All Things Fashionating by tracy mausser

Michael Kors Collection (Image: MB Fashion Week)   With the temperatures sizzling across the United States, it is not hard to envision oneself wearing all the hot new Spring 2013 designs which debut last week at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. Nearly 200 designers made statements by previewing spring collections which included a lot of leather, skirt suits, black-and-white, below-the-knee coats, cutouts, corsets and color, color and more color. The collections in the tents at Lincoln Center were bold and beautiful, but three designers stood out. I have always been a fan of Michael Kors; however, the contemporary construction and clean lines of his newest collection have really hit home with me.   I can see myself wearing almost every piece (in my real fashion life…not the fantasy one) that went down the runway. His look was a very glamorous Sixties mod which embodied every vibrant hue of the rainbow.   Sheath dresses in leather or crep...

DVF at NYFW FW12   Last week, it was with great anticipation that I awaited to be a voyeur – since I am here in LA and had nary a ticket – into the runway shows of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City. However, an amazing opportunity to contribute a fashion article as a guest blogger for a new digital magazine, which will launch later this month, introduced a tight deadline and changed my plans. Albeit a tad late, I am happy to (finally) post my fashionating feedback about the best of the New York Fashion Week Autumn Winter 2012 collections. As fashion week progressed, it became profoundly apparent to me that – for women – next season is all about being feminine. So many of the collections at NYFW offered impressions of femininity and age-appropriateness, which is a super-hot topic for me personally right now.   I had already made a vow to introduce more ladylike silhouettes into my wardrobe and, even though I do have grandiose visions of loo...

If you are a fashion maven like me, you will be putting all prejudices of Lifetime Television aside tonight when you tune in to watch the number one-rated and most watched competitive reality show. That’s right; the ninth installment of Project Runway airs tonight. Heidi, Tim, Michael and Nina are back with 20 designers – the largest group in the shows history – who aspire to be the next best American designer. If you have been living under a rock for the past nine seasons, Project Runway is a television show that provides budding designers with an opportunity to launch their careers in fashion, under the watchful eye of mentor Tim Gunn, who is the Chief Creative Officer of Liz Claiborne. I realize that I waste too much of my life watching reality TV, but Project Runway is one of my absolute favorites. There is something about this show that just makes me giddy. I’m not sure if it is the fact the show’s producers seem to find the best talent, or that one contestant whom you lov...