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| Fashion Week Pics: Pianist Rocks Out at BlackBook Bash, Dizzying Lights in the Tents |
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Fashion Week is now in full swing, with several Friday shows launching the weeklong blitz of collections and many more taking place over the weekend. Despite the downpour on Saturday and a PETA protest at DKNY's 20th anniversary yesterday, the shows continued as scheduled.
On Friday, Shipley & Halmos's presentation brought buyers and editors to the western reaches of Chelsea to the Terminal Building's La.venue for a Tom Palmer Projects-designed show featuring a Dan Flavin-style lighting installation. At Hudson Terrace, jazz pianist Eric Lewis (and a band that included a cellist, a trumpeter, and a bassist) formed the focal point for the runway presentation and party celebrating the 15th anniversary of What Comes Around Goes Around. The event for the West Village vintage clothing store was hosted by BlackBook and entertained guests including stylist Rachel Zoe, socialite Olivia Palermo, and rock band the Young Lords. |
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 | Inside La.venue, producer Tom Palmer and lighting company JKLD created several lighting installations with long fluorescent tubes for Shipley & Halmos's spring collection.
Photo: Alison Whittington for BizBash |
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 | Held atop Hudson Terrace, the BlackBook-hosted show for What Comes Around Goes Around featured a living room vignette instead of a formal runway platform.
Photo: Keith Sirchio for BizBash |
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 | Creating a tableau vivant, models at the What Comes Around Goes Around event sat in and around the living room set where the pianist and other musicians performed.
Photo: Keith Sirchio for BizBash
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 | The performance by pianist Eric Lewis continued long after the last model came out.
Photo: Keith Sirchio for BizBash |
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 | Bureau Betak produced Lacoste's show at the Bryant Park tents, using a color-changing backdrop to highlight the three different themes of the collection and a tree pattern to highlight the Mediterranean inspiration.
Photo: Alison Whittington for BizBash |
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 | A custom white Formica laminate proscenium arch embedded with LEDs marked the entrance to Rock & Republic's catwalk. Versatube lights illuminated the side of the runway in purple.
Photo: Keith Sirchio for BizBash |
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 | Using a variety of new lighting technology—from a huge LED video wall to High End System's showgun fixtures—Rock & Republic created a dizzying scene that played off its black and white clothing.
Photo: Keith Sirchio for BizBash |
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 | The Y-3 show, produced by OBO and designed by Jonathon Beck, took over the Sixth Avenue space formerly occupied by Barnes & Noble. Fluorescent lights hung vertically from trusses on the ceiling, and gray tiles covered the runway.
Photo: Keith Sirchio for BizBash |
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 | Mike Brown of Lot71 designed the set for Miss Sixty's show in the tents on Sunday, which was dominated by wavy, glitter-covered purple walls.
Photo: Keith Sirchio for BizBash |
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Inside the tents at Bryant Park, lighting played a large part in the shows for Lacoste and Rock & Republic. Early on Saturday morning, Lacoste revealed its spring line of preppy sportswear in front of a color-changing backdrop. Later that night, for Rock & Republic's collection, Stoelt Productions brought in a great deal of audiovisual and lighting equipment, including a video screen, LEDs, Versatube lights, showguns (automated fixtures), and MF3s (mutlihead, moving LED projectors). The house went dark just as the final model made her way to the exit—armed with a flashlight she was able to avoid falling off the platform.
Y-3—Yohji Yamamoto's line for Adidas—also toyed with lights, with fluorescent light fixtures hanging vertically from the ceiling of the old Barnes & Noble store on Sixth Avenue for its Sunday afternoon show. And at Miss Sixty's presentation on Sunday night, silver glitter covered the floor and the wavy purple walls at the runway entrance.
—Anna Sekula
RELATED TOPICS
Fashion Week, Shipley & Halmos, What Comes Around Goes Around, BlackBook Magazine, Lacoste, Rock & Republic, Miss Sixty
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