Hermès is the fashion house of the French establishment. It is famous for luggage, handbags, and scarves. The brand began as a harness maker and remains associated with a horse riding life. Hermès Madison Avenue is the brand's New York flagship store. The photo is a Versailles scarf with the symbol of the Sun King Louis XIV. It was displayed on October 23, … [Read more...] about Hermès
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Chanel
Chanel is an iconic French fashion house known for it's little black dress, Chanel suit, and Chanel No. 5. Chanel New York The New York flagship store is on 57th Street. 57th Street 15 East 57th Street New York, NY 10022 (212) 355-5050 Monday - Friday 10 am - 6:30 pm (7 pm Thursdays) Saturday 10 am - 6 pm Sunday 12 - 5 pm (E) or (M) to Fifth Ave - … [Read more...] about Chanel
Louis Vuitton
French luxury house Louis Vuitton is one of the world's most coveted fashion brands. The New York flagship store is at 57th Street and 5th Avenue. About Louis Vuitton The company was founded in Paris, France in 1854. Travel trunks of the time had a rounded top. Vuitton's first innovation was to make flat-topped travel trunks so they could be stacked. Latter he designed a lock … [Read more...] about Louis Vuitton
Givenchy
Givenchy is a French luxury fashion and perfume house with a haute couture line. It is the legacy of Hubert de Givenchy (1927 - 2018). Hubert de Givenchy Givenchy is known for styling Audrey Hepburn and designing clothes for Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. His family line is Venetian. The designer trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Givenchy met Hepburn during … [Read more...] about Givenchy
Valentino
Valentino is an Italian fashion house known for its layered white pleats, animal prints and "Valentino Red" dresses. Visit Valentino Valentino has two stores in New York City. Valentino New York Madison Avenue 821 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10065 (between 68th & 69th St) Upper East Side, Manhattan Valentino New York Fifth Avenue 693 Fifth Avenue, New York, … [Read more...] about Valentino
La Perla
La Perla Summer 2018 The La Perla Aquamarine collection is designed to flatter. La Perla Fall 2017 On August 24, 2017, the brand released their Fall Winter 2017 Romance Campaign featuring Kendall Jenner photographed by Mert & Marcus. The campaign brings an English garden into the bedroom for Fall 2017. #LaPerlaFW17 La Perla Pre-Fall 2017 The … [Read more...] about La Perla
Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta is the legacy fashion house of the Dominican-American couturier who dressed Jacqueline Kennedy. De La Renta was trained by Cristóbal Balenciaga and Antonio del Castillo. Fall 2018 Oscar updates Spanish lace for a modern woman. Fall 2017 Oscar de la Renta shows its Fall Collection at New York Fashion Week, Monday, February 13 at 6:30pm. You can watch … [Read more...] about Oscar de la Renta
Zara
Zara is an on-trend Spanish ready-to-wear retailer known for moving fashion from runway to rack in a matter of weeks. Zara is the lead brand of the world's largest fashion retailer, Inditex of Galicia, Spain. Owner Amancio Ortega is the wealthiest European and one of the handful of richest people in the world. It's interesting that this is Galicia which was once considered a … [Read more...] about Zara
Desigual
Desigual is a Spanish fashion house with New York stores in Lower Midtown and SoHo. Desigual Fall/Winter/2017 https://youtu.be/FPvqVPccxEI Desigual showed its Fall/Winter 2017 collection at Skylight Clarkson Sq in Hudson Square on February 9, 2017. The look was inspired by the female uprisings of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Minis with tights channel the 1960s youth … [Read more...] about Desigual
Carolina Herrera
Carolina Herrera is a Venezuelan-American fashion designer who was so well dressed when she came to New York, the Editor of Vogue suggested she design. Now she dresses first ladies. You would think Herrera was born into this, and in a way she was (una niña bien, a rich girl), but she made herself through her own good taste. Herrera started working in fashion in her native … [Read more...] about Carolina Herrera
Manolo Blahnik is stiletto heels and fun embellishments
Manolo Blahnik is a Spanish women's footwear designer known for his stiletto heels and embellishments. "Sex and the City" made Manolos a household name in the U.S. Manolo designs can be simple elegance, but his imaginative embellishments place him in the context of La Movida Madrileña, the Spanish counterculture explosion in Madrid after the death of the dictator Franco in … [Read more...] about Manolo Blahnik is stiletto heels and fun embellishments
Narciso Rodriguez
Narciso Rodriguez is a New York-based Cuban-American designer who brings Latin American Modernism into fashion. His work reminds me of another Cuban-American artist, minimalist Carmen Herrera, who recently had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Both have a strong interest in architecture that shows in their craft. I'm not sure Narciso would like this … [Read more...] about Narciso Rodriguez
Zero + Maria Cornejo
Zero + Maria Cornejo is the fashion brand of Chilean-born minimalist designer Maria Cornejo and fashion PR maven Marysia Woroniecka. Zero refers to Cornejo's concept of adding or taking away nothing. It's the uncarved block of Zen. I love these Palazzo pants from the Resort 2017 collection because of the way they move on the body. They are comfortable and flattering. Good … [Read more...] about Zero + Maria Cornejo