RICH by Richie Rich Fall/Winter 2017 Runway

Fashion designer, TV personality and famed NY Club kid Richie Rich, and his business partner Tracie May-Wagner, launched their new fashion brand RICH by Richie Rich on the runway with STYLE Fashion Week at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Inspired by current events, and the social climate affected by the new American political regime, the POPOGANDA Fall 2017 Collection reflected a peaceful protest of social injustice through fashion, art and pop culture. 

Richie designed this collection as a vehicle for addressing important social issues like LGBTQ rights, Women’s Rights, Anti-Bullying, Climate Change, and Immigration, while simultaneously paying homage to the millions of Americans currently taking to the streets in peaceful protest.
 
The show featured five transgender models including Claudia, Rain and Dominique from Strut, Oxygen’s hit reality TV show, and legendary trans activists Dina Delicious and Connie Fleming.  Social Media influencers Frankie Grande, Arianna Grande’s brother, and Simonetta Lein also walked in the show.  In addition, Richie chose not to use animal products and 100% of the clothing, accessories and footwear in the POPOGANDA Fall 2017 Collection are vegan and cruelty free.

Photos courtesy of STYLE Fashion Week

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Public School Fall 2017 Ready-to-Wear

Public School Fall 2017 Ready-to-Wear

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Bibhu Mohapatra Fall 2017 Ready-To-Wear

Asymmetry, pattern and metallics for Bibhu Mohapatra Fall 2017 Ready-To-Wear NYFW. See the designer next as a featured guest, including runway, at the 10th annual Charleston Fashion Week this March!

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Style Fashion Week at Madison Square Garden Event Highlights

Style Fashion Week, the producer of globally recognized fashion events, broke boundaries with an unforgettable day of immersive runway shows, elaborate catwalks and memorable performances. Undeterred by the effects of Thursday’s intense winter snowstorm, crowds of fashion industry and consumers gathered at The Theater at Madison Square Garden to see fifteen designers showing their latest collections, while chart-topping musicians performed.

The unprecedented fashion event took place on February 9 at the Theater at Madison Square Garden and featured immersive runway shows headlined by MALAN BRETON. His powerful show, “Everywhere at the end of time…” drew inspiration from the silent film era with Frankie Grande, Kiera Chaplin, Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin, Mason Grammer and Dylan Grieco donning seventy different looks on the runway.

HONEE, SHALINI COUTURE, COMMATTEO, PATRICIA MICHAELS, MARIO DE LA TORRE, DAVID TUPAZ, ZOAN ASH, ADRIAN ALICEA, M THE MOVEMENT, YDAMYS SIMO, RICHARD HALLMARQ, WANGLILING, EDDIE EDDIE BY BILLY TOMMY and RICH BY RICHIE RICH were also featured on the runway during Style Fashion Week.   

Special performances by Sky Ferreira, hip-hop artist Layzie Bone (Bone Thugs & Harmony), Pop Singer Jeff Timmons (98 Degrees), Miri Ben-Ari and Meredith O'Connor as well as music stylings by Mims, Missals, JP Vance, Squidnice and Smooky MarGielaa and DJ JES entertained a packed crowd of consumers, fashion industry insiders, VIPs and celebrities including Jessica Pimentel, Nicole Arbour, Miss J Alexander, Michael Raven, Caila Quinn and Madeline Stuart, amongst others.

Style Fashion Week also collaborated with Russell Simmons' Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation on an exclusive art installation for the Style Marketplace. Located in the lobby at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, the Style Marketplace immersed guests in fashion, art and commerce.

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Katie Gallagher Fall / Winter 2017 Ready-To- Wear

Set in New England during autumn, Katie Gallagher’s Fall/Winter 2017 collection, Hallow, finds inspiration in men’s military apparel, specifically the MA-1 bomber jacket. Developed in the 1940s, the bomber jacket provided warmth and safety to pilots during air combat in WWII.

In the decades following, the garment became one of the most identifiable pieces of military apparel, finding its way into popular culture by the end of the 20th century. Gallagher has featured iterations of the bomber jacket in many of her past collections, using tulle, lace, and other unlikely materials to create the traditionally heavy, masculine garment.

Like early bomber jackets that were lined in orange, Gallagher’s color palette will feature black and orange hues, which also recall the colors of autumn and death most commonly associated with All Hallow’s Eve.

Hallow relies heavily on textures and subtle details, featuring point d’esprit and tulle that form non-traditional, dainty, and triangular silhouettes. Materials include airy swiss dot paired with heavy opaque wool, silk, English tulle, Mountain Goat, lambskin, and pony fur leathers. Gallagher’s signature twisted seams finish turtleneck sleeves and leggings.

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Gypsy Sport Fall 2017 Ready-to-Wear

Gypsy Sport Sport Fall 2017

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Custo Barcelona Fall 2017 Ready-To-Wear

Custo Barcelona Lights Up New York Fashion Week With Light Years

Custo Barcelona presented "Light Years," an ode to individuality and "shining the light." Fall/Winter 2017 brings forth an innovative collection for Custo Barcelona in which color is nuanced through the variations of reflexion and radiance of fabrics. 

Light Years is built around iridescent lame, metallics and laminated fabrics. Textures are embossed with metal glitter, nets of Lurex thread and sparkles of precious stones.

Custo Barcelona experimented with blending fabrics and new patterns have culminated in a selection of womenswear - minis with strategic openings that reveal skin, asymmetries, frills and patchwork detail of infinite pieces joined together with grace and elegance.

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