band of outsiders spring 2012

“This season, Sternberg took inspiration from Peter Weir’s 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock, a story about the disappearance of a group of schoolgirls on Valentine’s Day in 1900. In the designer’s mind, they pop up in New York City wearing black boat hats with crisp white cotton poplin shirtdresses, […]

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rag & bone spring 2012 rtw

“Spring’s always been more difficult for us, being British, because we use a lot of tweeds, meltons, that sort of thing—so we worked really, really hard at this,” Marcus Wainwright said. He and David Neville had plundered ideas from Glastonbury, the Burning Man festival, seventies surfers, and rave culture, but […]

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alexander wang spring 2012 preview

“I felt it would be interesting to do something more dangerous,” Alexander Wang says. Specifically, he’s been thinking about (though not engaging in) drag racing and the ideas of speed and aerodynamics. As such, his spring silhouettes veer away from the slouchy track pants and oversize windbreakers of fall and […]

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vena cava spring 2012 rtw

“We started Vena Cava eight years ago, and it felt like the right time to go back to our roots,” says Buhai. Naturally, they called on that network of muses to help them retrace their best steps: Geometric prints, circular halter-neck dresses, elegant high-waisted pants, and the languid mid-century mood […]

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