I am NOT stalking Walter Van Beirendonck
This past week, Walter Van Beirendonck was a special guest (along with a slew of others) during the Academy of Art University’s “Fashion Week.” I put quotes around “Fashion Week” because it wasn’t a full week — only four days. But I digress. The bearded and bejeweled (he wears some intense rings) artist is a...
A Finer Year: The aquatic life with Alexander McQueen
By far, Alexander McQueen showcased the best collection of any fashion week this year. His Atlantis-themed show full of sting-rays, eel skin gowns and ankle breaking alien-like stripper heels not only upped his game as a fashion designer, but his influence spread unto Lady Gaga who dons his garb in her “Bad Romance” video. McQueen...
McQueen’s menacing marine life fantasy
Now that the storm of fanatical outbursts over Alexander McQueen’s Paris Spring 2010 collection has settled, it’s safe enough to enter the field and actually say something about it. Not having seen the live-streaming show due millions upon millions of people logging on to SHOWstudio.com to watch, I felt defeated. It was like I was...
Jeremy Scott says ‘Yabba dabba doo!’
Since my name is Dino, I think I may have a bias to Jeremy Scott’s Spring/Summer 2010 collection: Photo credit: Getty/Geoff Pugh This is the first post about Fashion Week since I was in New York – even when I was in New York, I hardly posted anything on any shows because, frankly, there really...
Finding the perfect ‘APAture’
Are you looking for a fashion show to go to this weekend? Do you want it to have a bunch of emerging Asian American designers? Well you’re in luck! The Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center are gearing up for APAture Runway III: Third Annual Fashion Show of Emerging Asian American...
Dior goes retro and raunchy
The Paris Couture fashion shows are a virtual eyegasm of clothing. It’s fashion at its best. It takes clothing to a whole different level with conceptual ideas, fine fashion design and garments that we probably will never ever see on a normal human being. Today, in the office, my colleagues and I took a gander...
