FALL 4 NY 2005: FASHION WEEK

Fashion week is about to start. "Olympus Fashion Week" (OFY) to be precise.

The schedule, starting on September 9th and running through the 16th, includes many designers you know well, and perhaps many you don't.

The line-up (listed in UPPER CASE or not according to their own presentation on the OFY site) includes :

KENNETH COLE
NAEEM KHAN
PERRY ELLIS MENSWEAR
GOTTEX
ESTEBAN CORTAZAR
Yigal Azrouel
DKNY Men
DUCKIE BROWN
ANDOVAL
TOMMY HILFIGER
JOHN BARTLETT
GARY GRAHAM
MICHAEL WESETLY
ROSA CHA BY AMIR SLAMA
ATIL KUTOGLU
PROJECT ALABAMA
HOLLY KRISTEN
LACOSTE
SASS & BIDE
STRENESSE
Y & KEI
ASHISH N SONI
TWINKLE
TRACY REESE
ALEXANDRE HERCHCOVITCH
DOO.RI
AAU
Diane Von Furstenberg
TULEH
LUCA LUCA
VENEXIANA
JOANNA MASTROIANNI
Dana Buchman
CAROLINA HERRERA
CYNTHIA STEFFE
MATTHEW EARNEST
Diesel
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
REEM ACRA
BETSEY JOHNSON
Maverick by Rebecca Romero
ALICE ROI
DKNY
BCBG MAX AZRIA COLLECTION
ALICE TEMPERLY
TIBI
MONIQUE LHUILLIER
BILL BLASS
CHAIKEN
Multi by Bree
ZANG TOI
Mac Millan
PAMELLA ROLAND
NANETTE LEPORE
Y - 3
Kate Spade & Jack Spade Collections
ABAETÉ
PETER SOM
MICHAEL KORS
RICHARD CHAI
Rebecca Taylor
CARLOS MIELE
CARMEN MARC VALVO
Yeohlee
Catherine Malandrino
MILLY BY MICHELLE SMITH
ANNA SUI
VIVIENNE TAM
MARY PING
DOUGLAS HANNANT
WUNDERKIND by WOLFGANG JOOP
J MENDEL
VERA WANG
IISLI
Calvin Klein
LINDA LOUDERMILK
CUSTO BARCELONA
ZAC POSEN
VLASSIS HOLEVAS
Ralph Lauren
Michon Schur
WILLOW
LIBERTINE
LELA ROSE
Donna Karan
HEATHERETTE
CHADO RALPH RUCCI

Wow! That's a lot of clothes!

THE WEDDING DATE

There is a much more interesting film buried inside The Wedding Date (a little, pleasant romantic comedy) than ever appears on the screen. It is touched on, but not developed. In fact, sometimes the action on screen seems a little mysterious, and it turns out (watching the commentary and deleted scenes on the DVD) that there really was a lot going on but you never got to see it in the movie.

The more interesting story involves difficult relationships among five very complex people.

The movie itself, stripped of most of the detail of the relationships, is fun but way too predictable. (I could even mouth lines of dialog before they were spoken.)

Here's the setup -- A woman, jilted at the altar two years ago, hires an escort (a top escort with references) to pose as her boyfriend and accompany her to her sister's wedding (in England) where her ex-fiance is the best man.

Answer each of the following questions in the simplest way and you can write this movie:

1- Does she fall in love with her wedding date?
2- Does he fall in love with her?
3- Do they have to share a room with one bed?
4- Do they have some kind of sexual experience? 4b- Is it the first time they have a chance or later?
5- Does she start out timid and repressed and open up as the movie develops?
6- Does the ex turn out to be a heel?
7- What is the problem between the self-absorbed pretty blond little sister (who is getting married) and the less pretty but more solid older sister?
8- Is there a next-to-the-last-minute misunderstanding that sends someone to the airport? 8b- Followed by someone hurrying to the other for a reconciliation?

To be honest, there were a few surprises. But they were mostly kind of left over from the missing storylines.

The acting, by Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, and Amy Adams is really very good. They play their parts with the subtlety and richess that is in the movie that could have been.

SUMMER (VACATION) ENDS. FALL SEASON BEGINS!

Ah! Labor Day! And the New Season! begins.

With a lot of travelling this summer, we took an extended hiatus from posting. But not from planning and preparing...

We have prepared many new initiatives with blogging, vlogging, podcasting, and live theatrical presentations. We are planning extensive coverage of the new fall season, centered in (but not limited to) New York. (Plus a slight change in type size.)

Some new features will show up in this blog, others in this blog's parent: the online and live presentation, HOW TO PREDICT THE FUTURE. Still others will appear in the website of our overall parent company, inteem! Corp (Future's parent, and this blog's grandparent).