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On the Oscars red carpet, all eyes are on ApparelMagic clients

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At Hollywood’s most dazzling night, the stars shone bright wearing evening dresses by leading ApparelMagic clients.

Beanie Feldstein, breakout star of the critically-aclaimed, female-led film Ladybird, chose ApparelMagic client Sachin & Babi for her big night. The actress stunned in her ombré gown, which gradated from black to white and glittered with oversize sequins.

Time’s Up activist and actress Ashley Judd supplemented her cause with a bold, straightforward look from ApparelMagic client Badgley Mischka. She accessorized the elegant gown with a clutch and shoes in a matching vivid purple, also by the designers.

Sachin & Babi’s Ageless Elegance

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Sachin and Babi Ahluwalia of the Sachin & Babi label are no strangers to escapism. Indeed, every season with their collections these ApparelMagic clients take their loyal customers on flights of fancy to any number of tropical and chic locations.

With their latest collection for Fall 2018, however, they’ve shown they’re not just interested in taking ingenues and young starlets with them: their muses include a whole range of beautiful women of all ages.

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Working with sixties-something model Maye Musk, they showed their always-gorgeous silhouettes on a body four decades older than the norm. And you know what? It looked better than ever. Resort staples like off-the-shoulder dresses were upgraded with some seriously fashion fringe. A kelly green caftan got the star treatment with huge clusters of beading along the neckline and cuff. Daywear got in on the act too, with a cold-shoulder top delicately embroidered in gossamer peacocks.

For Sachin & Babi—and increasingly, the world—age is just a number. And no matter what that number is, they’re committed to showing it off in the best light possible.

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Sea New York turns towards tailoring

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ApparelMagic client Sea New York is known for their cotton ruffled dresses and resort wear fit for the most Instagram-worthy trips to the Greek isles or Brazilian beaches, but for Fall 2018, they’ve tried their hand at clothes for the cities.

The designers, Monica Paolini and Sean Monahan, have proven themselves when it comes to peasant blouses and bohemian skirts, but this time around they showed that they know a thing or two about outerwear and even pants, that trickiest of fashion categories.

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The outerwear this season includes an oversized sherpa parka that looks like one turned a military surplus jacket inside out. Combined with contrast sleeves in burgundy, it’s a clever idea that will resonate with those looking for new iterations on the deconstructed trend. More classic though, Sea also proposed gorgeous wool checked overcoats. Huge lapels and hitting below the knee, these are the statement pieces you want on your feed.

And down below, Monahan and Paolini have taken a side against the skinny pant. Instead they’re offering wide trousers cuffed high above the ankle. And if short’s not your speed, an even more exciting option was a pair of baggy tuxedo trousers that pooled on the ground.

With clothes like these, Sea is fast becoming the contemporary market’s best-suited label for 2018.

Jonathan Simkhai’s Edwardian Beauties

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This season at New York Fashion Week, ApparelMagic client Jonathan Simkhai went way back to the first decades of the twentieth century for inspiration. With an era of bustles and bustiers, lacy drapery and thick velvets to capitalize on, Simkhai made the most of it in the way only he can.

Simkhai, a truly twenty-first century designer, put his own west coast spin on the theme, making his ladies part Gibson Girls and part SoCal starlet. For daywear he proposed something between a saloon girl and a boardroom girlboss with tailored, pinstriped suits with puff-sleeves dropping off bared shoulders.

For evening, Simkhai’s slipdresses hit just the right note in lustrous velvet with lace sleeves and hems offering a sultry mood and extra coverage. Other dresses continued on with his lingerie-based theme, like a black lace gown that goes sheer at the midriff, showing off corsetry-style seams. A showstopping coat even used delicate hooks-and-eyes instead of buttons as a closure. Simkhai is an old pro already when it comes to the art of underthings as outerwear, and as usual, he can always take it to the next level.

A Seventies Time Warp at Jill Stuart

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ApparelMagic client Jill Stuart’s show during New York Fashion Week was a seventies fever dream.

Wrap dresses. Bell sleeves and bishop sleeves. Handicrafts. If there was ever a time to dig deep into the past for inspiration, Stuart was spot on. Updating Victorian style cotton dresses with strips of chintzy florals and sequins is a bold move, but in this designer’s hands, it hit the mark spot on.

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Using rich fabrics like color blocked velvet and metallic brocade, the collection was as sumptuous in texture as it was decadent in mood.

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Stuart’s signature rocker chicks wore every one of the era’s best looks, but this was no historically accurate time capsule. This was 1975 by way of 2018, hitting all of the biggest trends of the moment with panache.

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More, More, More at Naeem Khan

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No one does over-the-top glam like ApparelMagic client Naeem Khan, and this season at New York Fashion Week, he did not disappoint.

Embracing a whole world of cultures, Khan flipped between kimono-style wrap tops, ponchos with heavy embroidery, and bohemian-style sequins. When the world has so many treasures, he asks, why be confined to any one style? Khan’s propositions are truly a melting pot.

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With a nod to the growing athletic-wear and athleisure markets, Khan bookended his show with a few tracksuits elevated to the nth degree. Look one, a full-on paisley fantasia dripping with sequins from head to toe. Following that, a more restrained version, this time in white and trimmed in bold black lace. And his final look? A chic black velvet tracksuit with a maribou feather trim along the hood and tearaway pants falling open, reading as up-to-there slits. A perfect synthesis of evening elegance and pure fashion fun.

