Rachel Zoe During a recent interview with Blackbook, celebrity stylist and reality star Rachel Zoe claimed that she thought she looked awful on the last season of her Bravo show, The Rachel Zoe Project, and promised to tone down down aspects of her appearance like her hair and makeup for the second upcoming season. While that may all be true, [...]

Model Lia Kedebe photographed by Patrick Demarchelier in the special edition Fashion's Night Out shirt The kick off event to New York Fashion Week, Fashion's Night Out has been steadily gaining speed and has grown to an already enormous proportion with just under a month left to go. The latest count, according to WWD, tops off at 700 participating stores [...]

At this point you are probably as sick of hearing about New York Fashion Week '09 as we are talking about it. So we thought we would end our coverage with a wrap-up of the trends we can expect for next fall. Here are Second City Style's picks for Fall '09 Trends:    Asymmetrical: Carolina Herrera; Leather: Yigal Azrouel; Cape: [...]

Last Friday's NYPost summed up the general malaise of this past New York Fashion Week. It was the 'recession' version 3.0. D-Listers had the front-row seats where A-listers used to sit. In fact, the A-list crowd was in pretty short order. McDonald's 'McCafe' coffee replaced Starbucks, and goody bags were filled with Nasal Spray instead of MAC cosmetics or missing [...]

Shocking Pink: Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta, Michael Kors Bright Green: DKNY, Marc Jacobs, Custo Barcelona Highlighter Yellow: Michael Kors, Tibi, Marc Jacobs Electric Blue: Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Cynthia Rowley The 80's are back! At least the color palette is. For Fall '09 get ready to see a profusion of 80's neon colors like electric blue, shocking pink, [...]

Allison with Rachel Zoe 1. What was your favorite show? Favorite show? Jill Stuart. I would have walked away wearing every piece she sent down the runway. The floral detailed fedoras were also to die for. Favorite presentation? Marchesa. I think it goes without saying that those gowns were some of the most stunning I have ever seen. 2. Which [...]

Lauren with Reem Acra 1. What was your favorite show? Narciso Rodriguez. What can I say? I love him. I also really liked  Reem Acra and Carmen Marc Valvo's presentations. I'm a sucker for beautiful gowns and evening wear. 2. Which collection surprised you the most, in a good way? Yigal Azrouël. I could wear every piece in his collection. [...]

For those of you who were out of town, live under a rock, or were just simply too busy to be keeping up with the reviews from New York Fashion Week Fall '09, this list from Second City Style (of the 63 shows we covered) should make it a bit easier to view and review the latest collections from your [...]

1. What was your favorite show? Erin Fetherston. I'm all a-flutter every time I think about it. Also, the G-Star show was an impressive piece of theater, and every detail–from the music to the lighting to the runway design to model selection–was perfect. And despite my assertion that the women's collection was largely too masculine, there were still pieces I [...]

This season's looks for New York Fashion Week Fall 09, wasn't dramatic but more subdued than past seasons. Lots of grey shadows, liner, lashes, red lips and lots of highlighter, were used to create this season's looks. The makeup artist really focused on the eyes, sometimes with heavy liner around the eye, and sometimes very minimum. The long legged models [...]