New York Fashion Week!

Categories: In the News , Entertainment , Arts & Crafts

Fashion Week in New York just concluded this past weekend. All the designers were there, showing gorgeous runway fashions that will be the prototypes for our Spring 2007 clothes.

"The Independent Woman" is apparently about whom the designers were thinking this year, as it is a common theme among the collections.

Visionaries: Interviews with Fashion Designers (2001) by Susannah Frankel gives us a look into the lives and creative processes of fashion designers through interviews with them.

Stylemakers: Inside Fashion by Marcia Sherrill (2002) outlines influential behind-the-scenes people in the fashion world: trend spotters, stylists, photographers, and business people who choreograph what we will eventually see in stores.

An interesting behind-the-scenes book about the Men's fashion industry is Joseph Abboud's autobiography, Threads: My Life Behind the Seams of the High-Stakes World of Fashion (2004).

Fashion Designers by Pamela Golbin (2001) is a beautifully illustrated chronicle of trends by some of the most influential designers.

The fashion magazines such as Vogue, Elle, and In Style are great at this time of year, with coverage of Fashion Week and pictures of the new syles. Lots of eye candy, lots of inspiration, and lots of clothes. So entertaining!

I browsed the Fashion area up in the Art & Music department and found lots of biograpies of designers such as Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren, Yves Saint Laurent, and Geoffrey Beene. These are fascinating lives of creative people.