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Drawn by Numbers
Daily Blog: Saturday, Sep 10, 2005
New York Fashion Week Spring 2006
By: Jean Paul Cauvin
Illustrations by Julien Fournié
NEW YORK, Sep 10, 2005/ FW/ --- Numbers and figures say a lot. In the fashion industry,
they are often used to talk about money, profits, investments etc.
They also can be very significantly used to express bluntly a reality that words can hardly
grasp as quickly.
Here are some of the numbers that can account for our second day of attendance at New York
Fashion Week.
HUNDREDS of passers-by could attend this morning the David Rodriguez show as the
runway set at the Times Square Studios was literally extended to the curbside.
A nice way to involve New Yorkers and tourists alike in the Fashion Week. The clothes were
really creative and the looks great.
SIX different shapes, FIVE different fabrics, TWO prints made a collection
of FIFTY-SIX looks worm by TWENTY-EIGHT girls on the runway at the Atil Kutoglu show
in the afternoon!
I have no further comment, it might not deserve it. At one point, I thought the designer
was competing for the prize for maximum garments possibly made with ONE only print.
At the end of the show I was glad I would be in France in November and would thus not
celebrate Thanksgiving… I did not want to hear about turkey before Christmas !
TEN models in a TWO-room apartment. That’s daily life for international
models during New York Fashion Week… Talk about Simple Life !
AT LEAST FOUR is the number of shows that ONE PR firm (People’s Revolution)
has organized only today.
Rachel Comey, Zaldy, Atil Kutoglu, Jennifer Nicholson were all lucky enough to have this
extremely efficient, courteous and fair company take care of their runway hows,
THREE at the Altman building, and ONE at the Atelier in the Bryant Park tents.
Headed by Kelly Cutrone, who was always present at each venue to help with front row
celebrities and last minute general seating, this very professional team as a whole has
managed to have every guest welcomed with a smile and with the specific attention each
individual person deserves, from stars to press and buyers, not even forgetting the
designers’ parents when they were present!
Kelly is the person I have most admired throughout the day especially for the way she
tackled every problem with a smile and a pat on the shoulder, pertinently and tactfully.
She even managed to actually talk to me and exchanged a few words in French with Julien
Fournie. She has proven the impressions I had yesterday about New York PRs quite wrong.
The presence of her firm in MANY other fashion world capitals can maybe explain it all.
FIFTY photographers shot Gwen Stefani in FIVE minutes when she arrived
to attend the Zaldy show. She was wearing a TWO-coloured orange and green jogging suit
and a crochet semi-rasta bonnet with FIVE bands and TWO colors, yellow and green.
The Cartier Pantherhead pendant she was carrying around her neck made it a VERY EXPENSIVE
streetwear look.
ONE handbag managed to have HUNDREDS of the best fashionistas gathered at
its launching party. The Patricia Field handbag party was a real success. Times Square looked
so Soho for a few hours!
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