Birthday celebrations ran into the weekend, and with salon appointments and dinner engagements, am running a little behind this morning...
New York Fashion Week came and went with little fanfare. This time around, there seemed to be a lack of enthusiasm for the affair. Vanessa Friedman, the Fashion Director and Chief Fashion Critic for The New York Times expressed a similar sentiment in the article, “Marc Jacobs and the Ghosts of Fashion Past and Future.” The article suggests a somber tone during fashion week. Friedman points out that it seemed to suffer from an identity crisis partially as a result from the loss of influence that New York designers once had over the fashion world.