Nuit Blanche

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, founders of the glamorous, classic, and now 25-year-old brand celebrated their quarter-decade with a fashion show in Milan centered around the color of new beginnings and paths untrod, white. The dynamic duo said "I do" with a showing of bridalwear-inspired ensembles. The collection appeared to be inspired by the post-nuptial events rather than the beautiful and romantic exchange of vows most would predict. Corseted knee-length dresses with lace detailing at the hems, virginal pleated dress bottoms and sheer blouses with bustiers,  and flowing raven-black nightgown-style dresses glided across the runway. Perhaps the wedding theme was representative of the devotion Dolce and Gabbana has to bringing the most cutting-edge, uber-stylish, and utterly classic fashion. It's hard to believe that the influence of Dolce and Gabbana has spread now across three generations of consumers and all will agree that the famous D and G spoke of luxury back then just as much as it does now. Read more for photos. Photos from Style.com

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Fashion Week Lineup 9.10.10

9AM STUDIO - GULI COLLECTIONS

9:30-10:30AM BOX - TADASHI SHOJI

10AM THEATRE - BCBGMAXAZRIA

11AM STAGE - DUCKIE BROWN

12PM STUDIO - MICHAEL ANGEL

1:30-2:30PM BOX - BUCKLER

2PM STAGE - EDITION GEORGES CHAKRA

3PM THEATRE - PORTS 1961

4PM STUDIO - ALEXANDER BERARDI

5PM 82 MERCER ST - NICOLE MILLER

6-10PM - FASHION'S NIGHT OUT

8 THEATRE - ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY

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Fashion Week Lineup 9.9.2010

9AM STUDIO - NICHOLAS K
10AM THEATRE - PROJECT RUNWAY
11AM STAGE - RICHARD CHAI
1PM STUDIO - RUFFIAN
2PM STAGE - CHRISTIAN SIRIANO
2:30-4PM BOX - BENSONI
6PM STUDIO - FARAH ANGSANA
6:30-7:30 BOX - VERRIER
7PM THEATRE - CONCEPT KOREA 
9PM STUDIO - RICHIE RICH

Brand of the Week - Marchesa

Few other fashion brands have made quite the splash so quickly than the supremely elegant brand of Marchesa.Created by the ingenious duo Georgina and Keren, it's astounding that for a collection only started in 2004, Marchesa's beauty and attention to detail makes it right at home with collections almost 6 times older. The brand is determined to make every moment an experience, from the fashion shows, the sheer breathtaking designs, and even visiting the website. Taking a look at the founders, Georgina, a Wimbledon School of Art alumni, and Keren, a Brighton Art College grad, you might think that these young upstarts couldn't possibly grasp the eye for aesthetics that glam gods such as Valentino, Oscar de la Renta, and Karl Lagerfeld mastered but just reviewing the Egyptian-goddess inspired Resort 2011 showing  they aced in June makes you think twice. Young Hollywood certainly has no problem taking a shine to the brand with television shows like Gossip Girl using much of their apparel in tapings. But just who is the Marchesa girl? She is the beautiful girl who thrives in contemporary society but understands the unchanging power of the classic; her sensibilities do not lie in the transient fads but she remembers the swans who came before her.

Don't Get Mad Get In This Fashion Week

Among the anticipation shared by fashion aficionados, experts, leaders, and connoisseurs, Forbes Blog is reporting on the opportunity of a lifetime: to be an outsider in the fashion industry and live like an insider for a week. The blog reports that W Hotels in New York is once again advertising their annual Catwalk Packages for 15 lucky patrons. Some of the perks inside the package include two tickets to any show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, a suite a the W New York on Wall Street or Union Square, and a tote bag designed by Danny Roberts. The full posts has th details on what the exact costs and benefits for the Catwalk Packages but according to the post most of the people getting their hands on them are fashion industry insiders who have coveted knowledge of the goings-on inside the tents. However, you can't put a price on beautiful fashion and you most definitely can't put a price on attending a Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week fashion show, either. Check out the full post on Forbes Blog here.

