by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Dark Jasmine unveiled a collection at Society Fashion Week in September that was…, well, dark. Shown during New York Fashion Week at the Angel Orenzanz Center in the lower East Side, the nearly all-black line carried a definite goth look. The monochromatic collection utilized a mixture
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Here come the Aughts with Candy-Rock Couture
by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The ’80s had a fashion comeback. The ’90s are in the midst of their comeback. So why wouldn’t the Aughts be on deck? Candy-Rock Couture stormed the runway at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City during Society Fashion Week. The line presented a lively, energetic,
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by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Ginger Seibert gathered up her Midnight Orchid collection and presented a fierce runway show at the S2pid Cupid Steampunk Ball. At the event, staged on the floor of Deanston House in Storrs, the designer’s selections offered up a Mad Max meets goth meets punk meets demented
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by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com As part of the S2pid Cupid Steampunk Ball at the Deanston House in Storrs on Saturday, Connecticut designer Nightwing Whitehead presented her collection. The garments, walked out before a crowd of steampunks, goths, and Whoovians, featured repurposed, reincarnated fabrics fit for the idiosyncratic crowd enjoying absinthe,
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