean usually, the designers make a real spectacle of showing. They make some crazy clothes to mix in with the real pieces they want to sell. But I can see where the economy has made all the designers more conservative and I can also see where they cut the entertainment part of showing their lines.
Some of the bigger lines actually only showed in their showrooms also called, their “atelier.” The tents at Bryant Park were still full of lines being shown, but big names like Donna Karan, Diane von Furstenberg and Marc Jacobs all have shown their lines in their showrooms this week.
Stephen Burrows had a great showing in his showroom yesterday. The colors were beautiful and the shoes were great! That is one place I can say no one skimped-shoes. Stephen Burrows had his shoes made by Louboutin.
Anyway, back to my launch of my skincare line. I have photos of the backstage craziness and some of the models- Gorgia Wass included!
By the way, Gorgia Wass was soooooo nice. I mean, when I sat down next to her to get my hair done, she immediately started to chat with me. We then compared fingernails and finger polish color (I had blue and she had blue-green with sparkles).
I got my nails done by Debra Lippmann and here I am getting my hair done by Ted Gibson:
My makeup was done by Ms. Louise for TART (which has my favorite mascara, however not raw!).
I was interviewed backstage by Fashionbeast.com, Suzanne at Glamour, and many other fabulous publications too numerous to mention. But here are a couple of photos taken during the interviews introducing the line:
I had Alexei Yashin backstage to cheer me on. Here he is in this photo and my publicist Melanie A. Bonvicino seen here at the show with me in the first row, as well as my partner Steven Krane and his family:
LeLa Rose sent me my dress which you see I am wearing in this photo.
Well, that is it from Fashion Week Fall 2010 (glad I got that right this time!).
Next week, I will blog about being down at the World Trade Center Towers at Ground Zero. I took photos from INSIDE building 7 and with some of the construction crew working down there. Some interesting stories there.
Please watch 60 minutes this Sunday for a story on Silverstein. I thank my friend, Steven Cayre for affording this opportunity to see his building and Ground Zero from this angle!
I will follow up with my blog the week after with my personal photos! Cheers and bye from Fashion Week 2010!