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2011 Schedule

It's that time of year that all the good little Armani-clad boys and all the girls in Chanel long for: New York Fashion Week. And here at Fashion Inc. we'll be making sure that you're up-close and personal with all of the goings-on, fashion shows, celebrity spottings, trends, and collections that this Spring has to offer. And so that you don't miss any of the action yourself, we're posting a pdf of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week schedule so you'll know what days to tune in to catch your favorite designers' collections. We'll also be posting some sets using looks from the shows and also we'll be reposting some links from our favorite fashion bloggers so that you can have a 360 view of what New York Fashion Week is all about: glamour, celebrities, who's in, who's out, glitterati, paparazzi, front rows, bright lights, and long nights. Download the full schedule from the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week site here.

Moschino Says Ahoy to Fall 2010

The top model Alessandro Ambrosio is appearing this season is Moschino's Fall 2010 ad campaign, which is featuring a stylish pirates of the Caribbean aesthetic. Moschino's advertising style usually is very simple and allows the clothes to speak for themselves, a quality that Moschino's elegance allows for. This year's Fall palette is quite simple, including only hues of white, navy blue, blacks, and gold. Donning a navy blue blazer embellished on the collar, lapels, sleeves and edges with golden rings definitely conjures images of Johnny Depp's swashbuckling, sword-brandishing Jack Sparrow and the high-waisted matching trousers with medium-sized classic belt cinched at natural waist level induces a touch of high fashion. The ascots, in both dove-white and navy sprinkled in white provides for a versatile accessory that can be worn with almost any office outfit. The wide black pirate-style hat meshes well with the black and white-striped shirt dress which is accented by a navy quilted clutch dotted with gold buttons. The jewelry is very reminiscent of the kinds of trinkets you might find in a deep-sea treasure chest and shine brilliantly against the colors of the apparel. Overall the looks prove that chic doesn't always have to inundated with expensive clothing and the trappings of the upper class world but it can be found in the tales of the incorrigible, greedy, and less than refined pirates of the oceans.

D&G Gives A Taste of Italian Ice With 2010 Fall Campaign

The younger brother of the Dolce and Gabbana collection, D&G has chosen to take its newest Fall arrivals to the snowy heights of the mountains in a ski-themed ad campaign. Whereas the ads from Dolce and Gabbana tend to be more artistic, ambiguous, and feature wider landscapes, D&G ads tend to prefer an more up-close and personal point of view and usually play on the aesthetic effect of including large numbers of models in one small space. A collection that prefers to set the trends rather than display them, Dolce and Gabbana has chosen to include flowing pearl-white light apparel and patterned knits with lots of movement. The scene is reminiscent of a Milanese private high school ski trip and I doubt few can say their classmates have been this glamorous...

Trend or End? The Girl-About-Town

Give me them bright lights...long nights...party till the sun is rising...high-rise, overtime...working till the moon is shining...hot guys, fly girls, never thought I'd say I feel on top of the world...The Fall Women's collections this year are most certainly picking up on the trend of the urban female sophisticate. Perhaps the high amounts of exposure given to working girls with television shows like The Hills, The City, The Rachel Zoe Project, and Gossip Girl whose real-life as well as fictional portrayals of the driven, ambitious, achieving, and most importantly stylish girl have inspired designers such as Elie Tahari, Preen, and Chado Ralph Rucci to use her as their muse for this upcoming season...

And Just When Your World Couldn’t Get More Real: Armani Exchange’s Fall 2010 3-D Campaign

As if the list of films in 3-D like Step Up 3-D, The Last Airbender, Resident Evil: Resurrection and movies about twisting reality such as Inception wasn’t enough to make you wonder where the line between reality and imagination is being drawn, Armani Exchange is launching a never-before seen ad campaign in—you guessed it—3-D. The 3-D ads are set to appear in the September issues of GQ, Interview, and V Magazine. Apparently after doing research, Armani’s marketing division found out that consumers of Armani Exchange are heavily into high-tech gadgets and trends giving them the green light to create a whole 3-D ad campaign…

