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Highlights of New York Fashion Week

Between the 2013 fall trends laid out this week on the runway and the fantastic style thats appearing just outside the haute couture shows, its hard to dig up the best of the recurring trends. Just this week theres been countless new styles of shoes, prints, patterns, and garments with aspects borrowed from 1920's and even 1990's trends. As Fashion Week is now on it's way to Paris, it's time for an overview on the highlights of New York:

1- Runway Shoes!
Mod block booties and reinvented clogs from the 90's, loafer-styled heals and flats from the 20's, and shoes with a shorter, chunkier heal have made their appearance on the runway. This year's vast shoe style diversity has lead to some really different looks. These vogue new shoes have been frequently presented with velvet, jeweled/metal detailing, animal print (largely cheetah), and shiny/metallic scales. (Photo courtesy of Style Caster)

Scaley loafers with low-heal: Tory Burch 

Aligator chunk-heal booties: Kenneth Cole

Aligator low, leprechaun pump: Christian Siriano

Snake-skin lace-up booties: Christian Siriano

Open-toe, lace-up, velvet boot: Kenneth Cole

Low velvet pump with metal detailing: Christian Siriano

Block-heal velvet pump: Oscar de la Renta

Textured velvet lace up boot with mod, chunky heal: Christian Siriano

2- Calvin Klein's Fall 2013 Collection
Based largely on the colored fax fur coats and fur detailing designs, I found that Calvin Klein's Fall Collection was a prime baseline for the most recent runway shows and street styles. Why? With the excessively large fur details as well as a modern shape of the clothes and the use of velvet, it tied 2013's street style and runway fashion all together.
(Photo courtesy of Vogue)

3- New York Street Style
This week has offered some of the brightest (and furriest) looks of street style. With chilly New York wether, street-walkers had to bundle up while still staying stylish. Lots of fax fur coats, two-toned leather jackets and patterned layers were sighted. Contrasting prints were often paired within the many layers of the outfit.
(Photo Courtesy of Style Caster)

Street Style

With much anticipated fashion shows that include piles of headlines, videos, and reviews referring to the haute couture designs and displays, there still is room for an added light the fashions occurring outside the fashion shows. Even with high magnified focus on the shows themselves, an almost equal eye is put upon the many outstanding street styles in the flurry and commotion of this year's Fashion Week. The embroidery is getting heavier, more widespread; the colors are traditional Spring/Summer with an added infusion of black to the garments. Vogue has covered practically every aspect of Fashion Week so far with its pretentious title and easy first word on it all. Even with Fashion Week green and barely blooming, Vogue has managed to capture the best style of 2013,  and the pictures below (photo courtesy of Vogue) are some of my favorite outfits and details of this year's Fashion Week 2013 in Paris, Milan, London, and New York. As some of you may know, Fashion Week is twice a year; in the fall and spring. In the fall, that year's upcoming Spring/Summer lines are shown while in the spring, the upcoming Fall lines are shown. With that, this month's fashion shows will be previewing the designer's Fall 2013 lines. . . a little bit confusing right? Even so, the streets of this upcoming Fashion Week are showing the upmost aspects of spring and paving new trends for this upcoming season.

Photo Courtesy of Vogue

Music- A Playlist

I have just recently discovered Wild Belle's music and very unique style. She incorporates a 60's vibe into her music, very similar to Lana Del Ray. Unlike Lana although, I for one have found a more upbeat, psychedelic feel that just doesn't compare. Also check out Wild Belle's Keep You.

IT'S TOO LATE from Wild Belle on Vimeo.

Coldplay 'Yellow' from Pulse Films on Vimeo.

Live From Bad Racket: Saintseneca from Bad Racket on Vimeo.

The Black Keys "Gold On The Ceiling" from PEDESTRIAN.TV on Vimeo.
Eliza Doolittle "Rollerblades" from Cass Bird on Vimeo.

Kate Nash "Foundations" from AndrayNovak on Vimeo.

The Blow - True Affection (Type in an environment) from Delisa Williams on Vimeo.

Angus and Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane from kirill dolmatov on Vimeo.

I don't completely understand the relevance of the music video, I just love the song, and the fact that the girl's name is Lizzy.

The New Girl

Tavi Gevinson Closet Interview for Stylelikeu.com from StyleLikeU on Vimeo.

Photo courtesy of StyleLikeU

A fashion icon becomes just that- an icon, because they do something different. They dress differently, look differently, and have an aura; a presents that speaks differently. To say the least, Tavi Geveinson is a very different girl. As a 16 year old blogger and stylist, she has paved the way for a whole new generation in fashion. Her look doesn't represent the mainstream look of beauty, it's about personal expression. I love her character that bleeds through her clothes and her fearless style that incorporates a vintage and futuristic attitude. Each item that she owns is symbolic to her, bringing out a whole nether element to her styling. Watch the video above to see footage of Tavi, her clothes, room, and her views of style. 

• (P.S. I do not agree with her comments on Fashion Week.)

With the new year of 2013 green, Tavi Gevinson has made her stylist appearance more than ever. Discovered by her blog, The Style Rookie, at the young age of 13, Tavi has never failed to show us the cutting-edge of fashion with her very much personal and quirky style. At age 15, she founded the "Rookie Magazine" and before that was featured in not only Teen Vogue, but an issue of French Vogue. Now 16, her opportunities and spotlight have only increased as well as her style compass.

Tavi's institution of an completely new and inexplainable fashion has been made tangible to the day-to-day girl reading and observing "the Rookie" magazine and blog. Although difficult to emulate Gevinson's precise style, aspects are frequently borrowed by teenage girls, and grown women alike with the message of bringing out your own quirky differences within your clothes. As eminent designer Coco Chanel once said, “Fashion fades, only style remains the same.” Tavi Gevinson is a prime example, never losing her style and taste with the ever-changing fashions surrounding us. I for one, have been utterly inspired by Tavi Gevinsons stylist choices and message. What she wears breaths; leaks the upmost elements of her personality with color, pattern, and shape. Here are some pictures of Tavi and her clothes (photo courtesy of StyleLikeU): 

Burning Man

Burning Man is an annual, week-long festival held in late August, in the dry, scorching heat of the Nevada sun. The name “Burning Man” comes from the main event of the festival;  igniting a 70 ft wood structure, epitomized as the figure of a man. People travel here from around the globes, some come in RV’s, while others, in profusely decorated cars; either way, they are all coming to enthrall themselves into the art world and have a good time.What makes people endure the 107 degree heat? Large scale projects of sorts are the specialty of Burning man artists. Whether it be a life-sized ship, sunken surreally in the desert ground (see below), or an automobile disguised as a deep sea creature (to the right), the art is hardly  unnoticeable making for a dream-like experience. During the night, after the sun goes down and goosebumps arrive, the expansive grounds light up with glow-sticks and LED lights. It is arguable that more people are out at night than in the day; while the daylight may offer opportune lighting to see small details, certain unique perspectives and characteristics blaze up when the world gets dark. 

The first Burning Man was held in 1986 with an eight foot man structure and but a fraction of flame of the up to 80 foot structures that they build today. The Burning Man is built throughout the duration of the week long festival. Planned and drawn out by artists, then created by the labor multiple people from the ground up, it is ultimately engulfed by the flames the people who built it. This symbolic bonfire ritual is held on a Saturday night, the last night of the festival to wrap up and “burn up” the festival. The art displayed at the Burning Man festival attracts thousands of people every year and the number is rising. With such abstract ideas and eclectic art, it’s no wonder Burning Man has such an immense pull on people.