Fashion

Street style
By Emily Shearing
November 8, 2011 - 9:55am
Fashionable people spotted on- and off-campus

Photographer Annie Knox spotted this stylish man at the Salt City Urban Art and Craft Market on West Jefferson Street in Syracuse. Check out his unique use of mixing prints and cold weather accessories.

New stores to open in Destiny USA
By Emily Shearing
October 31, 2011 - 2:48pm
The Carousel Mall expansion will use social media to announce new retailers.

Destiny USA has jumped on the social media bandwagon. New retailers to the proposed expansion of the Carousel Mall will be announced on the Destiny USA's official Twitter and Facebook pages. 

Americana style
By NewsHouse Staff
October 11, 2011 - 1:45pm
New exhibition pairs vintage clothes and furniture.

A new exhibition from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) pairs original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913.

An open letter to Victoria's Secret
By Katrina Tulloch
September 28, 2011 - 8:28pm
The lingerie maker's new collection brings financial ruin to one addicted blogger.

Last week, Victoria's Secret unveiled its new "Gorgeous" brassiere and fragrance collection, which has since been aggressively promoted on TV and in my email account. In the last month, I've received 19 emails from Victoria's Secret.

Campus Couture
By Erica Sanderson
April 26, 2010 - 9:56pm
VPA's Annual Fashion Show puts students' work in the runway spotlight.

A chance to see the next possible Marc Jacobs is at your fingertips. Syracuse University's The School of Visual and Performing Arts is hosting their Annual Fashion Show this week, and the night promises to bring plenty of fabulous fashion, glamour, and buzz.  The School of Art and Design's senior fashion design majors will debut their collections during the two-day event.

Unzipping the local scene
By Erica Sanderson
April 6, 2010 - 3:35pm
Zipped magazine partners with local shops for their new issue.

Zipped magazine is not only fashion savvy, they’ve got business smarts to boot. The SU fashion magazine is strutting into the local Syracuse community one local retailer at a time.

“Partnering with Syracuse stores introduces students to the fashions available locally, which we hope will help strengthen the connection between the students and the city,” says Katy Ann Lyons, the magazine's fashion editor.

More than a closet
By Phillip Crook
November 17, 2009 - 11:47am
SU Professor Jeff Mayer's collection of vintage couture is his life's passion

Closet space is a precious commodity.

But in Jeff Mayer’s house, five of his six closets are crammed with clothes he doesn’t wear.

Mayer, 45 and an associate professor of fashion history and design at Syracuse University since 1992, has amassed a large private collection of vintage couture, perhaps one of the largest in Central New York.

Send ANTM to rehab, Tyra is drunk on craziness
By Phillip Crook
October 28, 2009 - 2:33pm
Review: America's Next Top Model has strayed far from what made the reality show so popular...and good.

The fashion industry has not only joined the reality TV bandwagon, it’s adorned the canvas cover in pink sequins and feather trim.

Shows such as The Fashionista Diaries, Project Runway, Make Me a Supermodel, The Fashion Show and Running in Heels crowd the cable pipeline, all vying to tell us how it “really is” being a model, stylist or editor.

But at its start, the reality fashion flood was a solitary wave in the ocean of TV programming: Tyra Banks’ America’s Next Top Model.

Fashion with a conscience: Fashion Week 2009
By Phillip Crook
October 22, 2009 - 8:35pm
SU's minority-based fashion organization, Fashion's Conscience, presents its first Fashion Week.

Syracuse University's minority-based fashion organization, Fashion's Conscience, brought an entirely different kind of diversity to it's first Fashion Week show: a wide range of styles, seasons, textiles and shapes.

Looks from four themed segments passed down the runway in the Schine Atrium Thursday night.

A film not worth going 'Psycho' over
By Phillip Crook
October 7, 2009 - 2:52pm
Review: Shoe designer Christian Louboutin's directorial debut, "Psychologic," doesn't fit as well as his heels.

There are two schools of thought on how to dress when you wake up in a bad mood.

The first tells you to bury your feelings in folds of sweatshirt material and slip into practical, comfort shoes. The second advises you wear that dry-clean-only number you normally save for cocktail parties, because when you look good, you feel good.  

Christian Louboutin, the French luxury shoe designer known for his red soles, clearly belongs to the latter.