By Laura Medina
We all know we're into New York Fashion Week for the "scene & be seen" frivolities, necessary frivolities where contacts connect.
This is an invite to one of the hottest events during New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014, an invite to the Carine Roitfeld documentary, "Mademoiselle C" this Monday on September 9th at 5:30pm.
If you read this scribe's interview with Fabien Constant, the documentary's director,("Mademoiselle C" Carine Roitfeld's Story of Change directed by Fabien Constant") http://luxurist.blogspot.com/2013/09/mademoiselle-c-carine-roitfelds-story.html, you will realize how their friendship gives not just exclusive glimpse into Carine Roitfeld's life but an inner workings of building a magazine, a brand, from scratch and what you need to do that.
Okay, here are some upcoming fashion shows, presentations, and installations and even more party invites...
Paola Suhonen's fashion brand's Ivana Helsinki Spring/Summer 2014 Runway Show
Time and time again, this scribe has to chime in and remind you all, that behind all that glitz that New York has to offer, the primary goal of any fashion week is to shine a light on what a particular city does best when it comes to clothing manufacturing. All right, the real goal of any fashion week is to promote and advertise then sell that city's fashion designers.
New York cornered the market on practical everyday "sportswear" and "Ready To Wear" a.k.a. "RTW" (never to be confused with activewear, leave that to Southern California) that normal, real people wear everyday. The Big Apple also kills it in the "Forgotten Woman" demographic, an ideal demographic at their career and salary peak with leisure time and money to burn.
Why show Spring/Summer clothes in September? People's brains may on the cooling crispy Autumn air but our overtly-heated bodies still say it's Summer. Plus, the NY catwalk is a launching pad of new trends. The process from concept to store takes the regular clothing manufacturer a full six months to design the fabric, buy the fabric, design the patterns, cut, sew it then ship it to your local mall.
In the over-heated Indian Summer of September, the double-duty talented filmmaker & fashion designer, Paola Suhonen's fashion brand, Ivana Helsinki, brought her Finnish take on sportswear for Spring/Summer 2014. Her collection bared fruits of billowy smock sundresses of Eternal Spring deeply yearned by her fellow Finns.
Paola on her newly debuted Spring/Summer 2014 Collection.
The movie, "The Bridges of Madison County," may had given her an excuse to make a business trip to Los Angeles but the real reason is to explore America and "The Bridges of Madison County" may had given her a road map...
"During a road trip from Los Angeles to New York, Suhonen stopped in Madison Iowa and visited the ‘Madison County’ old wooden bridges. The experience was magical for Suhonen, after which her SS14 collection began to write a story of its own. “The moral dilemma in the film [The Bridges of Madison County] haunted me for ages” said Suhonen. “How love can be sensual, life giving and wounding at the same time; this contradiction fascinated me and kept spinning in my head while I was driving through the endless corn field surrounded country roads.” Ivana Helsinki’s SS14 Bridges of Madison County presents two new prints; ‘Iowafly’ and ‘Until We Meet Again’, both are original artworks of Paola Ivana Suhonen. The collections’ strong mood reflects love, nostalgic flavors from our youth, and a praise to beautiful, hobo, butterfly girls."
Paola on her newly debuted Spring/Summer 2014 Collection.
The movie, "The Bridges of Madison County," may had given her an excuse to make a business trip to Los Angeles but the real reason is to explore America and "The Bridges of Madison County" may had given her a road map...
"During a road trip from Los Angeles to New York, Suhonen stopped in Madison Iowa and visited the ‘Madison County’ old wooden bridges. The experience was magical for Suhonen, after which her SS14 collection began to write a story of its own. “The moral dilemma in the film [The Bridges of Madison County] haunted me for ages” said Suhonen. “How love can be sensual, life giving and wounding at the same time; this contradiction fascinated me and kept spinning in my head while I was driving through the endless corn field surrounded country roads.” Ivana Helsinki’s SS14 Bridges of Madison County presents two new prints; ‘Iowafly’ and ‘Until We Meet Again’, both are original artworks of Paola Ivana Suhonen. The collections’ strong mood reflects love, nostalgic flavors from our youth, and a praise to beautiful, hobo, butterfly girls."
This scribe had a rare pleasure and chance to chat with this multi-talented designer right before she drove back to New York. This scribe had no idea, at that time almost two Summers ago, that her cross-country trip Across America set her Spring/Summer 2014 collection in motion.
The Spring/Summer 2014 collection highlights signature prints, feminine dresses, light cotton pieces, sensual embroidered tunics and edgy printed jersey pieces. This SS14 collection also features a capsule collection of denim, a first for the Ivana Helsinki brand, maybe influenced by L.A. perhaps?
'Paola's film shorts should not be missed. They give viewers an insight into her aesthetics. Perhaps as a filmmaker, she has a greater understanding and connection with movies than most fashion designers.
The Spring/Summer 2014 collection highlights signature prints, feminine dresses, light cotton pieces, sensual embroidered tunics and edgy printed jersey pieces. This SS14 collection also features a capsule collection of denim, a first for the Ivana Helsinki brand, maybe influenced by L.A. perhaps?
'Paola's film shorts should not be missed. They give viewers an insight into her aesthetics. Perhaps as a filmmaker, she has a greater understanding and connection with movies than most fashion designers.
Expect more invites, happenings, events, the coolest makeup & hair and the catwalk catch-ups for another week from NY Fashion Week!
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