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Fashion Takes Over New York (This is news?)
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New York, the city that stole the fashion crown from Paris (but gave the rude crown back), got a couture O.D. this weekend with the opening of ‘Sex and the City’ and the CFDA Fashion Awards all in the span of a few days.
Touted as the “Oscars of fashion,” the CFDA event totally lived up to its billing. Glam-jonesing celebs rushed to smother themselves with silk, satin, and sequins before the awards desert that is the period between summer and Oscar season.
As predicted, the Womenswear Designer of the Year nod went to Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein. The award was presented to him by Eva Mendes who sported one of his sleek gowns. The other presenters, Victoria Beckham and Maggie Gyllenhaal wore the designs of his rivals for the honor. Gyllenhaal was sheathed in a green-and-black checkerboard tunic for Proenza Schouler and Beckham showed off her toned, spray-tanned gams in a Marc Jacobs minidress.
Tory Burch took Accessory Designer of the Year, and Tom Ford took the Menswear Designer of the Year, but let’s be honest. We don’t really care all that much about men’s fashion as long as they look fairly presentable and smell good, do we? Sometimes I’ll even give on the smelling good thing if he remembers to hold the door.
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg received a special tribute for keeping the city’s garment industry thriving. As if he could stop it. He joked about his choice of a lilac-colored bow tie.
“I would’ve worn something more stylish,” he said, “but my skinny jeans are at the cleaners.”
The women’s pantsuit was back in vogue for the evening, a fitting tribute to Yves Saint Laurent who created it. Carolina Herrera looked suitably chic in a white silk one when she received her Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement award. Host Fran Lebowitz wore a cream-colored tuxedo jacket, and CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg wore an authentic YSL vintage Le Smoking. She opened the event with a heartfelt Saint Laurent tribute.
Lebowitz quickly got things back to a lighter note. Her theory of fashion:
“I believe a woman, when she gets dressed for the evening, should leave at least one thing to the imagination.”
