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| Fashion Week Pics: Elie Tahari and La Perla Show Poolside, Interview Goes Surreal |
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| Getting Fashion Week off to an early start, a handful of designers presented spring 2009 collections last night, trotting out colorful prints at different settings across the city. Underwear company La Perla showed off its black label, swimwear, and ready-to-wear collections at the Empire Hotel's rooftop. Also poolside was Elie Tahari's presentation at the Four Seasons, where approximately 300 guests filled the Pool Room for a cocktail party-style presentation with drinks and nibbles. And in Hell's Kitchen, guests for the Trovata show entered through a school bus. |
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 | Making the most of the rooftop pool at the Empire Hotel, La Perla showcased swimwear and floated its name in the water.
Photo: Jennifer Graylock |
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 | AO Production built a platform over the pool at the Four Seasons for Elie Tahari's first show with live models.
Photo: Keith Sirchio for BizBash |
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 | At Trovata's show, models in paint-dipped sneakers left colorful footprints on the white catwalk.
Photo: Jessica Torossian for BizBash |
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 | The entry and exit point for the Trovata presentation was a school bus. More than just a prop, the bus will also travel to Trovata retailers for trunk shows.
Photo: Jessica Torossian for BizBash |
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 | Seating pods in the grassy knoll at Mini's rooftop gave partygoers a place to relax and provided a perch to see the stage.
Photo: Jessica Torossian for BizBash |
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 | Brooklyn band MGMT took the stage just after 9 p.m. in front of guests such as Mary-Kate Olsen, Solange Knowles, and Cassie.
Photo: Jamie McCarthy/WireImage |
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 | Rather than hide the property's wires, pipes, and holes, Interview used upturned garbage cans, yellow caution tape, and orange netting as decor.
Photo: Alison Whittington for BizBash |
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 | With generators and battery-powered pieces, Levy Lighting illuminated both floors with bright red lights. Fluorescent strips surrounded the penthouse space, and the event's ruby glow was visible from the street.
Photo: Alison Whittington for BizBash |
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 | Taz Arnold, a rapper who also goes by the name TI$A, performed for the Interview crowd, encouraging guests to sing along to his "Vote Obama."
Photo: Alison Whittington for BizBash |
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 | On the ground floor of the Standard, guests wandered through what will be the hotel's kitchens. Orange netting disguised construction equipment and other materials.
Photo: Alison Whittington for BizBash |
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Following the presentations, various parties entertained guests with live music—from MGMT at Mini’s rooftop to rapper Taz Arnold and Chinese fan dancers for Interview magazine’s relaunch at the Standard New York. Interview’s event was perhaps the most intriguing, with hundreds filling the ground floor and the penthouse of the construction site—the hotel isn’t scheduled to open until next year—for a very surreal, very red party.
—Anna Sekula
RELATED TOPICS
Fashion Week, La Perla, Elie Tahari, Trovata, Mini, Interview Magazine
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