Fur, full-length dresses, and fire-engine red: Farah Angsana always fills seats and captivates her audience. While other evening-wear designers start with divine inspiration and end with Prom 2004: A Night to Remember, Farah maintains her strong, elegant vision the whole way through.
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Yup, that's right. On Thursday, my view of the Trias runway show was mostly blocked by this hat. Why, after Tavi's couture calamity, would show attendees continue to wear obnoxious hats after the music starts and the lights dim. I understand the innate urge to make a statement in the tents, but your statement shouldn't drown out the sound of the designer's.
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Democracy killed the party. The fashion party. Suddenly everyone knows what's going on behind closed doors, Ines de la Fressange can't light up halfway down the catwalk anymore, and the other models can't make moo-moo faces at the camera mid-twirl.
Shit.
Even the teenage Anna is seething.
"If thousands of people get to feel included from the outside, than actual, inside attendance will become more and more exclusive. Otherwise, how will the important people know they’re important?”
-an Anonymous magazine editor regarding efforts on the part of many designers to break down fashion's wall of "exclusivity".
Alexander Wang aired his show in Times Square, Dolce and Gabbana will be available directly onto your iPhone, and Showstudio is streaming more live shows than ever before. Technology is breaking down the barrier between the riff-raff and the runway, but you can never alienate the elite.
District L is Amanda LaMela & Nicolas Sera-Leyva
