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Sealing the deal on fashion on night 3 of MFW

Posted on April 22, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com For one night, deals on wheels were set aside, while local creatives put on miles for styles. Middletown Fashion Week set down a catwalk through the […]

Getting thrifty at Middletown Fashion Week on night 2

Posted on April 21, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com On night two of Middletown Fashion Week, the focus was put on the fashions you could find at a thrift store. The models walked the runway, […]

Let them rip up the runway at MFW

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com As Middletown Fashion Week kicked off its inaugural season on Wednesday at the Main Street Market in Middletown, Conn., some of the models on tap for […]

Dressed to impress at the party

Posted on March 27, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Middle school dances, birthday parties, communions and bat mitzvahs came to mind when the celebratory collection of La Belle stepped out onto the runway at Society […]

Susanne Bartch has a party on the runway

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Party legend Susanne Bartch brought the circus to town at Runway 7 on Feb. 9 as she presented her Bartchland collection to the catwalk during New […]

Art on a hangar from Bielharz

Posted on March 15, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Lewis Bielharz, an Australian born, New York-based artist, presented a collection of wearable art during New York Fashion Week on Feb. 9. The brand Bielharz presented […]

Contemporary and colorful Kultuur

Posted on March 14, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Kultuur used the collection it presented at “Life in Color: Motherland” to demonstrate that African creativity does not necessarily need to manifest itself in solely in […]

VSABO offers a choice to runway fans during NYFW

Posted on March 14, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com VSABO Designs split its runway show between a new line of adult-sized t-shirts and its trademark line of fairy-tale worthy dresses for girls. The collection was […]

Titleholders take over the catwalk

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Pageant Live took over the runway at hiTechMODA during New York Fashion Week to allow titleholders from across the country strut down the catwalk and demonstrate […]

Middletown Fashion Week lines up on the calendar for Connecticut

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The first ever Middletown Fashion Week took another step toward becoming reality when a model casting call was held at Washington Street’s Oddfellows Playhouse in Middeltown, […]

Once upon a time in the village with Sia Dezigns

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Sia Dezigns used the runway as the medium for an African fairytale at the “Life in Color: Motherland” fashion show held Feb. 26. The evening, which […]

Designer Virginia Cathey celebrates her creative diversity at ‘Motherland’

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Designer Virginia Cathey offered a diverse collection on the runway that offered a nod to traditional African garments to formalwear to club-worthy garments at the “Life […]

Marc Defang let’s his targeted customers walk the runway at NYFW

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Designer Marc Defang is a favorite of pageant competitors and titleholders. And at hiTechMODA during New York Fashion Week in February, pageant competitors and titleholders of […]

Alfords presents a lineup of titleholders during NYFW

Posted on March 3, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Several pageant titleholders had the opportunity to place their crowns atop of their heads and to slide on their sashes as they took part in New […]

Africa invoked in One Powerful Kingdom

Posted on March 1, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com African creativity was the theme. And One Powerful Kingdom celebrated the theme with great aplomb with a variety of colorful prints at Chasity Aniece Production’s runway […]

Ren Haixi: As recommended by Kendall and Kylie Jenner

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Sustainable fashion-oriented designer Ren Haixi has already garnered the attention of Kendall and Kylie Jenner (https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/article/haixi-ren-designer-kendall-jenner. On Feb. 9, she grabbed the attention of guests at […]

Fashion with a touch of edge from Renee Masoomian

Posted on February 27, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Fashion using cotton, wool and silk is not an uncommon sight when designers strut their late creations out in front of the public on a runway. […]

Rehearsing for the ‘Motherland’

Posted on February 26, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The night before the Life in Color: Motherland fashion show to be held today by Chasity Aniece Productions at Tide and True Studios, 25 Van Zandt […]

Backstage Pass: Behind the scenes at London Fashion Week

Posted on February 24, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by VICTORIA HENLEY CTFashionMag.com Held twice annually in our great “mother country” of England, London Fashion Week comprises a portion of “The Big 4” fashion week events (along with New […]

A little fantasy on the runway

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com There were oodles of style references to fantasy as princesses, fairies and Greek goddesses were all invoked in Mila Hoffman’s latest collection for tweens and teens. […]

Veritee Hill finds a fashion crossroads

Posted on February 21, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Fashion designer Veritee Hill has found the crossroads where steampunk, meets classic burlesque meets Ziegfeld Follies meets steampunk meets light Victorian bondage. Hill presented her fun […]

A foundation of tradition provides support to the modern at Vastra

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Vastra offered a collection that built upon the foundation of traditional Indian garments but projected it through a prism of modernity and high fashion. It was […]

Upcycled, with a touch of fabulous at John Mangru

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Repurposed and reused never looked so fabulous. Evoking the spirit of Versace and Jean Paul Gaultier, Irish design John Mangru offered up a drag-alicious upcycled collection […]

The LBD, Elizabeth Cordelia style

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Elizabeth Cordelia Designs offered variations on the LBD, i.e. the little black dress, in her all-ages women’s and men’s formalwear collection dubbed “Venetian Vibe.” The overall […]

Oitijhyo honors Indian sartorial tradition at NYFW

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Oitijhyo: The Tradition presented its new bridal collection, dubbed “Abha,” at hiTechMODA during New York Fashion Week on Feb. 10. The garments, shown on the runway […]

Riley’s return trip to NYFW

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com North Haven, Conn.’s Riley Doyle will be putting her love for fashion and love for walking the catwalk into action this month when the teen returns […]

Go ahead, get posh

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com G.I.T.O. Fashions offered a posh collection of women’s wear for those luxurious nights on the town. Step into the stretch limo, grab your champagne flute and […]

G. Lux opens with style

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com G-Lux opened the ITS the Room fashion show at the Connecticut Post Mall in Milford on Jan. 21 with a stylish mix of dresses, separates and […]

Donald Carter brings the style

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com New Haven fashion fixture, Donald Carter Kouture, made a firm declaration of style at the ITS the Room fashion show held at the Connecticut Post Mall […]

Custo Barcelona gets swinging for tropical weather

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Mike Chaiken

During Art Hearts Fashion in Los Angeles in October, Custo Barcelona offered up a collection that could best be described as Swinging Sixties meet Disco Seventies for a warm weather […]

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