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DIVAS Shop for Opera Shop
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Thursday, May 20th: DIVAS Shop for Opera is one of the most highly anticipated shopping event of the year. The 5th Annual DIVAS Shop for Opera held at the tremendous and diva-divine loft space- 82 Mercer, offers exclusive designer, vintage and collectible clothing, accessories and home furnishings.
Event Co-Chairs: Vogue Editor, Hamish Bowles; Sex & the City stylist, Patricia Field; 1st Dibs founder Michael Bruno; novelist and tv journalist Elsa Klensch; fashion couple: Ruben and Isabel Toledo and opera lover Lorry Newhouse. Young Patrons Co-Chairs: jewelry designer Pamela Love; fashion designer Rebecca Taylor; filmmaker and style-setter Arden Wohl, opera fan, Ashley Melone and New York City Opera General Manager and Artistic Director George Steel.
The Divas Co-Chairs certainly brought it up a notch this year. The choice to hold the shopping event in Soho and at 82 Mercer is absolutely Diva approved; 5000 times a better locale and probably 5000 times a larger venue than that of last year's pop-up shop on the UES. Not to mention that several designer pieces were donated by a certain Fashion Editor of a certain fashion magazine...
As a special feature this year, 25 designers have created sketches inspired by a New York City Opera character. Participating designers include; Narciso Rodriguez, Carolina Herrera, Christian Lacroix, Rossella Jardini for Moschino, Jason Wu, Ruben Toledo, Victoria Bartlett, threeASFOUR designers Adi, Ange and Gabi, Roland Nivelais, Thuy Diep, Austin Scarlett, Sylvia Heisel, Stephen Burrows and James Coviello.
All proceeds for the evening will support the design and creation of costumes or new productions at New York City Opera.
SEEN: Rudin DeWoody, Amy Fine Collins, Former White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, Lucy Sykes, Real Housewife Alex McCord, Simon van Kempen, Robert Verdi and many more.
Visit the New York City Opera THRIFT SHOP 7 days a week at 222 East 23rd Street, NY, NY
*All photos courtesy of PMc
*photo 1: Lorry Newhouse and Jean-Philippe Delhomme
*image 2: "Brunhilde" by Isabelle and Ruben Toledo
Katie Gallagher: Moda Operandi
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Not too long ago, consumers were only dipping their feet into the prêt-à-porter avant-garde fashion current. Now, we are all practically diving in head first. Just look at a few of today's trendsetters: Vivian Westwood, Karl Lagerfeld, Rick Owens, Alexander Wang, and Rodarte. Just a few years ago, their collections may have been considered “a bit too over the top” for mainstream fashion. These days, they are household names and it seems as though the entire industry’s direction is leaning toward that dark romantic/neo-gothic aesthetic.
Enter Tim Burton and Jean Paul Gaultier's love chid: Katie Gallagher......
Katie’s beautiful and eccentric collection, turns the latest avant-garde trends up a notch, generating a seductive and ethereal edge.
Each piece is raw, yet polished, with great attention to construction. Katie keeps her color palette dark, utilising mostly shades of black and grey- remaining true to her glamour/grunge vision. With her sculptured shoulders and strategic cuts that wrap a women’s body, Katie has an intrinsic knack for contouring her garments to give the illusion of an elongated, sleek feminine frame…
even when there isn't one.
Katie's introspective collection is provoking, sensual and altogether fascinating. She is indeed, a designer ahead of her time. I absolutely love this collection- it is sharp, chic and fabulously futuristic!
To see exclusive SBS picts from the S/S 2010 Fashion Presentation, please click HERE
To view Katie Gallagher's 2010 Collection and Sketches, please click HERE
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ndustry Background:
Katie Gallagher was raised in a small farm town in Pennsylvania and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design. She worked as an apprentice at Anna Sui and at threeASFOUR, where she continued as a freelance pattern-maker.
Katie's collection uses a variety of luxury fabrics, treated leathers, soft cashmere mixed with washed jersey, stretch lycra, and light, treated textiles, to create a layered collection offset with chain detailing. Leggings and trousers with curving seams, various types of treated leather jackets, and organza and silk tops with unusual cuts, sculptural forms, and draping techniques make up the basis of the 22 look, 70+ separate collection.
Katie was inspired by the dramatic, hyper-curated beauty of Butoh dancers, and the dystopia of the low-life and high-tech world of cyberpunk classics like William Gibson’s, Neuromancer, and Neal Stephenson’s, Snow Crash.