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Badgley Mischka masters uptown glamour

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ApparelMagic client Badgley Mischka has always oozed glamour, but this time they’ve turned it up to 11. Give them a gown, skirt—even an overcoat!—and they know just the way to cover it in embroidery, drape it in lace, or encrust it in sequins.

In a runway show at New York Fashion Week, their red, pink, and white color story was perfectly timed to the Valentine’s Day spirit. With odes to romance like a full-skirted ballgown in a lush burgundy matelasse and a pink chiffon gown strewn with silk rose petals, Mark Badgley and James Mischka set the mood.

From debutantes to grand dames, the pair had something for everyone. Wool parkas and roomy trousers looked equally as glam as leopard-spotted coats. Sinuous white silk dresses hugged every curve while there were plenty of more conservative little black dresses with high necklines and velvet collars. Women of all ages and styles can fall in love with one of their red carpet worthy dresses. And that’s the magic of Badgley Mischka.

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Zero + Maria Cornejo goes bold on basics

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Local manufacturing. Eco-friendly fabrics. A sustainable design ethos. ApparelMagic client Maria Cornejo’s values reflect everything we want to see in the fashion industry. And more than that, they seem totally authentic to her.

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At her latest Zero+Maria Cornejo collection shown at New York Fashion Week, Cornejo pared back her designs to simple, elegant shapes. These are clothes that will last the test of time, with knockout draped gowns, cozy outerwear, and classic separates.

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Minimal doesn’t mean boring, however. A selection of garments from jumpsuit to coat in a tomato red corduroy were bold and camera ready, while her shearling trimmed leather coats are a street style snapper’s dream.

Nicole Miller’s girls are a little bit punk, a little bit rock and roll

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ApparelMagic client Nicole Miller keeps her finger on the pulse of the fashion. Hitting all the trends out of the ballpark at her New York Fashion Week show this week, she imbued her vision of the Nicole Miller girl with a hint of borrowed-from-the-boys style.

Her signature cool girls this season walked the runway with a more punkish vibe than usual. Wearing layered leathers, plaids, and sweats, these girls took these menswear standards and recombined them in nonchalantly with classic dresses and skirts.

Patches, a huge trend already making its way over from Europe, were well represented in Miller’s line, with stars and crests and text piled onto velour hoodies, leather jackets, and even eveningwear.

Florals, too, got an upgrade. Mixing multiple grungy flower prints together on the same dresses, she made the girly staple androgynous and edgy. Camo even got in the act when it was overprinted in metallic blossoms.

At New York Fashion Week, Eckhaus Latta puts out its most mature show yet

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Just as the fashion world is getting comfortable calling Eckhaus Latta the hot young thing, designers Zoe Latta and Mike Eckhaus showed they are capable of dressing not just über cool clubbers but now arty intelligentsia too.

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This season’s big ticket at New York Fashion Week, the ApparelMagic client showed in a huge industrial space deep in Brooklyn. Beginning their runway show with a cycle of professional wear in creamy eggshells and greys, it was clear this show would be the pair’s most successful foray into the big leagues.

A twenty first century Jackie O suit rendered in thick, color-blocked knitwear, was paired with sheer gloves and worn with just the right amount of irony.

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Another knitted pattern, this time in grey and orange, appeared on a male model in the form of a crew neck sweater in one look, and later showed up sewn as a cocktail dress on a female plus size model, demonstrating Eckhaus Latta’s inclusive philosophy with ease.

Indeed, in a climate where fashion is figuring out how it fits, Eckhaus Latta is disrupting the status quo and bringing the industry into 2018.

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Sea is reinventing stylish staples

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Always centered on the target and hitting the trends at the exact right moment, Sean Monahan and Monica Paolini’s brand Sea constantly puts out the kind of clothes that ahead-of-the-curve women want.

Never fussy or attention-hogging, the ApparelMagic client’s prefall collection stood out for the very items that made it blend it: classic styles with of-the-moment updates.

Sticking with a nipped waist and accentuating it with flared skirts and voluminous sleeves, the proportions were as sophisticated as they were flattering.

Balloon-leg pants were cropped at the ankle and hung off a wide waistband. A striped blouse turned professional dressing on its head with its leg o’ mutton sleeves.

Other looks were decorated with folk motifs, like a navy prairie dress banded with ribbons of trims. Worn open at the neck and with a pair of sandals, the look was less pioneer woman and more Greek-isle honeymooner.

The Sea girl, though, is no stranger to a bit of fun, and with pom poms and ruffles on lace tops with billowy sleeves and statement shoulders, she definitely got it.

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Jonathan Simkhai is Fashion’s Renaissance Man

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For his Pre-Fall 2018 lookbook, über-romantic Jonathan Simkhai went back to the source material and put out a collection deeply engaged with fashion history. While he might be known for his flamboyant uses of denim and silky lingeries, Simkhai is never confined with referencing just the recent past. Here, he went full-on renaissance with clothes that merged his brand’s glam girls with the aristocratic muses of the sixteenth century.

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Suiting was of the seventies double-breasted variety, but updated with cutouts and slashing not seen this masterful since maybe the Holbein the Younger back in 1540. The slashing, going down pantlegs, was inventively stapled together for a modern take on the decadent look.

Other highlights included a slip dress in an inky blue picked up the light like an oil painting. An ultra-covetable robe coat in rusty satin had sleeves ingeniously tucked into decadent folds like it was just ripped from a Michelangelo.

Simkhai’s jeans were not totally absent however—here he just did it with a nod to the past, like a stand-out denim jacket with puff sleeves. Renaissance man indeed.

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