Diesel’s Fall 2010 Campaign Turns Fashion Marketing on Its Head

Diesel’s previous ad campaigns have been replete with edginess, darkness, and a taste for the hardcore. But recently Diesel has turned a 180 and taken a significantly less serious approach to its advertising. The “Be Stupid” campaign has been a clever reinvention of advertising not because it is introducing a new method of marketing a product but it is difficult to ignore because its ad power lies in its brutal honesty about the methods of marketing. Looking at these photos is an experience akin to watching a Truth commercial divulging the subliminal attempts of Big Tobacco to cause consumers to start smoking…after all, as Diesel says, “There’s no wrong way to do it”…

Karl Lagerfeld Takes It to The Streets with Chanel’s Fall 2010 Ad Campaign

Where there’s smokin’ hot fashion, there’s definitely a fire escape. Karl Lagerfeld has transported the Chanel brand to a new destination almost antithetical to the refined, sophisticated surroundings that normally come to mind when thinking of Chanel’s ad photo shoots. The fashions, however, had not deviated from the normal Chanel aesthetic which is most definitely a positive point. Chanel is one of the oldest and greatest power players in the fashion world and if there’s one thing that can be attributed to the ideals of the woman who stated, “Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence but of those who have already taken control of their future”…

Armani’s Fall 2010 Ad Campaign Mystifies By Channeling Mystery

Armani’s main line which bears his namesake Giorgio Armani has successfully used the same advertising technique it has for the past few seasons with its new fall collection. The chiaroscuro of Armani ads and the super-strategic lighting inside the ads gives Giorgio Armani a transcendent film noir-esque quality I love. The way Edita Vikelviciute waits seductively at the hotel desk with an air of self-possession tinged with anticipation gives life to the beautifully crafted scarlet embroidered one-shoulder dress she wears. Perhaps she hides a dagger in her garter waiting to devour someone like a black widow at the moment of her meeting?...

DSquared2’s Fall 2010 Campaign Goes Minimalist

It’s quite interesting that in spite of all of our fascinations with the art of putting clothes on and the various methods of keeping them on that we are so much more fascinated with the art of seeing them come off. Perhaps it is a statement to the role of art in our lives; our main purpose as animals is to follow those impulses that we are born with and art, whether it be visual, interior design, creative writing, photography, fashion design, or poetry is the greatest means of humans to try to deny those impulses and cast them away. Unfortunately, art is often the medium where those impulses are most visible, as seen in the gratuitous nudity inside DSquared2s latest ad campaign. But I can’t seem to shake off this persistent sentiment of “Where have I seen this before?”…

Gucci’s Fall 2010 Campaign Gets the Midas Touch

Gucci’s new ad campaign for the upcoming fall is looking more like the set of the James Bond flick Goldfinger and Gucci’s creative minds have no doubt touched this next seasons fashions with a gold finger. In a funny way, when I stare at the photographs I can almost see the 1970s film flicker as I wait for Cleopatra Jones’ flawless pure ebony skin and her infamous afro to appear with her supple body clad in the desert brown knee-length high-heeled boots and her supple supermodel figure shaped beautifully in the belted fur vest like the one Racquel Zimmerman wears in the photo. This is by no means a parody of the devastatingly stylish dynasty of the Gucci empire, this is simply the aesthetic images that appear in my mind after viewing these photos. And no jive turkey can pass up the looks in this campaign…

Trend or End? Military in Menswear

I want a soldier...well you got it I'm the hottest around...they'll know it when they see you rollin Impalas around...with the top down feelin' the sounds...Even though President Obama is wrapping up Operation Iraqi Freedom at the end of this month and beginning the final chapter of the War in Iraq, Operation New Dawn, the top names in menswear have begun to implement the military aesthetic into their fall collections. The August issue of Details covers this trend phenomenon in a page titled “M*A*S*H It Up”. Marc by Marc Jacobs premiered his collection showcasing indigo and black camouflaged duffle bags, Prada stuck to the classic, simpler, and more prominent camouflage of forest green, gray beige, and black with messenger bags and lengthy double-breasted jackets...