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| NEWS 02.18.09 1:03 PM |
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| Fashion Week Pics: Nice Collective Stages Time-Travel-Style Show, Diesel and G-Star Bring in Live Music |
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| Major players like Marc Jacobs, Betsey Johnson, and Y-3 may have scaled back this season, but some labels with fewer Fashion Weeks under their belts are still trying to grab the attention of buyers and editors with thematic displays. Four Tuesday showings were examples of lesser-known labels looking to highlight their runway shows with interesting motifs and novel decor. |
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Diesel's Black Gold collection at the tents used a live jazz band to evoke the Depression and underscore the rumpled, distressed look of its fall line. Late in the afternoon, Trovata filled Midtown West's Focus Studio with hundreds of scented candles in glass votives and clustered long branches of cherry blossoms around the entrance to the runway. At 7 p.m., just nine blocks from the tents in Bryant Park, G-Star Raw packed the Hammerstein Ballroom for its usual spectacle, complete with multiple runways and Benicio Del Toro reading Joy Division lyrics. And on the Lower East Side, the San Francisco-based duo behind Nice Collective staged an exhibition inspired by The Time Machine inside the Angel Orensanz Foundation.
—Anna Sekula with additional reporting by Courtney Thompson |
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Diesel used a live jazz band to highlight the urban-hobo look of its fall 2009 Black Gold collection, shown off at the tents.
Photo: Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
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To evoke the inspiration for Trovata's fall line—late-'60s French culture—AL Productions lined the runway with hundreds of pillar candles.
Photo: BizBash
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Nice Collective created an elaborate set—based on H.G. Wells's 19th-century novel The Time Machine—for its show, which featured a carriage in front of the former synagogue's altar.
Photo:Keith Sirchio for BizBash
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A metal contraption hoisted over Nice Collective's runway was designed to look like the apparatus used by the inventor in The Time Machine.
Photo:Keith Sirchio for BizBash
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Nice Collective's enormous art installation was fitted with LED lights and video monitors.
Photo:Keith Sirchio for BizBash
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To add to the 19th-century motif, Nice Collective decorated the bars and other parts of the venue with vintage TV sets and gramophones.
Photo:Keith Sirchio for BizBash
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Following in Dennis Hopper's footsteps, actor Benicio Del Toro took on the role of G-Star's "Raw Icon" this season, where he walked the runway reading lyrics from Joy Division's song "Candidate."
Photo: Alice and Chris for BizBash
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Held at the Hammerstein Ballroom, the G-Star show had more than 40 models walk down two parallel runways.
Photo: Alice and Chris for BizBash
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Two classical pianists supplied the music for the G-Star show, playing behind a sheer black curtain that functioned as the runway backdrop.
Photo: Alice and Chris for BizBash
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RELATED TOPICS
Fashion Week, Trovata, Nice Collective, Gen Art, G-Star, Diesel
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